Homewood School
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Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre is a comprehensive school
in Tenterden
, Kent
, England
. It has over 2500 students and 250+ staff. Homewood is a comprehensive school but is situated within the Kent selective system
so it has a student profile that is half way between comprehensive and secondary modern. It has been awarded specialist Arts College
status.
It provides education for students from the town itself, surrounding villages and also from Ashford
. It is a popular school and is oversubscribed each year at admissions time. Results have improved over the last ten years after the school was given significant government money to build new buildings as part of an expansion of the school to accommodate growth in the urban area of South Ashford.
that operate as welfare houses. They Are:
It is innovative in its approach to organization: it follows a five term year, having mixed age form groups, enters students for GCSE a year earlier than the national norm which enables students to start AS Level courses or take extra GCSE courses or do any retakes they might need to do.
Homewood is classified as a "leading school" in ICT. It has online facilities that allow students, parents and teachers to access school work externally.
Homewood works through a system called total curriculum for the first two years. This is all of the main topics in one. Until GCSE years students cover part of English and math with history, geography and ERS. Total Curriculum which hasn't proven to be very popular amongst students but some teachers believe it a good use of the information they learned in the four subjects.
Homewood offers at GCSE level, extra courses like BTEC, as well as Brick Laying, Woodwork and Catering on top of all the major GCSE courses, students may also carry on these subjects at level 3 in sixth form, or year 11 if they have passed with a high enough mark at level 2.
The school operates a laptop scheme in association with the e-learning Foundation, this means that each student is able to get a laptop that they can use at school and at home for a cash donation each month, currently a payment of £15 must be made each month for 20 months, after this period the student gets to keep the laptop, however the any software on the machine is owned by and licensed to Homewood School.
Comprehensive school
A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of a selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to the United...
in Tenterden
Tenterden
Tenterden is a Cinque Port town in the Ashford District of Kent, England. It stands on the edge of the Weald, overlooking the valley of the River Rother....
, Kent
Kent
Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
, 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...
. It has over 2500 students and 250+ staff. Homewood is a comprehensive school but is situated within the Kent selective system
Grammar school
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching classical languages but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school.The original purpose of mediaeval...
so it has a student profile that is half way between comprehensive and secondary modern. It has been awarded specialist Arts College
Arts College
Arts Colleges were introduced in 1997 as part of the now defunct Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enabled secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, the performing, visual and/or media arts...
status.
It provides education for students from the town itself, surrounding villages and also from Ashford
Ashford, Kent
Ashford is a town in the borough of Ashford in Kent, England. In 2005 it was voted the fourth best place to live in the United Kingdom. It lies on the Great Stour river, the M20 motorway, and the South Eastern Main Line and High Speed 1 railways. Its agricultural market is one of the most...
. It is a popular school and is oversubscribed each year at admissions time. Results have improved over the last ten years after the school was given significant government money to build new buildings as part of an expansion of the school to accommodate growth in the urban area of South Ashford.
Organization
The school is split into five mini-schools named after the Cinque PortsCinque Ports
The Confederation of Cinque Ports is a historic series of coastal towns in Kent and Sussex. It was originally formed for military and trade purposes, but is now entirely ceremonial. It lies at the eastern end of the English Channel, where the crossing to the continent is narrowest...
that operate as welfare houses. They Are:
- Rye - EnglishEnglish studiesEnglish studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language , English linguistics English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S.,...
, ICT and MediaMedia studiesMedia studies is an academic discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history and effects of various media; in particular, the 'mass media'. Media studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly from its core disciplines of mass... - Hastings - PEPhysical educationPhysical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
, Business StudiesBusiness studiesBusiness studies is an academic subject taught at higher level in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom, as well as at university level in many countries...
, Health & Social and Applied Learning - New-Romney - MusicMusic educationMusic education is a field of study associated with the teaching and learning of music. It touches on all domains of learning, including the psychomotor domain , the cognitive domain , and, in particular and significant ways,the affective domain, including music appreciation and sensitivity...
EnglishEnglish languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
and Performing ArtsPerforming artsThe performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object... - Hythe - ScienceScienceScience is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
and Maths - Dover - HistoryHistoryHistory is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
, GeographyGeographyGeography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
, ERSReligious EducationReligious Education is the term given to education concerned with religion. It may refer to education provided by a church or religious organization, for instruction in doctrine and faith, or for education in various aspects of religion, but without explicitly religious or moral aims, e.g. in a...
, Modern LanguageModern languageA modern language is any human language that is currently in use. The term is used in language education to distinguish between languages which are used for day-to-day communication and dead classical languages such as Latin, Attic Greek, Sanskrit, and Classical Chinese, which are studied for...
and CitizenshipCitizenship educationThere are two very different kinds of citizenship education,The first is education intended to prepare noncitizens to become legally and socially accepted as citizens...
/PSHE
It is innovative in its approach to organization: it follows a five term year, having mixed age form groups, enters students for GCSE a year earlier than the national norm which enables students to start AS Level courses or take extra GCSE courses or do any retakes they might need to do.
Homewood is classified as a "leading school" in ICT. It has online facilities that allow students, parents and teachers to access school work externally.
Homewood works through a system called total curriculum for the first two years. This is all of the main topics in one. Until GCSE years students cover part of English and math with history, geography and ERS. Total Curriculum which hasn't proven to be very popular amongst students but some teachers believe it a good use of the information they learned in the four subjects.
Homewood offers at GCSE level, extra courses like BTEC, as well as Brick Laying, Woodwork and Catering on top of all the major GCSE courses, students may also carry on these subjects at level 3 in sixth form, or year 11 if they have passed with a high enough mark at level 2.
The school operates a laptop scheme in association with the e-learning Foundation, this means that each student is able to get a laptop that they can use at school and at home for a cash donation each month, currently a payment of £15 must be made each month for 20 months, after this period the student gets to keep the laptop, however the any software on the machine is owned by and licensed to Homewood School.