Sir Frederic Osborn

October 2007

Sir Frederic Osborn School From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (October 2007) Sir Frederic Osborn School is a secondary school in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England. The school was built and opened in 1965 as two separate schools - Welwyn Garden City High School and Attimore Hall School. The schools were combined in 1968 and renamed after the town's urban planner Sir Frederic J. Osborn. The school has recently received a new science building, along with a fully refurbished technology and IT suite. The school installed a completely new computer system in 2005 based on the Cutter Linux system (although it is now moving back to Microsoft Windows based systems following teething problems with the old system). Until 2000 the school had a swimming pool which has now been replaced by a dance and drama studio. The school was recognised as "Improving" by Ofsted in 2007. However in 2002 it was recognised as exceptional. The school recently won a bid for specialist status as a Sports College, enabling funding to provide a new sports hall. The school's acting headteacher Mrs. Susan Lewis was delighted that the school had been awarded the specialist status. Sir Frederic Osborn School has recently been granted permission to sell one third of the its land for use as public housing, although it is still awaiting a developer to buy the land. This will enable the school to build a new multi-purpose sports complex and all weather court.
INDEX Jonathan Brind	October 2007