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Edgbarrow School is a secondary comprehensive school situated in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England. The school is the main state secondary school in the area, and includes Edgbarrow Sixth Form College. It holds the title of a Business and Enterprise College as a Specialist School for the region in this field. A Comprehensive school is a type of school providing secondary level education in England or Wales. ...
Location within the British Isles Crowthorne is also a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa Crowthorne is a town in southern Berkshire. ...
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Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2006 est. ...
Secondary school is a term used to describe an institution where the final stage of compulsory schooling, known as secondary education, takes place. ...
Business and Enterprise Colleges (BECs) were introduced in 1995 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the UK. The system enables secondary schools to specialise in certain fields. ...
The specialist schools programme is a UK government programme which encourages secondary schools to specialise in certain areas to boost acheivement. ...
Edgbarrow School
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The image above is proposed for deletion. See images and media for deletion to help reach a consensus on what to do. Edgbarrow School has approximately 1100 pupils, who come mainly from Crowthorne Schools, such as Broadmoor School and Oaklands School. Whilst Crowthorne is a small town, it was this year oversubscribed [1]. The school teaches 11-16 year olds, and has some of the best results in Bracknell Forest at GCSE of any non-selective state schools [2]. GCSE is an acronym that can refer to: General Certificate of Secondary Education global common subexpression elimination - an optimisation technique used by some compilers This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Edgbarrow School Site The school is on the boundary of Wildmoor Heath Nature Reserve and covers approximately 10,000m2 [3]. The school has two large playing fields and one astro-turf, which are shared by Edgbarrow Sports Centre, run by Bracknell Forest Borough Council. The school is split into four main buildings: - the main block with a small quad consisting of English, Maths, Art, Languages, Drama, Music, CDT (ie. Electronics, Woodwork, Graphics etc)
- Humanities, consisting of Geography, History, ICT (Computing etc), Religious Studies and the School Library
- Science
- Administration, consisting of the central office, conferencing facilities and reprographics.
The latter was constructed in late 2003, whilst the main body of the school was constructed throughout the previous forty years.
Edgbarrow Sixth Form  Edgbarrow Sixth Form Centre Over 120 students [4] study at Edgbarrow Sixth Form. The college has trialled a Fingerprint Recognition system, which teachers have proclaimed to be successful [5]. As well as AS and A level subjects, students can also follow a GNVQ course at Edgbarrow Sixth Form, which is said to be an "equivalent" to four GCSEs [6]. The college is within the top 10% of A Level providers in Great Britain, and for this reason the school will begin construction of a new Sixth Form centre building to allow for the expected increase in student numbers. A General National Vocational Qualification, or GNVQ, is a certificate of vocational education in the United Kingdom. ...
Notes - ^ Bracknell Forest Intake figures, 2006
- ^ GCSE results: http://education.guardian.co.uk/secondaries/tables/0,,1986411,00.html
- ^ Google Earth
- ^ Edgbarrow Sixth Form
- ^ http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39160382,00.htm
- ^ http://www.qca.org.uk/2586_15095.html
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