Highlands School, Grange Park
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| Highlands School | |
| Established | 2000 |
| Type | Comprehensive school |
| Headteacher | Bruce Goddard |
| Specialism | Languages, Technology |
| Location | 148 Worlds End Lane Winchmore Hill London N21 1QQ England |
| LEA | Enfield |
| Ofsted number | 132256 |
| Students | 1307 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11 to 18 |
| Houses | Beech Oak Rowan Willow |
| School colours | green |
| Website | http://www.highlands.enfield.sch.uk/ |
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Highlands School is a comprehensive school in Grange Park in the London Borough of Enfield in England.
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[edit] History
The £18m building was built on playing fields next to Enfield Golf Club under the government's Private Finance Initiative (PFI) to help solve Enfield's shortage of places for secondary school pupils. It opened in September 2000 with one year's intake of 240 year 7 students, although a plaque in the entrance hall states that it was officially opened in February 2001 by the prime minister, Tony Blair. It was the first secondary school to be built under the PFI in London. [1] At first, much of the capacity of 1300, which had been originally planned as 1240, [2] was unused, as the school was filled from the bottom up by taking in a new year 7 each September. It reached full capacity in September 2006.
The first head teacher was Monica Cross, and she continued in this capacity until 2006, when the present head teacher, Bruce Goddard, took over.
[edit] Houses
Highlands School has four houses, Willow, Beech, Oak and Rowan. Each of these houses is split into north, south, east and west in each year, and they are each a form of 15, which are paired with the same of the year above or below, e.g. 7&8, 9&10, until year 11 when they are alone. The Classes are grouped as North and South or East and West. The students wear a green uniform with a green tie with a stripe of the colour of their house on it. Beech is blue, Willow is green, Rowan is red and Oak is purple but used to be silver (grey). The first year the house system was introduced was 2003, and the first house to win the house cup was Rowan house.
[edit] Specialist School Status
It was designated as a Specialist School with combined specialisms in Languages and Technology in September 2005.
[edit] International Baccalaureate
It has been an International Baccalaureate World School since December 2004, and sixth form students may take the International Baccalaureate Diploma (IB) instead of A-level examinations. Since the sixth form opened in September 2005, the first year of IB students took their exams in 2007, and 55% failed. Seven students were disqualified for alleged malpractice.[3] Bruce Goddard, the headteacher, was quoted as saying, "In some cases we are currently lodging appeals against this." The school has since decided to drop the IB and revert back to A-levels.
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ Guardian Unlimited
- ^ 4ps
- ^ Enfield Advertiser, Exam cheats exposed at flagship school, article from July 13th 2007 accessed July 29th 2007
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