Poynton High School and Performing Arts College is a secondary school in Poynton

Poynton

Poynton is a town within the civil parish of Poynton-with-Worth, and the unitary authority area of Cheshire East, England. For ceremonial purposes it is part of the county of Cheshire. Poynton is located at the eastern most fringe of the Cheshire Plain, north of Macclesfield, south of Stockport...

 near Stockport, England. It is a mixed non denominational school though its roll is 96% white British and predominantly Anglican.
It is located in the Cheshire East

Cheshire East

Cheshire East is a unitary authority area with borough status in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.The borough was established in April 2009 as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England, by virtue of an order under the Local Government and Public Involvement in...

 Local Education Authority

Local Education Authority

A local education authority is a local authority in England and Wales that has responsibility for education within its jurisdiction...

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Poynton High School has approximately 1700 pupils between Years 7 and 13 (i.e. ages 11–18) including a 6th Form College which has 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.

The current head is Mrs. S. Adamson, the assistant head is Mr. T. Webster and the head of 6th Form is Mr. Dean.

Involvement

The school is involved with many external organisations and groups and links with foreign education establishments. Comenius, Heaton Special School & Music Academy are all integral to the school as a community and have been established for a period of time.

The school has a wide range of extracurricular activities for students after school and during school hours such as chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

, badminton

Badminton

Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...

, and dance

Dance

Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....

. Students can also take part in many activities for their respective houses

House system

The house system is a traditional feature of British schools, and schools in the Commonwealth. Historically, it was associated with established public schools, where a 'house' refers to a boarding house or dormitory of a boarding school...

, which are Newton, Davenport, Legh and Vernon.