Hazelwick School
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| Motto | Effort Achieves |
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| Established | 1952 |
| Type | Secondary academy |
| Headteacher | Ann Fearon |
| Chair of Governors | Wendy Stanford |
| Location |
Hazelwick Mill Lane Crawley West Sussex RH10 1SX England 51°07′31″N 0°09′55″W / 51.1252°N 0.1652°WCoordinates: 51°07′31″N 0°09′55″W / 51.1252°N 0.1652°W |
| Local authority | West Sussex County Council |
| DfE URN | 137263 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 2000+ |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Colours | Royal Blue |
| Website | www.hazelwick.org |
Hazelwick School is an Academy Co-educational Comprehensive School for pupils aged 11 to 18, located in Crawley, West Sussex, England.
Hazelwick School is a Secondary school for pupils aged 11–18. The school was finished being built in 1952 although it did not officially open until 1953 as a secondary modern school serving the north-east of Crawley. Philip Keyte, the school’s first pioneering Headmaster, designed the school’s uniform and created its motto 'effort achieves' which is still used to this day. He and his colleagues (including his successor Jim Wilkinson) helped establish a new school in a new town on a new site. The school’s original curriculum, as stated in the commemoration leaflet for Hazelwick’s official opening, was designed to reflect ‘not only the industrial character of the New Town but also its rural background'. At the time the school's main building (now known as 'Lower School') featured in the ‘Architectural Review’ of the summer of 1953 as a state-of-the-art secondary school building. Buildings were extended in the late 1950s, with the school becoming a bi-lateral grammar and secondary modern school in 1960 - a precursor to its current comprehensive status.
In 1971, the school reduced its age range to 12-18, as the area became a three-tier area, with provision for children in middle schools up until the age of twelve. This situation was reversed in 2004, with the school once again taking pupils aged eleven, at the beginning of Year 7. In preparation for this latter change, the school had considerable work done to buildings. It had been thought that the school would form part of the local Private Finance Initiative which re-built other local schools, but this was not to be the case.
A sports team worthy of note was the rugby side of the early seventies that went unbeaten for a record number of games. Several of this team went on to play for Crawley Rugby Club and the side also included Richard Slaney, the future British discus champion.
At the start of August, 2011, Hazelwick School became an Academy School in line with new laws passed by the Coalition Government. Academy status was sought due to the school governing body and parental community wanting to have independent control over the school, believing that in the long run the school itself (and the governing body) is best placed to make decisions about its future development.
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