Burleigh Community College
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Burleigh Community College is a specialist Sports College
located on Thorpe Hill in Loughborough
. It has been known to place an overwhelming importance on basketball
.
The first boarder joined the school in 1952 and 10 years later Field House was purchased to house 50 boys from overseas.
In 1938 came yet another change of name; this time to Loughborough College School. Then followed the merger with the Junior College of Art which saw the readmittance of a handful of girls after a break of 75 years. Mr Hickling would have been pleased.
With these increasing numbers the new buildings were planned and in 1957 the College moved to its present site at Thorpe Hill. In 1967 Loughborough College School became a co-educational, upper school taking pupils from fourteen to nineteen under the Leicestershire Plan. In 1971 the boy boarders moved to Charnwood Hall, newly purchased by the Leicestershire County Council and Field House became the boarding house for girls (today both boys and girls use Field House). In 1972 Burleigh Community College was founded “as a base where all members of the community can be involved in their own education”.
In 1997, Burleigh became one of the first six sports colleges in England. Since then they have acquired a national and international reputation for delivering high quality, innovative and comprehensive programmes in sport and physical education
. Burleigh is host to the School Sports Partnership for Loughborough
and its surrounding area as well as being the hub for a whole host of community sport activities. Extensive sport facilities include: a sports centre, sports hall, 25m heated indoor swimming pool, pitches and floodlit all weather pitch.
It is next door to the Garendon High School
, a high school.
, Maths, Science, PE
BTEC (worth 2 GCSE'S A* to C grade), Personal Development and RE
. Then depending on how many GCSE
s the student it taking they can have anything from one to four option GCSEs. These could include History, Geography, Sociology
, Humanities, Health and Social Care, Expressive Arts, Drama, Music, Dance, ICT, Art, Design, Resistant Materials, Media Studies, Technology, Product Design
, Business Studies
, Electronics
, Graphics, French
, German
, Spanish
, Mandarin Chinese
, Bengali, Russian
, Statictics, Triple Science (Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Science Theory) or Textiles. Meanwhile when it comes to Post16, students can choose four A Levels and an enrichment course (General Studies is automatically included into students' timetables). Other courses available to Post16 include Psychology
, Economics
, Politics
, Law
, Accountancy
and others.
Kit Colours: Navy , White
Kit Colours: Navy , White
Kit Colours: Light Blue , Orange
Kit Colours: Maroon , Black
The Rowing Teams are split into:
Key Stage 4 Boy's Rowing
Key Stage 4 Girl's Rowing
Key Stage 4 Mixed Rowing
6th Form Boy's Rowing
6th Form Girl's Rowing
6th Form Mixed Rowing
Kit Colours: Gold , Maroon
) use the sports coaching and swimming pool, in lessons.
Unfortunately after the 2009 ofsted report the college was put on Special measures
due to the following reasons:
Safeguarding
The school did not comply with government requirements for the safety of pupils. (A technical problem of not having updated their policy on the official database).
Equal Opportunities
The college failed to tackle the differences in performance between boys and girls. (A technical problem of not having updated their policy on the official database).
Attainment
Attainment has remained consistently low over the past three years and students have made significantly less progress than they should in English and mathematics.
As of October 2010, less than a year since the school was put on special measures, Burleigh Community College passed a follow up inspection by ofsted and is therefore the fastest school to get out of special measures. Many people see this turn around as unfair.
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...
located on Thorpe Hill in Loughborough
Loughborough
Loughborough is a town within the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England. It is the seat of Charnwood Borough Council and is home to Loughborough University...
. It has been known to place an overwhelming importance on basketball
Basketball
Basketball 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...
.
History
Burleigh Community College is nearly three hundred years old. The origins can be traced to the will of Bartholemew Hickling, a leading citizen of Loughborough, who in 1683 provided an endowment for a girls’ school – to match the existing grammar school for boys. The Hickling School for Girls opened in 1690 and lasted till 1876 when, with pressures of industrialisation, it became the Hickling Boys’ School. In 1917 it underwent a further change becoming a Junior Technical College under the control of the remarkable Dr Schofield’s Loughborough Technical Institute (or the Loughborough College as it became known). In 1921 the word “Technical” was dropped and, as Loughborough Junior College, the school became a grammar school for boys.The first boarder joined the school in 1952 and 10 years later Field House was purchased to house 50 boys from overseas.
In 1938 came yet another change of name; this time to Loughborough College School. Then followed the merger with the Junior College of Art which saw the readmittance of a handful of girls after a break of 75 years. Mr Hickling would have been pleased.
With these increasing numbers the new buildings were planned and in 1957 the College moved to its present site at Thorpe Hill. In 1967 Loughborough College School became a co-educational, upper school taking pupils from fourteen to nineteen under the Leicestershire Plan. In 1971 the boy boarders moved to Charnwood Hall, newly purchased by the Leicestershire County Council and Field House became the boarding house for girls (today both boys and girls use Field House). In 1972 Burleigh Community College was founded “as a base where all members of the community can be involved in their own education”.
In 1997, Burleigh became one of the first six sports colleges in England. Since then they have acquired a national and international reputation for delivering high quality, innovative and comprehensive programmes in sport and physical education
Physical education
Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
. Burleigh is host to the School Sports Partnership for Loughborough
Loughborough
Loughborough is a town within the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England. It is the seat of Charnwood Borough Council and is home to Loughborough University...
and its surrounding area as well as being the hub for a whole host of community sport activities. Extensive sport facilities include: a sports centre, sports hall, 25m heated indoor swimming pool, pitches and floodlit all weather pitch.
