Ilfracombe Arts College is a state comprehensive school located in the North Devon town of Ilfracombe, England. Since the early 1980s, facilities available to students have included a television studio with an editing suite. Following fundraising and negotiations from 2001, the college was awarded specialist college Media Arts status in 2004. The college was therefore renamed from the original name of "Ilfracombe College".
There are five periods in the school day, each lasting one hour. They are organized as tutorial (20 minutes), lesson one, lesson two, break (30 minutes), lesson three, lesson four, lunch (45 minutes), and lesson five. This system replaced the old schedule of three lessons in the morning and two in the afternoon in July 2006.
Year 9,10,11 and Sixth Form Students are given the opportunity to participate in the Annual Ten Tors walk .
Ilfracombe Arts College broadcasts regular Students Radio Shows in stereo on frequencies 103.6 & 107.7 MHz FM
In 2007, Ilfracombe Arts College built a £3.4 million arts block named the Beacon Arts Centre. The arts department relocated to this department, freeing up rooms for other uses in the school. The previous art rooms in (C Block) have now been refurbished into new Administration, Student Services, and LSU areas. The previous Student Services have been refurbished into a Conference room with video conferencing facilities.
To help students, the school has a peer support and peer mentoring system.
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