Ringwood School
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Ringwood School is a mixed gender comprehensive school
in Ringwood
, Hampshire
, England
. It has recently attained specialist Language College
and academy status. It has traditions such as a concert at the end of each term and the February production. The production this year is Les Misérables
. It is about to try and get in the book of Guiness World Records for the largest five-a-side football tournament in remembrance of Jack Boothroyd, a 15-year-old student who died recently.
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...
in Ringwood
Ringwood
Ringwood is a historic market town and civil parish in Hampshire, England, located on the River Avon, close to the New Forest and north of Bournemouth. It has a history dating back to Anglo-Saxon times, and has held a weekly market since the Middle Ages....
, Hampshire
Hampshire
Hampshire is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, a historic cathedral city that was once the capital of England. Hampshire is notable for housing the original birthplaces of the Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force...
, 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 recently attained specialist Language College
Language College
Language Colleges were introduced in 1995 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enables secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, modern foreign languages...
and academy status. It has traditions such as a concert at the end of each term and the February production. The production this year is Les Misérables
Les Misérables (musical)
Les Misérables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz , is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo....
. It is about to try and get in the book of Guiness World Records for the largest five-a-side football tournament in remembrance of Jack Boothroyd, a 15-year-old student who died recently.