| Motto | A Business and Enterprise College |
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| Established | 1939 |
| Type | Comprehensive community school |
| Religion | Secular |
| Headmaster | Phil Kelly |
| Specialism | Business and Enterprise College |
| Location | Shanklin Drive Nuneaton Warwickshire CV10 0BJ England |
| Local authority | Warwickshire |
| DfE URN | 125741 |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 1,230 |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Ages | 11–16 |
| Website | www.highamlane.warwickshire.sch.uk |
Higham Lane School is a secondary school in Weddington, Nuneaton, England. The current headteacher is Mr Phil Kelly who became headmaster in January 2006, replacing Dr R. Tetlow. The school teaches pupils aged eleven to sixteen (Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4) in preparation for their GCSEs. The original school building dates back to 1939 but has been extensively extended and modernised since. In 2003, after a successful bid, the school was granted Business and Enterprise College status under the specialist schools programme.
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In the 1970s, and 1980s, the school became well known for the smallholding established by teacher John Terry, which he wrote about in several books. When Queen Elizabeth II visited Nuneaton for the first time in December 1994, she visited the school to present a calf to the school farm and to open the school's new science block. The school farm continued to operate successfully until Terry's retirement in 1998 when it fell into a state of disrepair due to lack of funding.
The area where the school farm was located became a school garden that included two ponds and an aviary of budgies. Teacher Mr Faulds ran the garden with the help of a small group of enthusiastic pupils. The garden won the secondary school category for Nuneaton's Britain in Bloom five years running but closed at the end of the school year in 2008. The aviary has now been converted into a workshop where Construction courses are delivered to Higham Lane School pupils by a lecturer from North Warwickshire and Hinckley College.
The school has close links to both of Nuneaton's colleges, particularly since it gained its business and enterprise status. The school delivers the teaching of A level Music and Design and Technology for King Edward VI College.
The school also offers the opportunity for pupils to undertake two year NOVA courses at North Warwickshire and Hinckley College in a range of subjects such as Hair and Beauty and Professional Scholarship GCSE courses in subjects such as Photography, Law and Dance.
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