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TECHNOLOGY

 

"You can never learn less, you can only learn more."

- Buckminster Fuller

The Technology Team is extremely successful in continuing to achieve excellent results, two members of the team are subject Lead Teachers for Brighton and Hove . Our facilities are improving constantly the most recent improvement being a new ICT suite on the Nevill Campus to include state of the art CAD/CAM facilities.

 

We are committed to raising the learning and Teaching in Technology and support the schools language College status by offering students the opportunities to develop cultural understanding and awareness of many different parts of the world. This will included for 2005-6.

  • Sixth Form visit to Thailand which includes four days at an Internationally renowned cookery school in Chang Mai.
  • Year 8 Gifted And Talented Project with Pizza Express
  • Cultural exchange with students in Ghana ( Fiankoma project )
  • Proposed activity liaising with school in Rouen , students will plan and organise a Medieval Banquet in France (Interreg Project )

Throughout the year we invite a number of professionals into school, our Show Case event being Technology Day, when year 9 students are offered opportunities to experience first hand the work carried out by local businesses which play a part in the word of Technology. We constantly invite local expertise into school to support our work with students.

 

As a team we have forged very strong links with Brighton University and support the training of graduates very successfully, this often brings new ideas and excitement to an ever changing and developing team.

 

 

 

Parklife, Nov 08

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Interreg update

Hove Park has just received substantial funding for cross border projects.

 

Language Coll News

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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!