Turing House School

Turing House School is a co-educational comprehensive secondary school which was opened in 2015 in the London Borough of Richmond, south-west London, under the Government's free schools initiative. The proposal for the school was initiated by local parents in partnership with the Russell Education Trust (RET), who operate four other free schools in the south and south-west of England.[1][2]

Turing House School
Address
Queens Road

Teddington
,
Greater London
,
TW11 0LR

England
Information
TypeFree school
Established2015
Department for Education URN141963 Tables
OfstedReports
HeadteacherMartin O'Sullivan
GenderCoeducational
Age11 to 18
Websitehttps://www.turinghouseschool.org.uk

Turing House School is named in honour of Alan Turing the famous mathematician who lived for a while in nearby Hampton when he worked at the National Physical Laboratory.[3] The school is governed by RET, with a range of governance responsibilities delegated to the school's local governing body.[4]

Ofsted

In May 2018 the school was rated by Ofsted as "good" overall, with areas being "outstanding".[5]

This is the Turing House School being constructed in November 2020

Site

Due to delays in securing a permanent site large enough for a secondary school, Turing House has been temporarily housed in a converted office block in Teddington, using local sports facilities at Bushy Park, and a second site in Hampton.[6] It plans to move to a permanent site in Whitton, in 2021.[7][8] The site is adjacent to Borough Cemetery, Heathfield Recreation Ground, and Sempervirens Nursery (which is also the head office of the nursery's owner, Kingston Landscape Group).[9][10] The proposed site has resulted in controversy due to the Metropolitan Open Land designation.[11]

Admissions

Admissions for Year 7, and in-year admissions for all year groups are handled by Richmond Council's schools admission team.[12] The 2019 Year 7 oversubscription criteria allocate places by distance from two Admissions Points in Fulwell and Heathfield at a ratio of 80:20.[13]

References
  1. "Steering Group". Turing House School. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  2. "Our Schools". Russell Education Trust. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  3. "Our Name". Turing House School. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  4. "Governance". Turing House School. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  5. "Ofsted Report". Turing House School. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  6. "Our Teddington & Hampton Sites". Turing House School. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  7. "Permanent Site Information". Turing House School. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
  8. "A new home for Turing House School". Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  9. "Sempervirens". Sempervirens Garden Centre. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  10. "Kingston Landscape Group". Kingston Landscape Group. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  11. Kellie, Susie. "Turing House School: Councillors vote in favour of new Whitton site". Richmond and Twickenham Times. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
  12. "Secondary School Admissions". London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  13. "Admissions Information". Turing House School. Retrieved 14 March 2018.


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