Haydon School is a
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foundation schoolIn England and Wales, a foundation school is a state-funded school in which the governing body has greater freedom in the running of the school than in community schools....
located in
PinnerPinner is a suburb in the London Borough of Harrow in Greater London, England, north-west of Charing Cross. The area was in the county of Middlesex until 1965, when it was absorbed by the London Government Act 1963 into Greater London....
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. The school serves approximately 2000 students aged 11–18.
The school was formed in September 1977 from the union of
St Nicholas Grammar School For BoysSt. Nicholas Grammar School was an English Grammar school, located in Northwood Hills, in the London Borough of Hillingdon, England.The school existed from 1955 until 1977 when, following amalgamation with the neighbouring St Mary's Grammar School for Girls, it became a co-educational comprehensive...
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St Mary's Grammar School For Girls and was named after a local family. It is a designated language college teaching students and the local community a range of modern foreign languages. Students entering the school in year seven select two languages, either French & Italian or Spanish & German.
Haydon School is a
comprehensiveA comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. The term is commonly used in relation to the United Kingdom, where comprehensive schools were introduced in the late 1940s to the early 1970s. It corresponds broadly to the...
foundation schoolIn England and Wales, a foundation school is a state-funded school in which the governing body has greater freedom in the running of the school than in community schools....
located in
PinnerPinner is a suburb in the London Borough of Harrow in Greater London, England, north-west of Charing Cross. The area was in the county of Middlesex until 1965, when it was absorbed by the London Government Act 1963 into Greater London....
,
London[]London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...
,
EnglandEngland 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 and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. The school serves approximately 2000 students aged 11–18.
History
The school was formed in September 1977 from the union of
St Nicholas Grammar School For BoysSt. Nicholas Grammar School was an English Grammar school, located in Northwood Hills, in the London Borough of Hillingdon, England.The school existed from 1955 until 1977 when, following amalgamation with the neighbouring St Mary's Grammar School for Girls, it became a co-educational comprehensive...
and
St Mary's Grammar School For Girls and was named after a local family. It is a designated language college teaching students and the local community a range of modern foreign languages. Students entering the school in year seven select two languages, either French & Italian or Spanish & German. The school also offers Latin, Mandarin, and Japanese to gifted students.
Houses
Haydon has 5 houses which are:
- Discovery
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- Challenger
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- Voyager
The Voyager program is a series of U.S. unmanned space missions that consists of a pair of unmanned scientific probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were launched in 1977 to take advantage of a favorable planetary alignment of the late 1970s...
- Endeavour
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- Pioneer
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Each house is named after space craft, including three space shuttles; there was a certain amount of amusement when the house system was introduced, since the
Space Shuttle ChallengerSpace Shuttle Challenger was NASA's second Space Shuttle orbiter to be put into service, Columbia being the first. Its maiden flight was on April 4, 1983, and it completed nine missions before breaking apart 73 seconds after the launch of its tenth mission, STS-51-L on January 28, 1986, resulting...
infamously exploded, and one of the crew members was famously a teacher; despite the unintended connotations, the name stood.
There are three forms in each house per year. A form is identified by the year, the house and a number. This last number is either 1, 2, 3 or 4. Odd numbers represent forms that study French and Italian, whilst even numbers represent forms studying German and Spanish. For example 7P1 would be a year seven form, in Pioneer with students studying French and Italian.
The houses all have different colours. Challenger are red, Discovery are yellow, Pioneer are purple, Voyager are green and Endeavour are blue. Since 2004 students have worn ties in their house colours indicating which house they are in.
New Art & Design Building | Peter Woods Building
The new Art, Design & Technology building provides an inspiring, light and spacious environment for pupils and teachers to work together to explore art, design and technology. The building has been designed to meet the needs of a changing curriculum which will ensure generations of pupils benefit from it and teachers have the flexibility they need to prepare pupils for life in a changing world.
The art studios on the top floors are full of natural bee's nests with views of the surrounding wildlife and offer the space that the Art Department need to expand their curriculum and the experiences they offer pupils. The Technology workshops are equipped with new machines including a Laser Cutter and a CNC Router. The new machines and rooms provide the department with the facilities it needs to deliver exciting and inspiring projects that reflect recent advances in technology and design in recent years. This work cost over £5,000,000 and is now finished. Some of the older technology classrooms have also been revamped and made to look like the new ones. The building is named after the old headmaster of Haydon School, Mr Woods. The building was officially opened on Thursday 9th July 2009 by Mr Woods and his two children. Many former staff and people who worked on the project returned to look around the building...
Eco Club
The school has a thriving eco club. The eco-club also produce a wide variety of posters notifying students, staff and visitors to the school of the importance of attending eco club and to support the schools recycling policy. The eco club have been successful in getting a recycling bin into every classroom, this has reduced the amount of paper that the school wastes.
Virtual Learning
Haydon School has recently set up virtual learning resources called: Fronter. students log on using their hillingdongrid email address and password. Teachers can set work and students can contact the teachers through the student friendly interface.
ID Badges And New Conduct Cards
The school is developing their Behaviour Policy and are giving out conduct cards. So far they have been given out to the year 7 students, year 8, and in process of printing year 9's and 10's. The card has a picture of the student and says what form they are in. The string is the colour of their house(e.g Challenger-red) If they forget it they will receive punishment in the form of a detention.
There is also a code of conduct card, if a student forgets something, has unacceptable uniform or fails to show the card then the teacher signs it. They get a tick, each card has 5 boxes to be ticked, once a block is full student is issued with a detention. Then there are only 4 boxes, so you have a better chance of receiving a detention.
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