Chelmer Valley High School
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| Chelmer Valley High School | |
| Type | Comprehensive |
| Headteacher | Mr D Franklin |
| Specialism | Engineering College |
| Location | Court Road, Broomfield Chelmsford Essex CM1 7ER England |
| LEA | Essex |
| Ofsted number | 115345 |
| Students | 1075 |
| Gender | co-educational |
| Ages | 11 to 18 |
| Website | http://www.chelmervalleyhighschool.co.uk |
| Coordinates: | |
Chelmer Valley High School (CVHS) is a co-educational comprehensive school in Chelmsford, Essex, England. It is a specialist Engineering College and is the home of the Blue Falcons Gymnastic Display Team.
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[edit] Facilities
The school consists of five blocks known as New, Old, Science, Music and Tech. Despite the title, the 'new block' is in fact 30 years old. The newest block within the compound is the science block or 'C block'. As a result of the extra funding resulting from the school's engineering college status the technology block has been much improved and has almost doubled in size. The school has a special facility known as the Quest centre to provide help for the less able students. The school recently spent over £25,000 on a new fitness suite. A new resources center is currently being built next to the tech block which will also include 6th form facilities.
[edit] Academic standards
At the September 2007 inspection, Ofsted rated the school as Outstanding, the highest award available. Ofsted said "Chelmer Valley is a vibrant and dynamic school that has not stood still since the last inspection. The school judges its effectiveness to be good but, because so much of its work is exemplary, inspectors judge it to be outstanding. ... The school is justifiably regarded as a highly successful specialist college in engineering. It has excellent provision for design and technology, mathematics and the sciences and is exceptionally successful in embedding the positive influence of engineering in the wider curriculum. ..."[1]
This follows on from the October 2004 inspection that put the school in the top 10% in the country.[2][3]
[edit] Blue Falcons Gymnastic Display Team
The Blue Falcons Gymnastic Display Team was founded in 1974 and is based at Chelmer Valley High School. The team is composed of current and former students of the school. The Chelmsford Royal Navy and Royal Marines careers office support the team and arranged in July 2005 for the Royal Navy to kit them out.[4] The Blue Falcons appear throughout the year at a variety of fêtes, carnivals, military tattoos, and fun days. They appeared at Wembley Stadium in 1991 as part of the BBC’s Children in Need Appeal and have made numerous other appearances on both local and national television. In 1995 the Blue Falcons became the first school gymnastic display team to appear at the Royal Tournament. They performed in front of the Duchess of Kent and 10,000 spectators. The performances were so successful that they were repeated in 1996 and 1997.[5] They appeared at the Colchester Military Festival in 2006[6] and the Burnham Carnival in 2007.[7]
On 2 December 1999 a team of ten gymnasts from the Blue Falcons completed a world record 4,093 vaults in one hour, thus earning themselves a place in the Guinness Book of Records.[8] Four years later, in September 2003, the Blue Falcons held a sponsored World Record Event at the Meadows Shopping Centre in Chelmsford, with two teams aiming to beat their own World Record for the most vaults in one hour. Both teams succeeded in breaking the original record with 4,575 and 5,685 vaults respectively, and the team once again became the official Guinness World Record Holders.[5] On 28 April 2007 the team completed 128,506 vaults in 12 hours to raise money for charity.[9]
[edit] References
- ^ "Chelmer Valley High School", Ofsted, 18 October 2007
- ^ "High school's joy at good Ofsted report", Essex Chronicle, 16 December 2004
- ^ "Chelmer Valley High School", Ofsted, 9 December 2004
- ^ "Gymnastics team kitted out by Royal Navy", Essex Chronicle, 21 July 2005
- ^ a b "About Us", The Blue Falcons Gymnastics Display Team
- ^ "Acrobatic – the Blue Falcons display team, of Chelmer Valley High School", Essex Gazette, 2006
- ^ "Burnham Carnival 2007", BBC News, 2007
- ^ "Falcons Update From 1999 - 2001", The Blue Falcons Gymnastics Display Team
- ^ "Gymnasts smash 100,000 vault barrier", Essex Echo, 3 May 2007
[edit] External links
- Chelmer Valley High School website
- The Blue Falcons gymnastics display team based at Chelmer Valley High School
- Chelmer Valley Old Students' Association
