Wallingford School
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| Wallingford School | |
| Motto | Sending every person into the world able and qualified to play their full part |
| Established | 1659 |
| Headteacher | Mr Nigel Willis |
| Specialism | Sports College |
| Location | St George's Road Wallingford Oxfordshire OX10 8HH England |
| LEA | Oxfordshire |
| Ofsted number | 123261 |
| Students | 1084 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11 to 18 |
| Website | http://www.wallingford.oxon.sch.uk/ |
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Wallingford School is a secondary school located in the town of Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England. It was founded by Walter Bigg in 1659 in association with the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors.
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[edit] About
The school's objective is to "send every young person into the world able and qualified to play their full part" in it. This message is broadcast a lot around the school along with pictures of everyday activities around the school. These are in most, if not all the buildings around the school.
[edit] Headteacher
Mr Nigel Willis is current headteacher of the school. He joined in early 2005 succeeding the current head, who was temporarily Mr Doug Brown, however it was previously Mr Jerry Owens. According to the BBC league tables, the school has improved in the GCSE results since the all time low in 2005.
[edit] Buildings
There are a number of buildings and "blocks" that link up the school
[edit] The School Day
The school day consists of five lessons, and two periods of free time.
Monday - Thursdays:
- 8.40am to 9.00am - Form Time
- 9.00am to 10.00am - Period 1
- 10.00am to 11.00am - Period 2
- 11.00am to 11.20am - Break
- 11.20am to 12.20pm - Period 3
- 12.20pm to 1.20pm - Lunch
- 1.20pm to 2.20pm - Period 4
- 2.20pm to 3.20pm - Period 5
Fridays:
- 8.40am to 8.50am - Form Time
- 8.50am to 9.20am - Period 1 (always PSHE)
- 9.20am to 10.20am - Period 2
- 10.20am to 10.40am - Break
- 10.40am to 11.40am - Period 3
- 11.40am to 12.40pm - Period 4
- 12.40pm to 1.40pm - Lunch
- 1.40pm to 2.40pm - Period 5
Note that often there are year group assemblies on 2 out of 4 of the standard days in the form period time.
[edit] Timetable and school terms
The school timetable is based on two 5 by 5 grids. The 5 by 5 grid indicates the weekday vertically, and the period horizontally. There are two of these grids for a rotating 2 week system, week A and week B. The term will always start with a week A, followed the next week with a B week, then an A again, then B, A, B and so on.
There are 6 terms from the beginning of September to the end of July. Though the school officially uses the 6 term system, the 3 term system is still commonly expressed during the school day.
The school timetable is set to change after the summer holidays of 2008. After, it will be a single week timetable with six 50 minute lessons per day. The school day will finish at 3:15, every day after this is in place.
[edit] School Council
The school council is composed of 14 student representatives. There are 2 reps from every year group, one girl and one boy, all the way from year 7 to year 13. These reps have to give speeches and are voted in by their whole year group.
There are also year council meetings, made up of 6 to 8 representatives, each elected by their tutor group.
[edit] Offsite passes
If students live within walking distance to the school (ie. within Wallingford) they are legible to claim a lunch pass meaning they are allowed to go back home during lunch times. Sixth Formers are allowed to go offsite at breaks, lunchtimes and free periods anyhow. Prefects in Year 11 are allowed offsite, and during the academic year, certain trusted Year 11's are appointed to be allowed to go offsite by teachers.
[edit] Gifted and Talented
- Gifted and Talented students are part of two groups:
- Nagty
- Shine
Nagty is a newsletter that goes around the school, but only for the gifted and talented students subscribed to Nagty. Shine (for Year 10 and 11 students only) is a brand new scheme for gifted and talented students to improve upon 2 of their talented subjects which in the end will help increase the students overall GCSE grade.
[edit] Citizenship
Since 2006 the school has been running a citizenship class for year 9 students in Gifted and Talented. They spend one hour per week working on citizenship, for one year for half a GCSE. To help with their coursework, they have hosted citizenship ceremonies hosted and organised entirely by the citizenship group . They are the only school in the country to do this.
