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EXCELLENT GCSE RESULTS FOR THE HENRY CORT COMMUNITY COLLEGE, FAREHAM

By Schoolnews at 11:37 on 26/08/11

It was another great year for GCSE results at The Henry Cort Community College, with a stunning 80 per cent of students achieving five or more A*- C grades, with 57 per cent of students gaining a C grade or higher in English and Maths. Incredibly, 66 per cent of students achieved A* - C grades in Maths, which is up from 44 per cent in 2009 – an impressive rise of 50 percent over a two year period. Grades in...
A Level Results day 2011 at Fareham College

By TinaGarner at 14:47 on 18/08/11

A Level Results day 2011 at Fareham College. Hundreds of thousands of teenagers are celebrating today as the A-level pass rate rises yet again for the 29th year in a row. 8.2% of A-level entries have been awarded the new A* grade this year, up 0.1% from last year, when the elite grade was introduced; the overall the pass rate has risen again with 97.8% of A-level entries receiving at least an E grade (up from 97.6% last year.) ...
College Headaches!

By FionaBega at 14:51 on 22/09/10

Decisions, decisions! I am a busy mother whose daughter has just entered Year 11 at Brookfield School. With this being her final year at school, our thoughts lie to the future and to which college would be beneficial for her needs. I must say it is a bit of a nightmare. With all the local colleges – Fareham, Itchen, St Vincents and Barton Peveril saying that their results have increased in the last year, it doesn't make...
Henry Cort Gains "International School Award 2010"

By PaulaWoodwark at 21:55 on 20/09/10

Massive Congratulations to Henry Cort Community Sports College! Since the International School Award (ISA) scheme started back in 1999, over 10,000 UK schools have gained recognition in developing pupils' awareness of the cultures of countries overseas as well as a better understanding of their own culture. Fareham's Henry Cort Community Sports College has just been awarded the ISA for its second term. The award is valid for...
Which Fareham School Is Best?

By ZaraMac at 07:12 on 30/08/10

Excluding independent schools, the three that serve central Fareham are Henry Cort, Cams Hill and Neville Lovett. In Stubbington there's Crofton school and Portchester Community School serves the parts of Portchester that Cams Hill doesn't. League tables and Ofsted reports court a lot of controversy and one of the Tory pre-election promises was that schools would have an Ofsted-free future. But the fact remains that...

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FarehamPeople on school reports - are they what they used to be?

By BuiltClever Solutions

This article about the Lord Bew Report on SATS Tests adds further fuel to the burgeoning debate on...

By TinaGarner at 12:10 on 13/07/11

It is rapidly approaching the end of the academic year in Fareham and most of us will soon, if we haven't already, receive a report from our child's school. It's natural to wonder (worry about?) how your child is doing at school, and as parents it is important that we have accurate information about their progress. But how much consideration should we give to their school reports in this day when 'All children must win - there can be no...
Fareham’s Henry Cort - First School In Hampshire To Work With Skill Force

By weedisgood

shut up

By farehamite at 17:27 on 12/10/10

Skill Force is an education youth charity that has been inspiring young people and raising achievement for the last ten years. It predominately works with 11-16 year olds delivering an alternative school curriculum and aims to increase the numbers of young people entering education, employment and training on leaving school. The Henry Cort Community College is the first school in Hampshire to offer a group of...
Fareham School Closures This Winter

By farehamite

sorry i haven't updated this. am on the nightshift this week - properly sucked and had to walk the...

By farehamite at 13:39 on 29/11/10

Heavy snow in Fareham doesn't happen very often but when it does we seem to be painfully ill prepared. Last winter saw the closure of Fareham shopping centre, almost every single educational establishment and if you had to get to or from a hospital you more than likely found yourself amidst chaos. It was also a time when social networking became a dirty phrase and parents' brains turned to mush. School closures were...
Over 100 16 To 19-year-olds Have Already Signed Up To The All-New, Vocational Gosport College

By FionaBega

I had no idea this was happening, and with my daughter leaving school next year it's a real option...

By ZaraMac at 21:00 on 21/09/10

Gosport College is a new facility designed to prepare school-leavers for the world of work. It's a partnership between Fareham College, Fareport Training, Hampshire County Council, Connexions and Gosport secondary schools. It will provide fulltime, vocational training for those young people classed as not in education or employment. Unlike the colleges we're used to locally it won't have one central building. ...
National? Not quite

By JoeJenkins

It would be good to be able to organise our own event through the official site.

By JoeJenkins at 16:30 on 16/09/10

What is it with national events that aren't 'really' national? The example I'll give is National Schools Film Week. This is a great idea, though I would say this being a film maker myself and somebody who runs film festivals both locally and in Glastonbury. However, if you take a look at the official website, www.nsfw.org, you will notice something that is glaringly obvious - every venue is in London. How is this...