Specialist Sports College
SPECIALIST SPORTS COLLEGE
As a Specialist Sports College, we cater particularly well for pupils with talent in all areas of sport through our broad curriculum and extension schemes, which include the Junior Athlete education Programme and Multi-Skill Academies. As we accept that increasing numbers of children and parents choose us for their secondary education because of our sports specialism, we also encourage other subject areas to use sport as a context for their teaching, where appropriate.
By doing so, we engage the attention and enthusiasm of those pupils across all subjects of the curriculum. The school prides itself on its achievements in extracurricular sport over a long period. Our pupils, individually and in teams, achieve success at all levels from local to national competition. Our Honours Board celebrates and records such successes for posterity and we hold assemblies in which the efforts and achievements of everyone involved in school sport can be recognised.
“The specialist staff use the sports curriculum well to model good classroom practice, support the local primary schools, increase students’ personal development and to provide a distinctive health programme in the community that has attracted national acclaim.”
Ofsted 2009
“The sports specialism, as a main strength of the curriculum, is used widely to benefit all students”
Ofsted 2009