Hebburn Comprehensive School : Specialist Status

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Specialist Status

We successfully submitted a bid to the government to become a Specialist College in Maths and Computing with effect from 1st September, 2007; the initial duration of this designation will be for four years. Within the borough, we are pleased to join St Wilfrid’s RC and Whitburn CoE Schools as Maths and Computing Colleges.

Plans submitted to the then DfES incorporate:

A whole-school plan;
Subject-specific plans for each of Maths and Computing;
Community plans.

The main thrust of the bid is the raising of standards through improvement in the quality of provision. We shall build on strengths in Maths and ICT to develop standards in those subjects, and use pioneering practice, trialled in these subject areas, to impact on provision and the development of teaching and learning across the whole school. The bid makes provision for many enrichment activities for pupils.

We are extremely grateful to our sponsors, whose generosity allowed us to submit the bid, and we record our thanks to Maersk Marine, Durastic Flooring, Rohm & Haas and Oracle Academy.

Monies from their sponsorship, together with a government grant, will enable us to refurbish the current Green Room area as a state-of-the-art multi-media, flexible resource and learning centre for pupils of the school and members of the community.

Specialist Status heralds the beginning of an extremely exciting and innovative period in the development of the school, the impact of which will be keenly experienced by pupils joining us over the coming years.