Garibaldi School
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Garibaldi College is a centre of learning built in the 1960s. It is on the borders of the Mansfield
and Sherwood districts and teaches young people from Clipstone
and Forest Town
. It provides children from 11-16 with a GCSE education
and 16-18 year olds with an advanced GCE or VCE education through their sixth form.
. The historian AJP Taylor said he was "the only wholly admirable figure in modern history".
Garibaldi Comprehensive School was by the 1980s suffering from a poor reputation. In 1989 a new headmaster, Bob Salisbury, was appointed who put in place a programme of improvements that lasted five years. The school removed levels of management and marketed itself. The school was able to attract new funding and the head was recognised for his skills as an entrepreneur.The head noted that the success came from not investing in one-off initiatives but in activities that continued from year to year. Salisbury was known for his "bobbing cork" analogy. He believed his staff should progress (along the stream) like a cork knowing that they were free to speed up, slow down or try a different route. Bob Salisbury was given a knighthood in 1998 in recognition of his work in Education.
A 2009 Ofsted Inspection of the Design and Technology department found that overall their education was "good". An earlier inspection of the whole school in 2008 rated the school as "good" overall.
s specialist status scheme it has been a specialist computing and mathematics college since 2003 and it has received a large amount of investment, which has built new mathematics
classrooms, major upgrades to the ICT
facilities and improvements to the Physical Education department. The college also gained a new title: Garibaldi Maths and Computing College. Prior to this the college was simply called Garibaldi Comprehensive School, or colloquially, Gara.
In 2010 the school was identified as part of a rebuilding programme. The council noted that the older buildings were costly to maintain and it was intended to rebuild them but keep the newer buildings like the sports hall.
Mansfield
Mansfield is a town in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the main town in the Mansfield local government district. Mansfield is a part of the Mansfield Urban Area....
and Sherwood districts and teaches young people from Clipstone
Clipstone
Clipstone in north Nottinghamshire is a small working class ex-coal mining village built on an old army base.-History:George Sitwell, Ironmaster mined iron locally and built a furnace here in the seventeenth century.- General description :...
and Forest Town
Forest Town, Nottinghamshire
Forest Town is a former mining village located in the outskirts of Mansfield, in Nottinghamshire, England. The football team, Forest Town F.C. currently play in the Central Midlands League Supreme Division. The Garibaldi School is the local secondary school...
. It provides children from 11-16 with a GCSE education
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
and 16-18 year olds with an advanced GCE or VCE education through their sixth form.
History
The school was founded in the 1960s and was named for the Italian leader Giuseppe GaribaldiGiuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian military and political figure. In his twenties, he joined the Carbonari Italian patriot revolutionaries, and fled Italy after a failed insurrection. Garibaldi took part in the War of the Farrapos and the Uruguayan Civil War leading the Italian Legion, and...
. The historian AJP Taylor said he was "the only wholly admirable figure in modern history".
Garibaldi Comprehensive School was by the 1980s suffering from a poor reputation. In 1989 a new headmaster, Bob Salisbury, was appointed who put in place a programme of improvements that lasted five years. The school removed levels of management and marketed itself. The school was able to attract new funding and the head was recognised for his skills as an entrepreneur.The head noted that the success came from not investing in one-off initiatives but in activities that continued from year to year. Salisbury was known for his "bobbing cork" analogy. He believed his staff should progress (along the stream) like a cork knowing that they were free to speed up, slow down or try a different route. Bob Salisbury was given a knighthood in 1998 in recognition of his work in Education.
A 2009 Ofsted Inspection of the Design and Technology department found that overall their education was "good". An earlier inspection of the whole school in 2008 rated the school as "good" overall.
Investments
With help from the governmentGovernment
Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...
s specialist status scheme it has been a specialist computing and mathematics college since 2003 and it has received a large amount of investment, which has built new mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
classrooms, major upgrades to the ICT
ICT (education)
Information and communication technologies in education deal with the use of information and communication technologies within educational technology.-Purpose:...
facilities and improvements to the Physical Education department. The college also gained a new title: Garibaldi Maths and Computing College. Prior to this the college was simply called Garibaldi Comprehensive School, or colloquially, Gara.
In 2010 the school was identified as part of a rebuilding programme. The council noted that the older buildings were costly to maintain and it was intended to rebuild them but keep the newer buildings like the sports hall.