Netherhall School, Maryport
Encyclopedia
Netherhall School is a secondary school in Maryport, Cumbria. The school is a registered sports college and has state of the art sports facilities. The school was built in the 1950s and has been open for 60 years. The school has a catchment area which covers Maryport
, Crosby
, Dearham
and Flimby
, amongst others in the local area.
that had previously formed part of the Netherhall Estate. The first new buildings on the campus were opened as a three form entry boys' school by Charles Morris, Baron Morris of Grasmere
, Vice-Chancellor of Leeds University, on 13 June 1955. The adjoining three form entry girls' school opened in September 1959. The schools merged to become a single mixed comprehensive school in 1968.
status, and holds Artsmark
, Sportsmark
and Healthy Schools accreditations (National Healthy Schools Programme
).
At Key Stage 5
The sixth form offer a wide range of subjects with the combinations of Maths and Sciences; English and English Literature; Physical Education; the Humanities – Geography, History, Religious Studies; Art, Media and Performing Arts; ICT; French, Travel and Tourism and Health and Social Care. GCSE resits are also offered in English, Maths and Science.
The Sixth Form is housed in its own Centre with ICT and social facilities whilst still retaining links with the school and college through teaching, library and sports facilities.
. These are Adair, Christian (Fletcher Christian
), Fleming (Sir George Fleming, 2nd Baronet), Ismay (Thomas Henry Ismay
), Lister and Senhouse (Humphrey Senhouse
).
Maryport
Maryport is a town and civil parish within the Allerdale borough of Cumbria, England, in the historic county of Cumberland. It is located on the A596 road north of Workington, and is the southernmost town on the Solway Firth. Maryport railway station is on the Cumbrian Coast Line. The town is in...
, Crosby
Crosby
- Geography :Canada*Crosby, Ontario, part of the township of Rideau Lakes, Ontario*Crosby, Ontario, a neighbourhood in the town of Markham, OntarioEngland*Crosby, Cumbria*Crosby, Lincolnshire*Crosby, Merseyside**Crosby...
, Dearham
Dearham
Dearham is a village and civil parish in the Allerdale district of Cumbria, England. It is situated in West Cumbria, about east of Maryport and west of Cockermouth. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 2,028. It is a large, strung-out village...
and Flimby
Flimby
Flimby is a village in the Borough of Allerdale in Cumbria, England. Historically within Cumberland, it forms part of the civil parish of Maryport.Flimby railway station is on the Cumbrian Coast Line...
, amongst others in the local area.
History
Netherhall School is located on a thirty five acre site alongside the River EllenRiver Ellen
The River Ellen is a river in the English county of Cumbria .The river rises on the Uldale Fells and runs in a generally western direction, passing Uldale, Ireby, Boltongate, Baggrow and Blennerhasset parish boundary and Aspatria.From there, it continues southwest past Oughterside, Gilcrux,...
that had previously formed part of the Netherhall Estate. The first new buildings on the campus were opened as a three form entry boys' school by Charles Morris, Baron Morris of Grasmere
Charles Morris, Baron Morris of Grasmere
Charles Richard Morris, Baron Morris of Grasmere KCMG was an academic philosopher and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds....
, Vice-Chancellor of Leeds University, on 13 June 1955. The adjoining three form entry girls' school opened in September 1959. The schools merged to become a single mixed comprehensive school in 1968.
Specialist School status
The school became a Specialist Sports College in September 2003 and a Full Service Extended School in September 2004. The £1.6 million joint-use Community Sports Centre opened in July 2005. The school has Investors in PeopleInvestors in People
Launched in 1991 Investors in People is a business improvement tool administered by UK Commission for Employment and Skills and supported by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills ....
status, and holds Artsmark
Artsmark
Artsmark is a national award scheme managed by Arts Council England. The scheme, that is open to all schools in England, recognises schools with a high level of provision in the arts.There are three levels of award:* Artsmark Gold* Artsmark Silver...
, Sportsmark
Sportsmark
Sportsmark is Sport England's accreditation scheme for secondary schools. The scheme recognises a school's out of hours sports provision.Sportsmark awards are given to secondary schools for provision for sport and physical education. They are currently being reviewed along with Activemark awards...
and Healthy Schools accreditations (National Healthy Schools Programme
National Healthy Schools Programme
The National Healthy Schools Programme is a joint Department of Health and Department for Children, Schools and Families project intended to improve health, raise pupil achievement, improve social inclusion and encourage closer working between health and education providers in the United...
).
Curriculum
Netherhall offers 11-18 provision. At Key Stage 4 students can choose (alongside the core English, Maths and Science) Design and Technology, Physical Education, ICT, History, Geography, Travel and Tourism, RE, French, Health and Social Care, Childcare, Construction, CoPE, Horticulture, Workskills, Art, Drama and Music.At Key Stage 5
The sixth form offer a wide range of subjects with the combinations of Maths and Sciences; English and English Literature; Physical Education; the Humanities – Geography, History, Religious Studies; Art, Media and Performing Arts; ICT; French, Travel and Tourism and Health and Social Care. GCSE resits are also offered in English, Maths and Science.
