Ilfracombe Arts College

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name = Ilfracombe Media Arts College


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head = Mr Brian Sarahan
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specialist = Arts College
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street = Worth Road
city = Ilfracombe
county = Devon
country = England
postcode = EX34 9JB
LEA = Devon
ofsted = 113513
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enrollment = 1291
gender = Coeducational
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website = http://www.ilfracombecollege.devon.sch.uk
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Ilfracombe Arts College is a state comprehensive school located in the North Devon town of Ilfracombe, England. The college is unusual in that since the early 1980s, facilities available to students have included a television studio with editing suite.

Following fundraising and negotiations from 2001, the college was awarded specialist college Media Arts status in 2004. The college has been renamed "Ilfracombe Arts College" from the original name of "Ilfracombe College".

There are five periods in the school day, each lasting one hour. They are organised as tutorial (20 minutes), lesson one, lesson two, break (20 minutes) lesson three, lesson four, lunch (55 minutes) and lesson five. This system replaced three lessons in the morning and two in the afternoon in July 2006. The school governors have not yet decided whether to offer either the International Baccalaureate or the Pre-U as sixth form options.

Some year 10 and year 12 students compete in the 35 mile and 45 mile treks of the Ten Tors walk .

Ilfracombe Arts College has built a £3.4 million arts block. The arts department relocated to this department, freeing up rooms for other uses in the school.

To help students, the school has a peer support and peer mentoring system.

External links

* [http://www.ilfracombecollege.devon.sch.uk/ Ilfracombe Arts College website]