All Saints Catholic School

All Saints Catholic School and Technology College is a Roman Catholic secondary school located on Terling Road, Dagenham in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.

Status

With around 1100 students, it is the only Catholic voluntary aided comprehensive school in Barking and Dagenham. The school is notable as a specialist college in technology, one of the first in the country. It is also a training college, receiving the status in 2008, making it one of the first twin colleges.

History

 

All Saints School was previously an all-boys school under the name Bishop Ward until it joined with the Sacred Heart all-girls school in 1989.

Performance

 

Results at Bishop Ward were poor with an atmosphere that Desmond 'Des' Smith described as "depressed and violent". Following the appointment of Smith as head teacher in 1984 results steadily improved until in 2003 it was considered "the second most improved school in England". The March 2003 Ofsted report summarised the situation "The school has many very good features. Strategies adopted by the headteacher and governors have led to overall GCSE results rising faster than the national trend for some years, culminating in well above average results in 2002". However, the inspectors also said that the school's strategy led to several subjects of the National Curriculum not being taught to all pupils in Years 10 and 11. In addition, National Curriculum music provision remained poor.

Improvements continued and in the report of the 6 June 2007 inspection Ofsted rated the school as Grade 1 Outstanding saying "The school provides its students with an outstanding education. Standards are high and students achieve extremely well as a result of excellent teaching. The leaders and managers believe that each child is important and this maxim is at the heart of their decision making. There is a clear vision and a hunger for improvement building on the school's record of outstanding success." However, the school recognises the need to extend some aspects of its provision for the 14-19 age group including improving the guidance in the sixth form.

Lea Manor High School

Lea Manor High School Performing Arts College is a secondary school in Luton, Bedfordshire which opened in 1974. The most recent OFSTED Inspection Report graded the school as "Good" with good capacity to improve further. The school was awarded with Performing Arts specialism in 2007.

Performing Arts Specialism

Lea Manor High School is a specialised Performing Arts college, dedicated to showing off the talent in each of its students. Each year, the school performs numerous musicals or plays which include We Will Rock You, Anything Goes, Oliver!, Grease, Annie, The Wizard Of Oz, Billy Elliot and was the first school in Bedfordshire to successfully perform The Diary of Anne Frank.
The specialism has funded many school trips to West End Theatres to see shows such as The Lion King, Chicago, The Woman In Black and Wicked.

Building Schools For The Future Programme

Currently, Lea Manor High School is undergoing building and refurbishing work under the government's Building Schools for the Future Programme (BSF) and is one of the first schools in Luton to be transformed. The building firm Wates Group won the contract to rebuild or remodel every secondary school in Luton. The school will be more student-friendly and modern, including a brand new community libruary and community theatre which will become the biggest in Luton. 

Phase one of the remodelling has been completed and was opened to students in Autumn 2009. This phase included state-of-the-art technology rooms and three new science laboratories.

Furthermore, in April 2010, the first section of phase two opened which included a Science 'Heart Space' with six laboratories leading off from it. The space is used as a flexible teaching area and has new Apple Inc. iMacs, interactive whiteboards and a plasma TV. In May 2010, the Adult Education facilities relocated from the existing building to its brand new area in the new school.

Due to delays, it is predicted that the second part of phase two of the remodelling will open in September 2010, ready for the new school year. This will see the opening of Lea Manor's newly constructed entrance, dining facilities, community theatre, music studios and drama rooms.

Normandy School Trip Incident

Whilst on a school trip, 4 students and 2 members of staff fell ill with Swine Flu, resulting in the trip to be cut short and for them to return back to England. The party were told to wear masks and draw the curtains on the coach because "the French would have been shocked by it". The four pupils and two staff affected are said to have recovered quickly.

  

Headboy/Headgirl election 2009

For the 2009/2010 school year, Lea Manor High School decided to select a Headboy and a Headgirl through a student and staff ballot vote after a campaign by candidates. This included a leaflet and poster campaign, speeches in assemblies and speaking to students. Candidates were also visited by North Luton MP Kelvin Hopkins who gave the students some tips on how to present themselves and their ideas..

Putteridge High School

Putteridge High School is a comprehensive secondary school, located in the Putteridge area of Luton, Bedfordshire, England.
The school educates children ages 11 - 16, in preparation for GCSE examinations. Graduating students who wish to study A levels usually go on to attend Luton Sixth Form College.
Putteridge High School has been awarded specialist status as a Mathematics and Computing College. New IT suites and equipment are being installed at the school as a result of this.

Fearnhill School

Fearnhill School is a comprehensive school located in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England.

Admissions

It is a specialist school and a Maths and Computing College. It educates over 1,000 students and is one of a minority of high schools with a sixth form. The school is part of the Letchworth Sixth Form Consortium with The Highfield School.

It is situated in the west of Letchworth, just north of the railway line to Baldock and Cambridge. It is on the Icknield Way. 

History

The school's origins lie in Letchworth Grammar School, which moved to the site in the early 1970s.

Academic standards

The school is notable for leading the way in personal finance education. The GCSE results announced in August 2005 were the best since 2001. 59% of the students achieved A*-C grades. In 2009, it received GCSE results slightly under the England average, and A-level results well under average. Ofsted graded it as failing in 2011.

Sport

Fearnhill has very successful athletics teams. In April 2008, 2009 and 2010 the school won the combined boys' and girls' North Herts schools' athletics finals. This follows on from being the overall winners at the North Herts Schools' District Athletics Championships in June 2005 & 2006.

