Language College
Following its 2008 Ofsted inspection County Upper was invited to apply for a second specialism. With effect from 1 February 2009 the school was designated as a Language College with a Gifted and Talented focus.
The school offers French, German, Japanese, and Spanish for all pupils with Italian in the Sixth Form. It runs an overseas exchange programme to Kyoto in Japan, the Ancona region of Italy, Guadalajara, Spain and the Rhineland area of Germany. The Japanese programme involves annual language and scientific exchanges, summer camps and extensive cultural activities between Japan and Bury St Edmunds.
The school runs a Modern Foreign Language outreach programme with its feeder Middle Schools in West Suffolk where Gifted and Talented pupils take part in workshops and activity days hosted at County Upper during the course of the academic year.
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