Lister Community School

Lister Community School is a non-selective, mixed, 11-16 comprehensive secondary school, located at St Mary's Road, Plaistow, Newham, London.[1]

Lister Community School
Address
St Mary's Road

Plaistow
,
Greater London
,
E13 9AE

England
Information
TypeFoundation school
Department for Education URN102778 Tables
OfstedReports
Head teacherAnthony Wilson
Staff169
GenderCo-educational
Age11 to 16
Enrolment1384
Websitehttp://www.lister.newham.sch.uk/

In November 2008, an Ofsted inspection rated the school "Good with outstanding features".[2] This was downgraded to "Satisfactory" following an inspection in 2012.[3] but upgraded again to "Good" in the recent inspection in November 2013, with 64% of lessons inspected rated as "good" or "outstanding" and none "inadequate".

The current headteacher of the school, since September 2011, is Anthony Wilson.

The school uses vertical tutoring to integrate the community of students across the range of ages and year groups.[4]

It is one of a few schools in Newham that provides specialist British sign language interpreters for students who have hearing impairments.[4]

Lister Community School also is one of the most improved schools in the whole of Great Britain and London. HM The Queen visited Lister on 3 March 2016.

History

The school was founded by West Ham Council in 1921 as Livingstone Day Continuation Institute, in Balaam Street Congregational schoolroom. It relocated a few times, was briefly absorbed into North West Ham Technical School after World War II, and was successively renamed as Lister Day-Continuation Institute (1933), Lister Technical School (1956), Lister Comprehensive (1972) and finally Lister Community School. Purpose-built facilities for the school were completed in the 1990s.[5]

In 2003, pupils staged a walk-out in protest against the invasion of Iraq.[6]

In 2005 Lister pupils won a poetry slam, and the school magazine Carbolic (named in honour of the school's namesake, local surgeon Joseph Lister) gained high praise from Benjamin Zephaniah and Michael Rosen.[6]

Expansion and Curriculum

The school moved into brand new premises completed in 2010 at a cost of £25 million under the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme.[5][7]

In 2017 the school started teaching GCSEs from Year 9 instead of Year 10 with the first class graduating in 2020.[8]

Between 2018 and 2019 Lister Community School gained 7 more classrooms and a new "learning hub".

  1. A new classroom was created on the second floor by moving the EAL office to the library
  2. 4 new classrooms were created by an extension to W block which provided 4 new English classrooms
  3. 3 new classrooms and a new careers office were created in a new "E"
  4. A new classroom was built replacing a small office as "S001"
  5. The classroom S008 was removed and expanded to hold a computer room managed by the library.

In 2019 a plan to increase the schools capacity from 9 forms of entry to 11 forms of entry in 2021 was consulted on.[9]

In academic year 2020 Health and Social care started being taught at the school by the RS department.

Coronavirus 2020 measures

During the 2020 Coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) the school suffered multiple staffing issues:

  • On 16/03/2020 the School introduced precautionary Coronavirus measures taking out students who have severe health conditions and starting lessons at 9:00
  • After repeated staff absences due to self quarantines the school operated a reduced timetable for the remainder of the week.[10]

References
  1. "Department for Education: Lister Community School". EduBase. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  2. Ofsted Inspection Report, 2008. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
  3. Ofsted Inspection Report, 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
  4. "Welcome to our School". Newham Council. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  5. "Lister Community School, 1973". The Newham Story. Newham Council. Archived from the original on 8 March 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  6. "On the write lines". Times Educational Supplement. 4 August 2008. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  7. "Lister Community School, Newham BSF". Stantec. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  8. "Year 9, 10 & 11 – Curriculum | Lister Community School". lister.newham.sch.uk. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
  9. "CONSULTATION ON EXPANSION OF LISTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL | Lister Community School". lister.newham.sch.uk. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
  10. "Coronavirus: Update on 17 March 2020 | Lister Community School". lister.newham.sch.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
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