Harrogate High School is a secondary school in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England. It has about 720 students on roll and approximately 85 full-time teaching staff. The school has been awarded specialist Sports College status. The current Principal is Andrew Bayston.
2012 Examination results (A-Level): There have been significant improvements in the results of students sitting AS examinations. The overall pass rate of 92% shows 30% of students achieving the top grades of A- B, up 11% from 2011. Year 13 A2 students at Harrogate High School have achieved an overall pass rate of 96% with 39% of students achieving A*- B grades.
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“When I was in high school I thought a vocation was a particular calling. Here’s a voice: “Come, follow me.” My idea of a calling now is not: “Come.” It’s like what I’m doing right now, not what I’m going to be. Life is a calling.”
—Rebecca Sweeney (b. 1938)
“Whenever I dove in a breast high shoal,
Wherever I ramped in the clover quilts,
Whatsoever I did in the coal-
Black night, I left my quivering prints.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“The first rule of education for me was discipline. Discipline is the keynote to learning. Discipline has been the great factor in my life. I discipline myself to do everything—getting up in the morning, walking, dancing, exercise. If you won’t have discipline, you won’t have a nation. We can’t have permissiveness. When someone comes in and says, “Oh, your room is so quiet,” I know I’ve been successful.”
—Rose Hoffman, U.S. public school third-grade teacher. As quoted in Working, book 8, by Studs Terkel (1973)