Pershore High School
Encyclopedia
Pershore High School is a co-educational comprehensive
school
, with a Sixth Form
, in Pershore
, Worcestershire
, England
. It is the only high school in Pershore
and also takes pupils from surrounding villages. It has a capacity of 1273 pupils aged between 12 and 18.
The school was founded in 1932 as 'Pershore County Senior School'. originally scheduled to admit pupils in the previous year, its opening was delayed for a term due to construction setbacks. It was built to accommodate 480 students but began with 430 enrollments. In 1973 following the nationwide educational reforms of the late 1960s and early 1970s, it became a comprehensive school for 12 to 18 year olds. It achieved Technology College status in 2002 and in 2007 it was further recognized as a Training School. The school's Hampton Centre which opened in 2000, is a learning resource centre and mainstream autism base that provides specialist resources for up to 14 students with moderate learning difficulties and 8 autistic students, while also providing for students with learning difficulties or disabilities in the mainstream school. In 2007, a house system was introduced, with the four houses being Chaucer, Fielding, Shakespeare and de Montfort. Recently the school has got stricter on the use of mobile phones and music playing devices, they now enforce a contract that must be signed by both parents/carers and the students, it has been called the 'Mobile Phones and Music-Playing Devices Usage Contract'.
. Pershore High School has been participating in Comenius since 1998 and been involved in two major projects: One World, 2002–2005, and Europe – Unity in Diversity, 2005–2008. Most of the school's students participate in Comenius work at some point in their education and two students from the school take part each year in the Comenius Student Evaluation Meeting.
report judged the school a Grade 2 (good). and goes on to state that it provides a good education for its students, whose personal development is good. Several of the features of its work are described by the report as outstanding, and that it provides an excellent education in the sixth form which has been awarded a Grade 1. In her report, Marion Thompson, the Lead Inspector states that Students' achievement is excellent and standards are well above average from their broadly average standards on entry to the sixth form. Recruitment and retention rates are high. Standards at AS and A level, and in vocational courses, are well above average.
Comprehensive school
A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of a selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to the United...
school
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...
, with a Sixth Form
Sixth 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,...
, in Pershore
Pershore
Pershore is a market town in Worcestershire, England, on the banks of the River Avon. Pershore is in the Wychavon district and is part of the West Worcestershire parliamentary constituency. At the 2001 census the population was 7,304...
, Worcestershire
Worcestershire
Worcestershire is a non-metropolitan county, established in antiquity, located in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three counties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire" NUTS 2 region...
, 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 is the only high school in Pershore
Pershore
Pershore is a market town in Worcestershire, England, on the banks of the River Avon. Pershore is in the Wychavon district and is part of the West Worcestershire parliamentary constituency. At the 2001 census the population was 7,304...
and also takes pupils from surrounding villages. It has a capacity of 1273 pupils aged between 12 and 18.
The school was founded in 1932 as 'Pershore County Senior School'. originally scheduled to admit pupils in the previous year, its opening was delayed for a term due to construction setbacks. It was built to accommodate 480 students but began with 430 enrollments. In 1973 following the nationwide educational reforms of the late 1960s and early 1970s, it became a comprehensive school for 12 to 18 year olds. It achieved Technology College status in 2002 and in 2007 it was further recognized as a Training School. The school's Hampton Centre which opened in 2000, is a learning resource centre and mainstream autism base that provides specialist resources for up to 14 students with moderate learning difficulties and 8 autistic students, while also providing for students with learning difficulties or disabilities in the mainstream school. In 2007, a house system was introduced, with the four houses being Chaucer, Fielding, Shakespeare and de Montfort. Recently the school has got stricter on the use of mobile phones and music playing devices, they now enforce a contract that must be signed by both parents/carers and the students, it has been called the 'Mobile Phones and Music-Playing Devices Usage Contract'.
European project
The Comenius Project is the Secondary Schools element of the European Union SOCRATES programmeSocrates programme
The SOCRATES programme was an educational initiative of the European Commission; 31 countries took part. The initial Socrates programme ran from 1994 until 31 December 1999 when it was replaced by the Socrates II programme on 24 January 2000, which ran until 2006...
. Pershore High School has been participating in Comenius since 1998 and been involved in two major projects: One World, 2002–2005, and Europe – Unity in Diversity, 2005–2008. Most of the school's students participate in Comenius work at some point in their education and two students from the school take part each year in the Comenius Student Evaluation Meeting.
Performance
The 2008 OfstedOfsted
The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills is the non-ministerial government department of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools In England ....
report judged the school a Grade 2 (good). and goes on to state that it provides a good education for its students, whose personal development is good. Several of the features of its work are described by the report as outstanding, and that it provides an excellent education in the sixth form which has been awarded a Grade 1. In her report, Marion Thompson, the Lead Inspector states that Students' achievement is excellent and standards are well above average from their broadly average standards on entry to the sixth form. Recruitment and retention rates are high. Standards at AS and A level, and in vocational courses, are well above average.