| Motto | Learning For Life |
|---|---|
| Established | 1977 |
| Headteacher | Lesley Lawson |
| Chair | Marion Wolstencroft |
| Specialism | Drama, Food Technology, Science, Modern Foreign Languages |
| Location | Kenilworth Road Basingstoke Hampshire RG23 8JQ England |
| Local authority | Hampshire |
| DfE URN | 116444 |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 750 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11–16 |
| Houses | Dreschler, Gebresalisie, Redgrave, Owens & Thorpe |
| Colours | Green & Black & White (Yr 7,8,9 & 10) Black, Black & Red (Yr 11) |
| Website | forthill.hants.sch.uk |
Fort Hill Community School is a secondary school located in Winklebury, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK.
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The school was built within the ramparts of an iron age hill fort, Winklebury Ring.[1] Around the school perimeter some of the old ditch site still remains. It is thought that the Celts once established a farming society around this fort.
When a student at Fort Hill moves to year 10, they have the opportunity to drop subjects they didn't like in key stage 3. They retain 3 subjects they did like and would like a GCSE in. The compulsory subjects are: English, Maths, Science, ICT and P.E (Doesn't award a GCSE) The optional subjects they can choose are:
There are two sets of uniform for the Winter and Summer terms. The winter uniform is a shirt, tie, black trousers, embroidered sweatshirt and school blazer. In the summer, the students can wear an embroidered polo shirt and not have to wear the sweatshirt or blazer, however the trousers have to stay black and the shoes are the same.The girls can wear skirts any time of year but are most accepted in summer. Students who attend the school are allowed to take off their blazer or jumper during lesson but most of the time have to be given permission to do so.
As the new academic year 08/09 started, a new school routine was introduced where they finished at 3pm instead of the 3:30 pm finish to fit in with other schools as the new diploma course was made available in the September 2008. Instead of 10 periods of lessons at half an hour each , there was 5 periods of 1 hour each in the new school routine, making the new school day 5 hours instead of the 6 hours before. The school gave the reason that the new routine made it "much easier to remember the time table" and intended the routine to "make students work harder in lesson as they have more time for learning and remembering what they have learnt".
When a child moves to Year 7, they are often coming from one of the three feeder schools in Winklebury & Buckskin.
When in year 5, students are invited to Induction Evenings & Year 5 Technology Days. Once accepted into Fort Hill, they are invited to Induction Day, and spend a whole day learning what Secondary School is like.
The school uses a web-based program called Frog, which is a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) , the VLE is available for all students and staff to access over the internet to check work, check dates for the academic year and also access the school portal from home to carry out specific learning opportunity tasks and home learning projects.