Mitchell High School (Stoke-on-Trent)

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Mitchell High School is a comprehensive school located in Bucknall, Stoke on Trent, England. Situated close to the centre of Stoke-on-Trent, it has a catchment from the communities of Bucknall, Bentilee and Abbey Hulton and educates pupils of ages 11-16.[1] There are around 570 students on roll drawn from a community that has high levels of social deprivation.[2] The Headteacher is Paul Liddle. The preceding Headteacher, Ms. Debbie Sanderson, was awarded an OBE for her efforts in bettering the school.

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[edit] Academic standards

The school has been awarded specialist Business and Enterprise College status. Ofsted inspected the school during January 2004[2] and rated the "The overall effectiveness of the school" as "satisfactory", point four on a seven point scale. However, an evaluation of "excellent", point one on the scale, was given for:

  • "How well the school seeks and acts on pupils’ views"
  • "The quality of the school’s links with the community"

In a letter dated 13 November 2006, following a supplementary inspection, Ofsted assessed the "overall effectiveness" of ICT to be "outstanding".[3]

[edit] Case study - 'Side by Side with parents'

In an innovative initiative to support pupils who were struggling to cope in class, the school invited parents to sit in with their children and found that the adults not only actively engaged in the lessons but obtained qualifications themselves. Professor Alan Tuckett at the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education said "When adults and children learn together you get a surprising amount of behaviour change in young people, they pick up on the tone of commitment and seriousness that adults bring to their study. And the adults get the energy and pizzaz that young people bring to their learning."[4]

[edit] Hansard

The school was listed in the House of Commons as being one of only 25 secondary schools in the UK that had no pupils taking a language course[5] and, in 2006, as a school where no pupils at the end of KS4 were entered at GCSE in geography.[6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Mitchell High School", BBC News, 11 January 2007
  2. ^ a b "Mitchell High School", Ofsted, 19 January 2004
  3. ^ "Ofsted survey inspection programme – ICT", Ofsted, 13 November 2006
  4. ^ "Side by Side with parents ...", ContinYou, 2007
  5. ^ "Language Courses", House of Commons Hansard Written Answers, 6 March 2007
  6. ^ "Languages", House of Commons Hansard Written Answers, 6 March 2007

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