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UK Rock Challenge
The UK Rock Challenge was the British arm of the Rock Eisteddfod Challenge, Global Rock Challenge. The Rock Challenge was an anti-drug and crime-prevention that took the form of a friendly performing arts competition for schools and colleges. Originating in Australia in the 1980s, it reached UK shores due to Inspector Mark Pontin of the Hampshire Constabulary seeing it in 1995 and being so impressed that he persuaded the Chief Constable of Hampshire Constabulary to form a joint venture with Tony Barron, Chairman of Hampshire Education Committee and Peter Coles the Chief Executive, Together they introduced it into their area of the UK and found joint funding to do so. The first UK event took place in Portsmouth Guildhall, Portsmouth in 1996 involving 11 schools and around 750 young people. Since then, Rock Challenge has expanded into many areas across the UK. In 2016 there were 49 days of events. The event stopped abruptly in 2019, with plans for its return stopped also. The Event ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Challenge
The UK Rock Challenge was the British arm of the Rock Eisteddfod Challenge, Global Rock Challenge. The Rock Challenge was an anti-drug and crime-prevention that took the form of a friendly performing arts competition for schools and colleges. Originating in Australia in the 1980s, it reached UK shores due to Inspector Mark Pontin of the Hampshire Constabulary seeing it in 1995 and being so impressed that he persuaded the Chief Constable of Hampshire Constabulary to form a joint venture with Tony Barron, Chairman of Hampshire Education Committee and Peter Coles the Chief Executive, Together they introduced it into their area of the UK and found joint funding to do so. The first UK event took place in Portsmouth Guildhall, Portsmouth in 1996 involving 11 schools and around 750 young people. Since then, Rock Challenge has expanded into many areas across the UK. In 2016 there were 49 days of events. The event stopped abruptly in 2019, with plans for its return stopped also. The Event ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chislehurst And Sidcup Grammar School
Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School is a mixed-sex grammar school with academy status located in Hurst Road ( A222), Sidcup in the London Borough of Bexley, England. It is located adjacent to Lamorbey Park, the Rose Bruford College drama school and Hurstmere School. Pupils at the school are divided into a series of six houses, known as Davies, Edlmann, Lester, Townshend, Williams, and Staff, while an annual school magazine, ''The Chronicle'', is also produced by the students. The current head teacher, Nigel Walker, has held his position since 2009. Founded as the Sidcup County School for Boys in 1931 to meet the lack of secondary schools in the newly urbanised town, it was initially opened at 27 Station Road, with the position of first headmaster being given to C. R. McGregor Williams. In 1935, the school began moving into a purpose-built site at Crittall's Corner, Footscray, being renamed Chislehurst and Sidcup County School in 1938. Damaged during The Blitz, after the cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quilley School Of Engineering
Quilley School, originally called Alderman Quilley, was a secondary school in Eastleigh, Hampshire, England. The enrollment in 2016 was 570 pupils. The school was founded by ''Edward John Quilley'' in 1963, opened in 1964 as a comprehensive mixed secondary school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ... for 11- to 16-year-olds. The Head was Mrs Hayter. In March 2016 it was announced that the school would be merging with the Crestwood College for Business and Enterprise as of September 2016. Falling enrollment and low exam results over the past three years were cited as the reasons for the merger. The former Quilley site is now the Cherbourg Campus of the merged schools. External linksBBC News profile References Eastleigh Defunct schools in Hampshire Educationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quilley School
Quilley School, originally called Alderman Quilley, was a secondary school in Eastleigh, Hampshire, England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b .... The enrollment in 2016 was 570 pupils. The school was founded by ''Edward John Quilley'' in 1963, opened in 1964 as a comprehensive mixed secondary school for 11- to 16-year-olds. The Head was Mrs Hayter. In March 2016 it was announced that the school would be merging with the Crestwood College for Business and Enterprise as of September 2016. Falling enrollment and low exam results over the past three years were cited as the reasons for the merger. The former Quilley site is now the Cherbourg Campus of the merged schools. External linksBBC News profile References Eastleigh Defunct schools in Hampshire Educatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cantell Secondary School
Cantell School is a secondary comprehensive school in Bassett, Southampton. In 2013, Ofsted judged Cantell to be a 'Good' school. History The school occupies the site that was previously home to Glen Eyre School. Cantell was formed as an amalgamation of Hampton Park Secondary School and Glen Eyre Secondary School. In 1988 the school occupied an area of some 4 hectares (9.9 acres) and it was proposed that 0.1 hectares (0.25 acres) of this be sold off for housing. The School gained specialist status for Mathematics and Information and Communication Technology, in September 2003 and was known as Cantell Mathematics and Computing College until 2013, when the school returned to the original name of Cantell School. Cantell Secondary received an Ofsted inspection in Autumn 2004 and was put into the ''special measures'' category because it was failing to give its students an acceptable standard of education. As a result, it received visits from Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Educatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Aldworth School
