Highcliffe School
Encyclopedia
Highcliffe School is a Foundation school
for students aged 11–19 and a specialist Language College
, situated in Highcliffe
-on-Sea in the borough of Christchurch, Dorset
in southern England
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and science departments, and Plasma TV screens all around the school for displaying messages and announcements.
Building work has finished on a Fitness Suite, which PE students have access to, containing Fitness Training Machines and weights.
The school Music Department has access to a Technology Room, which contains computers loaded with Cubase music programs, and Sibelius (computer program), a musical score-writing program. It also features keyboards connected to these computers, acting as speakers and MIDI-input devices.
The school also offers "Twilight Lessons" for parents and other adults to learn languages after normal school hours.
UPDATE: Recently, Highcliffe adopted the Frogtrade VLE system (pond), this allows them to integrate all of the features above, plus more into a whole new look site.
Foundation school
In England and Wales, a foundation school is a state-funded school in which the governing body has greater freedom in the running of the school than in community schools....
for students aged 11–19 and a specialist Language College
Language College
Language Colleges were introduced in 1995 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enables secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, modern foreign languages...
, situated in Highcliffe
Highcliffe
Highcliffe-on-Sea is a small town in the borough of Christchurch, Dorset in southern England. It forms part of the South East Dorset conurbation along the English Channel coast...
-on-Sea in the borough of Christchurch, Dorset
Christchurch, Dorset
Christchurch is a borough and town in the county of Dorset on the south coast of England. The town adjoins Bournemouth in the west and the New Forest lies to the east. Historically in Hampshire, it joined Dorset with the reorganisation of local government in 1974 and is the most easterly borough in...
in southern England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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Features
The school has a £4,000,000 technology block, ICTICT (education)
Information and communication technologies in education deal with the use of information and communication technologies within educational technology.-Purpose:...
and science departments, and Plasma TV screens all around the school for displaying messages and announcements.
Building work has finished on a Fitness Suite, which PE students have access to, containing Fitness Training Machines and weights.
The school Music Department has access to a Technology Room, which contains computers loaded with Cubase music programs, and Sibelius (computer program), a musical score-writing program. It also features keyboards connected to these computers, acting as speakers and MIDI-input devices.
Highcliffe School as a Science and Language College
Highcliffe School is also a Language and Science college. The school teaches:- ItalianItalian languageItalian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
- GermanGerman languageGerman is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
- JapaneseJapanese languageis a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
(as an optional extra curricular subject) - SpanishSpanish languageSpanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
- FrenchFrench languageFrench is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
- ChineseChinese languageThe Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...
(as an optional extra curricular subject) - LatinLatinLatin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
(as an optional extracurricular subject)
The school also offers "Twilight Lessons" for parents and other adults to learn languages after normal school hours.
Da Vinci Centre
Highcliffe da vinci centre is the art and design part of highcliffe school This unique building contains 2 woodwork rooms, and 2 food technology roomsThe school's website
For students, notices are posted there, such as news about the school. From the website students can:- access school files from home.
- access the timetable.
- access the student's locker combination.
- view the student's reports.
- view the student's merits and achievements to date.
- access the 'Highcliffe Challenge', a school-wide challenge which involves students, upon completion of certain extra-curricular activities and achievements, emailing evidence of this to relevant teachers. If the teacher agrees with the students contribution, the specified task will be 'confirmed'. Each Keystage (3, 4, or 5) has its own tasks, and also its own number of tasks required to complete the challenge. Upon completion of the relevant challenges, a successful student will receive a badge and a certificate.
- view homework details posted by their subject teachers.
UPDATE: Recently, Highcliffe adopted the Frogtrade VLE system (pond), this allows them to integrate all of the features above, plus more into a whole new look site.
Notable alumni
- Television producer James Howard
- Indie band Air TrafficAir TrafficAir Traffic was a British alternative rock band from Bournemouth. Formed in 2003, the band consists of Chris Wall , David Ryan Jordan , Tom Pritchard and Jim Maddock ....
- 5 time PGA Tour champion (John Milne)