Plant Hill Arts College
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| Plant Hill Arts College | |
| Mottos | Your Passport to Success |
| Established | ? |
| School type | Arts College |
| Headteacher | John Pemberton |
| Location | Blackley Manchester England |
| Enrollment | 880 students |
| Faculty | circa Unknown |
| Colours | Gold and Navy |
| Homepage | Website |
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[edit] Plant Hill Arts College – Blackley, Manchester
Formally Plant Hill High School, Plant Hill Arts College is an 11-16 community school, serving boys and girls predominately from the Blackley area of North Manchester with high levels of unemployment and poverty. There are approximately 880 pupils on roll. The school is in close proximity to the M60 motorway affording it excellent links, by road, to a wide area. It is also well served by public transport.
Plant Hill as a Specialist Arts College
In September 2005 Plant Hill High School was awarded specialist status and became Plant Hill Arts College. This is already having a huge impact on student learning by enhancing the curriculum, with additional provision in
- Performing Arts – music, drama, dance, media studies
- Visual Art – fine art, 3D art, painting and drawing
- Media Arts – ICT, E-media
[edit] Exam results
In the last 4 years the school has made significant improvement in its Key Stage 4 exam results, with a 95% increase in the number of students achieving 5 or more A* - C GCSE grades. This has been achieved through steady and continuous improvement.
Percentage of pupils achieving 5+ A* - C
- 2002 18%
- 2003 28%
- 2004 31%
- 2005 35%
- 2006 44% Target
[edit] School facilities
In the last 4 years, £4million has been invested into Plant Hill Arts College. Facilities now include:
- A new purpose built sports hall
- A new music and drama suite
- A swimming pool
- 5 new MFL rooms
- New learning support rooms for pupils with special needs
- 7 Science rooms, 4 of which are new
- 6 refurbished Technology rooms, including new textile and food rooms
- 5 refurbished Humanities rooms
- 4 new computer rooms
- New library and study centre
- New careers base
- New pastoral base
- 2 refurbished Visual Arts Rooms
[edit] Development Plans
The next 4-5 years promises to be an extremely exciting time with the funding recently secured for a brand new build school on the existing site. The estimated start date for building to begin is 2007 with the new site to be operational by the 2009/10 academic year. This will boast state of the art facilities in all areas and will undoubtedly enhance every aspect of school life.
[edit] Recent Controversy
Refusing to re-admit a former pupil
Plant Hill was refusing to re-admit a former pupil they claimed was too far behind in his GCSE studies to catch up. Council education bosses say they was looking urgently at finding alternative tuition for the schoolboy 15, who has been sat at home for five months, despite insisting he wants to return to school. The LEA had ordered Plant Hill Arts College to admit the schoolboy after he was refused entry, but the school appealed to the Secretary of State Alan Johnson, who decided back in December against forcing them to comply.
"Happy Slapping" Attack
A Pupil who left her classmate unconscious in a vicious "happy slapping" attack. 16-year-old Becky was beaten up in Blackley on 9 May 2005. Footage of the attack was circulated on pupils' mobile phones.
The child's angry mother said that Plant Hill High in Blackley has not taken tough action, even though the attack was the latest in a series of bullying incidents she says she had reported to the school. A request for an assembly to confiscate the mobile phones had been refused. At the time of going to press, Plant Hill High School had refused to comment.
[edit] Notable former pupils
- Graham Brookes - A Model for the famous UGLY Model Agency, appeared in covers of magazines he as created a niche for itself in supplying advertisers with a face that is not traditionally beautiful to front standed campaigns.
