The Thomas Hardye School
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| The Thomas Hardye School | |
| Headteacher | Dr Iain Melvin |
| Specialism | Science College |
| Location | Queen's Avenue Dorchester Dorset DT1 2ET England |
| LEA | Dorset |
| Ofsted number | 113895 |
| Students | 2313 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 13 to 18 |
| Website | http://www.thomas-hardye.dorset.sch.uk/ |
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The Thomas Hardye School is a secondary school in Dorchester, Dorset. It provides government funded education for children from Year 9 to Year 11. The school also has a sixth form integrated into the school. This takes students through A-Levels and AVCE's.
The current school is a merger of the former Hardye's School (Boys) and Castlefield School (Girls) in 1992 on the Castlefield site when the decision was made to have a mixed comprehensive school. The Hardye's School site was subsequently sold and developed into housing.
- Head teacher: Dr Iain Melvin (To leave August 2009 - was to leave in 2008, but the school board decided that no good successor had applied, and asked him to stay on )
The school is not named after Thomas Hardy the famous author from Dorchester or Admiral Thomas Hardy to whom there is a monument nearby, but rather Thomas Hardye who established the first free school in Dorchester in the sixteenth century.
The school currently has a very successful CCF (combined cadet force) that has been running for the last 100 years. The CCF has a large army contingent as well as a smaller RAF section. They train regularly and compete on a national level. The Army contingent is cap-badged Rifles and was formerly Devon and Dorset, before undertaking the change alongside the regular and TA units to DDLI.
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