| Channel School is surrounded by other schools in the area, including The Harvey Grammar School and Folkestone School for Girls which is also a grammar school. Pent Valley is a computing technology college and Brockhill Park School is a performing arts college. We are very lucky because soon we will become a city academy! Our school educates children from the age of 11until 16 and we are soon hoping to have a 6th form when we become an academy.
Our headteacher thinks that spending money on pupils is very important. She wants what the parents want - the best possible education for all our students. Our aim is to offer every pupil the right amount of challenge in a supportive enviroment to ensure maximum achievment.
Our pupils think that our school has improved over the past years and that the school is a happier school and feel we can get involved more by being part of the school council, the charity committee and on some occassions the pupil panel. We have just introduced a House system where we have four houses these are Marlowe, Caxton, Chaucer and Harvey since these have been introduced the pupils have learnt to get along and work together side by side.
Our school came out of special measures two years ago and we think it is going from strength to strength. We are a very special place to be with lots of very special pupils. Over 50% of us are on the SEN register. We have lots of different units for those of us that cannot cope in a normal classroom, and this means we all get to succeed.
We all agree that this a happy place to be and we work well as a team. We try to give lots back to the local commmunity by getting involved in lots of projects, as you explore our site I am sure you will find out lots more about these!
Our school has had quite a bad name over the last few years and we have been in special measures. The Channel school went in to special measures in October 2002, we have recently come out. The inspectors felt that the school wasn’t providing a good enough education, and we all needed to improve. We had the challenge of getting our high standards back up and getting the channel school the good name that it deserved. Our new head teacher Mrs Singleton said it was important, that we work together as a team. And this is when Citizenship came into its own. We decided to show the inspectors how good the school ethos is, and did this in various ways, including helping local and national charities, setting up a school charity committee, and raising out awareness of Citizenship issues. Our school has 700 students, aged between 11 and 16, and we are looking forward to becoming a city academy. 50% of our pupils are on the special needs register, and about 3% have English has an additional language; we all work together as a team to make everyone fell welcome and at home |
