- Claverham Community College
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Claverham Community College 
Location North Trade Road,
Battle, East Sussex,
East Sussex,
TN33 0HT,
EnglandCoordinates 50°54′58″N 0°28′01″E / 50.916°N 0.467°ECoordinates: 50°54′58″N 0°28′01″E / 50.916°N 0.467°E
Information Type Comprehensive Secondary School Established 1955 LEA East Sussex County Council Specialist Sports and ICT College Ofsted number yes Principal Mr Paul Swatton Staff ~70 Grades 7-11 Gender Mixed Age 11 to 16 Enrollment c. 1170 Number of students ~1200 Language English Houses Caldbec, Montjoie, Oakwood, Santlache, Telleham Colour(s) Purple, Blue, Silver Red & Green
Newspaper 'Claverham Chronicle' Website http://www.claverham.e-sussex.sch.uk Claverham Community College (often known simply as Claverham) is a secondary school/sports college in Battle, East Sussex, England.[1] It is a specialist Sports College with ICT as a second specialism and has very good sports equipment such as a climbing wall, Community Sports Hall, gym, dance studio, fitness suite, large fields including a rugby pitch on one, all weather astroturf for various sports & courts for netball, hockey, tennis etc.
Claverham Community College is a mixed comprehensive school for pupils aged 11-16 and a Community College. It has approximately 1150 pupils and about 2500 associates of the College who are involved in the life of the College Community either through adult evening classes or as a result of membership of affiliated societies.
The Community College was established in 1973 and was developed from the former Battle County Secondary School built in 1955. In school terms the College became fully comprehensive in 1976 and now serves the educational needs of all children between the ages of 11 and 16 in Battle and the neighbouring villages of Ashburnham, Catsfield, Crowhurst, Hooe (north), Netherfield, Ninfield, Penhurst, Sedlescombe, Whatlington and Westfield.
In addition to this traditional intake area, the College attracts pupils in relatively large numbers from an additional 40 Primary Schools in the Rye, Hastings, Bexhill, Pevensey and Eastbourne areas in particular. Claverham was designated as a training school in September 2000 and achieved Specialist Sports College Status, with ICT as the second specialism, with effect from September 2006.
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History
The college takes its title from the Anglo-Saxon pre-conquest description of the district in which it is situated - place of clover or good pasture. The college opened in 1955 and has since been extended in the last 15 years. When first opened, there was originally four houses. Mountjoy, Sandlach, Telham and Middleborough. A fifth house was later introduced and wags named Caldbec. The College Houses then became Caldbec, Montjoie, Santlache and Telleham. In 2008 the college introduced a fifth house called Oakwood. The names of the college houses are derived from post-conquest place names, given by the Normans to areas of the Battleground, which were significant in the action.
Campus
The College is located about one mile (1.6 km) west of the very attractive petite market town, Battle and is situated within 42 acres (170,000 m2) of most attractive wood and parkland. The College site includes extensive playing fields and nature areas which include both land and aquatic habitats.
The main school buildings were built in 1955. These have been adapted and extended periodically - most recently in 2004 with a new science laboratory and the addition of two classrooms. Internally the College is architecturally interesting, attractively decorated and has a warm and friendly atmosphere.
The College grounds incorporate land which belonged formerly to the Battle Abbey Estate and are immediately adjacent to the site of the Battle of Hastings. As might be expected, the geographical position is an elevated one within sight of the sea.
Curriculum
Claverham Community College offers many courses to its students. Below are the subjects available at Key Stage 3:
English, Maths, Science (Biology, Chemistry and Physics), French, Spanish (Top two sets), German (Top two sets), ICT, Food Technology, Product Design, Music, History, Religious Studies, Geography, Classics (Year 7-8), Latin (Year 9), Art and Physical Education.
At GCSE, students are required to take the following courses:
English Language, English Literature, Maths and Science Core & Additional. Several students, however, will be given a language to take during their GCSE's as well as the option to take another.
Students are then available to choose several of these optional GCSE's:
French, Spanish, German, ICT, Media Studies, Food Technology, Product Design, Drama, Music, History, Religious Studies, Geography, Latin, Physical Education, Dance, Art and Textiles.
The college also offers the following vocational courses:
Hospitality, Travel & Tourism, Land & Environment and Health & Social Care.
The college now offers the chance for pupils to take a Diploma worth four GCSE's instead of sitting ten GCSE's. The Diploma courses are for: ICT, Sports and Environmental & Land base studies.
Note: some students have the option of taking Science Btec for GCSE which gives them two GCSE qualifications, worth either A*-C without taking and exam.
Sports and traditions
The College as a designated Specialist Sports College has many modern sporting facilities including full access to the local Battle Sports Centre, with a full indoor sports hall, dance studio and fitness suite. It also has outdoor football and rugby pitches and tennis courts. It also has an indoor gym which features a climbing wall.
House/Prefect System
At Claverham the house which a student belongs to can easily be identified through the colour of their tie; where the College operates around a five house system Whilst the other houses, apart from Oakwood, have a full complement of 5 years; Oakwood currently only has six forms (Two year 7, two year 8 and two year 9). This leads to years with five houses competing separately to the rest of the school during inter-house or sports day events.
In Year Eleven, a select number of students from each house, approximately 10% of the year with 20 from each house, will be chosen as college prefects. As a reward for performing duties around the school, they are entitled to wear a college prefect tie, house badge (as the prefect tie does not distinguish between houses) there are no prefect rooms at break and lunch like there used to be.
The college awards the following titles to prefects:
- Head Boy3
- Head Girl3
- Deputy Head Boy3
- Deputy Head Girl3
- Head Boy of House
- Head Girl of House
- Deputy Head Boy of House
- Deputy Head Girl of House
- Prefect
- Oakwood Senior1
- Sports Prefect2,5
- Travel Prefect2,4
1Oakwood Seniors are house prefects chosen to cover the vacuum of prefects created by the addition of the fifth house.
2Do not receive benefits listed above, Are not included in quota.
3Chosen from the Head Boy/Girl of each house.
4Now identified by Lozenge badge rather than shield badge
5White shield badge, does not distinguish between housesNote: The senior prefect title was officially removed for the year beginning September 2009. Badges are still worn by Heads and Deputies of each house and also by all who applied for head of Montjoie house (at Mr Wilson's discretion). However, HoH are beginning to give pupils the title of senior prefect once again.
Heads and Deputy Heads of the college wear a Yellow badge in addition to their house badge(s).
Staff
Currently, the College has roughly 70 teaching staff with numerous support staff.
Senior Staff Principal Mr P Swatton Deputy Principal Mr P Adams Mr T Smith Mr T Stainfield Assistant Principal Mr R Tomlinson Mr D Walton Miss S Wright Senior Head of Houses Caldbec Mrs J Armstrong Santlache Mr M Cunningham Oakwood Mr S Grimer Telleham Mr J Whitaker Mountjoie Mr C Wilson References
Categories:- Comprehensive schools in East Sussex
- Sports Colleges in England
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