Collingwood College, Surrey
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Motto | Believe, Succeed |
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Established | 1971 |
Type | Comprehensive academy |
Co-Principals | Karen Griffths, Eden Tanner |
Chair | Steve Barker[1] |
Location |
Kingston Road Camberley Surrey GU15 4AE England 51°21′00″N 0°43′17″W / 51.3499°N 0.7215°WCoordinates: 51°21′00″N 0°43′17″W / 51.3499°N 0.7215°W |
DfE URN | 125301 Tables |
Ofsted | Reports |
Staff | 260 |
Students | Over 2,000 |
Gender | Mixed |
Ages | 11–18 |
Colours | Blue, white and black |
Former name | Frimley and Camberley Grammar School |
Website | Collingwood College |
Collingwood College is a state secondary school located in Surrey, England for boys and girls, 11- to 18-year-olds.
Admissions
Collingwood is the largest secondary school in Surrey,[2] with over 2,000 pupils, including more than 400 in the sixth form. It occupies a 30-acre (120,000 m2) campus and is divided in the three main areas 'Kingston' (Years 10 & 11) and 'Barossa' (Years 7-9), and the new, purpose-built, sixth form centre. This was funded by the sale of land, on which the college's previous sixth form centre (named 'Ballard') was situated. Collingwood College is a DfE designated high-performing specialist academy, specialising in technology and vocational-education.
It is situated just north of the A30, near the Jolly Farmer roundabout on the Old Dean Estate, Camberley.
History
Earlier school
The school derives itself from the Frimley and Camberley County Grammar School, the Bagshot County Secondary School, and the Barossa County Secondary School. In July 1970, Surrey County Council wavered over whether to go ahead with the comprehensive plan.
Comprehensive
The first Headmaster in 1971 was Mr. Leonard Roe, who had previously been Headmaster of the grammar school. He was followed by Peter Halls-Dickerson, who was a major advocate of the idea of direct grant schools. Collingwood was one of the earliest direct grant schools to be created after the passage of the legislation by the then Conservative government. The headmaster from 1974 until the 1990s was Peter Halls-Dickerson.
Grant-maintained school
On 1 September 1991 Collingwood School became Collingwood College – a Grant Maintained school. This change of status was overwhelmingly supported by the parents. In 1999, under the new School’s Framework, the school adopted Foundation status.
In September 1994 Collingwood College became a Self-Governing Technology College. Following the new funding, the school built the Halls-Dickerson Technology centre, also one of the first of its kind. As of 1 April 2008, the College has been granted High Performing Specialist School status. The school also specialises in Vocational Education, which provides education for working life; such as hairdressing, building and other manual labour based jobs.
Collingwood is a founding member of the Surrey Heath Area Partnership for Education, (SHAPE) Surrey's 14-19 network. SHAPE runs Diploma courses in IT, for which Collingwood is the lead school and also Society Health and Development. Future Diplomas will be offered in Business and Finance and Creative Media which will begin in 2009.
Catchment
Its catchment area encompasses much of the Surrey Heath area of Camberley, Bagshot, Lightwater, ascot . Egham Windlesham, Bisley, Chobham and West End.
Collingwood College Productions
Every year Collingwood Productions stage their annual musical. The Productions are auditioned in the first two weeks of December, allowing the principals to get to grips with their parts over the holidays. They then return in January to begin the rehearsal process. After the two and a half month period the shows are staged around the last week of March and normally run for four nights, Wednesday to Saturday.
Teaching
Due to the huge number of students at Collingwood, the school is very organised in its hierarchy of staff. Each year has a Head Of Year and Pastoral Assistant, who move up with the students through their years at the school. Also, each assistant principal is assigned to a year, to take care of other pastoral issues.
All subjects that are taught at the school are assigned a faculty, where the faculty head assists with the running of the subjects, and provides behavioural support to the teachers in their faculty.
Sixth Form Centre
In 2005, the new Sixth Form Centre was officially opened by the Countess of Wessex.[3] This replaced the aging "Ballard" building which was subsequently demolished after the sale of the land it was situated on. The Sixth Form Centre features an extremely modernised architecture, a series of seven small IT classrooms plus one large computer suite on the top floor. The centre provides facilities for sixth form students such as a common room and private study area.
Academic performance
Collingwood performs consistently above both the LEA (Surrey) and national average at both GCSE and A-Level.
Notable alumni
- Steve Backshall, climber and naturalist, most recently seen on BBC's Lost Land of the Jaguar
- Clare Burrage, particle physicist[4]
- Sharon Carr, youngest female killer in Britain.[5]
- Dan Frazier, professional rugby player for Newcastle Falcons in RFU Premiership.
- Matt Goss, part of the 1980s pop band, Bros
- Luke Goss, part of the 1980s pop band, Bros
- Jessica Henwick, actress
- Jamie Lenman, guitarist and singer of British alternative rock trio Reuben
- Craig Logan, part of the 1980s pop band, Bros
- Adam Mekki, footballer
- Adam Powell, founder of the online virtual pet site, Neopets
- George Saville, footballer
Notes
- ↑ "Governors". Collingwood College. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
- ↑ "School tables (Education),GCSEs,A-levels,Secondary schools,Further education (NOT Universities. Vocational and post-school courses),Schools,Education". The Guardian. London. 12 January 2011.
- ↑ BBC News (20 January 2007). "Countess back to school on 40th". BBC. Retrieved 5 November 2007.
- ↑ "Profile - Electromagnetic Zone". Electromagnetic Zone. Retrieved 2018-06-12.
- ↑ Kim, Sengupta (26 March 1997). "I was born to be a killer. Every night I see the Devil in my dreams". The Independent. London. Retrieved 31 August 2009.