MATHEMATICS
"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty" - Bertrand Russell
The Mathematics Department is superbly resourced on both sites, based in and around Faculty areas with central offices. The Faculty believes very much in the student being at the heart of learning. We use every opportunity for students to take responsibility for their learning, allowing time for them to reflect on their progress and set learning goals.
We are committed to meeting the potential of all our students and use every opportunity to work together to share ideas and take on new initiatives that lead to a more exciting and successful delivery of Mathematics at all levels. The mathematics department has access to well equipped computer suites which facilitate and enhance our students learning experiences.
We continually achieve excellent results - so much so that we regularly enter students early for their maths GCSE (this year alone 48 passed their GCSE early). We enter national maths challenges targeted at the 35% most able students through UKMT and have achieved awards in bronze, silver and gold.
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Outstanding results
The results are out and we're pleased to reveal its been another successful year for Hove Park . Our KS4 results saw 51% of students gaining 5 A*-C GCSE's, an increase of 9% over last years results and 21% over the last four years! Those achieving 5 A*-C GCSE's including English and Maths also increased by 3% to 37%. With 91% of our students receiving 5 A*-G including English and Maths.
Our students average points score was 343, an increase of 36 points over 2007 and 55 over 2004, meaning students are getting higher grades and in more subjects.
Hove Park met and exceeded all our targets set. The results are likely to place us inside the top 20 – 25% of schools in the UK on Value-Added measures, which take into account the prior achievement and background and expected performance of the students in the year group.
As a Specialist Language College we are very proud to say that the combined language A*-C was 56%. This is a truly noteworthy achievement. It sets us apart from many schools across the UK who stripped languages from their curriculum due to the difficulty in obtaining good pass grades in these subjects. Nationally there were 158,242 less language entries than last year, compounding the decline that has been evident for several years.
These results testify to teachers' and students' enthusiasm, commitment, talent and sheer hard work! Congratulations!
