Sawston Village College
Address
New Road

, ,
CB22 3BP

England
Coordinates52°07′35″N 0°09′49″E / 52.12644°N 0.16373°E / 52.12644; 0.16373
Information
TypeAcademy
MottoCARE
Established1930
FounderHenry Morris
Local authorityCambridgeshire County Council
Department for Education URN110902 Tables
OfstedReports
HeadteacherMr Jonathan Russell
Staff110
Gendercoeducational
Age11 to 16
Enrolment1060
Colour(s)   Burgundy, White
Websitehttp://www.sawstonvc.org/

Sawston Village College is an academy school in Sawston, Cambridgeshire, England. It was previously the first community college in the country and the first Village College. It was founded in 1930 and realised the vision of Henry Morris, then Chief Education Officer for Cambridgeshire.

In 1924, Henry Morris wrote a ‘Memorandum on the Provision of Education and Social Facilities for the Countryside, with Special Reference to Cambridgeshire’. In his memorandum, Morris avowed that:[1]

  • the village college would be ‘the community centre of the neighbourhood’;
  • ‘it would not only be the training ground for the art of living, but the place in which life is lived’;
  • ‘the village college could lie athwart the daily lives of the community it served; and in it the conditions would be realised under which education would not be an escape from reality, but an enrichment and transformation of it.’

Morris' vision of a school indivisible from its community still holds true today at Sawston, his first village college. Its 1060 pupils aged 11 – 16 share the campus with adults who come to the college for a range of purposes, educational, social, leisure and sporting. The college has a partnership for community education and the arts: the Broadening Education Partnership, and a community sports centre that has around 900 members.

The college also has the only youth-led cinema in the country. Its pupils take responsibility for the function of the cinema – front of house, projection, business planning, for example – offering regular screenings to the local community.

On 1 June 2011, Sawston Village College gained academy status, effectively ending Cambridgeshire County Council's control and funding of the school.

On 6 September 2012, 14:15 BST, one wing of the original college building was devastated by a fire. The Walnut gallery (a community meeting room), Main Staff Room, Sawston Public Library were destroyed, and the Henry Morris Hall (the assembly area) was flooded from the hosepipes. The staff evacuated the pupils. Everyone was accounted for, and there were no casualties. The incident is thought to have been an act of arson.

Head Pupils

Year Head Girl Head Boy
2008-2009 Ritwika Sengupta Thomas Byres
2009-2010 Lucy Fitzpatrick Ajay Jones
2010-2011 Hannah Long James Jackson
2011-2012 Lily Pickard Michael Middleton
2012-2013 Charlotte Davies Tim Savill
2013-2014 Rosanna Larter Fredrik Barnes
2014-2015 Hannah Jones Kiran Jones
2015-2016 Holly Bootman Joe Lever
2016-2017 Niamh Downing Keilan Grant
2017-2018 Evie Sausman Theo Burr
2018-2019 Amelia Perry Sullivan Bishop
2019-2020 Nellie Coss Zac Searle
2020-2021 Lexi Small George Mack
2021-2022 Keli Darkwa Tyler Wright
2022-2023 Prachi Patel Archie Meikle
2023-2024 Abbie Wightman Aymeric TS

Feeder schools

Children from the following schools generally start attending Sawston Village College at age 11:

Destinations

Students continuing in Further Education beyond 16 generally attend one of the following:

References

  1. "Infed.org | Henry Morris, village colleges and community schools". infed.org. Archived from the original on 15 March 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
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