Alumni

• Dave Kitson, Premier League footballer
• Victoria Pendleton, Olympic and world champion track cyclist
• Simon West, film director
• Claire Rushbrook, TV actress
• Nicky Hunt, Double Commonwealth Gold medallist for Archery 2010
• Ruth Goodman (historian), Social historian and TV personality

Letchworth Grammar School

• Prof William Bonfield CBE, Professor of Medical Materials from 2000-5 at the University of Cambridge, who founded the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine
• Prof Meir M. Lehman, known for Lehman's laws of software evolution, and Professor of Computing Science from 1972-84 at Imperial College London
• John Ransford, Chief Executive since 2009 of the Local Government Association, and of North Yorkshire County Council from 1994-9
• Richard Wiggs, founder of the Anti-Concorde Project

Former teachers

• Richard Parry, Director of Education since 1998 for Swansea Council (Head of Maths from 1983-8)
• Ian Roberts, England Athletics Team Coach (Head of Physical Education from 1995 - 2003)
• Chris Husbands, Director, Institute of Education since 2011 (head of Humanities 1988-1990)

Bishops Hatfield Girls School

Bishop's Hatfield Girls' School is a girls' comprehensive school located in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. It was founded in 1960 as a girls' grammar school. It has a sixth form of about 120 students according to the latest OFSTED report. The current (since September 2004) Headteacher is Theodora Nickson, and the school recently became specialised in Humanities and English. In the last OFSTED report it got a 'good' rating.
Tracey Thorn from Everything But The Girl studied at the school.

The Thomas Alleyne School

The Thomas Alleyne School is a secondary school in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England. It is one of three schools founded in 1558 from the will of Thomas Alleyne.

The Thomas Alleyne School is a school where success is expected, achieved and celebrated. We are very proud of our school. It is a school where we are developing a community of learners, parents, teachers, Governors and other members of our wider school community. We are an innovative and emotionally intelligent school where we consider the welfare, thinking and feelings of our learners so that we can link their own personal experiences to their individual and collective learning. 

Admissions

The school's headteacher is currently Mr Jonathan Block. In October 2010 it was anounced that the school would stay-put at the current site as a result of the government undoing the Building schools for the future grant.

It is situated in the north of Stevenage, known as Old Town, next to the roundabout of the A1072 and the A602 (former A1), and less than 200 metres to the east of the East Coast Main Line. It is next door to The Barclay School.

History

Grammar school

 

Francis Cammaerts DSO was the head teacher from 1952-61. From 1869 it was the Alleyne's Grammar School, a boys' grammar school.

Comprehensive

 

In 1969 it became a comprehensive, Alleyne's School. At first in the 1970s, the school results were some of the best in Stevenage, but that is no longer the case. In 1989 it merged with Stevenage Girls' School and changed to its current name. In July 2005, a 14 year girl stabbed another 14 year old girl.

Academic performance

 

Stevenage gets the lowest academic results in Hertfordshire. It gets very low GCSE and A-level results. Marriotts School gets similar results. The John Henry Newman School, a catholic school, now gets the best results in Stevenage, but not particularly high compared to many Hertfordshire schools.

Alumni 

Alleyne's Grammar School

• Michael Biggs, Group Chief Executive from 2007-8 of Resolution plc
• Peter Boorman, organist at St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire from 1953-77
• Ewart Culpin, Chairman from 1938-9 of London County Council, and President from 1937-8 of the Town Planning Institute
• David Hamid, Chairman since 2006 of Nationwide Autocentre, and Chief Executive of Halfords from 2003-5
• Geoffrey Howard (cricketer and administrator), grandson of Sir Ebenezer Howard, pioneer of garden cities
• David Morgan, Chief Executive from 1987-98 of the Black Country Development Corporation
• Prof David Newland, Professor of Engineering from 1976-2003 at the University of Cambridge, and known for harmonic wavelet transforms

Alleyne's School

• Graham Poll, referee

Stevenage Girls' School

• Prof Susan Owens OBE, Professor of Environment and Policy at the University of Cambridge

Castle View School

Castle View School is a comprehensive school for ages 11–16 located in the north of Canvey Island, Essex, England, overlooking Hadleigh Downs. As of 2006 it has some 900 pupils, and 200 staff. It is a specialist Science College.

Castle View School's current Headteacher is Mrs Gill Thomas. The Deputy Headteacher is Jonathan Newby, and the Assistant Headteachers are: Mr D Ford, Mr A Taylor, Mr A Sappong, Ms J Fletcher, Miss K Regan, Mr D Boughtwood and the School Business Manager Mr K Evans.

On the 11th of May 2009, the school was closed to pupils for a week due to a suspected outbreak of 'Swine Flu'. However, as only a small amount of suspected cases emerged (along with an even smaller amount of confirmed cases), the school was open for last year pupils to take their GCSE(General Certificates of Secondary Education)examinations. Students were noted on the schools website for having dealt with the situation maturely.

Castle View School is going to be relocated to a brand new building located in the centre of Canvey town in January 2012. Until that time, Key Stage 3 students are located in a self-contained area at the site of the new building, but screened from the building work which is in its final stages at the end of 2011. Key Stage 4 students are located at the Meppel Avenue site until the new building is completed.

The current Castle View School site will be used to build a new vocational education centre.