Sheringham High School is a

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and

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located in the town of

Sheringham Sheringham (; population 7,367) is an English seaside town within the county of Norfolk, United Kingdom.Ordnance Survey (2002). ''OS Explorer Map 252 - Norfolk Coast East''. . The motto of the town, granted in 1953 to the Sheringham Urban Distr ...

in the

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county of

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. The school has around 700 students, usually including between 160 and 180 in the sixth form centre.January 2009 Ofsted Report
2009-01-23. Retrieved: 2009-09-03 It shares a campus with Sheringham Primary School and Sheringham Woodfields School. The headteacher is Alistair Ogle.

History

The school takes students from primary schools in

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and Holt. It has a specialism in the arts, and is a member of the Microsoft IT Academy programme.School Website
. Retrieved: 2009-09-03. On 1 November 2011 the school became an

academy An academy ( Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy ...

.Sheringham High School becomes Norfolk’s latest academy
''

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'', 2011-11-01. Retrieved: 2011-11-01.

Curriculum

Virtually all maintained schools and academies follow the

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, and are inspected by Ofsted on how well they succeed in delivering a 'broad and balanced curriculum'. The school has to decide whether

Key Stage 3 Key Stage 3 (commonly abbreviated as KS3) is the legal term for the three years of schooling in maintained schools in England and Wales normally known as Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9, when pupils are aged between 11 and 14. In Northern Ireland the ...

contains years 7, 8 and 9, or whether year 9 should be in

Key Stage 4 Key Stage 4 (KS4) is the legal term for the two years of school education which incorporate GCSEs, and other examinations, in maintained schools in England normally known as Year 10 and Year 11, when pupils are aged between 14 and 16 by August 31. ...

and the students in that year just study subjects that will be examined by the

GCSE The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is an academic qualification in a particular subject, taken in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. State schools in Scotland use the Scottish Qualifications Certificate instead. Private sc ...

exams at 16. Sheringham had decided to take the latter approach. The timetable is planned a 50 period fortnight. ;Key Stage 3 In 2019, Key Stage 3 students studied: ;Key Stage 4 Students study a core curriculum with German or French, History or Geography and two optional subjects selected from a short list.

Ofsted Inspections

In 2012

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carried out an interim assessment of the school and confirmed the previous judgement of Good. In 2014 it was inspected again and judged Good.

Houses

Sheringham High School has four houses named after famous Norfolk people. Carter house named after adventurer

Howard Carter Howard Carter (9 May 18742 March 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 1922, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the K ...

, Cavell named after nurse

Edith Cavell Edith Louisa Cavell ( ; 4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse. She is celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from both sides without discrimination and for helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Be ...

, Nelson after Lord Admiral Nelson and Sewell after author

Anna Sewell Anna Sewell (; 30 March 1820 – 25 April 1878)''The Oxford guide to British women writers'' by Joanne Shattock. p. 385, Oxford University Press. (1993) was an English novelist. She is known as the author of the 1877 novel ''Black Beauty'', her ...

Media coverage

In Spring 2009, Sheringham High School was featured in the

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series entitled "The Sex education show VS Pornography" hosted by

Anna Richardson Anna Clare Richardson (born 27 September 1970) is an English television presenter, writer and journalist. She has presented various television shows for Channel 4, including '' Supersize vs Superskinny'' (2008–2009), '' The Sex Education Show ...

.Campbell.
Porn: the new sex education
''The Guardian'', 2009-03-30. Retrieved: 2009-09-03.

References

External links

Sheringham High School website
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High 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 '' lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper seconda ...

Secondary schools in Norfolk Academies in Norfolk