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The Bay CE School

The Bay CE School was launched in September 2018, after Sandown Bay Academy was closed and re-opened federated with The Bay Primary school.

Ministerial approval to close Sandown Bay Academy enabled plans to extend The Bay CE Primary to become an all through school from 1 September 2018 catering for students aged 4-16.

Sandown Bay Academy was one of six secondary schools on the Isle of Wight and was run as an Academy, by a privately held company, AET.

Below are the articles OnTheWight has written about it.

28, March 2017·1 min read

AET strongly refute allegations over Sandown Bay Academy funds

AET strongly refutes the allegation they're removing funds from Sandown Bay to cross-subsidise activities elsewhere in the group.

sign reading 'sorry we are now closed' on shop door

20, January 2023·1 min read

Bay CE School school closes due to power outage: Buses arranged to take students home

Bay CE School has closed due to power outage, SSEN working to fix issue, strict safety measures in place for students and staff

Mr Bricknell, Head of Blue House, with some of the Blue House Council members

16, January 2019·1 min read

Blue House Bay students raise £1,180 for CLIC Sargent

With the support of the local community and hard work of the students of the Blue House of The Bay CE School, over £1,000 has been raised for CLIC Sargent's Young Lives v Cancer campaign.

5, June 2017·3 min read

Call for IW school heads to oppose closure plans

Julian Critchley says the rationale for the proposed merger of AET's two academies on the Isle of Wight is fundamentally flawed, and believes the proposal has not been properly thought through.

18, July 2017·4 min read

Call from MP for Minister to support secondary education in Sandown Bay

Isle of Wight MP, Bob Seely, has written to Education minister, Nick Gibb, asking him to “unequivocally support” continued secondary education in the Sandown bay area.

31, March 2017·2 min read

Cllr Whitehouse hits back at Academy’s rebuttal

Cllr Whitehouse responds to AET's rebuttal over allegations that they're removing funds from Sandown Bay to cross-subsidise activities elsewhere in the group.

15, May 2017·1 min read

Councillor calls for academy sponsor to be removed from the Isle of Wight

A motion being heard at the Extra-Ordinary Full Council meeting demands that Academy sponsor, AET, be removed from the role of managing any school on the Isle of Wight.

2, July 2013·5 min read

Details of process for first Ofsted inspection after Special Measures

For those who want the detail, here's what happens at a First Inspection after a school has been placed in Special Measures.

6, July 2012·1 min read

Ex-Carisbrooke Head To Take Over At Sandown Bay Academy

That's a bit of a surprise

14, August 2014·1 min read

Exciting destinations for Sandown Bay Academy students

Whilst the Academy are still collating the overall figures due to some grades only arriving this morning, they are delighted to congratulate those students heading off to their exciting destinations. Below are just a few.

9, March 2015·2 min read

Extra findings from the secondary school admission data (Updated)

Having spent a little time with the secondary school admissions data released by the council today, here's the extra that we've learnt.

Colourful panels created by Liz Cooke and students from Cowes Enterprise College for the Creative Biosphere project

9, December 2022·1 min read

Five partnerships come together to showcase Isle of Wight’s Creative Biosphere (updated)

Funded by Arts Council England, a new exhibition is showcasing the work of five partnerships that came together to explore the Isle of Wight's biosphere in response to its UNESCO World Biosphere status

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