The Sixth Form is housed in its own Centre with ICT and social facilities whilst still retaining links with the school and college through teaching, library and sports facilities.
Pastoral system
Each year group is split into a number of tutor groups. These tutor groups are traditionally named after the notable people of MaryportMaryport
Maryport is a town and civil parish within the Allerdale borough of Cumbria, England, in the historic county of Cumberland. It is located on the A596 road north of Workington, and is the southernmost town on the Solway Firth. Maryport railway station is on the Cumbrian Coast Line. The town is in...
. These are Adair, Christian (Fletcher Christian
Fletcher Christian
Fletcher Christian was a master's mate on board the Bounty during William Bligh's fateful voyage to Tahiti for breadfruit plants...
), Fleming (Sir George Fleming, 2nd Baronet), Ismay (Thomas Henry Ismay
Thomas Henry Ismay
Thomas Henry Ismay was the founder of the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, more commonly known as the White Star Line...
), Lister and Senhouse (Humphrey Senhouse
Humphrey Senhouse
Humphrey Senhouse was a British Tory politician.His was the eldest son of Humphrey Senhouse , a landowner and High Sheriff who had founded the port of Maryport, and the heiress Mary, daughter of Sir George Fleming, Bt, Bishop of Carlisle.Humphrey junior was elected at a by-election in 1786 as a...
).
Extracurricular activities
The school offers a range of extracurricular activities, such as:- Sporting activities (clubs or teams in athletics, basketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, cricketCricketCricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
, golfGolfGolf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
, hockeyHockeyHockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.-Etymology:...
, netballNetballNetball is a ball sport played between two teams of seven players. Its development, derived from early versions of basketball, began in England in the 1890s. By 1960 international playing rules had been standardised for the game, and the International Federation of Netball and Women's Basketball ...
, gymnasticsGymnasticsGymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
, orienteeringOrienteeringOrienteering is a family of sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain, and normally moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specially prepared orienteering map, which they...
, fell runningFell runningFell running, also known as mountain running and hill running, is the sport of running and racing, off road, over upland country where the gradient climbed is a significant component of the difficulty...
, football, rugbyRugby footballRugby football is a style of football named after Rugby School in the United Kingdom. It is seen most prominently in two current sports, rugby league and rugby union.-History:...
, tennisTennisTennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
, cross countryCross country runningCross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
, cheerleadingCheerleadingCheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
and others) - Arts activities (artArtArt 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....
, dramaDramaDrama 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...
, musicMusicMusic 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...
, Drama Club and drama productions, choirChoirA choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
and bands; musical tuition; and visits to galleries, concerts and theatreTheatreTheatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
productions) - Subject-based activities (scienceScienceScience is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
, maths, languages, technologyTechnologyTechnology 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 ;...
, humanitiesHumanitiesThe humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....
, EnglishEnglish languageEnglish 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...
, ITIT-Organizations:* Institutes of Technology in Ireland* Intelligent Transit, a public transportation service in West Virginia* Intercity Transit, a public transportation service in the state of Washington-Media:* The Irish Times...
, libraryLibraryIn a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
) - Council activities (Year, School and Sports council)
- Games activities (chessChessChess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
, bridgeContract bridgeContract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards played by four players in two competing partnerships with partners sitting opposite each other around a small table...
etc.) - Fundraising activities
- Residential activities (field tripField tripA field trip or excursion, known as school trip in the UK and school tour in Ireland, is a journey by a group of people to a place away from their normal environment...
s, skiingSkiingSkiing is a recreational activity using skis as equipment for traveling over snow. Skis are used in conjunction with boots that connect to the ski with use of a binding....
trips, Mediterranean cruise, exchange visits to FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
and GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, other European trips, work experienceWork experienceWork experience is the experience that a person has been working, or worked in a specific field or occupation.- Volunteer work and internships :...
abroad, outdoor pursuits) - Reward activities (cinema trips, ice skatingIce skatingIce skating is moving on ice by using ice skates. It can be done for a variety of reasons, including leisure, traveling, and various sports. Ice skating occurs both on specially prepared indoor and outdoor tracks, as well as on naturally occurring bodies of frozen water, such as lakes and...
, ten-pin bowlingTen-pin bowlingTen-pin bowling is a competitive sport in which a player rolls a bowling ball down a wooden or synthetic lane with the objective of scoring points by knocking down as many pins as possible.-Summary:The lane is bordered along its length by semicylindrical channels Ten-pin bowling (commonly just...
, Wet & Wild etc)