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The Chase, also known as The Chase Technology College and The Chase High School, is a secondary school
Secondary school

Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of compulsory schooling, known as secondary education, takes place....
 (ages 11-18) in Malvern, Worcestershire
Malvern, Worcestershire

Malvern is a town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England . It includes the settlements of Great Malvern, Barnards Green, Malvern Link , Malvern Wells, West Malvern, Little Malvern and North Malvern....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
. It was opened by Lord Cobham
Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham

Charles John Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, Order of the Garter, Order of St Michael and St George, Royal Victorian Order, Territorial Decoration, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a New Zealand political figure and England cricketer....
 on 26 March 1955. It is one of the largest schools in Worcestershire
Worcestershire

Worcestershire is a county located in the West Midlands of central England. From 1974 to 1998 it was administered as part of Hereford and Worcester....
, having over 1,700 on roll and around 200 staff members. The location is on a flat site close to a large technology company, QinetiQ
QinetiQ

QinetiQ is an international Defense contractor, formed from the greater part of the former UK government agency Defence Evaluation and Research Agency when it was split up in June 2001 ....
, and the Malvern Hills Science Park.

Chase has been a specialist schools programme Technology College since 1999, and was awarded Beacon school
Beacon School

Beacon School was a government designation awarded to outstanding Primary education and secondary schools in England and Wales from 1998 to August 2005....
 status in 2002.






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The Chase, also known as The Chase Technology College and The Chase High School, is a secondary school
Secondary school

Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of compulsory schooling, known as secondary education, takes place....
 (ages 11-18) in Malvern, Worcestershire
Malvern, Worcestershire

Malvern is a town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England . It includes the settlements of Great Malvern, Barnards Green, Malvern Link , Malvern Wells, West Malvern, Little Malvern and North Malvern....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
. It was opened by Lord Cobham
Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham

Charles John Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, Order of the Garter, Order of St Michael and St George, Royal Victorian Order, Territorial Decoration, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a New Zealand political figure and England cricketer....
 on 26 March 1955. It is one of the largest schools in Worcestershire
Worcestershire

Worcestershire is a county located in the West Midlands of central England. From 1974 to 1998 it was administered as part of Hereford and Worcester....
, having over 1,700 on roll and around 200 staff members. The location is on a flat site close to a large technology company, QinetiQ
QinetiQ

QinetiQ is an international Defense contractor, formed from the greater part of the former UK government agency Defence Evaluation and Research Agency when it was split up in June 2001 ....
, and the Malvern Hills Science Park.

Background

The Chase has been a specialist schools programme Technology College since 1999, and was awarded Beacon school
Beacon School

Beacon School was a government designation awarded to outstanding Primary education and secondary schools in England and Wales from 1998 to August 2005....
 status in 2002. The school achieved Artsmark Gold status in 2001 for excellent in art and design, drama, music, creative writing and public speaking. The Chase is also a Language College
Language College

Language Colleges were introduced in 1995 as part of the Specialist school in the United Kingdom. The system enables secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, modern foreign languages....
 (French, German, Spanish and Japanese). The school has Sportsmark Gold status, this is awarded to schools by Sport England
Sport England

Sport England is the brand name for the English Sports Council and is a non-departmental public body under the Department for Culture, Media and Sport known as the DCM and S....
 for the excellent in provision of Physical Education and school sport.

It is administered by the Worcestershire County Directorate of Educational Services, and Brian O'Connell is the head of governors. Current headmaster Kevin Peck replaced David Fawbert in 2002, who had been awarded the Order of the British Empire
Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom....
 (OBE) for his services to education during his tenure. There are 16 primary schools in Malvern that feed The Chase and nearby Dyson Perrins CE Sports College. The average A level results in 2005 were AAB.

The school underwent a two day OFSTED inspection which started on 22 February 2006, and was described as "good with some outstanding features".

Library

The Chase Library opened in September 2006 and was officially opened on 23 February 2007, by the poet Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy is a United Kingdom poet, playwright and freelance writer born in Glasgow, Scotland. She grew up in Staffordshire and graduated in philosophy from University of Liverpool in 1977....
. The library is situated adjacent to the main ground floor block.
  • Fiction
    Fiction

    Fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events....
    : Books are arranged in alphabetical order, according to genre.
  • Non-fiction
    Non-fiction

    Non-fiction is an document or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question....
    : Books are catalogued by the Dewey Decimal System.


The Chase Library is open from 8.30 am – 5.00 pm on Monday to Thursday and from 8.30 am – 4.30 pm on a Friday. Pupils may use the Library independently from 8.30 am – 8.45 am and during both morning break and lunch break. Year Groups may visit the Library at these times on the following days:

  • Monday: Year 7
  • Tuesday: Year 8
  • Wednesday: Year 9
  • Thursday: Year 10
  • Friday: Year 11


Uniform

The Chase school uniform consists of, for boys: a blue sweater, with the Chase emblem on the left breast a white or blue shirt, a blue and gold, diagonally striped tie and grey or black trousers. For girls, the uniform consists of: a blue sweater, with the Chase emblem on the left breast a white or blue shirt, a blue and gold, diagonally striped tie, black, blue or natural tights (unpatterned), and a blue skirt.

Traditions

  • The students of The Chase take part in the annual "Hills Walk", a 7.5 mile
    Mile

    A mile is a Units of measurement of length, usually used to measure distance, in a number of different systems. In contemporary English contexts, mile most commonly refers to the statute mile of 5,280 Feet or the nautical mile of 1,852 meters ....
     walk across the Malvern Hills
    Malvern Hills

    The Malvern Hills are a range of hills in the England counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and a small area of northern Gloucestershire. It has been designated by the Countryside Agency as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty....
     and the surrounding area. The walk begins and the clock tower
    Clock tower

    A clock tower is a tower built with one or more clock Clock face. The clock tower is usually part of a church or municipal building such as a town hall, but many clock towers are free-standing....
     in West Malvern, at the foot of the Malvern Hills, and finishes at the school campus on Geraldine Road, Malvern. The walk has taken place every year since 1955, apart from in 2007, when it was too hot, and the walk was canceled.
  • It is traditional for a Senior Student Team to be selected from students of the Upper-Sixth. One Head Boy
    Head boy

    Head Boy and Head Girl are terms commonly used in the United Kingdom Education in the United Kingdom, and in private schools throughout the Commonwealth of Nations....
     and one Head Girl, and a number of Deputies. The number of Deputies is not fixed. This position is simply awarded to any capable and deserving student. The record number is the academic year of 2008/2009, where ten deputies are active.


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