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Helston Community College

Coordinates: 50°06′25″N 5°16′25″W / 50.10694°N 5.27351°W / 50.10694; -5.27351
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Helston Community College
Address
Map
Church Hill

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TR13 8NR

Coordinates50°06′25″N 5°16′25″W / 50.10694°N 5.27351°W / 50.10694; -5.27351
Information
TypeFoundation school
Local authorityCornwall Council
Department for Education URN112043 Tables
OfstedReports
HeadteacherMrs Donna Bryant
GenderCoeducational
Age11 to 18
Websitehttp://www.helston.cornwall.sch.uk/

Helston Community College (formerly Gwealhellis Secondary Modern School) is a coeducational foundation secondary school and sixth form located in Helston, in the English county of Cornwall.[1]

The South Site of the school was previously a grammar school that had Derwent Coleridge as a headmaster, his pupils including Charles Kingsley,[2] John Duke Coleridge, Richard Edmonds, Thomas Rowe Edmonds, John Rogers, Henry Trengrouse and James Trevenen.[3][4]

As a foundation school, Helston Community College is administered by Cornwall Council and a Co-operative Trust.[5] The school offers GCSEs, BTECs and City and Guilds courses as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A Levels and further BTECs.

Pupils from Helston Community College take part in the annual Furry Dance, and ancient Cornish custom which is held on the Feast of St. Michael..

References

  1. ^ "Helston Community College". Helston.cornwall.sch.uk. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
  2. ^ Rapple, Brendan A. "Brief Biography of Charles Kingsley, 1819-1875". Boston College Libraries. Retrieved 2008-04-13.
  3. ^ Rowse, A. L. (1976). "Chapter 2 "Oxford"". Matthew Arnold: Poet and Prophet. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 25. ISBN 0-500-01163-X.
  4. ^ The further alumni are cited as Helston students in ODNB articles on them.
  5. ^ "Co-operative Education Trust | College Information". Helston.cornwall.sch.uk. 2011-06-27. Retrieved 2014-06-09.