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Name of the organisation:	Wilsthorpe Community School
Address:	Derby Road, Long Eaton, Nottingham, United Kingdom, NG10 4WT
Tel:	+44 115 9729421
Fax:	+44 115 9461974
Web site:	www.wilsthorpe.derbyshire.sch.uk

Name of the contact person:	Roger Murfin
Function:	Business Manager
Address:	Wilsthorpe Community School Derby Road, Long Eaton, Nottingham United Kingdom, NG10 4WT
Tel:	+44 115 9729421
Fax:	+44 115 9461974
E-mail:	[email protected]

Type of organisation:

School

Fields of action:

Youth
Schools

DESCRIPTION
OF THE ORGANISATION

Wilsthorpe Community School is a United Kingdom secondary school, located on the outskirts of Long Eaton, about 5 miles from Nottingham and close to the M1 and East Midlands Airport. The school has been established for over 50 years and is set on a very pleasant campus which we share with Harrington Junior School, Parklands Primary School and Brackenfield ‘Special’ School.

We currently have about 850 students aged 11-18 and an intake that covers the full ability range from potential 'Oxbridge' candidates to students with serious learning difficulties.

About 50 teaching staff work on site and we have a similar number of 'support' staff. As a specialist school in ‘Business and Enterprise’ our vision is to empower all our students to achieve their full potential, to develop a lifelong love of learning and to become responsible, tolerant and enterprising citizens in a constantly changing world. We are passionate about teaching and learning, proud of the school and the surrounding community and committed to the support and development of every individual.

In 2009 Wilsthorpe achieved the status of being included in the ‘100 most improved schools in the country’ list and in 2010 the school achieved the best results in the county for 5 A* - C GCSE examinations with a 91% success rate.

The school has established exchange links with Ananda College in Columbo, Sri Lanka. This is the premier Buddhist boy’s school in Sri Lanka with a current student population of over 6,000 from kindergarten to GCE Advanced level.

EXPERIENCE IN PREVIOUS PROJECTS

Wilsthorpe has experience of two previous European projects:

Art Net, which is a European Network for the sharing of Art Teaching materials. For further information see: www.elearning-art.net

The School Inclusion Project, which is a project aimed at identifying and preventing young people from dropping out and leaving school early. For further information see: schoolinclusion.pixel-online.org

CONTACT PERSON’S EXPERIENCE

Roger Murfin is Business Manager at the college and moved to working in education from the world of finance, having worked for almost 30 years for Barclays Bank PLC, where he held a number of managerial roles.

As well as being a member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, Roger has an Open University Degree and in 2005 obtained the 'Diploma of School Business Management' and then became a 'Member of the Institute of Administrative Management'.

He has now worked in education as a school Business Manager for over 13 years, the last ten being at Wilsthorpe. He is a member of the school 'Senior Leadership Team' and his main responsibilities involve overseeing the school finances, acting as Line Manager for many of the college 'Support Staff', overseeing new premises projects, premises maintenance and co-ordinating Health & Safety at the college.

Roger also has some responsibility for fundraising and attended a training course for European Fundraising at Pixel, in Florence, in 2006. He was the main member of the school’s management team working on the ‘School Inclusion Project’ and attended all meetings and the final conference.

In his private life Roger is a Magistrate, and has served in this role on the 'Nottingham Bench' since 1991.