Ralph Allen School

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Ralph Allen School in Combe Down, Bath, England, is a co-educational, comprehensive secondary school with academy status. Located on the south-eastern edge of Bath, the school educates 11- to 18-year-olds from the whole of Bath and the surrounding area. In June of 2017, the school was accused of "Sexualising young girls" after telling parents to measure the length of their daughter's skirts in the morning so that they are appropriate.In June 2009, Steve Rose won the Teacher of The Year in a Secondary School award in the South-West regional finals. Steve, a Lancastrian by birth, applied for the post of teacher of Physical Education and Technical Studies at Ralph Allen School in June 1980, and worked in Ralph Allen for 37 years until he left at the end of the 2016 school year. In 1984, Steve was promoted to a Head of Year and in 1986 he was promoted to Head of Upper School, taking on responsibility for school transport amongst other responsibilities, a task which he still carried out until his retirement in 2016. By 1995 Steve was on the Senior Management Team of the school,and in 1999 he took on the role of Acting Deputy Headteacher during the Headteacher’s secondment. He then became Assistant Headteacher in 2000. He was Acting Deputy Headteacher again during the academic year 2008-09, reverting to the permanent role of Assistant Headteacher in 2009-10. Since 1985 he led the school annual ski trips to Austria, Switzerland, Canada and France, and also led the sixth form art and photography trips to New York which started back in 1999.ResultsThe school claims good academic results: GCSEs A levels B-TECsHowever the most recent Ofsted report found that "Disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs and those supported through additional funding do not make as much progress as others", the report also commented that "There is not enough outstanding teaching. Teachers sometimes give work that is too easy or too hard and marking does not always help pupils to improve their work"