Dayncourt School Specialist Sports College
| Established | 1957, reconstituted 2011 |
|---|---|
| Type | Academy |
| Location |
Cropwell Road Radcliffe-on-Trent Nottinghamshire England 52°56′44″N 1°01′58″W / 52.9455°N 1.0329°WCoordinates: 52°56′44″N 1°01′58″W / 52.9455°N 1.0329°W |
| DfE number | 891/4000 |
| DfE URN | 137112 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports Pre-academy reports |
| Students | approx. 700 |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Website | South Nottinghamshire Academy |
South Nottinghamshire Academy is a mixed-sex secondary school with academy status located in the village of Radcliffe-on-Trent, in Nottinghamshire, England. The school intake covers pupils from ages 11 to 18, with the upper two years being catered for in the integrated sixth form centre.
The school was originally named Radcliffe-on-Trent County Secondary Modern School, then Dayncourt Comprehensive School and latterly Dayncourt School. Dayncourt was awarded Specialist Sports College status in September 2002. In 2011 the school was formally closed and reconstituted on the same site as South Nottinghamshire Academy, formed in partnership with South Nottingham College (now Central College Nottingham). South Nottinghamshire Academy is a specialist school for both sports and mathematics.
Radcliffe-on-Trent County Secondary Modern School was built in 1957 and enrolled its first intake of approximately 300 pupils at the beginning of the new academic year that September. The school was officially opened on 6 November 1957 by Mr. S. D. Pierce, Deputy High Commissioner of Canada at the time. The Canadian association was apt, as one of the driving motivations for the development of the school was the presence of a sizeable expatriate Canadian population in the district, a product of the Royal Canadian Air Force's use of Langar airfield, 6.5 miles southwest of Radcliffe.
Of the initial intake roughly 20% were Canadian, with the majority of other students being drawn from the village of Radcliffe. As Canadian pupils commonly only attended the Radcliffe school while their parents were stationed at the air base, every effort was made to allow these students to move smoothly between the Canadian and British education systems: four of the initial teaching staff were themselves Canadian, and lessons and timetabling were adapted to better integrate the two regimes. For many years the link between the two countries was symbolised by the presence of a large, 6m totem pole placed on a lawn to the right of the main entrance. The pole was carved from a telegraph pole by an early Canadian pupil at the school, and was accompanied by a smaller 2m pole placed inside the entrance lobby itself. In the mid-1990s it was discovered that the original wooden pole had become dangerously rotten and so had to be removed. A replacement was constructed in fibreglass, and painted by staff and students of the school.
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