Haydon School
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Wiltshire Lane, Eastcote , , HA5 2LX | |
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| Type | Foundation comprehensive school |
| Local authority | Hillingdon |
| Specialist | Language |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Headteacher | Steve Robson |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Age | 11 to 18.5 |
| Enrollment | 2025 |
| Website | http://www.haydonschool.com |
Haydon School is a comprehensive foundation school located in Hillingdon, west London, England. The school serves approximately 2000 students aged 11–18. It is one of the most popular secondary schools in Hillingdon due to the great GCSE and A-Level success rate.
History & Students
The school was formed in September 1977 from the union of St Nicholas Grammar School For Boys and St Mary's Grammar School For Girls and was named after a local family. It is a designated language college teaching students and the local community a range of modern foreign languages.[1] Students entering the school in year seven select two languages, either French & Italian or Spanish & German.[1] The school also offers Latin, Mandarin Chinese, and Japanese to gifted students. Students can also attend Russian, Arabic, Portuguese and Greek classes after school or at lunchtime.
Sixth Form
Haydon School has a vibrant Sixth Form with over 500 students, one of the largest sixth forms in the country. It offers over 40 advanced level courses all on one site prospectus. According to Ofsted, Haydon is one of the country's best sixth forms, with successful Oxbridge, UCL and King's College applicants. In Year 13, students can run for Head Girl and Head Boy. Every student can vote for a male and female candidate to represent their student body.
Houses
Haydon has five houses which are:
Each house is named after space craft, including three space shuttles; there was a certain amount of amusement when the house system was introduced, since the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, and one of the crew members was famously a teacher; despite the unintended connotations, the name stood.
There are three forms in each house per year. A form is identified by the year, the house and a number. This last number is either 1, 2, 3 or 4 (Though one year will never have all four forms, most have 2, and some have 3). Odd numbers represent forms that study French and Italian, whilst even numbers represent forms studying German and Spanish. For example 9P1 would be a year nine form, in Pioneer with students studying French and Italian.
The houses all have different colours. Challenger are red, Discovery are yellow, Pioneer are purple, Voyager are green and Endeavour are blue. Since 2004 students have worn ties in their house colours indicating which house they are in, and since 2009 students have their conduct cards coloured according to their house.
Each year when the school's "Sports Day" takes place, students are not required to wear uniform, but are encouraged to wear clothes matching their house colour.
New Art & Design Building | Peter Woods Building
The new Art, Design & Technology building provides an inspiring, light and spacious environment for pupils and teachers to work together to explore art, design and technology. The building has been designed to meet the needs of a changing curriculum which will ensure generations of pupils benefit from it and teachers have the flexibility they need to prepare pupils for life in a changing world.
The art studios on the top floors are full of natural bee's nests with views of the surrounding wildlife and offer the space that the Art Department need to expand their curriculum and the experiences they offer pupils. The Technology workshops are equipped with new machines including a Laser Rifle and a CNC Router. The new machines and rooms provide the department with the facilities it needs to deliver exciting and inspiring projects that reflect recent advances in technology and design in recent years. This work cost over £5,000,000[1] and is now finished. Some of the older technology classrooms have also been revamped and made to look like the new ones. The building is named after the old headmaster of Haydon School, Mr Woods. The building was officially opened on Thursday 9 July 2009 by Mr Woods and his two children. Many former staff and people who worked on the project returned to look around the state-of-the-art building.
Eco Club
The school has a successful eco club. The eco-club also produce a wide variety of posters notifying students, staff and visitors to the school of the importance of attending eco club and to support the schools recycling policy. The eco club have been successful in getting a recycling bin into every classroom, this has reduced the amount of paper that the school wastes. The eco club try very hard to make the school a better place and to continue to succeed. They have weekly meetings and volunteer after school and occasionally on weekends. Piers Morgan and formere pupil Fearne Cotton have visited the school in order to promote the eco club.
Student Voice
The Haydon Student Voice is about students being involved in the day to day running of the school, sometimes including important decisions affecting its future. Haydon School has an active Student Voice body who meet on a regular basis to discuss issues and concerns about the school. The leaders of each Action team then meet and discuss these things with the Deputy Heads and look at possible ways they can make real improvements at Haydon.
They have produced assembly and posters to put around the school to inform the students about the voice they have, how to use it, and how to get involved. They have produced a "Mission Impossible" themed assembly which has shown staff and students that the Student Voice does make a strong different to Haydon.
Virtual Learning
Haydon School has recently set up a virtual learning resource called Fronter. Students log on using their Hillingdon-Grid email address and password. Teachers can set work and students can contact the teachers through the student friendly interface.
In The Future
By September 2011, Haydon are set to put all homework on Fronter so students can access everything from home, and for the first time, parents will be able to access Fronter and see progress of their children. This will include seeing registers, homework set and announcements and news.
Faults With Fronter
At the moment, Fronter is crashing and very regularly going offline for hours on end. This does obviously fault the learning in school, especially in ICT lessons and they rely on Fronter for their lessons.
ID Badges And New Conduct Cards
The school is developing their Behavior Policy and are giving out conduct cards. They have been given out to year 7-11 students. The card has a picture of the student and says what form they are in. The string is the colour of their house(e.g. Pioneer-purple) If they forget it they will receive punishment in the form of a detention.
There is also a code of conduct card, if a student forgets something, has unacceptable uniform or fails to show the card then the teacher signs it. They get a tick, each card has 5 boxes to be ticked, once a column is full the student is issued with a detention. Then there is two more columns to be filled one with four and one with three, Once they are all full then the student will get a detention. If the student has unacceptable uniform or fails to show the card and all the columns are full then the student will get a straight detention.
Alumni
St Mary's Grammar School for Girls
- Heather Couper, astronomer
Haydon School
- Fearne Cotton, TV presenter
- Peter Ellard, Musician - Scouting for Girls
References
- ^ a b c "Haydon School Prospectus 2009-2010" (PDF). Retrieved 2009-06-05.