Edgbarrow School

Edgbarrow School is a secondary comprehensive school situated in Crowthorne, Berkshire. The school is the main state secondary school in the area, and includes Edgbarrow Sixthform College. It holds the title of a 'Business and Enterprise College' as a Specialist School for the region in this field.

Edgbarrow School

Edgbarrow School has around 1100 pupils in total, and pupils come chiefly from Crowthorne Schools, such as Broadmoor School and Oaklands School. Whilst Crowthorne is a relativly small town, it was this year hugely oversubscribed ^[1]. The school teaches 11-16 year olds, and has some of the highest results in Bracknell Forest at GCSE of any non-selective state schools ^[2].

Edgbarrow School Site

The school and grounds are on the boundry of Wildmoor Heath Nature Reserve, and cover approximately 10000m² ^[3]. The school has two large playing fields and one astro-turf, which are all shared by Edgbarrow Sports Centre, run by Bracknell Forest Borough Council. The school itself is split into four main separate buildings, those being: the sprawling 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

Over 120 students ^[4] study at Edgbarrow Sixth Form, and the college has recently undertaken a trial in Fingerprint Recognition system, which teachers have proclaimed to be successful ^[5]. As well as AS and A level subjects, students can currently also follow a GNVQ course at Edgbarrow Sixth Form, which is said to be an "equivelant" to four GCSEs ^[6]. The college is within the top 10% of A Level providers in Great Britain, and a new Sixth Form centre building will undergo construction mid-summer this year to allow a margin for the predicted increase in students over the coming years.

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

External Links

Edgbarrow School Homepage

[1] Bracknell Forest Intake figures, 2006

[2] GCSE results: http://education.guardian.co.uk/secondaries/tables/0,,1986411,00.html

[3] Google Earth

[4] Edgbarrow Sixth Form

[5] ttp://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39160382,00.htm

[6] ttp://www.qca.org.uk/2586_15095.html

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