Tupton Hall School

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Tupton Hall School is one of the largest secondary schools in the North East Derbyshire district with a large body of students and one of the largest sixth forms in the county. The school is a specialist sports college and is one of the most modern school buildings in the county, being the tester school for the new school design permeating throughout Derbyshire and the East Midlands with many modern features. Whilst some features have been a success, there have been numerous problems with the building. These have included:

• Covers on thermostats on radiators not allowing temperature control in classrooms
• Corridors not wide enough to accommodate all pupils at change-over times
• Radiators not fixed to wall securely, meaning several have fallen off and caused floods
• Poor workmanship from Balfour Beatty, who built the school, resulting in torn floor coverings and numerous problems with doors.

The school building is rented from Babcock and Brown who own the building and is managed by Rentokil Initial. Tupton Hall regularly features as one of the top schools in the county for both A Level and GCSE grades, with 95% of students attaining grades above the national average. Recently, the school has been twinned with a school in Nigeria to further aid relations between Tupton and its twin village in Nigeria.

[edit] History of Tupton Hall School

Tupton Hall was founded as a grammar school in 1929 as a secondary school in the Clay Cross area. In 1936, the school moved to its present site, formerly Tupton Hall. The school was severely run down by the new millennium and the new school was open by Easter 2003.

[edit] About Tupton Hall School

In the village of Old Tupton in North East Derbyshire, Tupton Hall is situated about 4 miles from the centre of Chesterfield, the nearest large town, despite the school being relatively close to the town, Chesterfield itself is not in the school's catchment area, which focuses more on the villages to the south of Chesterfield, such as Wingerworth, Grassmoor, Clay Cross, North Wingfield and Ashover. Tupton Hall is a comprehensive school, so does not selectively admit pupils. This has earned the school a good reputation in the local area.

[edit] Uniform

The school uniform is defined as

• The School Sweatshirt (previously with logos in house colours (Gladwin Red, Cavendish Green, Hunloke Light Blue and Turbett, Purple), now all logos are gold)
• Black trousers
• Black shoes
• White collared shirt or Polo shirt

Sixth formers do not wear uniform and there is no dress code for them, although students are not allowed to wear caps and clothes must not be too revealing (For girls)

[edit] Talent at Tupton Hall

Over the years Tupton Hall has been host to many talented students, a lot in the music category. Bands at Tupton Hall include Firing Blanks, A Whole Lotta Rory and Orderly Chaos.

The school also runs projects such as Sports Leaders Award, as well as the Foreign Language Leaders Award (FLLA), where the selected students complete a course in teaching a modern foreign language, either French, Spanish or German, to younger students in local schools.

[edit] Plays at Tupton Hall

There are regular plays going on at the school, the most recent of which was the Christmas play,Seussical which starred Graeme Haywood. The school also has a great orchestra each year involved in the plays with year 13 student Joanna Rynott heading the orchestra with her amazing talents on the piano.

[edit] Sixth Form

Tupton Hall has one of the most populated sixth forms in the North East Derbyshire area, with over 250 students, the Sixth Form offers courses in many diverse subjects, such as Philosophy, alongside the more traditional subjects, such as Maths, English and Sciences

Tupton Hall's newer site

The old Tupton Hall Site in the 1960's (Hunloke Block visible in the background)

[edit] External links

• Tupton Hall School website.