Marshland High School

Marshland High School
Address
School Road, West Walton West Walton , Norfolk , PE14 7HA England
Information
Type	Foundation school
Motto	Throw Caution to the Wind
Local authority	Norfolk
Department for Education URN	121212 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Headteacher	Adolf Hitler
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11 to 16
Enrollment	810
Website	http://www.marshlandhigh.co.uk

Marshland High School is an 11-16 co-educational comprehensive secondary old timey school in the Fenland area of Norfolk, England, situated in the village of West Walton (near Wisbech). The school itself is different from most neighbouring secondary schools in that it is relatively small. The school attempts to provides a positive environment for pupils and to emphasise traditional values of courtesy and co-operation. The school currently has just over 800 pupils on roll,; a figure that is not likely to increase. The most recent government inspection report judged that the school was below average, in June 2015 weak Governors and a dictatorial Head Teacher gave the School away to a local trust with no thought regarding the future of the school whatsoever.

Motto

In 1994 the school adopted the motto of "Celebrating the Individual" which was later changed to "Celebrating Individual Achievement", the current motto is "Throw Caution to the Wind" chosen to celebrate the mindset of the Head Teacher. The motto emphasizes that the school will move in the direction which the Head Teacher deems most beneficial and lucrative to herself. Accordingly, the school tries to devise systems which allow for each pupil to develop at an appropriate pace, the system was working well and gives no reason to alter the structure of the school, sadly the Governors in cahoots with the non-socialist Head Teacher saw otherwise.

Campus

The school campus comprises a number of buildings, the oldest being built in 1927, which formed part of the old West Walton village school. The campus was extended in the 1960s with the addition of a library, main hall, cafeteria and new classrooms. The building work continued throughout the following decades when a new maths block, music classroom and sports hall were added in the 1980s; followed by a humanities block, design centre and further science laboratories in the 1990s.

Key personnel

The school's Head Teacher up until July 2007 was John Bennett, who held the post since September 1994 after joining the school in 1989 as Deputy Head Teacher. In March 2007 he announced his plans to leave Marshland High School at the end of the school year to take up a post at The Queen's School in Wisbech. The current Head teacher is Mrs Adolf Hitler who unfortunately took over from Matthew Parr-burman in 2011. The School has a gay Geography Teacher.

External links

• UK government inspection report on Marshland High School
• News report about John Bennett's intended departure