Ryde High School
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Ryde Academy is a academy status secondary school, including sixth form, located in Ryde
on the Isle of Wight
, England
, previously Ryde High School. A private school in the same town is known as Ryde School.
with Media and Performing Arts as their second specialism. It was given an award for being a high performing specialty college and is currently the only school on the Isle of Wight to have it. The school also has a variety of facilities, include an astroturf, field and theatre for 170 people.
The school took part in the annual Young Enterprise Company Programme Challenge, with the 2010 team winning the Isle of Wight local finals. The school also particpated in Rock Challenge UK
, achieving Awards of Excellence in choreography, drama skills, concept interpretation, concept originality hair and make up, costume design soundtrack, coming 5th overall in the UK.
As part of linking with foreign countries, including Norway and Bangladesh, in February 2011, Ryde High were the first school in the country to send students to Bangladesh on a trip. The students went as part of the Connecting Classrooms project and visited five schools around the country.
As part of the reorganisation of the education system on the Isle of Wight, Academies Enterprise Trust was successful in their bid against Innovative Schools and East Wight Educational Trust to take over the school. Sandown Bay Academy was formed on the main school site and the site of former Sandham Middle School, now North School, in 2011, with the age range extended to Year 7 to Year 13. It is now one of 5 secondary providers on the Isle of Wight.
The 2011 pass rates for the school were 62.4% 5+ A*-C for GCSE and 66% A*-C and 97% pass rate for A Level in 2011.
Ryde
Ryde is a British seaside town, civil parish and the most populous town and urban area on the Isle of Wight, with a population of approximately 30,000. It is situated on the north-east coast. The town grew in size as a seaside resort following the joining of the villages of Upper Ryde and Lower...
on the Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest island of England, located in the English Channel, on average about 2–4 miles off the south coast of the county of Hampshire, separated from the mainland by a strait called the Solent...
, 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...
, previously Ryde High School. A private school in the same town is known as Ryde School.
History
As Ryde High School, the school was designated a Language CollegeLanguage College
Language Colleges were introduced in 1995 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enables secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, modern foreign languages...
with Media and Performing Arts as their second specialism. It was given an award for being a high performing specialty college and is currently the only school on the Isle of Wight to have it. The school also has a variety of facilities, include an astroturf, field and theatre for 170 people.
The school took part in the annual Young Enterprise Company Programme Challenge, with the 2010 team winning the Isle of Wight local finals. The school also particpated in Rock Challenge UK
Rock Challenge UK
UK Rock Challenge is the British arm of the Global Rock Challenge and the Australian Rock Eisteddfod Challenge. Rock Challenge is an anti-drug and crime-prevention that takes the form of a friendly performing arts competition for schools and colleges. In 1996, the first Rock Challenge event in UK...
, achieving Awards of Excellence in choreography, drama skills, concept interpretation, concept originality hair and make up, costume design soundtrack, coming 5th overall in the UK.
As part of the reorganisation of the education system on the Isle of Wight, Academies Enterprise Trust was successful in their bid against Innovative Schools and East Wight Educational Trust to take over the school. Sandown Bay Academy was formed on the main school site and the site of former Sandham Middle School, now North School, in 2011, with the age range extended to Year 7 to Year 13. It is now one of 5 secondary providers on the Isle of Wight.
The 2011 pass rates for the school were 62.4% 5+ A*-C for GCSE and 66% A*-C and 97% pass rate for A Level in 2011.
Notable alumni and staff
- Kelly SothertonKelly SothertonKelly Jade Sotherton is an English heptathlete and 400m sprinter. She was the bronze medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics and was fourth at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She also was a bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics, and was the heptathlon gold medallist at the 2006 Commonwealth...
- English heptathlete - M J TrowM. J. TrowMeirion James Trow is a writer who writes under the name M. J. Trow.-Biography:Trow was born in Ferndale, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales. He went to Warwick School from 1961 to 1968. In 1968 he went to King's College, London, to read history. After graduation he spent a year at Jesus College, Cambridge...
- Military historian and crime fiction writer.