Bilton School

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Bilton School - A Maths and Computing College

Established	1977
Type	Comprehensive Secondary School
Principal	Mrs Lynda Brodie
Specialism	Maths and Computing College
Location	Lawford Lane Rugby Warwickshire CV22 7JT England
LEA	Warwickshire
Ofsted number	125749
Students	1425
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	11 to 16
School colours	Blue █ Black █ and Red █
Website	http://www.biltonschool.com/
Coordinates: 52°21′47″N 1°17′49″W / 52.36318, -1.29700

Bilton School Formerly Herbert Kay and Westlands School, and most recently Bilton High School is a major secondary school for pupils aged 11-16 situated within the village of Bilton within Rugby, Warwickshire. It is a specialist Maths and Computing College.

The current headmistress is Mrs Lynda Brodie.
The Schools uniform consists of a Blue Jumper with the Bilton logo emblazen upon it, interestingly the school adopts a system of giving older pupils the privilege of wearing different colour shirts to the younger ones. Thus the senior males wear dark blue polo shirts as opposed to light blue, and the females red polo shirts instead of light blue.

[edit] Herbert Kay and Westlands School

While named as such, the school was split into two segments, one containing a girls only school the other for male pupils. As the school is now co-ed it retains a sense of nostalgia by keeping the original terms as classroom titles, thus each side is now simply titled Kay Side and West Side which is incidentally nothing to do with popular Gangster Rap term.

[edit] Bilton High School

While named Bilton High School, the School ran into comical confusion with the simple logo that was emblazened upon its jumpers. The emblem B.H.S was criticised for its similarity to the logo of popular department store British Home Stores. Thus the school acted quickly to change its School symbol to the Bilton Lion with Bilton written underneath.

[edit] The consequence system

In around 1999 the school adopted its now infamous Consequence System, within which pupils would be issued with certain consequences for bad behaviour during lessons or form time. The Consequences or "C's" as they were known with pupils were as follows;

C1 - A Verbal Warning
C2 - A further Verbal Warning
C3 - Lines, which were completed and placed in a small postbox outside the year heads office the next day
C4 - Detention and Lines
C5 - Immediate Isolation with Detention and Lines. If this Consequence was issued, the teacher would immediately call (often via telephone) for a senior member of staff, who would escort the Pupil to a top floor room on Kay side filled with empty filing cabinets.

In 2004 the system changed again. No longer using the concept of C's (although very similar) to represent different levels of consequences a new set of punishments was derived;

Warning
Formal warning
Referral (a text home to parents)
Detention after school
Straight isolation or removal into another classroom

Detentions and isolations are also accompanied by a text home to parents to inform them of what had taken place. The text system is also used to inform parents of other incidences such as the pupil not registering during form time, or an exceptional piece of work being handed in.

In January 2006 the texting system was featured on the BBC news.