The Warriner School, Bloxham
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The Warriner School is a secondary school (with farm) which opened in 1971 and is situated on the Bloxham Road in Bloxham
, Oxfordshire
. The school has 1,114 pupils in the 11–16 range. It has Technology College
status and serves the villages in the northern half of the Cherwell District
. The school has a catering service and canteen, although school farm produce is not used for student consumption.
for livestock and grassland. The school has won the NFU
's Rural School Of The Year Award 2005 and SSAT
's Most Improved Schools Club Award 2005-06. The farm sells its produce, including, meat, eggs, and livestock.
The Warriner Farm is also useful to student education, as Rural Studies lessons can be held out on the farm, giving the teachers the ability to demonstrate with live animals.
The Warriner Partnership contains the following schools:
Bloxham
Bloxham is a village and civil parish in northern Oxfordshire on the edge of the Cotswolds, southwest of Banbury.-Early settlement:Under Roman rule between the 1st and 5th centuries there were several farms and a burial site in the Bloxham area....
, Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire is a county in the South East region of England, bordering on Warwickshire and Northamptonshire , Buckinghamshire , Berkshire , Wiltshire and Gloucestershire ....
. The school has 1,114 pupils in the 11–16 range. It has 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...
status and serves the villages in the northern half of the Cherwell District
Cherwell (district)
Cherwell is a local government district in northern Oxfordshire, England. The district takes its name from the River Cherwell, which drains south through the region to flow into the River Thames at Oxford....
. The school has a catering service and canteen, although school farm produce is not used for student consumption.
Farming and rural studies
The school premises contain a farm, 120 acre (0.4856232 km²) in size and fully organicOrganic farming
Organic farming is the form of agriculture that relies on techniques such as crop rotation, green manure, compost and biological pest control to maintain soil productivity and control pests on a farm...
for livestock and grassland. The school has won the NFU
NFU
NFU is a three-letter acronym which may stand for:* National Farmers Union* New Foundations with Urelements* National Formosa University, a University in Taiwan* Nuclear No first use policy...
's Rural School Of The Year Award 2005 and SSAT
SSAT
SSAT is an abbreviation for:*Samsung Aptitude Test*Secondary School Admission Test*Specialist Schools and Academies Trust*Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test*Social Security Appeals Tribunal...
's Most Improved Schools Club Award 2005-06. The farm sells its produce, including, meat, eggs, and livestock.
The Warriner Farm is also useful to student education, as Rural Studies lessons can be held out on the farm, giving the teachers the ability to demonstrate with live animals.
Departments
- ScienceScienceScience is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
- MathematicsMathematicsMathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
- LanguagesModern languageA modern language is any human language that is currently in use. The term is used in language education to distinguish between languages which are used for day-to-day communication and dead classical languages such as Latin, Attic Greek, Sanskrit, and Classical Chinese, which are studied for...
- SportSportA Sport is all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants. Sport may be competitive, where a winner or winners can be identified by objective means, and may require a degree...
- Pdc (Personal Development Curriculum)Personal, 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...
- ArtArtArt is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
- MusicMusicMusic is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
- GeographyGeographyGeography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
- HistoryHistoryHistory is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
- ICTICT (education)Information and communication technologies in education deal with the use of information and communication technologies within educational technology.-Purpose:...
- Rural Studies
- LawLawLaw is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
- Business StudiesBusiness studiesBusiness studies is an academic subject taught at higher level in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom, as well as at university level in many countries...
- RMSRMS-Science and technology:* Root mean square, a concept encapsulating the "average", in some sense, of a quantity. Frequently encountered in statistics, the physical sciences and electronics...
- Design Technology - School has Specialist Technology College status
- CitizenshipCitizenshipCitizenship is the state of being a citizen of a particular social, political, national, or human resource community. Citizenship status, under social contract theory, carries with it both rights and responsibilities...
Partnership
A school partnership is a group of schools that are usually primary schools feeding into the same secondary school.The Warriner Partnership contains the following schools:
- Bishop Carpenter School in North NewingtonNorth NewingtonNorth Newington is a village and civil parish in northern Oxfordshire, England, about west of Banbury.North Newington is in the Church of England parish of St Mary the Virgin, Broughton With North Newington...
, Oxfordshire - Sibford Gower School
- Christopher Rawlins School in AdderburyAdderburyAdderbury is a large village and civil parish in northern Oxfordshire, England. It is about south of Banbury and from Junction 10 of the M40 motorway. The village is divided in two by the Sor Brook. The village consists of two neighbourhoods: West Adderbury and East Adderbury...
, Oxfordshire - Hornton School in HorntonHorntonHornton is a village and civil parish about northwest of Banbury in Oxfordshire.-Churches:The oldest parts of the Church of England parish church of Saint John the Baptist are the nave and the arcade of the north aisle, both of which were built late in the 12th century. They are in the...
- Bloxham Primary School in Bloxham, Oxfordshire
- Shenington School in SheningtonSheningtonShenington is a village about west of Banbury. It was an exclave of Gloucestershire until the Counties Act 1844 transferred it to Oxfordshire. Shenington is on Oxfordshire's boundary with Warwickshire.-Manor:...
, Oxfordshire - Wroxton School in WroxtonWroxtonWroxton is a village and civil parish in the north of Oxfordshire about west of Banbury.-History:Wroxton is recorded as having a church in 1217, but the present Church of England parish church of All Saints is early 14th century. A Perpendicular Gothic clerestory and porch were added early in the...
, Oxfordshire - Dr Radcliffes School in Steeple AstonSteeple AstonSteeple Aston is a village and civil parish on the edge of the Cherwell Valley in Oxfordshire, England, about west of Bicester and south of Banbury...
, Oxfordshire - Deddington School in DeddingtonDeddingtonDeddington is a civil parish in Oxfordshire about south of Banbury. In scale Deddington is a village, but it has a town centre with a market place and the local football team is called Deddington Town FC.-History:...
, Oxfordshire