Furze Platt Senior School

Furze Platt Senior School is a mixed comprehensive secondary school with academy status in Maidenhead.

The school draws pupils from across Maidenhead, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.

The school's latest OFSTED report (November 2021) rated Furze Platt Senior School as "Good".

The school is led by Headteacher Dr Andrew Morrison. Three Deputy Headteachers, the Head of Sixth Form and four Assistant Headteachers, along with the Head of Employee Relations and the Head of Finance, make up the Senior Leadership Team.^[1]

The school House system is named after birds: Eagle (Green), Falcon (Red), Hawk (Blue) and Osprey (Orange).

Until 2022 the house system had eight competing houses named after towns on the River Thames.

According to school records Furze Platt first competed in Greenpower in 2001. The team won the Greenpower International Finals in 2004 and 2005 with a car named "Turbo Tortoise".^[2][3] Furze Platt Senior School still participates in the Greenpower Challenge,^[4] a national initiative run by the Greenpower Educational Trust where students design, build, and race electric cars across circuits in the UK.^[5]

The school has use of the Furze Platt Leisure Centre during lessons and for clubs both before and after school. This includes a 60 station fitness gym with a range of cardio, functional and resistance equipment; three floodlit tennis / netball courts and a floodlit Astroturf.

• Andy King – Professional footballer, long-time Leicester City midfielder and part of the squads that won League One (2009), the Championship (2014) and the Premier League (2016).^[6]
• Jessica Brown Findlay – Actress best known for playing Lady Sybil Crawley in Downton Abbey, with a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the ensemble cast.^[7]
• Craig Johnston – Winner of MasterChef: The Professionals 2017.^[7]
• روب ويليامز – الحائز على الميدالية الفضية الأولمبية في سباق التجديف الرباعي للرجال خفيف الوزن في أولمبياد لندن 2012. ^{[ 7 ]}
• جورجي سينغلتون (الآن بيفان) - لاعبة جودو، حائزة على الميدالية الذهبية في دورة ألعاب الكومنولث عام 2002 ومنافسة في دورة الألعاب الأولمبية في أثينا عام 2004 ^{[ 7 ].}