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Oasis Academy Hadley
Address
South Street Enfield, Middlesex, EN3 4PX England
Coordinates	51°38′31″N 0°02′16″W / 51.642022°N 0.037690°W / 51.642022; -0.037690
Information
Type	Academy
Motto	Learning and Living in Harmony
Established	7 September 2009
Local authority	Enfield
Specialist	Maths ICT Music
Department for Education URN	135958 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Principal	Zoe Thompson
Gender	Coeducational
Age	3 to 18
Houses	Sugar Gates Somerville Pascal Wonder Lennox
Colour(s)	Gold   Blue
Website	http://www.oasisacademyhadley.org/

Oasis Academy Hadley is an all-through academy school in the Ponders End area of the London Borough of Enfield, England, run by Oasis Community Learning. It is the second Oasis academy in London and has close links with Oasis Academy Enfield. It opened on 7 September 2009. It opened in the existing buildings of Albany School and the Primary Phase opened its reception class in September 2010. Mid January 2013, the new building in Ponders End was opened.

Description

Oasis Academy Enfield is part of the Oasis Community Learning group, an evangelical Christian charity. The trust have guided forty schools out of special measures. 19 per cent of the 52 Oasis academies classified as failing.

Governance

On becoming an Oasis academy, a local board of management provided by the regional hub, while the strategic management is performed centrally by the Oasis Community Learning, in Lambeth. Hadley was the second secondary academy to open in London.

Oasis has a long-term strategy for enhancing the performance of its schools. It has devised a standard curriculum, that each local board can safely adopt knowing it will deliver the National Curriculum. It has invested in staff training so they are focused on improving the outcomes for the students. IN 2021, through its Horizons scheme it is providing each member of staff and student with a tablet.

Oasis Academy Hadley is named after mathematician John Hadley, who lived in the area..

Albany School

Oasis Academy Hadley replaced Albany School which opened in 1939. The school opened as separate boys' and girls' schools on the same site. It was opened as a co-educational secondary modern school in 1999, and in 2000 was converted to a comprehensive school. In 2008 became a specialist Business and Enterprise college. In July 2009, the school celebrated its 70th anniversary and later that month closed.

Buildings

The school was built on the site of the Ponders End gas-works.

Notable Alumni

Luis Fernandez - Footballer for Eastleigh FC

References

1. "Second Oasis Academy opens in Enfield (From This Is Local London)". Thisislocallondon.co.uk. 25 September 2009. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
2. "About Us". Oasis Academy Hadley. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
3. "Oasis Community Learning, registered charity no. 1109288". Charity Commission for England and Wales.
4. "Oasis leader on his vision for country's first secure school". Schools Week. 5 July 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
5. "Oasis Horizons - Oasis Academy Hadley". www.oasisacademyhadley.org. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
6. "News - Mathematician has his name on the door of new Academy". Oasis Academy Hadley. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
7. A P Baggs; Diane K Bolton; Eileen P Scarff; G C Tyack (1976). T F T Baker; R B Pugh (eds.). "'Enfield: Education', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 5: Hendon, Kingsbury, Great Stanmore, Little Stanmore, Edmonton Enfield, Monken Hadley, South Mimms, Tottenham (1976), pp. 253–257". British History Online. University of London & History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 26 February 2009.
8. "Ponders End Gas Works Case Study" (PDF). www.nationalgrid.com. Retrieved 12 February 2021.

• Enfield, London
• Academies in the London Borough of Enfield
• Secondary schools in the London Borough of Enfield
• Primary schools in the London Borough of Enfield
• Oasis Academies
• Educational institutions established in 2009
• 2009 establishments in England