The College Community

The College is divided into Year Groups Years 7 and 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13. The Sixth Form enjoy a well equipped Common Room, Study Room and ICT facilities in a designated Sixth Form building.
We provide a 21st Century learning environment with independent learning facilities and an innovative CAD/CAM centre in Technology. Completed projects also include the Jack Petchey Community Learning Centre, named after one of the College’s major sponsors. This provides an ICT rich environment for community partners, parents and students during the day and in the evenings. Science laboratories and Food Technology classrooms have been refurbished and upgraded and significant investment will continue to expand ICT facilities across the campus.

Further development of our ICT resources include the installation of interactive whiteboards and data projectors, using latest educational interactive software in core subject areas. Our Mathematics and English Departments are now equipped to use a state-of-the-art learning software.
We fully intend to establish ourselves as an ‘anytime/anywhere’ learning community through continued investment in site development, ICT and further improvement for the learning environment.

The Learning Environment

The College’s teaching accommodation is arranged in seven buildings, many of which are of recent construction or newly refurbished. In recent years £4,000,000 has been invested in our new building and refurbishment programme, including a new Arts building, two additional ICT suites, Science laboratories, and a new wing for Technology and Business Studies. The Specialist College Capital Project has transformed Technology teaching areas and interactive learning facilities notably in Science, ICT and Mathematics.

Rooms are grouped largely by subject. The expanse of classroom space and learning areas contributes to the positive learning atmosphere in the College. We anticipate that the new technologies will make our teaching spaces more open and flexible environments, creating a campus for learning with ‘any time, anywhere’ access as the norm for learners. Through the use of these technologies our learners will not be constrained only to work on the campus, having access to the College’s learning resources via remote access at home, in a library or other internet access point.