Ormiston Victory Academy
| Established | 1952 |
|---|---|
| Type | Academy |
| Principal | Naomi Palmer |
| Location |
Middleton Crescent Costessey Norfolk NR5 0PX England Coordinates: 52°39′00″N 1°12′42″E / 52.6499°N 1.2118°E |
| DfE number | 926/6907 |
| DfE URN | 136186 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11–19 |
| Website | www |
Ormiston Victory Academy (formerly Costessey High School) is a secondary school and sixth form with academy status located in Costessey, Norfolk, England. The school has specialisms in Science and Applied Learning.
The school serves the areas of Easton, Marlingford, East Tuddenham, Bawburgh and the neighbouring suburb of Bowthorpe, as well as Costessey. The school offers GCSEs as programmes of study, which can be used to obtain the English Baccalaureate. Sixth form students have the option to study a range of A Levels.
Costessey High School was renamed Ormiston Victory Academy in September 2010. The academy opened using the existing buildings and is sponsored by the Ormiston Academies Trust, a charity which supports children, young people and families in their community. The Academy's strategic partners are Norfolk County Council and Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. A new complex designed by Nicholas Hare Architects has been built replacing the old school buildings, and can now cater for 1250 pupils. The academy received a £15 million to revamp the old site. The new school buildings opened in November 2013.
In August 2014 The Observer newspaper alleged that the school was given two weeks' advance warning of a May 2013 inspection by Ofsted, the government body responsible for inspecting and regulating schools. In England and Wales schools should not be informed of an inspection before noon on the day prior to the inspection. The newspaper cited whistleblowers who claimed that the advance notice enabled the school to "parachute" in extra teaching staff who had never taught at the school prior to the inspection, "to put in place high-quality lesson planning, get on top of marking and create "evidence files" presenting the day-to-day running of the school in as positive light as possible," and "to mitigate for known staff absence" by providing a supply teacher with "comprehensive lesson plan materials in an "Ofsted-friendly" format... including detailed information on each pupil's progress, especially for the inspection, before the school was notified officially by Ofsted of the visit."
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