The Henry Cort Community College, formerly Fareham Park Senior School, is a mixed sex 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...

 in Fareham

Fareham

The market town of Fareham lies in the south east of Hampshire, England, between the cities of Southampton and Portsmouth, roughly in the centre of the South Hampshire conurbation.It gives its name to the borough comprising the town and the surrounding area...

, 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...

. The school has specialist 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...

 status.

It is one of three comprehensive schools in Fareham, and had around 1000 pupils at the last count. It has a rich sporting tradition, especially in field hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

, and has adequate sports facilities, including an astroturf pitch and a gym. The school is named after the iron pioneer, Henry Cort

Henry Cort

Henry Cort was an English ironmaster. During the Industrial Revolution in England, Cort began refining iron from pig iron to wrought iron using innovative production systems. In 1783 he patented the puddling process for refining iron ore...

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Environment

The college is set within a 33 acres (133,546.4 m²) site, with views over the Meon Valley and the Solent. It boasts facilities that include eleven ICT suites, new seminar rooms, a fantastic library, sports fields with a state of drainage and community changing rooms.

Subjects and after school activities

The college likes to think they are good at every subject. They mostly excel in subjects such as Music, English, PE and Science. Every subject has its own computer room which is used successfully by all students. The annual area cross country tournament is held here as Henry Cort has the best facilities. There is also a Henry Cort Concert band which performs in feeder schools every year as well as performing in other places in the south. This year Henry Cort have entered a group of year 9 students to do their Science GCSE early. They took their first Biology paper on the 14th January 2010. The exam was successful with many of them getting A's.
For the first time this year. Henry Cort has taken part in BBC School Report. This involves students age 11-14 making their own news programme. They find and gather information then film and edit the story. They even met Sally Taylor at BBC South.
You can have a look at the stories by clicking on the external links 1&2 below.

External links

• School website
• EduBase
• http://www.henry-cort.hants.sch.uk/page_viewer.asp?page=BBC+News+School+Report&pid=394 BBC School Report link
• http://www.henrycort.org/concert_band/index.php Henry Cort concert band link