The Corbet School Technology College

Our proscpectus is intended to be an informative guide in all matters concerning the school – outlining our aims and intentions in guiding your sons or daughters through their school career with us. It also helps to ensure everyone understands our clear expectations and this should help bolster the excellent working atmosphere and attitude shown by our pupils.

The academic year ahead, 2008/2009, offers us, as always, fresh challenges. We have had Technology College Status for five years. This has helped us to continue to provide , in our own view, a first-class education for your son or daughter. It allowed us to enhance four key areas Science, Maths, ICT and DT, but did not mean that other curriculum areas were overlooked. They have, themselves, greatly benefited from enhanced teaching resources, especially updated ICT facilities including many class-rooms being provided with projectors and interactive white boards. This Summer 2008 will see the school having additional class-rooms added to the school site. These are needed to provide additional space for our pupils. We have six forms of entry in the new Year 7 as well as in the current Years 9 and 10. These extra forms need these additional class-rooms. We continue to strive for excellence in education to help us to keep a reputation that we are happy to maintain and determined to build upon. This involves a constant drive to maintain our work ethic by expecting everyone to work to their full potential in all areas of the curriculum.

During the time your children are in secondary school, they undergo great changes, physically, emotionally and socially, as well as intellectually. There are also added pressures because this year they are changing school from, in some cases, a very small Primary School to our far larger Secondary School. There are bound to be questions about all aspects of a new school life which can cause concern. I hope very much that this prospectus will provide most of the necessary answers and the essential reassurances for you and your son or daughter. If, however, there are other ways in which we can help, we shall be only too pleased to assist you. Please do not hesitate to contact the school’s Pastoral Team. Each Key Stage, KS3 (Years 7 to 9) and KS4 (Years 10 and 11) has a Learning Manager. These are Alison Millward for KS3 and Gill Bamford for KS4. Each Key Stage also has an Assistant Head in overall charge of that group of pupils. The Assistant Head (KS3) is Nigel Smith and the Assistant Head (KS4) is Sarah Youngs. So in the first instance, I suggest that those who can be of most help to you are the particular form tutor your son or daughter has been attached to, Alison Millward (Learning Manager KS3) or Nigel Smith (Assistant Head KS3).

I would like to take the opportunity to wish your son or daughter well for the forthcoming school year, 2008/2009.

Mr R J Thompson

Headteacher

Prospectus

• Introduction
• Our Aims
• Care for Your Child
• Your Child's Education
• Your Child's Day
• Your Child's Future
• Assessment
• Responsible Behaviour
• School Activities
• School Uniform
• Pupil Admissions
• General Information
• Daily Timetable
• Exams & Results
• Term Dates & Holidays
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