Ulverston Victoria High School

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name = Ulverston Victoria High School

|The Logo of Ulverston Victoria High School
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head = Mr Denis Fay
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specialist = Maths and Computing College
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street = Springfield Road
city = Ulverston
county = Cumbria
country = England
postcode = LA12 0EB
LEA = Cumbria
ofsted = 112385
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enrollment = 1289
gender = Coeducational
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website = http://www.ulverstonvictoria.cumbria.sch.uk
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Ulverston Victoria High School (UVHS) is a Mathematics and Computing Specialist school in the town of Ulverston, Cumbria, Northern England. It is a comprehensive school and takes its students from the local area as well as some from Barrow-in-Furness, Grange-over-Sands and Coniston. The school was praised in a 2004 Ofsted Report [cite web|url=http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/reports/index.cfm?fuseaction=summary&id=112385|title=2004 Ofsted Report|accessdate=2007-05-22] and has a successful Sixth Form drawing students from a large area.

The school's most notable sporting achievement is winning the BSOA Large Secondary School Orienteering crown for the last 13 years. [cite web|url=http://www.bsoa.org|title=British Schools Orienteering Association|accessdate=2006-12-21] In 2006 the school took both 1st and 3rd place in the Large Secondary School category. The orienteering team have come back from the 2006 World Schools Orienteering Championship with 4th, 7th and 5th places for their three teams. [cite web|url=http://www.isfsports.org/sports/default.asp?id=943|title=ISF 2006 - TEAM COMPETITION - TOTAL RESULTS|date=2006-04-27|accessdate=2006-06-23] The School Orienteering team also has trips to Scandinavia, where the students get to compete in Sweden for five days. This event is one of the biggest orienteering events in the world, attracting in excess of 20,000 competitors. The UVHS Wind Band also is very popular around the world, last year playing at Prague and this year being the first school band to play in a palace in Paris.

The school's Mexico Link allows students a unique opportunity to link up and discuss with people from another culture. The school also has a linking with Brondesbury College, a muslim school in North West London to break down barriers and build bridges between the two very different cultures. This trip was also the first of its kind in the UK.

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External links

* [http://www.ulverstonvictoria.cumbria.sch.uk/ Ulverston Victoria High School - UVHS]
* [http://www.ulverstonvictoria.cumbria.sch.uk/content/blogcategory/94/294/ Ulverston Victoria High School Sixth Form]
* [http://www.ulverstonvictoria.cumbria.sch.uk/alumni Ulverston Sixth Form Alumni]
* [http://www.ulverstonvictoria.cumbria.sch.uk/adulted Ulverston Adult Education Centre]
* [http://uk.geocities.com/[e-mail] Orienteering Club Website]
* [http://www.mexicolink.co.uk UVHS Mexico Link Website]