Chamberlayne Park School

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Chamberlayne Park Secondary School

Motto	Working Together We All Succeed
Contact Information	Phone: 023 8044 7820 Fax: 023 8044 6847
Type	Secondary
Head Teacher	Chris Kelly
Location	Tickleford Drive Southampton, Hampshire England
Ages	11 to 16
Website	[1]

Chamberlayne Park Secondary School is the main secondary school in Weston, Southampton. It provides education for around 900 boys and girls aged between 11 and 16. The demand for places at Chamberlayne Park School has been high and as a result, the school has grown in size.

1 History
- 1.1 Headteachers
- 1.2 School Name
2 Campus
3 Curriculum
- 3.1 Performing Arts
- 3.2 Sports
4 External Links

[edit] History

[edit] Headteachers

Chamberlayne has seen three headteachers in the past two years. After the Spring Term 2006 Richard Hillary retired after seven years in the role. For the next two terms Ian Knights, head of Hamble Community Sports College stood in as a temporary head. During this time he was head of two schools. In January 2007 Chris Kelly was appointed as headteacher.

[edit] School Name

The school was known as Weston Park Girls School before 1993. In this year it was decided that the school shold become a mixed gender school. In 1998 the last all girls year group left and the school was renamed after the man who donated the land to build the school upon. The same man donated land for the nearby Chamberlayne Leisure centre. In 2005 the school gained a specialist status in the performing arts. Many school with a specialism have changed their name to reflect it (i.e. Woolston Language College). It is currently unknown whether the school will move to a new name in the future.

[edit] Campus

Southampton City Council and the school have spent in excess of £5 million on buildings and as a result now has specialist rooms for Science, Performing Arts, Technology (including Food, Textiles and Resistant Materials), Art, and ICT.

In May 1999 Patrick Moore opened a set of four science labs, a library and an IT room. Since four more science labs have been added.
In September 2000 Darcey Bussell opened the new Performing Arts block consisting of a music room, a dance studio, a drama studio and four music practise rooms.
Emma Richards opened a new building for Maths and English. Each subject has seven rooms.