Bilton School

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The current Bilton School logo shows the "Bilton Lion" standing over a book
The current Bilton School logo shows the "Bilton Lion" standing over a book

Bilton School Formerly Herbert Kay and Westlands School, and most recently Bilton High School is a major secondary school situated within the village of Bilton within Rugby, Warwickshire.

  • The current headmistress is Mrs Lynda Brodie.
  • The Schools uniform consists of a Blue Jumper with the Bilton logo emblazen upon it, interestingly the school adopts a system of giving older pupils the privilage of wearing different colour shirts to the younger ones. Thus the senior males wear dark blue polo shirts as apposed to light blue, and the girls red polo shirts instead of light blue.

[edit] Herbert Kay and Westlands School

While named as such, the school was split into two segments, one containg a girls only school the other for male pupils. As the school is now co-ed it retains a sense of nostalgia by keeping the original terms as classroom titles, thus each side is now simply titled Kay Side and West Side which is incidentally nothing to do with popular Gangster Rap term.

[edit] Bilton High School

While named Bilton High School, the School ran into comical confusion with the simple logo that was emblazen upon it's jumpers. The emblem B.H.S was criticised for its similarity to the logo of popular department store British Home Stores. Thus the school acted quickly to change its School symbol to the Bilton Lion with Bilton written underneath.

[edit] The consequence system

In around 1999 the school adopted its now infamous Consequence System, within which pupils would be issued with certain consequences for bad behaviour during lessons or form time. The Consequences or "C's" as they were known with pupils were as follows;

  • C1 - A Verbal Warning
  • C2 - A further Verbal Warning
  • C3 - Lines, which were completed and placed in a small postbox outside the year heads office the next day
  • C4 - Detention and Lines
  • C5 - Immediate Isolation with Detention and Lines. If this Consequence was issued, the teacher would immediately call (often via telephone) for a senior member of staff, who would escort the Pupil to a top floor room on Kay side filled with empty filing cabinets.

In 2004 the system changed again. Now it is as follows;

  • C1 - Warning
  • C2 - Formal warning
  • C3 - Referal (a text home to parents)
  • C4 - Detention after school
  • C5 - Straight isolation or removal into another classroom