Quarrydale School

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1 Background
2 School Day
3 Sixth Form
4 School
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Background

Quarrydale School is a comprehensive secondary school located in the ex-mining and textile community of Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England. The school educates students of ages 11–18, and has an average enrollment of 1,000 students. ^[1]

As of 2006, the head teacher is Mr. Craig Weaver, who replaced Robert Bailey in January 2006. The student teacher ratio is 17:1. In the months that Mr. Weaver has been headteacher, the school has come a long way. The students are more well-behaved, and disipline has improved. The school uniform is now as a uniform should be, and not as it was under the previous headteacher.

[edit] School Day

The school day starts at 8:40am, and finishes at 3:15pm, with 5 one hour lessons, a 15 minute break between second and third lessons, and a 50 minute dinner break between third and fourth lessons. Each year group has 6 tutor groups (with the exception being the lower years, with more tutor groups being added as the number of students increased), Q, U, A, R, Y and D. In years 7, 8, and 9, these years classes are split into two "halfs". One "half" contains Q, U and A, while R, Y and D are in the other "half". Each half has their classes together, but split into ability groups for various subjects. For years 10 and 11, the "halfs" are joined for their GCSE's.

[edit] Sixth Form

The Sixth Form is relatively small, with around 25 students in year 13, and 40 in year 12. There is a range of AS/A2 courses available to take, and the classes are small. As of September 2006, the Quarrydale Sixth Form have entered into a programme where several of their students travel to Kirkby College for some of their courses (e.g. Chemistry), and vice versa, were students from Kirkby College travel to Quarrydale for various courses (e.g Biology). The sixth form is a close community, with the students having spent five years in mainstream school together, and now an additional two more in the sixth form. Everyone knows each other, and old social groups have dissappered after the rest of the students leaving in year 11.

[edit] School

The school has recently undergone redecoration in several areas. The science block has had its classrooms refurnished, and modernised. And other classrooms have been converted into new computer rooms. Several of the subject blocks have been moved around, with only English, P.E, Science, Technology and the Sixth Form building being exempted from this re-arrangement.