Jack Hunt School
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Jack Hunt School is a co-educational foundation comprehensive school
and specialist language and sports college in Netherton in the city of Peterborough
in the United Kingdom
. The school currently has 1,466 pupils on the roll, aged 11 (Year 7) to 18 (Year 13). Refurbishment of the premises, as part of the Peterborough Secondary School Review, will increase the capacity by one form of entry in each year group, with a similar increase in the sixth form
, amounting to around an extra 175 students.
Jack Hunt School became a Beacon school
in September 1999 for an initial period of three years. Following a successful application to the then Department for Education and Skills, Beacon status was granted for a further three years with effect from September 2002. In 2004, Beacon schools came to an end nationally and Jack Hunt successfully applied to become a Leading Edge school.
The school was officially opened Alderman Dr. Jack Hunt, chairman of the Education Committee of the then Huntingdon and Peterborough
County Council, after whom it is named. Briefly, until education in the county was reorganised in 1976, it functioned as a grammar school
.
Jack Hunt Pool is an 82 feet (25 m) dual-use facility, built on the premises but open to the general public.
Jack Hunt is home to Peterborough's Yamaha School. The school offers Keyboard, Guitar and Drumming to the community.
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...
and specialist language and sports college in Netherton in the city of Peterborough
Peterborough
Peterborough is a cathedral city and unitary authority area in the East of England, with an estimated population of in June 2007. For ceremonial purposes it is in the county of Cambridgeshire. Situated north of London, the city stands on the River Nene which flows into the North Sea...
in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. The school currently has 1,466 pupils on the roll, aged 11 (Year 7) to 18 (Year 13). Refurbishment of the premises, as part of the Peterborough Secondary School Review, will increase the capacity by one form of entry in each year group, with a similar increase in the sixth form
Sixth form
In the education systems of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and of Commonwealth West Indian countries such as Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Jamaica and Malta, the sixth form is the final two years of secondary education, where students, usually sixteen to eighteen years of age,...
, amounting to around an extra 175 students.
Jack Hunt School became a Beacon school
Beacon School
Beacon School was a government designation awarded to outstanding primary and secondary schools in England and Wales from 1998 to August 2005. The Beacon Schools programme identified schools that were examples of good practice and funded those schools to enable them to build partnerships with each...
in September 1999 for an initial period of three years. Following a successful application to the then Department for Education and Skills, Beacon status was granted for a further three years with effect from September 2002. In 2004, Beacon schools came to an end nationally and Jack Hunt successfully applied to become a Leading Edge school.
The school was officially opened Alderman Dr. Jack Hunt, chairman of the Education Committee of the then Huntingdon and Peterborough
Huntingdon and Peterborough
Huntingdon and Peterborough was a short-lived administrative county in East Anglia in the United Kingdom. It existed from 1965 to 1974, when it became part of Cambridgeshire.-Formation:...
County Council, after whom it is named. Briefly, until education in the county was reorganised in 1976, it functioned as a grammar school
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...
.
Jack Hunt Pool is an 82 feet (25 m) dual-use facility, built on the premises but open to the general public.
Jack Hunt is home to Peterborough's Yamaha School. The school offers Keyboard, Guitar and Drumming to the community.
Alumni
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- member of boyband JLS. - Keith Palmer- better known as Maxim RealityMaxim RealityKeith Andrew Palmer , known by his stage name Maxim Reality or simply Maxim, is an English singer-songwriter and MC, famous for his work with electronica band The Prodigy....
, MC with dance act The ProdigyThe ProdigyThe Prodigy are an English electronic dance music group formed by Liam Howlett in 1990 in Braintree, Essex. Along with Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, and other acts, The Prodigy have been credited as pioneers of the big beat genre, which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s and 2000s...
. - Ross ParkerMurder of Ross ParkerRoss Parker , from Peterborough, England, was a 17 year old white male murdered in an unprovoked racially motivated crime. He was stabbed to death and beaten with a hammer by a gang of Muslim Asian youths of Pakistani origin described as a "hunting party" who were seeking a white male to attack...
- victim of racist murder shortly after the September 11th terrorist attacks.