It is next door to the Garendon High School
Garendon High School
Garendon High School is a middle school located in Thorpe Acre, Loughborough, Leicestershire, England, UK.It contains three years and altogether there are 558 pupils...
, a high school.
Students and Education
Burleigh has two major groups of students, one being KS4 - years 10 and 11 - and the Sixth Form or Post16, years 12 and 13. In KS3 students are required to take the basic core subjects, these being EnglishEnglish studies
English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language , English linguistics English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S.,...
, Maths, Science, PE
Physical education
Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
BTEC (worth 2 GCSE'S A* to C grade), Personal Development and RE
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...
. Then depending on how many GCSE
General Certificate of Secondary Education
The General Certificate of Secondary Education is an academic qualification awarded in a specified subject, generally taken in a number of subjects by students aged 14–16 in secondary education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and is equivalent to a Level 2 and Level 1 in Key Skills...
s the student it taking they can have anything from one to four option GCSEs. These could include History, Geography, Sociology
Sociology
Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
, Humanities, Health and Social Care, Expressive Arts, Drama, Music, Dance, ICT, Art, Design, Resistant Materials, Media Studies, Technology, Product Design
Product design
-Introduction:Product design is the process of creating a new product to be sold by a business or enterprise to its customers. It is concerned with the efficient and effective generation and development of ideas through a process that leads to new products.Product designers conceptualize and...
, 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...
, Electronics
Electronics
Electronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies...
, Graphics, 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
Chinese language
The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...
, Bengali, Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
, Statictics, Triple Science (Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Science Theory) or Textiles. Meanwhile when it comes to Post16, students can choose four A Levels and an enrichment course (General Studies is automatically included into students' timetables). Other courses available to Post16 include Psychology
Psychology
Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...
, Economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
, Politics
Politics
Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the...
, Law
Law
Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
, Accountancy
Accountancy
Accountancy is the process of communicating financial information about a business entity to users such as shareholders and managers. The communication is generally in the form of financial statements that show in money terms the economic resources under the control of management; the art lies in...
and others.
Campus
Burleigh has a large facilitated campus, which is spread over four main blocks; K, S, E and G, along with Sports Facilities. Block G is mainly homed to the English, Expressive Arts, Music, PE Theory and the majority of the Science departments. Block G also contains the Main Hall which is where assemblies are held for the lower school and Year 12 (as the Burleigh Centre has become too small) and the main canteen. Block G also houses the Gymnasium, Multi-Workout Gym and a changing room that can be used by either gender PE group. Block E is another large block which is located furthest from the main road, residing nearer to the fields; this is where the ICT, Business and Humanities departments are all situated as well as the School's LRC (Learning Resource Centre / Library), the Post16 only area (The Grove Room) and a dance studio. Block S is fully dedicated to lessons such as Design, Textiles and Art, containing the necessary equipment and rooms for these subjects and numerous computer access rooms, it also houses a dance studio. Block K is the newest out of the four blocks and houses Languages and Mathematics. Meanwhile Biology has a separate set of classrooms which are attached to S Block and are also counted as part of S Block. The school has the added bonus of a Sports Centre, Sports Hall, heated indoor swimming pool, outdoor pitches, an athletics track and all weather pitch.Sports Teams
- Under 16's Boy's Basketball
- Under 19's Boy's Basketball
- Under 16's Girl's Basketball
- Under 19's Girl's Basketball
- Under 16's (Girl's) Netball
Kit Colours: Navy , White
- Under 19's (Girl's) Netball
Kit Colours: Navy , White
- Boy's and Girl's Volleyball
Kit Colours: Light Blue , Orange
- All Rowing Teams
Kit Colours: Maroon , Black
The Rowing Teams are split into:
Key Stage 4 Boy's Rowing
Key Stage 4 Girl's Rowing
Key Stage 4 Mixed Rowing
6th Form Boy's Rowing
6th Form Girl's Rowing
6th Form Mixed Rowing
- Under 16's (Boy's) Rugby
Kit Colours: Gold , Maroon
- Under 19's (Boy's) Rugby
- Under 16's (Girl's) Rugby
- Under 19's (Girl's) Rugby
The Community
As well as students using the Colleges facilities, most are open for adult classes as well, Burleigh catering for an approximate thousand people of the local community each year. On site there is a Nursery and an all day open day care centre for adults with physical disabilities. Many of the local primary/infant schools and high/secondary schools (Thorpe Acre, Boothwood, Garendon High SchoolGarendon High School
Garendon High School is a middle school located in Thorpe Acre, Loughborough, Leicestershire, England, UK.It contains three years and altogether there are 558 pupils...
) use the sports coaching and swimming pool, in lessons.
Results
In 2007, Burleigh became the most improved school in Leicestershire moving from 43% 5A*-C to 57%.Unfortunately after the 2009 ofsted report the college was put on Special measures
Special measures
Special measures is a status applied by Ofsted and Estyn, the schools inspection agencies, to schools in England and Wales, respectively, when it considers that they fail to supply an acceptable level of education and appear to lack the leadership capacity necessary to secure improvements...
due to the following reasons:
Safeguarding
The school did not comply with government requirements for the safety of pupils. (A technical problem of not having updated their policy on the official database).
Equal Opportunities
The college failed to tackle the differences in performance between boys and girls. (A technical problem of not having updated their policy on the official database).
Attainment
Attainment has remained consistently low over the past three years and students have made significantly less progress than they should in English and mathematics.
As of October 2010, less than a year since the school was put on special measures, Burleigh Community College passed a follow up inspection by ofsted and is therefore the fastest school to get out of special measures. Many people see this turn around as unfair.