Clacton County High School
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Clacton County High School (often abbreviated to CCHS) is a comprehensive secondary school located in Clacton-on-Sea
, in Essex.
is working in partnership with other local schools to provide post 16 years education in the Clacton area. This partnership is known as the Clacton Consortium.
. It was opened in September 1928, and the official opening was on 28 November 1928 by Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh (son of the Nobel prize winning physicist John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
).
In September 1999, 12 year old Reece Straight died after falling under the wheels of a school bus after sprinting after it once it left the school.
In 2007 the school's Principal, John Clay retired after twenty three years in charge. He was succeeded by former Vice Principal Jeff Brindle.
Clacton-on-Sea
Clacton-on-Sea is the largest town on the Tendring peninsula, in Essex, England and was founded in 1871. It is a seaside resort that attracted many tourists in the summer months between the 1950s and 1970s, but which like many other British sea-side resorts went into decline as a holiday...
, in Essex.
Admissions
There are over 1600 students attending the school, which recently passed its 80th birthday. It is a Specialist Performing Arts College, meaning that one of the main focuses is performing drama and dance shows. It is situated next to Clacton Leisure Centre, east of the railway station.Sixth Form
The school sixth formSixth form
In the education systems of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and of Commonwealth West Indian countries such as Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Jamaica and Malta, the sixth form is the final two years of secondary education, where students, usually sixteen to eighteen years of age,...
is working in partnership with other local schools to provide post 16 years education in the Clacton area. This partnership is known as the Clacton Consortium.
Grammar school
It was a grammar schoolGrammar school
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching classical languages but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school.The original purpose of mediaeval...
. It was opened in September 1928, and the official opening was on 28 November 1928 by Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh (son of the Nobel prize winning physicist John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, OM was an English physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered the element argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904...
).
Comprehensive
It became a comprehensive in 1973. In 1998 it became an Arts College.In September 1999, 12 year old Reece Straight died after falling under the wheels of a school bus after sprinting after it once it left the school.
In 2007 the school's Principal, John Clay retired after twenty three years in charge. He was succeeded by former Vice Principal Jeff Brindle.
Academic results
It gets GCSE and A-levels results below the England average, with the A-level results slightly better than the GCSE results.Alumni
- Alan Devereux CBE, Chairman from 1977-9 of CBIConfederation of British IndustryThe Confederation of British Industry is a British not for profit organisation incorporated by Royal charter which promotes the interests of its members, some 200,000 British businesses, a figure which includes some 80% of FTSE 100 companies and around 50% of FTSE 350 companies.-Role:The CBI works...
Scotland - Frederick Fenning, nuclear physicist, helped to develop the ZEEPZEEPThe ZEEP reactor was a nuclear reactor built at the Chalk River Laboratories near Chalk River, Ontario, Canada . ZEEP first went critical at 3:45 PM, September 5, 1945...
reactor at Chalk River LaboratoriesChalk River LaboratoriesThe Chalk River Laboratories is a Canadian nuclear research facility located near Chalk River, about north-west of Ottawa in the province of Ontario.CRL is a site of major research and development to support and advance nuclear technology, in particular CANDU reactor...
, and involved with the design of the advanced gas-cooled reactorAdvanced gas-cooled reactorAn advanced gas-cooled reactor is a type of nuclear reactor. These are the second generation of British gas-cooled reactors, using graphite as the neutron moderator and carbon dioxide as coolant...
(AGR) - Sir David Harrison CBE, Master from 1994-2000 of Selwyn College, CambridgeSelwyn College, CambridgeSelwyn College is a constituent college in the University of Cambridge in England, United Kingdom.The college was founded by the Selwyn Memorial Committee in memory of the Rt Reverend George Selwyn , who rowed on the Cambridge crew in the first Varsity Boat Race in 1829, and went on to become the...
, and President from 1991-2 of the Institution of Chemical EngineersInstitution of Chemical EngineersThe Institution of Chemical Engineers is a global professional engineering institution with over 33,000 members in over 120 countries worldwide, founded in 1922, and awarded a Royal Charter in 1957.-Structure:...
(IChemE), and Vice-Chancellor from 1979-84 of Keele UniversityKeele UniversityKeele University is a campus university near Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. Founded in 1949 as an experimental college dedicated to a broad curriculum and interdisciplinary study, Keele is most notable for pioneering the dual honours degree in Britain... - Sir Curtis KeebleCurtis KeebleSir Herbert Ben Curtis Keeble GCMG was a British diplomat and Ambassador to the Soviet Union between 1978 and 1982....
CMG, Ambassador to Russia from 1979-82, and to the German Democratic Republic from 1974-6 - Prof John Pateman, Professor of Genetics from 1970-9 at the University of GlasgowUniversity of GlasgowThe University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...
- Sir Donald Rattee, High Court JudgeHigh Court of JusticeThe High Court of Justice is, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales...
(Chancery Division) from 1993-2000 - Harry Saggs, archaeologist
- Sade AduSade AduHelen Folasade Adu OBE , is a British singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer. She first achieved success in the 1980s as the frontwoman and lead vocalist of the Brit and Grammy Award winning English group Sade.-Biography:Sade was born in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria...
, singer