Roseberry Sports and Community College is a state comprehensive school

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...

, Sports College

Sports College

Sports Colleges were introduced in 1997 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enables secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, PE, sports and dance. Schools that successfully apply to the Specialist Schools Trust and become Sports...

 and sixth form

Sixth form

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 in County Durham

County Durham

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, England

England

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, founded in 1956. The College Principal is Mrs. Ann Bowen, who is also a geography textbook author for the examination board AQA

Assessment and Qualifications Alliance

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.

The school is housed on a very large single site holding approximately 700 pupils in the Pelton, County Durham / Newfield, Chester-le-Street

Newfield, Chester-le-Street

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 / Ouston, County Durham

Ouston, County Durham

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 areas.

Students are separated into three houses inside the site on arrival, these being Finchale, Ravensworth and Lumley; House Co-ordinators run the houses and work with the Heads of School who are as follows: Mr. I Liddle (Lower); Mrs. L Parkin (Middle); Mr. M. Cass (Upper and also Head of Sixth Form Centre).

Sports College

The College achieved Sports College status in c. 2003. The PE department enjoys some of the best facilities in the Local Authority with a gym, sports hall, enclosed and flood-lit AGS pitch (Artficial Grass Surface), full-sized climbing wall, athletics track, tennis, netball and outdoor basketball courts as well as approximately 20 hectares of sports fields (making it one of the largest school sites in County Durham).

As of March, 2010, Roseberry Sports and Community College was named as one of the "most improved specialist schools" by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust

Specialist Schools and Academies Trust

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. It narrowly lost out on the "Most Improved in the North East Region" prize to nearby Oxclose

Oxclose

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 Community School.

As of December, 2010, Roseberry Sports and Community College received confirmation from the BBC

BBC

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 that it is a winning school for the BBC/British Council’s Olympic Schools search. As part of being a winning school, Roseberry Sports and Community College has been twinned with Colégio Certo

Colégio Certo

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 in Piaui, in the North-East of Brazil which was the high school of Sarah Menezes

Sarah Menezes

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. The two colleges will work collaboratively with others on activities and projects with all year groups in the lead up to the 2012 London Olympic games.

As of June, 2011, Roseberry Sports and Community College won the The RBS

Royal Bank of Scotland

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 Personal Finance Education Awards for Schools. The College won the "The Best all-round approach to Personal Finance Education", beating off UK-wide competition.

Extra-curricular activities

• Duke of Edinburgh Award
• Football
• Mixed Martial Arts Club (Key Stages 4 & 5 only)
• Rugby
• Netball
• Climbing
• Gym and trampolining
• Dance
• Research/study club
• S.T.E.M club
• FILMCLUB
  FILMCLUB
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Notable trips

• A yearly exchange with Ithaca High School
  Ithaca High School (Ithaca, New York)
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  , Ithaca, New York.
• Year 7 activity week at Ulswater.
• Sport exchange with a Slovakian school.
• The 2008 sixthform expedition to Nepal.
• Normandy battlefields trip with the History Department.
• MFL trips to France and Germany.