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Stafford Collegiate
The Stafford Collegiate is a partnership of several state schools based within the Stafford Stafford () is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It lies about north of Wolverhampton, south of Stoke-on-Trent and northwest of Birmingham. The town had a population of 70,145 in t ... catchment area. The collaborating institutes include: Blessed William Howard Catholic High School, King Edward VI High School, Stafford Manor High School, Sir Graham Balfour High School and Weston Road Academy. The partnership offers a large range of courses. both academic and vocational, a total of some 40 A level subjects, eight courses leading to vocational qualifications, a general education programme, moreover, some offer the opportunity to improve GCSE grades. Since its formation, the Chetwynd Centre has played the role of head of the collegiate, offering courses only to sixth form students at participating schools. Steve Smith, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stafford
Stafford () is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It lies about north of Wolverhampton, south of Stoke-on-Trent and northwest of Birmingham. The town had a population of 70,145 in the 2021 census, It is the main settlement within the larger borough of Stafford which had a population of 136,837 (2021). History Stafford means "ford" by a staithe (landing place). The original settlement was on a dry sand and gravel peninsula that offered a strategic crossing point in the marshy valley of the River Sow, a tributary of the River Trent. There is still a large area of marshland north-west of the town, which is subject to flooding and did so in 1947, 2000, 2007 and 2019. Stafford is thought to have been founded about AD 700 by a Mercian prince called Bertelin, who, legend has it, founded a hermitage on a peninsula named Betheney. Until recently it was thought that the remains of a wooden preaching cross from the time h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blessed William Howard Catholic School
The Blessed William Howard Catholic School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Stafford, Staffordshire, England. The school was originally opened in 1963. The name Blessed William Howard comes from the site on which the school is located. William Howard was the 1st Viscount of Stafford in the 17th century, and owned the land on which the current school is built. He was convicted of treason and executed in 1680, wrongly so, as it is viewed by the Roman Catholic Church. The Church therefore beatified him in 1929, and he became known as Blessed William Howard. Thus the school is named eponymously. Blessed William Howard was previously a voluntary aided school administered by Staffordshire County Council, and gained specialist Arts College An Arts College, in the United Kingdom, is a type of specialist school that specialises in the subject fields of the performing, visual, digital and/or media arts. They were announced in 1996 and introduced alongside Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Edward VI High School, Stafford
King Edward VI High School is a Mixed-sex education, coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in the Highfields area of Stafford, England. The school's sixth form forms part of the Stafford Collegiate. It is a non-selective state school admitting boys and girls from ages 11–18. The school was formed in 1977 following the amalgamation of King Edward VI Boys’ Grammar School and Stafford Girls’ High School. Introduction King Edward VI High School serves mainly the west of Stafford to the Shropshire border, and admits students aged between 11 – 19 years. The school catchment area includes Western Downs, the Rowley Avenue area, Forebridge, Doxey, the top end of the Highfields Estate and the villages to the west of Stafford i.e. Bradley, Staffordshire, Bradley, Derrington, Seighford, Haughton, Staffordshire, Haughton, Gnosall, Church Eaton and Woodseaves. The school was formed by merging the long established selective schools, King Edward VI Boys’ Grammar School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stafford Manor High School
Stafford Manor High School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Stafford in the English county of Staffordshire. Previously known as Rising Brook High School, the school gained specialist Sports College status and was renamed Stafford Sports College. Today Stafford Manor High School is a foundation school administered by Staffordshire County Council and The Stafford Community Learning Trust. Stafford Manor High School offers GCSEs and vocational courses as programmes of study for pupils. The school sixth form provision forms part of the Stafford Collegiate which includes all Stafford secondary schools and Stafford College Stafford College is a large provider of further and higher education based in Stafford, England. The college campus is on Earl Street in Stafford Town Centre. Qualifications taught include a wide range of A-levels, with additional choice offered .... References External linksStafford Manor High School official website Secondary scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Graham Balfour School
Sir Graham Balfour School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Stafford, England. It is named after Graham Balfour, son of the Victorian statistician, who became Director of Education in Staffordshire. The original school was demolished in 2001, with the new school building being constructed and completed in 2002. It achieved specialist Maths and Computing School status from September 2006. The school converted to academy status in September 2016. As of June 2021, the school is building a new set of classrooms, behind the sports hall, which will soon be where modern foreign languages (French, Spanish and German) will be taught. Sir Graham Balfour School also offers post-16 education. The sixth form is an integral part of the Stafford Collegiate which involves all Stafford High Schools and Stafford College. On 22 July 2016 David Wright retired as Head Teacher and Lesley Beck took over. Controversy In May 2005, then-headteacher David Hill banned chari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weston Road Academy
The Weston Road Academy (formerly Weston Road High School) is an academy school in Stafford, England. It provides secondary and further education for pupils aged 11–18 in the east side of the town, as well as the surrounding villages of Great Haywood, Little Haywood, Hopton, Weston and Hixon. It has links to other local high schools through a local education collaboration - the Stafford Sixth form - which provides education for 16 to 18 year olds. In 2012 it became an academy school. In recent years, the Academy has specialised in mathematics and computing. As of 2021, the school's most recent Ofsted inspection was a short inspection in 2018, which confirmed the previous 2013 judgement of Good. Notable former pupils * Kelly England Prehn Kelly Prehn (also known as Kelly England Prehn) is a British model, editor, influencer, fashion ambassador, and businesswoman. Early life and discovery At 17 years old, Prehn was spotted during a school trip to Covent Garden by a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
