Rawlett Community Sports College

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Rawlett Community Sports College
Type	Community comprehensive school
Headteacher	John Brodie^[1]
Chair	John Buckingham^[1]
Specialism	Sports College
Location	Comberford Road Tamworth Staffordshire B79 9AA England
LEA	Staffordshire^[1]
Ofsted number	124435
Students	1272^[1]
Gender	Mixed
Ages	11 to 18
Website	web.rawlett.net
Coordinates: 52°39′07″N 1°42′12″W / 52.65200, -1.70329

Rawlett Community Sports College is a high school located on the outskirts of Tamworth, a small market town in Staffordshire, England. It was previously known as Rawlett High School. This is a specialist school that is a Sports College. Rawlett educates around 1,250 students aged 11-18. The Headteacher is John Brodie. The catchment includes Tamworth, Fazeley, Mile Oak, Elford, Hopwas, Riverside, Coton Green, and Gillway.

1 Facilities
2 Connexions Card launch
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Facilities

The school operates the Rawlett IT Academy, which offers Microsoft Office 2003 Specialist courses and exams. Since it is a Sports College it has many sports facilities such as a four court sports hall, sprung wooden gymnasium, dance studio, meeting rooms, changing rooms, three floodlit county standard tennis courts, floodlit county standard netball court, floodlit synthetic pitch, and playing fields.

[edit] Connexions Card launch

Education secretary Estelle Morris chose Rawlett to launch the Connexions Card, on 14 June 2002. The card was a national initiative to encourage all 16-19 year olds to continue in education and training.^[2]