Becoming An Academy
In 2009 Greenwood Dale was granted permission to become an academy, and with funding from Experian, they merged with Jesse Boot School, also in Sneinton, and The Elliot Durham school. Elliot Durham was part of a deal whereby Greenwood agreed to take over a failing school in order to be granted Academy status. The new Greenwood Road building was opened in September 2011 by Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Education.
Each site has a head of school and then an Executive Principal, Jackie Simpson. The academy is sponsored by the Greenwood Academies Trust which now has three other academies under its name. CEO of the trust is Barry Day, former head teacher of Greenwood Dale School. Manning school for girls has now been turned into Nottingham Girls Academy, Weston Favell school is now Weston Favell Academy in Northampton and also the Skegness Academy is now open in Skegness, respectively.
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“The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.”
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