Chaucer Technology School
Chaucer School in May 2013
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| Closed | 2015 |
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| Type | Foundation school |
| Location |
Spring Lane Canterbury Kent CT1 1SU England 51°16′26″N 1°06′00″E / 51.2740°N 1.0999°ECoordinates: 51°16′26″N 1°06′00″E / 51.2740°N 1.0999°E |
| Local authority | Kent |
| DfE URN | 118924 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 15–16 |
| Houses | 5 Colleges of Learning (Assisi, Athena, Curie, Da Vinci, Marlowe) (Defunct as of the 2013-2014 academic year.) |
| Colours | Navy & Gold |
| Website | www.chaucer.ac.uk |
Chaucer School (or known simply as Chaucer) was a partially selective, mixed ability comprehensive school in Canterbury, Kent.
Former names of Chaucer include, Chaucer Technology School, Geoffrey Chaucer Technology School, Canterbury Technical High School for Boys
In February 2014 Kent County Council announced the school would shut due to low pupil intake and poor standards. Just weeks before Swale Academies Trust had promised a conversion to academy and the sale of land to rebuild the school, it is believed these plans have been scrapped and that the school will shut. Shortly after the proposal was made public, a petition on Change.org was created in an attempt to revert Kent County Council's decision however this method failed. The school closed in September 2015.
The school was founded before World War II as the Canterbury Technical High School for Boys, which shared the old hospital building on Longport St with a girls' equivalent (which became Barton Court Grammar School) and the Technical College (now Canterbury College). In September 1967 it moved to the current site on Spring Lane.
Around the same time as the implementation of the college system in 2008, the school uniform was updated following a school-wide consultation, the senior management of the school was restructured and a re-branding of the school's image was completed, with the school now often referred to as "Chaucer Tech".
In Spring 2009, Chaucer was used in a BBC Inside Out South East television news feature to highlight the issue of asbestos in local school buildings. it was detected in two small cupboards that were used to store asbestos before it was linked with lung disorders. The school was used as the case study example of one of the 90% of local schools with asbestos. The school was found to have asbestos (like 554 out of 599 schools in Kent) but was shown to have effectively dealt with the problem.
Pupils from the school were chosen to form part of a "guard of honour" for athletes at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games, displaying artistic creations their school made to celebrate the event.
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