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A new inclusive secondary school for Richmond was envisioned by a small group of parents who care deeply about their local area and its people. Faced with shrinking catchment areas and increased demand for local secondary schools, they saw their community breaking up as families moved away or chose non-local schools. Knowing that many other local people agreed that another excellent secondary school was needed they decided to try and do something about it. Turing House School is the result of their determined effort and the fantastic support they received from the local community, as well as from the Russell Education Trust, which has opened four other successful new schools in recent years. We are creating an outstanding and inclusive school, with a clear focus on high performance for children from 11 to 18. We will instill good behavior and attitudes towards others as the basis for excellence at every stage of school life. Our school will enable children from all backgrounds to make exceptional progress. It will attract and retain outstanding staff and support them to inspire our pupils. Turing House is committed to the highest possible academic standards, whilst delivering a broad and balanced curriculum. It values and supports the achievements and aspirations of every student, whatever their ability and potential. As parents, we know how important it is for our children to thrive in all kinds of ways beyond academic achievement. Turing House will focus on more than just exam results, encouraging self-esteem and respect for others, independence and responsibility, creative and critical thinking, innovation, problem-solving, and a passionate interest in the wider world. We’ve named our school Turing House in honor of the inspirational mathematician and scientist Alan Turing. After his key role in cracking the German Enigma Code during the Second World War, he moved to Hampton and worked at Teddington’s National Physical Laboratory, where he began his groundbreaking work developing the earliest modern computers. By honoring and celebrating his achievements we aim to reflect a culture of possibility in our school a school where staff and students are inspired to aim high, think creatively, and achieve their full potential. All free schools, like Academies (including converter academies like Orleans Park, Waldegrave, Teddington, Grey Court), are governed by not-for-profit charitable trusts, which are closely monitored by the Audit Commission to ensure that they provide good value for the public money with which they are entrusted. Our school aims for an inclusive intake, representative of the area it has been established to serve, which is the Middlesex side of Richmond Borough. Turing House will provide school places for young people aged 11 - 18 and the admissions arrangements for the Year 7 intake are set out below. The Sixth Form will begin admitting students in September 2020, and a separate admissions policy will apply for entry. Turing House is committed to straightforward, open, fair, and transparent admissions arrangements. The school will act fully by the School Admissions Code (as revised February 2012), the School Admissions Appeals Code, and admissions law as they apply to academies. Children with a statement of special educational need that specifies the school as the placement school will be allocated a place through a separate procedure, by the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice. Where, in any year, the school receives more applications for places than there are places available, a waiting list will operate. This will be maintained by the Local Authority and it will be open to any parent to ask for his or her child's name to be placed on the waiting list following an unsuccessful application. A child's position on the waiting list will be determined solely under the oversubscription criteria set (as applicable). Each added child will require the Waiting List to be reranked in line with the published oversubscription criteria. The Turing House Local Governing Body includes the Headteacher, two elected parent governors, and up to ten further governors appointed by the Trust. At least four of the RET appointees will be parents of a registered pupil at a primary school or academy situated within the London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames. Turing House is funded at the same level as other schools in the Local Authority, using the same funding formula. The only difference is that, like all new schools, we receive some additional start-up funding in the first three years, to enable us to employ enough subject specialists to cover the curriculum. Most local secondary schools and many primary schools operate a school fund through voluntary donations from families. This allows them the flexibility to provide additional benefits to students beyond what can be provided from direct government funding. We have therefore set up the Turing House School Fund so that we can provide some of those extras that we couldn’t otherwise afford. Some schools use these funds to directly subsidize the running costs of the school – this is not what we are using the funds for. We have an extensive list of clubs and activities on offer to our founding cohorts. We couldn’t possibly provide all these with only our founding staff and, unlike some other schools, we do not wish to charge for some of the high-quality sporting, musical and creative activities which we believe should be an entitlement for all. We strongly encourage every one of our students to extend their education by taking part in these extra-curricular activities removing any financial obstacle will help us achieve maximum participation. View full school