Cardinal Griffin Catholic High School

For the person the school is named after, see Bernard Griffin.
Cardinal Griffin Catholic High School
Motto Da Mihi Animas (Latin for Give Me Souls)
Established 1960
Type Catholic school
Headteacher Mr Michael Burrowes
Location Cardinal Way
Cannock
Staffordshire
WS11 4AW
England Coordinates: 52°41′49″N 2°02′10″W / 52.697°N 2.036°W
Local authority Staffordshire
DfE URN 124468 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Students 900+
Gender Mixed
Ages 11–18
Houses Six (see House System section)
Colours Black and Red
Publication The Griffin newsletter
Website www.cgchs.org.uk

Cardinal Griffin Catholic High School is a Catholic high school in Cannock, Staffordshire, England. Cardinal Griffin is a Specialist Science College.

Management

The school has a leadership team consisting of seven members of staff:

Name Position Responsibilities
Mr M Burrowes Headteacher Overall responsibility of pupils, staff, visitors, property and enforcement of school policy
Mr J Faulconbridge Deputy Headteacher
Mr B Leechmere Deputy Headteacher
Mr P Archer Assistant Headteacher
Mrs A Haywood Assistant Headteacher
Mrs E McCormick Assistant Headteacher Head of sixth form
Mr D Carne Executive Business Manager

Science and Mathematics

GCSE

Courses Offered? Examination Body Resulting Qualification(s)
Single Award Science No Edexcel 1 GCSE in Core Science
Double Award Science Yes Edexcel 1 GCSE in Core Science
1 GCSE in Additional Science
Triple Award Science Yes Edexcel 1 GCSE in Core Science
1 GCSE in Additional Science
1 GCSE in Extended Science
Mathematics Yes Edexcel 13 GCSE in Mathematics
Statistics Yes Edexcel 1 GCSE in Statistics

While the National Curriculum only requires pupils to complete a course in Core Science, Cardinal Griffin requires most pupils to complete a course in Double Science.

A Level

Courses Offered? Examination Body Resulting Qualification(s)
Biology Yes AQA
Chemistry Yes OCR
Physics Yes AQA/OCR
History Yes Edexcel
Psychology Yes
Sociology Yes
Mathematics Yes
Further Mathematics Yes

Facilities

All of the mathematics and science rooms are on the A and B floors (ground floor and first floor) and are all located in one block.

Mathematics

Five large rooms for teaching whole classes. All rooms are fitted with projectors and a computer, and three of the rooms are fitted with interactive whiteboards.
There are currently (as of February 2011), seven full-time mathematics teachers working at Cardinal Griffin.

Science

Seven large laboratories for teaching whole classes. All rooms are fitted with projectors, and a computer.
All rooms have access to the following equipment:

There is also a "prep room" where glassware and other equipment is stored and cleaned, and a locked storage cupboard for chemicals.
There are currently (as of February 2011), nine full-time science teachers working at Cardinal Griffin.

Music

Bands

The school has several bands, including a Swing Band and Irish band named Clanna Gael.[1] The school organises annual rock concerts with school bands and solo acts performing. The money raised from ticket sales usually goes to a charity chosen prior to the concert.

Facilities

The Music Department has two large main rooms for teaching classes and three practice rooms for one-to-one music tuition.
The department also has several netbooks for the use of GCSE and A Level music students. The netbooks have Sibelius 6, Photoshop Elements and OpenOffice installed. Five desktop computers with Sibelius 6, Microsoft Office 2003, Cubase and Guitar Pro installed are also available for students to use.

Qualifications

The school offers GCSE music and BTEC at GCSE level (offering one and two GCSE qualifications respectively).
At A Level, music is available as a qualification.

Physical Education

Cardinal Griffin has reasonably extensive physical education facilities available to it. These include a sports hall (new floor surface at start of September 2010 term), a gym, two tarmac yards with netball line markings, and a large two level field). The school is also located within 300 yards of Chase Leisure Centre, which allows for regular usage of the facilities there (swimming pool, gym, sports hall, tennis courts in Cannock Park, and Cannock Chase Golf Club where the school regularly does cross country running).

Sports Day

Cardinal Griffin run an annual sports day on the field. Some of the events are listed below:

Inter-house Competitions

The school hosts several competitions for boys and girls between houses throughout the year:

Sport Gender Competitors
Football Boys Teams of eleven, one team per house, per year group
Rugby Boys One team per house, per year group
Hockey Girls One team per house, per year group
Netball Girls One team per house, per year group
Cross country running Boys and Girls Two boys and two girls per house, per year group

House System

Cardinal Griffin employs a house system for management of pupils and organisation of timetables (up to end of year nine, when GCSE options take precedence over house group when organising timetables). There are six houses in totals, all named after figures in the Catholic Church.

Houses

House Name House Initials Colour Named After
Allen CA Red Cardinal William Allen
Newman AN Yellow Blessed John Newman
Manning RM White Cardinal Henry Manning
Vaughan DV Green Cardinal Herbert Vaughan
Wiseman IW Purple Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman
Hinsley NH Blue Cardinal Arthur Hinsley

Tutoring

Each house is split further into six "vertical" tutor groups (forms) and numbered accordingly. The term "vertical" means that there are members from each year group (excluding sixth form) in each form. There are roughly the same amount of people from each year group in each form.

External links

References

  1. ↑ "School information". Cardinal Griffin Website. Retrieved 27 July 2011.