Aldworth School is a secondary school, formerly Aldworth Science College, after Richard Aldworth Community School, in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. History The history of Aldworth school can be traced back to 1646, when the ''Blue Coat School'' was opened in Cross Street (originally Cow Cross Lane). It was due to an Alderman of the City of London named Richard Aldworth (whose mother, Jane South, was from Basingstoke) that the school was able to open, when he left £2000 in his will. The school provided education for ten boys from underprivileged backgrounds. The boys would be educated, clothed and fed from the age of 7 until they 16, when they would be found jobs or enrolled in apprenticeship schemes. The school got its name from the distinctive uniforms the boys wore. In 1811, the Blue Coat school was incorporated into the National Schools system and forced to share its building with National boys. The master at the time William Brown (1801–1814) complained that it was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Hill Community School
Fort Hill Community School was a coeducational secondary school located in Winklebury, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. Location The school was built within the ramparts of an Iron Age hill fort, ''Winklebury Ring''. Around the school perimeter some of the old ditch site still remains. It is thought that the Celts The Celts (, see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples () are. "CELTS location: Greater Europe time period: Second millennium B.C.E. to present ancestry: Celtic a collection of Indo-European peoples. "The Celts, an ancien ... once established a farming society around this fort. The school was closed in 2018 and demolition of the site commenced in January 2019. References External links *http://www.forthillcommunityschool.org/ *http://www.chjs.net *http://www.winkleburyfederation.com/ *http://www.chiltern-pri.hants.sch.uk/ {{Schools in Hampshire Defunct schools in Hampshire Schools in Basingstoke 1977 establishments in England E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hurst Community School
The Hurst School, previously The Hurst Community College, is a state secondary school in the village of Baughurst, within the county of Hampshire in England. Jayne McLaren is the Headteacher and was appointed in January 2021. The school has just over 1,000 students. The school provides secondary education for boys and girls aged from 11 to 16. It is categorized as a community school and is run wholly by the local education authority (LEA). Pupils come from a catchment area which includes the nearby town of Tadley and the villages of Silchester, Bramley, Sherborne St John and Pamber Heath. Curriculum The school teaches a variety of subjects which are examined at GCSE level or through BTEC awards. Pupils follow the National Curriculum. Performance The most recent OFSTED inspection took place in 2019. This was a short inspection where the school was judged to be 'Good'. The full inspection in May 2015 also judged the school as 'Good'. Feedback from the 2019 inspection inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corfe Hills School
Corfe Hills School is a co-educational upper school in Broadstone, Poole, Dorset, England, in the urban fringe between Poole and Wimborne. The school became an academy in 2011. The school serves Corfe Mullen, Broadstone, Wimborne, Merley and Sturminster Marshall. The current headteacher is James Sankey. History The school was established in 1976. By 2000, the school had 1,600 pupils. In 2012, the school was reported to be using a £9,000 yurt as a space to encourage reading. A former chemistry teacher of the school (teaching between 2001 and 2011) was convicted in 2014 and jailed for owning and distributing indecent images and movies of children. The school was a site of an audio experiment in 2016 with Bournemouth University in which 11 teenage students participated in the listening of radio drama shows. In 2018, the school had 1,040 pupils. In 2019, the school spent £1.2 million on a renovation of the school heating system. In 2020, the school had 869 students (less t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Purbeck School
The Purbeck School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Wareham in the central southern area of Dorset, England, on the Isle of Purbeck. The organisation of schools in the Purbeck area is based on a comprehensive two-tier system. Children transfer at the age of 11 from eleven Primary Schools A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ed ... (ages 5 to 11) and most of them will then come to The Purbeck School (11 to 16). The school also operates a sixth form which has students ages 16 to 18. Previously a community school administered by Dorset Council, in May 2022 The Purbeck School converted to academy status. The school is now sponsored by The Thomas Hardye Trust. References External links * Secondary schools in Dorset Academies in Dors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wildern School
Wildern School is an 11–16 mixed secondary school with academy status in Hedge End, Hampshire, England. It was formerly a foundation school that was established in 1933 and became an academy in 2011. History Wildern School was a foundation school that was established in 1933 and became an academy in 2011. It became a multi-academy trust in 2018. In 2016, the school made national news when police were called because a student had viewed the UK Independence Party website and an English Defence League video. The school said it had called 101 for advice, acting in line with extremism guidelines, and was referred to a specialist team who made the decision to arrange a meeting with the student and their parent. No further action was taken. School performance In 2012, the school was inspected by Ofsted, with a judgement of 'Outstanding'. As of 2022, the school's most recent Ofsted inspection was in 2022. The report gave the school a judgement of 'Requires improvement'. It wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ratton School
Ratton School is a secondary school with academy status in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England. All of the communities are named after theatres in London. Notable former pupils * Joe Townsend Joseph Townsend (born 27 March 1988) is a British paratriathlete who competes in the PTWC classification. Townsend has won European and world medals as well as becoming Commonwealth Champion in 2018. He represented Great Britain at the 2016 Par ... (born 1988), paratriathlete References External linksRatton School official website {{authority control Secondary schools in East Sussex Educational institutions established in 1965 Academies in East Sussex 1965 establishments in England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
