Brighton Hill Community College
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Brighton Hill Community College (known locally as BHCC) is located in Brighton Hill
, Basingstoke
in the county of Hampshire
in the south of England
. The Headteacher is Mr Charlie Currie, and the school has specialist status as a Sports College
and Language College
.
Brighton Hill has run exchange trips with Marienschule, a school in Basingstoke's twin town, Euskirchen. It runs sport-related trips, as well as trips for other subjects. It holds annual Gifted and Talented events for Sports students.
Brighton Hill Community College is a Training School ..
, Maths
, Science
, Physical Education, Key Skills Qualification ICT
, Citizenship
, Religious Education
and Personal Social and Health Education (which is referred to as 'Prep 4 life') for all students.
All Key Stage 3 students also study French
, German
, Geography
, History
, Philosophy, Ethics and Beliefs
, Food Technology
, Textiles, Woodwork, Graphics
, Music
, Art
and Drama
. From Year Nine, students choose up to four courses to continue studying, including all of the above courses, Business Studies
, Pre-Vocational Studies, Separate Sciences
and Health and Social Care
. The school also offers a variety of Out of Hours programs, including French
, German
, Spanish
, Mandarin Chinese
, Drama
and Critical Thinking
AS level.
In 2010, a yellow polo shirt was introduced for summer uniform, compulsory for the academic year 2010/2011.
In a recent Ofsted inspection, the school was highly praised. Although it was criticised for poor communication with parents.
In recent years, the school has constantly ranked above local and national averages.
In June 2008, the college was featured again in the local newspaper after over 200 pupils were suspended following a protest on the field against an extension of 20 minutes to the school day, and the plans to force the entire school of 1,300 students to queue all at once. The strike was started by a small group of Year 10s before the beginning registration of the day. These students quickly spread word about their plans and after between 1–2 hours there was about 200 students on the far side of the field from the main school Buildings. Many children came and went throughout the day due to a warning issued by the headmaster that for every missed lesson a student must suffer one hours detention, and if the whole day is missed the student will be suspended for the rest of the week which happened to be the last week of school for the year.
Once the day had finished the senior members of staff forced the students off the field before other students finished their lessons to avoid difficulties. The next day all students turned up as normal. A teacher was waiting at the school gates with a list of 117 names of those who were to be sent home as they were excluded for the rest of the week. This caused complaints from parents because of the disorganisation and inconvenience caused by the school towards all of the parents and students.
Half way through the school summer holiday all 117 excluded students were sent a letter saying that the expelled students had had the punishment erased from their records, as discussed between The Headmaster and the School Governors.
. Previously, the Headteacher was Mr Andy Kilpatrick. Other past headteachers are Mr Lawrie Shaw and Mr Bill Wright. Mr. David Eyre was on secondment as acting Executive Headmaster for another school in Hampshire, so Mrs. Wendy Small took over as acting headmistress for one year (for academic year 2009-2010). David Eyre announced his resignation, leaving the space for a new headteacher for the 2011/2012 academic year.
Brighton Hill
Brighton Hill is a district of Basingstoke, England, that was formed around 1970 as part of the Town Centre Development Plan. The area is bounded to the west by the newer housing estate of Hatch Warren and by the A30. To the east of Brighton Hill, the Viables Industrial Estate and Cranbourne...
, Basingstoke
Basingstoke
Basingstoke is a town in northeast Hampshire, in south central England. It lies across a valley at the source of the River Loddon. It is southwest of London, northeast of Southampton, southwest of Reading and northeast of the county town, Winchester. In 2008 it had an estimated population of...
in the county of 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...
in the south of 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...
. The Headteacher is Mr Charlie Currie, and the school has specialist status as a 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 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...
.
Brighton Hill has run exchange trips with Marienschule, a school in Basingstoke's twin town, Euskirchen. It runs sport-related trips, as well as trips for other subjects. It holds annual Gifted and Talented events for Sports students.
Brighton Hill Community College is a Training School ..
Curriculum
Students at the school begin their GCSE subjects in year nine, which allows them to complete some GCSEs at the end of year ten and spend year eleven studying a different subject. There are some options that have double the amount of lessons. The school has a two-week timetable, which include compulsory EnglishEnglish language
English 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...
, Maths
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, Science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
, Physical Education, Key Skills Qualification ICT
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
, Citizenship
Citizenship
Citizenship is the state of being a citizen of a particular social, political, national, or human resource community. Citizenship status, under social contract theory, carries with it both rights and responsibilities...
, Religious Education
Religious Education
Religious Education is the term given to education concerned with religion. It may refer to education provided by a church or religious organization, for instruction in doctrine and faith, or for education in various aspects of religion, but without explicitly religious or moral aims, e.g. in a...
and Personal Social and Health Education (which is referred to as 'Prep 4 life') for all students.
