Cheadle High School
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Cheadle High School is a state secondary school
located in Cheadle
, Staffordshire
in the Midlands
area of England
. It has around 790 pupils ranging from Year 7 to 13. The school is also one of the leading partners in the Moorlands 6th Form with Paisley Catholic College. The head teacher is Mr. K. Hollins. The school has recently been judged as "good" from Ofsted (2010) with many "outstanding" areas.
Cheadle High School is a specialist Arts school. Cheadle High School offers a broad curriculum base, offering students the chance to study a wide range of subjects. Students in Y10 and Y11 can choose from subjects such as Child Development, BTEC Sport, Business Studies, Performing Arts, ICT, Geography, History to name just a few. Students are also expected to learn a language (French or German).
In May 2010 a full OFSTED Inspection concluded that Cheadle High School is a “good school in which many aspects are now outstanding”. We are delighted to report that the 2010 results demonstrate that the school is sustaining the high level of achievement obtained by our students in previous years.
The proportion of students achieving A*-C grades in Maths was 67% and in English Language the proportion of students achieving A*-C was also very good, at 68%. In English Literature this was 98%. Overall the proportion of students who were entered for 5 or more GCSE, and achieved 5 or more A*-C grades, was 61%. Similarly, the pass rate for 5 or more A*-C including English and Maths was 58%.
This year 100% of all Year 11 have achieved 1 or more passes at A*-G pass grades and 96 % have achieved 5+ A*-G grades. The excellent results continue to reflect the judgement by OFSTED that there is a high quality of teaching and learning evident at Cheadle High School, for young people of all abilities, interests and aptitudes.
Teachers from Cheadle High School also teach at the Moorlands 6th Form.
, Maths, English
, Languages, Religious Education
, Business Studies
, Information Communication Technology, Child Development
, Performing Arts
, Sport
, Media Studies
, Dance
, Geography
, History
, Art
, Technology
, Physical Education
, Music
and Drama
.
station which features shows produced by students and staff, representing local interests of all stakeholders. The station is popular with both students and members of the local area, who can listen online via the online player. Cheadle High School Radio
Listeners are encouraged to take part in the show via text message (cheadle + message to 07786 206955).
Secondary school
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...
located in Cheadle
Cheadle, Staffordshire
Cheadle is a small market town near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, with a population of 12,158 according to the 2001 census. It is roughly from the city of Stoke-on-Trent, north of Birmingham and south of Manchester...
, Staffordshire
Staffordshire
Staffordshire is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. Part of the National Forest lies within its borders...
in the Midlands
English Midlands
The Midlands, or the English Midlands, is the traditional name for the area comprising central England that broadly corresponds to the early medieval Kingdom of Mercia. It borders Southern England, Northern England, East Anglia and Wales. Its largest city is Birmingham, and it was an important...
area of England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. It has around 790 pupils ranging from Year 7 to 13. The school is also one of the leading partners in the Moorlands 6th Form with Paisley Catholic College. The head teacher is Mr. K. Hollins. The school has recently been judged as "good" from Ofsted (2010) with many "outstanding" areas.
Cheadle High School is a specialist Arts school. Cheadle High School offers a broad curriculum base, offering students the chance to study a wide range of subjects. Students in Y10 and Y11 can choose from subjects such as Child Development, BTEC Sport, Business Studies, Performing Arts, ICT, Geography, History to name just a few. Students are also expected to learn a language (French or German).
In May 2010 a full OFSTED Inspection concluded that Cheadle High School is a “good school in which many aspects are now outstanding”. We are delighted to report that the 2010 results demonstrate that the school is sustaining the high level of achievement obtained by our students in previous years.
The proportion of students achieving A*-C grades in Maths was 67% and in English Language the proportion of students achieving A*-C was also very good, at 68%. In English Literature this was 98%. Overall the proportion of students who were entered for 5 or more GCSE, and achieved 5 or more A*-C grades, was 61%. Similarly, the pass rate for 5 or more A*-C including English and Maths was 58%.
This year 100% of all Year 11 have achieved 1 or more passes at A*-G pass grades and 96 % have achieved 5+ A*-G grades. The excellent results continue to reflect the judgement by OFSTED that there is a high quality of teaching and learning evident at Cheadle High School, for young people of all abilities, interests and aptitudes.
History
It was formed by the merging of Cheadle Grammar School and Mackenzie Secondary Modern in 1975. There is now a sixth form college called Moorlands Sixth Form, which is on the original Grammar school site.Teachers from Cheadle High School also teach at the Moorlands 6th Form.
Curriculum
Cheadle High School teaches ScienceScience
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
, Maths, English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, Languages, Religious Education
Religious Education
Religious Education is the term given to education concerned with religion. It may refer to education provided by a church or religious organization, for instruction in doctrine and faith, or for education in various aspects of religion, but without explicitly religious or moral aims, e.g. in a...
, Business Studies
Business studies
Business studies is an academic subject taught at higher level in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom, as well as at university level in many countries...
, Information Communication Technology, Child Development
Child development
Child development stages describe theoretical milestones of child development. Many stage models of development have been proposed, used as working concepts and in some cases asserted as nativist theories....
, Performing Arts
Performing arts
The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...
, Sport
Sport
A Sport is all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants. Sport may be competitive, where a winner or winners can be identified by objective means, and may require a degree...
, Media Studies
Media studies
Media studies is an academic discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history and effects of various media; in particular, the 'mass media'. Media studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly from its core disciplines of mass...
, Dance
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
, Geography
Geography
Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
, History
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
, Art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
, Technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
, Physical Education
Physical education
Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
, Music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
and Drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
.
Radio
Cheadle High School hosts its own fully licensed high school radioHigh school radio
High school radio within the United States is almost as old as radio broadcasting itself. Simply defined as a radio station, with its studios located at a high school and usually operated by its students with faculty supervision, stations fitting this description existed in the mid-1920s...
station which features shows produced by students and staff, representing local interests of all stakeholders. The station is popular with both students and members of the local area, who can listen online via the online player. Cheadle High School Radio
Listeners are encouraged to take part in the show via text message (cheadle + message to 07786 206955).