Plume School

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=February 2023}} {{Infobox school | name = Plume Academy | native_name = | logo = Plume_School_Logo.png | established = {{Start date and age|1970}} | closed = | type = Academy | trust = | religious_affiliation = | president = | head_teacher = Tom Baster<ref>{{cite web |url=https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments/Establishment/Details/137790 |title=Plume School - GOV.UK }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Plume School|url=http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/establishment/summary.xhtml?urn=137790|website=EduBase|access-date=4 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208071741/http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/establishment/summary.xhtml?urn=137790|archive-date=2015-12-08|url-status=live}}</ref> | chair_label = Chair of Trustees | chair = Paul Nagle | founder = Thomas Plume | address = Fambridge Road | city = Maldon | county = Essex | postal_code = CM9 6AB | country = England | coordinates = {{Coord|51.7295|0.6766|type:edu_region:GB|display=inline,title}} | local_authority = Essex | urn = 137790 | ofsted = Yes | capacity = Approx 1800 | enrolment = Approx. 1,760 | enrolment_as_of = January 2015 | gender = Mixed | lower_age = 11 | upper_age = 18 | houses = | colours = | publication = | website = {{URL|www.plume.essex.sch.uk}} }}

'''Plume Academy''' is a secondary school with academy status located in the town of Maldon, Essex, England. The school is split over two separate campuses. Mill Road houses Years 7 and 8, Fambridge Road Years 9, 10 and 11 and the Sixth Form.

==History== The Plume School was formed in 1970 as a new comprehensive to educate the children previously at Maldon Grammar School, then in Fambridge Road, and Maldon County Secondary School, in Mill Road, a secondary modern. The Plume School's first term began in September 1970. The Maldon Grammar School had been founded in 1608 by Ralph Breeder, a haberdasher and linen draper who was an alderman of the town's corporation. He left £300 in his will "for the maintenance of a schoolmaster to teach a grammar school within the town".<ref name=4C>{{cite web|title=Maldon Plume School - Four Centuries of Education 1608-2008|url=http://www.plume.essex.sch.uk/assets/plume-history-pdf.pdf|access-date=4 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208170450/http://www.plume.essex.sch.uk/assets/plume-history-pdf.pdf|archive-date=2015-12-08|url-status=live}}</ref>

The new school created in 1970 bears the name of Thomas Plume who, on his death in 1704, bequeathed his library of 7,000 books to the town of Maldon, now housed at the Thomas Plume Library, and money for a schoolmaster and librarian to look after the collection. A history of the schools states that "The Plume School in its modern form was established as a comprehensive in 1970 and merged with the Maldon County Secondary School located at the current site."<ref name=4C/>

==Performance== Plume School is rated "good"<ref>{{cite web|title=Plume School|url=http://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/files/2322591/urn/137790.pdf|website=Ofsted|access-date=9 December 2015}}</ref> in all four Ofsted categories (achievement of pupils, quality of teaching, behaviour and safety of pupils and leadership and management) of its most recent inspection.

==Notable former pupils== * Ethan Lawrence, actor (''Bad Education'', ''After Life'')<ref>{{cite web |date=6 September 2013 |last1=Robinson |first1=Emma |title=Maldon: TV's Ethan is reaping the benefits of a Bad Education |url=https://www.maldonandburnhamstandard.co.uk/news/10651401.maldon-tvs-ethan-is-reaping-the-benefits-of-a-bad-education/ |work=Maldon Standard |access-date=21 May 2022 |archive-date=16 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220516210250/https://www.maldonandburnhamstandard.co.uk/news/10651401.maldon-tvs-ethan-is-reaping-the-benefits-of-a-bad-education/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * Sam Jeffries (rugby union, born 1993)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk/ Thomas Plume's Library] *[http://www.plume.essex.sch.uk Plume School]

Category:Secondary schools in Essex Category:Academies in Essex Category:Maldon Category:Educational institutions established in 1970 Category:1970 establishments in England