Portchester School
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Portchester School, or Portchester Sports College, is a specialist sports secondary school located in Bournemouth, England, for boys aged 11–16. The school was originally located on Portchester Road but was knocked down and subsequently moved to a new site located in Harewood Avenue.
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[edit] House system
The school has a house system based on famous sports personalities: Pelé, Redgrave, MacArthur and Moore. Each year group is split between the houses.
Portchester school's motto is "Hard Work Conquers All"
[edit] Facilities
In the School there is five english rooms, seven science rooms, five IT rooms, three MFL rooms, five humanities rooms, five maths rooms and two music rooms, amongst others.
The school has also two drama studios, two halls, a library, sports lab, science lab, gym, sports hall and music studio.
There are outdoor tennis and basketball courts and the school provides all the needed equipment
[edit] Leading staff
The current headmaster is Mr C Bradey BA and the current deputy head is Mr Len Idle alongside Paul Pearce, Mike Winkworth, Gina Noble and John Greetham. The Senior Leadership Team is composed by Rod Clayton, Andy Weeks and Chris Harrison.
[edit] Subjects
The current subjects are taught at the school: Art, Food Tech, Spanish, Asdan Cope, French, Religious Studies(RE), History, ICT, Physical Education, Geography, Maths, Drama, Music, Science, Business Studies, Wood Tech, Electronics and many others.
There is also a student support center known as SSC
[edit] Uniform
All boys are expected to wear black trousers, light blue shirt, school tie, dark blue school jumper, black shoes. Boys are not allowed to wear any jewellery including rings, piercings or necklaces. Trainers, outside coats, hats, or 'hoodies' are not to be worn inside the school building.
[edit] School history
The school opened in January 1940 in the building previously used by Bournemouth School which had been built in 1901. The school took its name from the site's address along Portchester Road and has always been a boys-only school. It would later become a secondary modern school and moved to the present site along Harewood Avenue at Littledown in 1975 next the sister school, Avonbourne, although the Portchester Road building was also used until 1989. Fenwick Court is now on the site and is named after Dr Fenwick who was the first headmaster of Bournemouth School. Additions have been added to Portchester in recent years and it shares a sports hall with Avonbourne. The food from the canteen is horrible and overpriced.