All Key Stage 3 students also study French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, Geography
Geography
Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
, History
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
, Philosophy, Ethics and Beliefs
Religious Education
Religious Education is the term given to education concerned with religion. It may refer to education provided by a church or religious organization, for instruction in doctrine and faith, or for education in various aspects of religion, but without explicitly religious or moral aims, e.g. in a...
, Food Technology
Food technology
Food technology, is a branch of food science which deals with the actual production processes to make foods.-Early history of food technology:...
, Textiles, Woodwork, Graphics
Graphics
Graphics are visual presentations on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, computer screen, paper, or stone to brand, inform, illustrate, or entertain. Examples are photographs, drawings, Line Art, graphs, diagrams, typography, numbers, symbols, geometric designs, maps, engineering drawings,or...
, Music
Music
Music 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...
, Art
Art
Art 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....
and Drama
Drama
Drama 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...
. From Year Nine, students choose up to four courses to continue studying, including all of the above courses, Business Studies
Business studies
Business studies is an academic subject taught at higher level in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom, as well as at university level in many countries...
, Pre-Vocational Studies, Separate Sciences
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
and Health and Social Care
Health and Social Care
In the UK, Health and Social Care is a broad term that relates to integrated services that are available from health and social care providers...
. The school also offers a variety of Out of Hours programs, including French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, Mandarin Chinese
Standard Mandarin
Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Chinese, also known as Mandarin or Putonghua, is the official language of the People's Republic of China and Republic of China , and is one of the four official languages of Singapore....
, Drama
Drama
Drama 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...
and Critical Thinking
Critical thinking
Critical thinking is the process or method of thinking that questions assumptions. It is a way of deciding whether a claim is true, false, or sometimes true and sometimes false, or partly true and partly false. The origins of critical thinking can be traced in Western thought to the Socratic...
AS level.
Uniform
Brighton Hill uniform consists of a daffodil-yellow shirts and blouses, black trousers or skirt, a navy blue jumper, a navy blue blazer and a yellow, blue and green tie for the guys. This uniform has locally earned the students a nickname of "Yellowbellies". The Boy's P.E kit consists of either a white polo shirt and blue shorts (indoor P.E) or a yellow and blue(interchangeable)rugby shirt and socks (yellow and white)and yellow top, blue shorts for the girls. On halloween all the students had to dress as zombies.In 2010, a yellow polo shirt was introduced for summer uniform, compulsory for the academic year 2010/2011.
History
In 2005/06, Brighton Hill changed its tutoring system by introducing mixed-year tutor groups. This change led to subsequent pupil protests that were covered in the regional news. The college also changed its house system, consisting of the houses Austen, Dickens, Kingsley, Adams and White, to a community system with communities called Athens, Barcelona, Montreal, Rome, Sydney and Tokyo.In a recent Ofsted inspection, the school was highly praised. Although it was criticised for poor communication with parents.
In recent years, the school has constantly ranked above local and national averages.
In June 2008, the college was featured again in the local newspaper after over 200 pupils were suspended following a protest on the field against an extension of 20 minutes to the school day, and the plans to force the entire school of 1,300 students to queue all at once. The strike was started by a small group of Year 10s before the beginning registration of the day. These students quickly spread word about their plans and after between 1–2 hours there was about 200 students on the far side of the field from the main school Buildings. Many children came and went throughout the day due to a warning issued by the headmaster that for every missed lesson a student must suffer one hours detention, and if the whole day is missed the student will be suspended for the rest of the week which happened to be the last week of school for the year.
Once the day had finished the senior members of staff forced the students off the field before other students finished their lessons to avoid difficulties. The next day all students turned up as normal. A teacher was waiting at the school gates with a list of 117 names of those who were to be sent home as they were excluded for the rest of the week. This caused complaints from parents because of the disorganisation and inconvenience caused by the school towards all of the parents and students.
Half way through the school summer holiday all 117 excluded students were sent a letter saying that the expelled students had had the punishment erased from their records, as discussed between The Headmaster and the School Governors.
Headteachers
Mr David Eyre became Headteacher at Brighton Hill Community College in 2005. He was previously Head at Desborough SchoolDesborough School
Desborough School is a comprehensive school on Shoppenhangers Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. Until 2009 it was solely an all boys school; however, the Sixth form has since become co-educational. It was founded as Maidenhead County Grammar school in 1894 under its first Headmaster Mr A. E....
. Previously, the Headteacher was Mr Andy Kilpatrick. Other past headteachers are Mr Lawrie Shaw and Mr Bill Wright. Mr. David Eyre was on secondment as acting Executive Headmaster for another school in Hampshire, so Mrs. Wendy Small took over as acting headmistress for one year (for academic year 2009-2010). David Eyre announced his resignation, leaving the space for a new headteacher for the 2011/2012 academic year.