Burleigh Community College

Burleigh Community College is a specialist Sports College located on "Thorpe Hill" in Loughborough.

History

In 1997, Burleigh became one of the first six sports colleges in England. Since then they have acquired a national and international reputation for delivering high quality, innovative and comprehensive programmes in sport and physical education. Burleigh is host to the School Sports Partnership for Loughborough and its surrounding area as well as being the hub for a whole host of community sport activities. Extensive sport facilities include: a new sports centre, sports hall, 25m heated indoor swimming pool, pitches and floodlit all weather pitch.

It is next door to the Garendon High School, a middle school.

tudents and Education

Student wise Burleigh has two major groups of students; one being KS4 which consists of year 11 and 12, and Sixth Form or Post16 which applies to year 12 and 13. In KS3 students are required to take the basic core subjects, being English, Maths, Science, PE, Personal Development and [ICT] . Then depending on how many GCSEs the student it taking they can have anything from one to three option GCSEs. These could include; History, Geography, Sociology, Humanities, Health and Social Care, Expressive Arts, Drama, Music, Dance, Art, Design, Technology, Pottery, Product Design, Business Studies, Electronics, Graphics, French, German, Spanish or Textiles. Meanwhile when it comes to Post16 students can choose 4 A Levels and an enrichment course (General Studies is automatically included into students timetables), the choice of subjects at this point becomes even wider. Other courses available to Post16 include; Psychology, Economics and numerous others.

Campus

Burleigh has a large facilitated campus, which is spread over four main blocks; K, S, E and G, along with Sports Facilities and a separate Biology block. Block G is mainly homed to the English, Food Technology, Expressive Arts, PE Theory and the Majority of the Science, departments. Block G also contains the Main Hall which is where assemblies are held for the lower school and recently Year 12 (as the Burleigh Centre has become too small to hold such as increase in year group) and the main canteen. Block E is another large block which is located furthest from the main road, residing nearer to the fields, this is where the ICT, Business and Humanities departments are all situated as well as the Schools LRC (Learning Resource Centre / Library) and the Post16 only area (Grove room). Block S is fully dedicated to lessons such as Design, Textiles and Art, containing the necessary equipment and rooms for subjects and numerous computer access rooms. Block K is the newest out of the four blocks and houses Languages and the Mathematics Department. Meanwhile Biology has a separate block, which can be found to the side of the S block and opposite the G block as you come out the bottom doors.The school has the added bonus of a Sports centre, a Sports hall, heated indoor swimming pool, outdoor pitches, an athletics track and all weather pitch.

The Community

As well as students using the Colleges facilities, most are open for adult classes as well, Burleigh catering for an approximate thousand people of the local community each year. On site there is also a Nursery and an all day open day care centre for adults with physical disabilities. Along with this many of the local primary/infant schools (Thorpe Acre and Boothwood) use the sports coaching and swimming pool, in lessons.

Results

In 2007, Burleigh became the most improved school in Leicestershire moving from 43% 5A*-C to 57%.

External links

* [http://www.burleigh.org.uk Burleigh Community College]
* [http://www.edubase.gov.uk/EstablishmentView.aspx?EstablishmentID=20218 EduBase]