Jump to content

User:Roundhay Technology College

Coordinates: 53°49′50″N 1°30′38″W / 53.830640°N 1.510637°W / 53.830640; -1.510637
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roundhay High School
Address
Map
Gledhow Lane

Leeds
,
West Yorkshire
,
LS8 1ND

England
Coordinates53°49′50″N 1°30′38″W / 53.830640°N 1.510637°W / 53.830640; -1.510637
Information
TypeHigh School
MottoCourtsey, Cooperation, Commitment
Established1903
Local authorityCity of Leeds
SpecialistTechnology, Language
Head MasterNeil Clephan
Staff120
Age11 to 18
Enrollment1,520
Sixth form300
Websitehttp://www.roundhay.leeds.sch.uk/0809/pages/default.html

Roundhay School (also known as Roundhay School Technology and Language College) is a specialist Technology College and Language College in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

Admissions

[edit]

It has about 1,520 pupils and there are about 287 pupils in the sixth form. The current headmaster is Mr. Neil Clephan. The school grounds are based across 22 acres (89,000 m2), and are directly opposite Roundhay Park near the Roundhay Hall (Spire Leeds) BUPA hospital.

History

[edit]

Early history

[edit]

Roundhay School was established in 1903 as an all boys grammar school.

During World War I and World War II many of the Roundhay pupils above the age of 16 served with the Yorkshire Regiment.

In 1972, along with many other grammar schools in the country, Roundhay Grammar School for Boys on Old Park Road and Roundhay High School for Girls on Jackson Avenue merged to form a mixed comprehensive secondary school under the Circular 10/70 introduced by Margaret Thatcher. Roundhay, like all other high schools in the city, changed from an 11–18 to a 13–18 school with the creation of the tier of Middle Schools - which were themselves abolished later when Roundhay became an 11–18 school again.

Construction work

[edit]

In the period 2002–04 much of the old school was torn down and rebuilt under a £14 million Private Finance Initiative. The frontage of the building was left largely untouched, though the central section was replaced in favour of an upper-floor staff room that looks over the fields at the front of the school.


Specialist status

[edit]

It is a Technology and Language College, enabling new Year 7 pupils to learn two languages (from a choice of over seventy). Also it has interactive whiteboards (SmartBoards) in every classroom.

Extra-curricular

[edit]

Roundhay School runs various extracurricular activities for pupils to engage in during the lunch period and after school. Sport is an important part of extracurricular life at Roundhay, and the school enjoys large playing fields and indoor sports halls to facilitate this. Main sports include football, rugby union, netball, cricket and hockey. The hockey in particular had been a great success with many students going on to play for successful teams after education The school also partakes in tennis, athletics or swimming competition. There is also trampolining class and a well used climbing wall.

All pupils at Roundhay School are offered free instrumental lessons. The school also runs a popular 'Battle of the Bands' competition on an annual basis, supported by several of the School's resident bands.

Drama is another popular activity. Each year there is a school production in which pupils of any age can take part. These productions are one of Roundhay's pillars of extracurricular achievement. In 2006 the Roundhay pupils did a successful production of Sister Act, this year a whole week of Multi Cultural activities replaced the school production, Multi Cultural week, spearheaded by the music department, involved a wider range of staff and students than the traditional production.

School trips

[edit]

Roundhay School runs a number of trips abroad on annual and 2 year cycles. These include art trips to New York, Germany, and Barcelona, and also languages trips to Spain, Germany and France annually. The school also runs a popular skiing trip to Canada with a new trip for 2010 to Austria. History trips take place every year to Skipton Castle, the Imperial War Museum and World War I battlefields. There was also an art trip to China in April 2009. This year the Geography department went to Iceland on an amazing trip taking in the thermal springs as well as the volcanoes.

Success

[edit]

Roundhay School receives consistently successful Ofsted reports, and external examination results are above the national average.[1] In 2007, the school got the best A level results of all the state schools in the city of Leeds (also doing better than the independent boys school Leeds Grammar), and the second best in the district after the St. Mary's School, Menston. The best schools in Leeds are in the north of the city, close to the outer ring road. At GCSE, it performs less highly, being eighth in the LEA, four places higher than the neighbouring Allerton High School.

Standards in GCSE/GNVQ examinations at the end of Year 11 in 2003[1]
heading School results National results
Percentage of pupils gaining 5 or more A*-C grades 59.0 52.0
Percentage of pupils gaining 5 or more A*-G grades 92.0 91.0
Percentage of pupils gaining 1 or more A*-G grades 96.0 96.0
Average point score per pupil (best eightsubjects) 37.5 34.7

Alumni: Old Roundhegians

[edit]

Roundhay Grammar School for Boys

[edit]

Roundhay High School for Girls

[edit]

The Roundhay School

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b "Roundhay School Ofsted Report 2004" (PDF).
  2. ^ "Paul Woodrow". art.ucalgary.ca. Retrieved October 3, 2010. {{cite web}}: Text "Department of Art" ignored (help); Text "University of Calgary" ignored (help)
[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Roundhay_Technology_College&oldid=868325472"