Sir John Hunt Community Sports College

Sir John Hunt Community Sports College is a coeducational community secondary school and sixth form located in the Whitleigh area of Plymouth in the English county of Devon.^[1] The school is named after Baron John Hunt, an army officer who is best known as the leader of the successful 1953 British Expedition to Mount Everest.

The school was originally known as Whitleigh Comprehensive School and then Sir John Hunt Community College, before gaining Sports College Status. In 2001 Southway Community College formally merged with Sir John Hunt. Although the school operated over both school campuses for a time, the school consolidated in to Whitleigh site completely in 2005. Sir John Hunt opened its sixth form in 2010, the last secondary school in Plymouth to do so.

The school is located in the Wood View Learning Community, which also includes Whitleigh Community Primary School and Woodlands Special School, as well other community services such as the Youth Centre. The campus is run by a federated Governing Body. As a community school, Sir John Hunt Community Sports College is administered by Plymouth City Council who coordinate admissions to the school.

Sir John Hunt Community Sports College offers GCSEs and Cambridge Nationals as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A-levels and further Cambridge Nationals. Some courses are offered in conjunction with Lipson Co-operative Academy and Tor Bridge High.

Notable former pupils

• Kate Nesbitt,^[2] The first female member of the British Royal Navy, and the second woman in the British Armed Forces, to be awarded the Military Cross

References

External links

• Sir John Hunt Community Sports College official website