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Hillview School For Girls
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Hillview School For Girls is a Performing Arts
college in Tonbridge
, Kent
. It has an age range of students aged 11-18.
Its current Head Teacher is Steven Bovey
In 1929 the girls moved to the Technical Institute in Avebury Avenue. 207 senior girls were housed in four different buildings including those above the town's library. In 1936 the school moved once more to a purpose-built school. It was nicknamed by the locals as Hectorage Road School and had 315 girls on roll. There was originally a single-storey building but this was replaced in due course by a two-storey building.
The date of when the school took the name of Hillview School for Girls is not clear. In 1996 the school expanded with a new Maths and Technology block. In 2000 Hillview was chosen to be a Beacon School, the first such secondary school in Kent. A new building was erected on the lower site, giving a new sports hall, three new Science rooms and 7 new classrooms. In 2001 the school gained the status of Performing Arts College, which led to the building of a Studio Theatre. The school also received an Arts Mark Award from the Arts Council of England.
In 2002 a new building linked the main school building with the Maths and Technology block with the addition of two new rooms and a lift for the disabled. In September 2005 a £5 million building project was completed to provide 22 classrooms, Sixth Form and staff accommodation, a new entrance and administration area.
Now the school has four communities (red, blue, yellow and green) with about 250 people in each.
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...
college in Tonbridge
Tonbridge
Tonbridge is a market town in the English county of Kent, with a population of 30,340 in 2007. It is located on the River Medway, approximately 4 miles north of Tunbridge Wells, 12 miles south west of Maidstone and 29 miles south east of London...
, Kent
Kent
Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
. It has an age range of students aged 11-18.
Its current Head Teacher is Steven Bovey
History
The school was built on Waterloo Road, Tonbridge in 1854 as a response to the increasing population of lower class citizens in the parish. The school was then known as Tonbridge Secondary School. The school enrollment toll was 54 but rose to 122 girls by 1868. In 1871 the school moved to a larger site on the corner of St. Stephens St. and Pembury Road. Again the school grew in size (258 girls on roll in 1891).In 1929 the girls moved to the Technical Institute in Avebury Avenue. 207 senior girls were housed in four different buildings including those above the town's library. In 1936 the school moved once more to a purpose-built school. It was nicknamed by the locals as Hectorage Road School and had 315 girls on roll. There was originally a single-storey building but this was replaced in due course by a two-storey building.
The date of when the school took the name of Hillview School for Girls is not clear. In 1996 the school expanded with a new Maths and Technology block. In 2000 Hillview was chosen to be a Beacon School, the first such secondary school in Kent. A new building was erected on the lower site, giving a new sports hall, three new Science rooms and 7 new classrooms. In 2001 the school gained the status of Performing Arts College, which led to the building of a Studio Theatre. The school also received an Arts Mark Award from the Arts Council of England.
In 2002 a new building linked the main school building with the Maths and Technology block with the addition of two new rooms and a lift for the disabled. In September 2005 a £5 million building project was completed to provide 22 classrooms, Sixth Form and staff accommodation, a new entrance and administration area.
Now the school has four communities (red, blue, yellow and green) with about 250 people in each.