Reddish Vale Technology College
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Reddish Vale Technology College is a school in Stockport
, Greater Manchester
, England
and is a mixed community comprehensive Technology College, educating 1400 pupils in the 11-16 range.
It is a Technology College
and has been awarded the Artsmark Gold Award from the Arts Council of England. A 2004 OFSTED
report summarized it as "a good school".
, which means it is a secondary school
which receives extra funding for its Design & Technology Department. The school offers facilities in the areas of food technology
; textiles and resistant materials.
Reddish Vale became a specialist school in 1995, being one of the first LEA schools in the country to do so.
Lee Boardman - an English actor and narrator.
Stockport
Stockport is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on elevated ground southeast of Manchester city centre, at the point where the rivers Goyt and Tame join and create the River Mersey. Stockport is the largest settlement in the metropolitan borough of the same name...
, Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.6 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the...
, 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...
and is a mixed community comprehensive Technology College, educating 1400 pupils in the 11-16 range.
It is a Technology College
Technology College
Technology College is a term used in the United Kingdom for a secondary specialist school that focuses on design and technology, mathematics and science. These were the first type of specialist schools, beginning in 1994. In 2008 there were 598 Technology Colleges in England, of which 12 also...
and has been awarded the Artsmark Gold Award from the Arts Council of England. A 2004 OFSTED
Office for Standards in Education
The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills is the non-ministerial government department of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools In England ....
report summarized it as "a good school".
Departments
Reddish Vale Technology College departments include:- English (Compulsory Subject)
- Mathematics (Compulsory Subject)
- Science (Compulsory Subject)
- ICT (Compulsory Subject/Additional GCSE Subject)
- Technology (Compulsory GCSE Subject)
- Geography (GCSE Subject)
- History (GCSE Subject)
- Art (GCSE Subject)
- P.E (Compulsory Subject/Additional GCSE Subject)
- Religious Studies (Additional GCSE Subject)
- Citizenship (Additional GCSE Subject)
- Performing Arts (Additional GCSE Subject)
- Music (Additional GCSE Subject)
Technology College status
Reddish Vale is a Technology CollegeTechnology College
Technology College is a term used in the United Kingdom for a secondary specialist school that focuses on design and technology, mathematics and science. These were the first type of specialist schools, beginning in 1994. In 2008 there were 598 Technology Colleges in England, of which 12 also...
, which means it is a secondary school
Secondary school
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...
which receives extra funding for its Design & Technology Department. The school offers facilities in the areas of food technology
Food technology
Food technology, is a branch of food science which deals with the actual production processes to make foods.-Early history of food technology:...
; textiles and resistant materials.
Reddish Vale became a specialist school in 1995, being one of the first LEA schools in the country to do so.
Famous ex-pupils
- Emma and Eve Ryan, glamour models, Love IslandLove IslandLove Island was a daily British reality television programme. In the show, twelve single celebrities spent five weeks on an island in Fiji. Viewers would vote for the couple they would like to see in the "love shack" where the two would get to know one another better...
contestants, actresses.
Lee Boardman - an English actor and narrator.
- David Martlew Son of Jeremy Martlew 1987, He set foot into the wilderness of stockport bus station, in order to catch thieves and other shady characters alike. After phoning the Daily Mirror thrice times they began to understand his daily struggle from being a lurch of his own home, logging down every train passing through the NORTH REDDISH MAIN LINE, North Reddish, Stockport. Jeremy Martlew closely grasped the idea of this soon after the great war meaning that it had to be kept a family tradition in the family home on Thornley Lane South, DENTON BORDER. After seeing the wakestock bus travel down the passage at the end of his road, his eyes watered with disbelief as this was thought to be impossible after the GREAT TRAIN ACCIDENT of 1989, logged and witnessed by David's predicessor named Pulmonary Artery Martlew. Fame Soon came to David after he thoroughly goaded and wolf-whistled the streets of Reddish looking for a certain 'Layton Platt' otherly known on the grime scene as 'Laytonio MC' The police were soon contacted and Martlew Jnr. was captured possessing various sling shot devices which were later found out to be used to destruct the new school windows on Harcourt Field. David was found guilty of all charges in 2011 at Brinnington Crown Court to a mass ovation and news breakthrough 0f 19000 people.