Recent Developments
In early 2009 the schools new multi use sports area opened giving it four new netball courts or five tennis courts. A new state of the art Technology Block opened in October 2007. New rooms cover areas such as manufacturing, CAD/CAM and textiles.
At the beginning of the 2006/7 school year, the school introduced a house system. This saw pupils in years 8-11 assigned to a House, one of Coniston, Helvellyn, Langdale, and Scafell mostly named after Lakeland hills. Each House consists of 10 forms. The head of houses are Mrs A Halhead, Mrs H Davies, Mrs K Hill and Mr J Davis. The school was awarded specialist status in 2007 for specialist status in maths and computing.
The schools main recent improvements are in ICT, a department which is becoming very important in the expanding Computing industry. The school hopes to soon have 3-D technology in the computing department. This will help keep the school in the front line of the technological age.
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