- Homewood School
Infobox UK school
name =Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre
motto =High Expectations, High Achievement
type =Arts specialistcomprehensive school andSixth form college
head =William Cotterell
street =
city =Tenterden
county =Kent
country =England
lower_age = 11
upper_age = 19
website = www.homewood-school.co.uk
website_name = [www.homewood-school.co.ukHomewood School and Sixth Form Centre is a
comprehensive school inTenterden ,Kent ,England . It has over 2500 students and 180 staff. Homewood is a comprehensive school but is situated within the Kent selective system so it has a student profile that is half way between comprehensive and secondary modern. It has been awarded specialistArts College status.It provides education for students from the town itself, surrounding villages and also from Ashford. It is a popular school and is oversubscribed each year at admissions time. Results have improved over the last ten years after the school was given significant government money to build new buildings as part of an expansion of the school to accommodate growth in the urban area of South Ashford.
Organisation
The school is split into five mini-schools named after the
Cinque Ports that operate as welfare houses. They Are:
*Rye - English andMaths
*Hastings -PE and ICT]
*New-Romney -Art ,Music ,Media Studies andDrama
*Hythe -Science
*Dover -History , Georgraphiy, ERS,Modern Language and Citizenship/PSHE It is innovative in its approach to organisation: it follows a five term year, having mixed age form groups, enters students for GCSE a year earlier than the national norm which abels students to start AS Level courses or take extra GCSE courses or do any retakes they might need to do.
Homewood is classified as a "leading school" in ICT. It has online facilities that allow students, parents and teachers to access school work externally.
Unitll GCSE years studens cover part of english and maths with History, georgraphiy and ERS in which is called Total Corriculum which isnt proved to be very popular amungst students but some teachers beleve it a good use of the information they learnt in the four subjects.
Homewood offer at GCSE level, extra courses like BTEC, as well as Brick Laying, Woodwork and Catering on top of all the major GCSE courses, students may also carryon these subjects at level 3 in sixth form, or year 11 if they have passed with a high enough mark at level 2.
External links
* [http://www.homewood-school.co.uk/] School website
In homewood they work through a system called total curiculem for the first to years. This is all of the main topoics in one.Homewood also uses that laptop scheam which means that each student get their own laptop to use during lassons for reasercs and writing
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