Waingels College
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| Motto | School of The Future" |
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| Type | Academy |
| Principal | Tom Bartlett |
| Chair of Governors | Mike Reeves |
| Location |
Waingels Road Woodley Berkshire RG5 4RF England Coordinates: 51°27′53″N 0°53′23″W / 51.464722°N 0.889722°W |
| Local authority | Wokingham |
| DfE number | 872/4060 |
| DfE URN | 142166 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports Pre-academy reports |
| Staff | c.170 |
| Students | c.1,470 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Astor, Brunel, Da Vinci, Holmes, Rowling, Turing |
| Colours | |
| Website | Official website |
Waingels College (previously Waingels Copse School) is a co-educational comprehensive secondary school located in Woodley, Reading, Berkshire, England. It has a population of 1,500 students but may rise due to overcrowding in the area and an appeals process which now has to take place. Over 400 people apply for entry annually, though there are only 270 places available (a rise from 240 in previous years). The school previously held specialist status as a Mathematics and Computing College, and converted to academy status in July 2015.
In September 2006 the school was split into six houses. Each house is named after an inspirational role-model. Each house has a learning community, Red, Green and Gold which are seen on the uniform with a Red, Green or Yellow collar around it and on the logo. Brunel and Da Vinci are in the Green Zone, Holmes and Rowling are the Gold Zone and Turing and Astor are the Red zone.
Until 2006 the school was split into two 'houses', Wain and Gels. In the 1970s and 1980s the school had four houses named for local connections: Bader (house colour red), after the airman Douglas Bader who flew from the old Woodley airfield; Brunel (house colour yellow), the only survivor in the current line-up; Jerome (house colour blue), after the author Jerome K. Jerome who wrote about the nearby River Thames; and Miles (house colour green), after the Miles Aircraft company, once based at Woodley airfield.
As of the beginning of the new school year in 2012,the six houses will be split into two parts of the school, each part made up of three houses (one from each color. These two sections are to be renamed the Wains and the Gels. When in year 10 and 11 (GCSE years) you will then be mixed with the other half of the school.
The school was originally built back in 1970 to replace the old secondary modern school on Loddon Bridge Road, Rivermead Primary School, which is now a primary school. The school has been rebuilt (except for the blocks for Sports, ICT and Maths, which have been refurbished) and was completed in November 2011 at a cost of £31M.
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