Lister Community School

Lister Community School is a co-educational secondary school located at St Mary's Road, Plaistow, Newham, London.[1]

Lister Community School
Address
St Mary's Road

Plaistow
,
Greater London
,
E13 9AE

England
Information
TypeAcademy
TrustNewham Community Schools Trust
Department for Education URN148902 Tables
OfstedReports
Head teacherMr Kunal Vora
GenderCo-educational
Age11 to 16
Enrolment1700
Websitehttp://www.lister.newham.sch.uk/

The school uses vertical tutoring to integrate the community of students across the range of ages and year groups.[2] It is one of a few schools in Newham that provides specialist British sign language interpreters for students who have hearing impairments.[2]

History

The school was founded by West Ham Council in 1921 as Livingstone Day Continuation Institute, in Balaam Street Congregational schoolroom. It relocated a few times, was briefly absorbed into North West Ham Technical School after World War II, and was successively renamed as Lister Day-Continuation Institute (1933), Lister Technical School (1956), Lister Comprehensive (1972) and finally Lister Community School. Purpose-built facilities for the school were completed in the 1990s.[3]

In 2003, pupils staged a walk-out in protest against the invasion of Iraq.[4]

In 2005 Lister pupils won a poetry slam, and the school magazine Carbolic (named in honour of the school's namesake, local surgeon Joseph Lister) gained high praise from Benjamin Zephaniah and Michael Rosen.[4]

In November 2008, an Ofsted inspection rated the school "Good with outstanding features".[5] This was downgraded to "Satisfactory" following an inspection in 2012.[6] but upgraded again to "Good" in the recent inspection in November 2013, with 64% of lessons inspected rated as "good" or "outstanding" and none "inadequate".

The school moved into brand new premises completed in 2010 at a cost of £25 million under the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme.[3][7]

In 2017 the school started teaching GCSEs from Year 9 instead of Year 10 with the first class graduating in 2020.[8]

Between 2018 and 2019 Lister Community School gained 7 more classrooms and a new "learning hub".

  1. A new classroom was created on the second floor by moving the EAL office to the library
  2. 4 new classrooms were created by an extension to W block which provided 4 new English classrooms
  3. 3 new classrooms and a new careers office were created in a new "E"
  4. A new classroom was built replacing a small office as "S001"
  5. The classroom S008 was removed and expanded to hold a computer room managed by the library.

In 2019 a plan to increase the schools capacity from 9 forms of entry to 11 forms of entry in 2021 was consulted on.[9]

In academic year 2020 Health and Social care started being taught at the school by the RS department.

Previously a foundation school administered by Newham London Borough Council, in December 2021 Lister Community School converted to academy status. It is now sponsored by the Newham Community Schools Trust.[10]

References
  1. "Department for Education: Lister Community School". EduBase. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  2. "Welcome to our School". Newham Council. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  3. "Lister Community School, 1973". The Newham Story. Newham Council. Archived from the original on 8 March 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  4. "On the write lines". Times Educational Supplement. 4 August 2008. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  5. Ofsted Inspection Report, 2008. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
  6. Ofsted Inspection Report, 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
  7. "Lister Community School, Newham BSF". Stantec. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  8. "Year 9, 10 & 11 – Curriculum | Lister Community School". lister.newham.sch.uk. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
  9. "CONSULTATION ON EXPANSION OF LISTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL | Lister Community School". lister.newham.sch.uk. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
  10. "Our Schools – Newham Community Schools Trust".
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