Longcroft School is a comprehensive secondary school with Performing Arts College status situated in Beverley

Beverley

Beverley is a market town, civil parish and the county town of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, located between the River Hull and the Westwood. The town is noted for Beverley Minster and architecturally-significant religious buildings along New Walk and other areas, as well as the Beverley...

, East Riding of Yorkshire

East Riding of Yorkshire

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, England

England

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History

For 60 years Longcroft has been a thriving, innovative and friendly community-facing school and sixth form, that now also enjoys the status of a Performing Arts

Performing arts

The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...

 College. This specialism was achieved in 2001 (re-accredited in 2006 and 2009) and brought with it the funds to increase class-room space, develop a fully working theatre in the school hall and extend links to the wider community and feeder primary schools. In more recent years Longcroft was successful in acquiring funding, with East Riding of Yorkshire Council, to build a new sports hall and state-of-the-art all-weather pitch. The facilities available at the school are used by many community groups and organisations during evenings, at weekends and during school holidays.

Plane Incident

On the 1st September, 1989, a light aircraft flying back to RAF Leconfield flew low over the main field of the sight heading away from the town of Beverley. The plane attempted to land of the feild but bounced back up and cliped the top of a row of trees at the back of the field. The plane suffered little damaged but had to land in a field next to the school. Nobody was on the field at the time as it was 2:00 in the afternoon. An investiagtion concluded that it was piolet error.

Location

Longcroft School is situated on the northern outskirts of Beverley, the campus being surrounded by open countryside, Beverley Westwood and Beverley Racecourse. Longcroft serves the town of Beverley and the villages in the surrounding rural areas. The school has three main buildings, known as the Lower School (Years 7 and 8); the Upper School (Years 9, 10 and 11) and the Arts and Science Block where the Sixth Form is based.

Motto

In his History of the Anglo-Saxons, Sir Francis Palgrave (1788 – 1861) wrote that King Athelstan, who had prayed at the tomb of St John of Beverley before success in a battle (937AD), showed his gratitude by giving privileges to the town of Beverley, saying: “As free make I thee, as heart may think, or eye may see". The freedom of heart and mind echoed with the idea of modern comprehensive schools that came about after the 1944 Education Act. The quote was adopted as Longcroft’s motto to reflect this.

External links

• Longcroft Website
• Longcroft Statistics
• Ofsted Reports