Melbourn Village College

Melbourn Village College is an Academy, located in Melbourn, Cambridgeshire, England that serves an extensive area of South Cambridgeshire. The school has over 500 students aged 11-16.

  

Village College

A Village College is an institution specific to Cambridgeshire. It caters for the education of 11 to 16 year olds during the day, and provides educational and leisure facilities to adults out of school hours.

Academics

 

Since September 2002, Melbourn Village College has been a specialist Performing Arts College with Music, Drama and Dance as its specialisms.

In its report on its 6 October 2005 inspection, Ofsted rated the school Good, point two on a four point scale saying "Melbourn Village College is a good school with some outstanding features. The college is well viewed by its students and their parents, and with just cause."

The following components were rated Outstanding:

• How well does the school work in partnership with others to promote learners' well-being
• How good is the overall personal development and well-being of the

learners

• How well are learners cared for, guided and supported
• How well equality of opportunity is promoted and discrimination tackled so that all learners achieve as well as they can
• How effectively and efficiently resources are deployed to achieve value for money

In 2006 59% of students obtained 5 or more A*-C GCSEs including English and mathematics, rising to 63% if those two subjects are excluded.

Adult Education

 

Melbourn Village College offers a wide range of Community Education, with lots of classes in the Arts. Melbourn College is an Arts School which receives extra funding for the arts, textiles and drama etc. and

Funding

 

In January 2000 the Secondary Heads Association used this school as an example of the disparity of funding between local authorities. If the school had been in Hertfordshire, two miles away, it would have received £359,000 more for its students. By November 2005 the school was £148,814 in debt.

Notable staff

 

In 1998 Judith Mullen, then warden of the College, was appointed president of the Secondary Heads Association.

In April 2006 Nicola Dunklin, a teaching assistant, set up the South Cambridgeshire branch of the charity, Friends of Chernobyl's Children.

Notable alumni

• Luke Chadwick, professional football player