Hamble Community Sports College
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| Type | Secondary |
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| Religion | None |
| Principal | Geraldine Haley-Gordon |
| Religious deputy head | Hampshire |
| Specialism | Sports College |
| Location | Satchell Lane Hamble Hampshire SO31 4NE England  |
| DfE URN | 116413 |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 978 |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 11–16 |
| Houses | Lords, Wembley, Twickenham, Wimbledon |
| Website | www.hamblecollege.co.uk |
Coordinates: 50°52′23″N 1°19′36″W / 50.8731°N 1.3266°W
Hamble Community Sports College is a Secondary School in Hamble-le-Rice; the school offers education to children between 11-16. Hamble College SkillsCentre opened September 2010 and is offering courses including Construction, Engineering, Sports Science and Marine Engineering.
Ian Knights retired at the end of term and the new position of Principal was given to Geraldine Haley-Gordon. Deputy Head Judith Chambers.
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[edit] The Community System
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The beginning of the 2008/09 school year brought a change to the way the school runs. The school is now arranged in a system which involves mixed-year mentor groups, with all students and teachers now part of one of the four communities. This now means that each mentor group consists of five students from each year, totalling 25 students. Every 'mentor group' must have at least one Senior Leader (Prefect) in it, of which there are approximately 60 in Year 11, spread roughly equally across the communities. There is also a Head Boy, Head Girl, Deputy Head Boy and Deputy Head Girl within each community; these are nominated before their Year 10 year comes to a close.
There are now, due to the rearrangement of the pastoral system, many other important roles that the students can apply to take on. Some of these include Sports Young Leaders and Arts Young Leaders, both of which help out in events in their department.
The four communities are named after sporting venues, following on from the sporting school theme, which plays an important role. These are Wembley, Wimbledon, Lords and Twickenham. Each community has a different tie colour, and every teacher assigned to a community wears a specific badge.
Wembley - The leader of Wembley is Scott Weston. The colour of their tie is navy blue with light blue stripes.
Wimbledon - The leader of Wimbledon is Laura Carrigan. The colour of their tie is navy blue with purple stripes.
Twickenham - The leader of Twickenham is Rebecca Ault, another new member of staff. Rebecca currently is head of student voice. The colour of their tie is navy blue with green stripes.
Lords - The leader of Lords is Mike Skinner. The colour of their tie is navy blue with yellow stripes.
[edit] OFSTED
The school was visited by OFSTED in November 2001, where the quality of teaching received an overall "good" for both Years 7 - 9 and 10 - 11.[1] Since then, a number of renovations have taken place, increasing the facilities, earning the school its Sports College status. This reached its climax with the opening of the Sports Complex in 2002. Recent site improvements include a Gymnastics Complex (opened in 2006), a dedicated Humanities (History, Religious Education and Geography) block, and renovation to the Technology, Music and Drama buildings. The most recent renovation to the school is the complete refurbishment on each of the Science teaching rooms. In 2007 the school was visited by OFSTED again and received yet another "good" overall.[2]
[edit] Recent activity
The school has organised many events recently; the most recent of which was the Fashion Rocks on Thursday 2 April. This showcased the Year 7 and 8 Creative Arts lessons work, a new lesson given to the lower school following the outstanding Performing Arts results from the previous year. The arts leaders will also be playing a big role in the event, and will play a huge contribution to the running of the event.
[edit] Link School
Hamble College has an external link with Ferndale School in South Africa. A yearly festival takes place called Toplink, where students from younger years come up to the school and raise funds for Ferndale. Every year a group of the Dreams and Teams students go out to visit the link school.
