Haven High Technology College

Haven High Technology Collegeis a secondary modern school located on "Marian Road" in the north of Boston, Lincolnshire. HHTC offers a comprehensive board and flexible curriculum to students of most abilities. The college combines its distinctive approach to the education of young people with the added value of working in partnership with parents and the local community. Although claiming to have comprehensive status (since 1994), the school's GCSE results are more in keeping with a secondary modern. The site of the school used be called Kitwood Girls' School, although this former school was also merged with Kitwood Boys School.

HHTC was an 11-16 school but had recently joined in partnership with [http://www.carltonroadprimary.co.uk Carlton Road] Primary School and is now an 4-16 school.

The school is one of the few schools in the Boston area that doesn't provide a sixth form education, and thus the pupil may have to go to college, Boston Grammar School or Boston High School if they wish to attend university.

It is known that Adrian Reed has possible plans for the school to implement sixth form education in the future, to further the already large amount of work that has so far been done by the school.

Prefects

In year 11 students may wish to put there names down to become prefects. These people are assistants to staff and help out when the school is open to the public e.g. Open evenings. These students wear grey coloured jumpers, rather than the usual black. Amongst these prefects there are four senior prefects: Head Boy, Head Girl and two deputies. Their jumpers change annually. In 2005 they were red, in 2006 they were dark blue and this year from 2007-08 they are royal blue. These students may choose the colour of the jumper.

The NT Club/The Loft

The school has recently had a new facility installed: The NT club, the only school in the county that offers this facility. Students in KS4 can go up freely at break and lunch times during the week and play pool, play on the X Box/Nintendo Wii, listen to music and make food and drink. The club is in a room on a second floor which can be accessed by either the stairs or the lift for the disabled. Out of school hours, the room is a youth club run by local youth workers. This session costs £2.00 a turn and is available Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 3:30pm to 6:00pm, which is most convenient if parents do not finish work until late. This after-school facility is available to anyone who attends a secondary school in the area. This club was officially opened on Friday 2nd November by Mark Simmons, the local MP, of which there was a small party during the day in the club.

Immigrant education

Under normal circumstances, the school would take 135 new pupils each year as its Pupil Admission Number. However, the rules were anomalously adjusted to allow 20 more pupils in as they were from immigrant families, most of whom had little English language knowledge. Some lessons in the school, to allow for immigrant families, have translators for Portuguese speakers. This rudimentary policy was featured on the front page of the Daily Express in October 2006 as "No Place at School If You're British". It was thought local parents had been surprised that the children from immigrant families had been given obvious precedence.

ee also

* [http://www.st-bedes.lincs.sch.uk St Bede's Catholic Science College] on "Tollfield Road" - Boston's other secondary modern.

External links

* [http://www.hhtc.org.uk Haven High Technology College official website]
* [http://www.hhtc.org.uk/handbook/introduction.htm Introduction to the school]
* [http://www.ratemyteachers.co.uk/schools/england/boston/haven_high_technology_college Rate My Teachers]
* [http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/1317 Daily Express October 9th 2006 article]
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/08/nschools08.xml October 2006 Telegraph article]