Millfield High School
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Millfield Science and Performing Arts College (known as Millfield High School up until 2005) is a mixed comprehensive school
located in Thornton
, Lancashire
, England
. Millfield has around 800 pupils, aged 11 to 16. Its head teacher
is Mr S. Bullen. It also changes it motto every 5 years. As the previous motto "Success For All" was created in 2006 the school have come up with a new motto "Creating Bright Futures".
The school has a large field, two tarmac playgrounds and sports hall for P.E sessions and for use by the school sport clubs. .
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...
located in Thornton
Thornton, Lancashire
Thornton is a village on the Fylde, in Lancashire, England, about four miles north of Blackpool and two miles south of Fleetwood. It is in the Borough of Wyre...
, Lancashire
Lancashire
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...
, 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...
. Millfield has around 800 pupils, aged 11 to 16. Its head teacher
Head teacher
A head teacher or school principal is the most senior teacher, leader and manager of a school....
is Mr S. Bullen. It also changes it motto every 5 years. As the previous motto "Success For All" was created in 2006 the school have come up with a new motto "Creating Bright Futures".
Further information
The school bought specialist college status in 2005. Millfield consists:- A Block (the original buildings) - which houses 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...
, 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...
, ArtsArt educationArt education is the area of learning that is based upon the visual, tangible arts—drawing, painting, sculpture, and design in jewelry, pottery, weaving, fabrics, etc. and design applied to more practical fields such as commercial graphics and home furnishings...
, TechnologyTechnology educationTechnology education is a study of technology, in which students "learn about the processes and knowledge related to technology". As a study, it covers the human ability to shape and change the physical world to meet needs, by manipulating materials and tools with techniques.-External links:...
(systems and control, resistant materials and food studiesFood studiesThe term food studies describes the critical examination of food and its contexts within science, art, history, society, and other fields. It is distinctive from other food-related areas of study such as nutrition, agriculture, gastronomy, and culinary arts in that it tends to look beyond the mere...
), I.C.TICT (education)Information and communication technologies in education deal with the use of information and communication technologies within educational technology.-Purpose:...
, Drama, DanceDance theoryDance theory is a fairly new field closely related to music theory and specifically musicality used to describe the nature and mechanics of dance. While musicality deals with finding a particular matching pair of dance and music that fit each other in various respects, dance theory is a broad term...
, Canteen, Offices, Medical room, Media studiesMedia 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...
and Performing Arts - B, C and D Block (the tower block) - which houses BiologyBiologyBiology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
, ChemistryChemistry educationChemistry education is a comprehensive term that refers to the study of the teaching and learning of chemistry in all schools, colleges and universities...
, PhysicsPhysics educationPhysics education or physics education research refers both to the methods currently used to teach physics and to an area of pedagogical research that seeks to improve those methods. Historically, physics has been taught at the high school and college level primarily by the lecture method...
, - F Block (the southern block) - which houses Geography ,History ,Religious Education, Citizenship the Libraries and P.S.H.EPersonal, Social and Health EducationPersonal, social, health and economic education has in various forms been part of the national curriculum for schools in England since 2000. Some aspects, but not all, have been compulsory...
- H Block (the northern block downstairs) - which houses MathsMathematics educationIn contemporary education, mathematics education is the practice of teaching and learning mathematics, along with the associated scholarly research....
and Learning Support - J Block (the northern block upstairs) - which houses both English Language and English LiteratureEnglish language learning and teachingEnglish as a second language , English for speakers of other languages and English as a foreign language all refer to the use or study of English by speakers with different native languages. The precise usage, including the different use of the terms ESL and ESOL in different countries, is...
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The school has a large field, two tarmac playgrounds and sports hall for P.E sessions and for use by the school sport clubs. .