St Wilfrid's Catholic High School, North Featherstone
| St Wilfrid's Catholic High School | |
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| Address | |
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Cutsyke Road , | |
| Information | |
| Type | High School |
| Head teacher | Mr. J. McNally [1] |
| Age | 11 to 18 |
| Enrollment | 1600 [1] |
| Website | http://www.st-wilfrids.wakefield.sch.uk |
St Wilfrid's Catholic High School and Sixth Form College, Dual Language and Vocational Specialists is a mixed 11-18 comprehensive school for both Catholic and non-Catholics alike. [1]
History
In 1998, St Wilfrid's became a Language College.[2] Every student has a choice of six languages to choose from, as well as a chosen language. The language college offers six languages including French, Spanish, German, Russian, Italian and Japanese.
In 2003 the school had both an OfSTED and Religious Education inspection which identified St.Wilfrid’s as “a very good school, with very excellent features”.[3] Following this OFSTED identified the St. Wilfrid's as an Outstanding School in his annual report in 2004.[1]
In recognition of its high achievement, St. Wilfrid's was additionally awarded a second specialism as a Vocational specialist college. This came into effect in September 2006 and is apparent in the wide range of 14-19 courses on offer to pupils. These currently include: Health & Social care, Travel and Tourism, Performing Arts (Dance and Drama), IT for Practitioners, NVQ in European languages, NVQ Hairdressing, CISCO IT networking and Construction.
The April 2007 inspection by OfSTED recognised the school's qualities as "Good with Outstanding features"[4]. The subsequent Religious Education inspection awarded an "Outstanding" judgement.
Awards
St. Wilfrids has several national awards including the Schools Curriculum Award, Sportsmark Award, the School Achievement Award given in 2002 and 2003 for outstanding improvements in GCSE results, the Arts Council Artsmark Silver award, the British Council International School Award for outstanding global links, the Ramseys Award given to the school with the best global video-conferencing facilities and programme, as well as the Investors in People Award recognising excellence in training and development for all teaching and non-teaching staff.[1] The school was recently (February 2007) awarded the Arts Council Artsmark Gold award.
The School has Launched a School production every year for approximately 20 years, the plays and musicals always draw in big crowds full of local families and students parents. The Most recent of these productions was "Disco Inferno" which starred Jake Mitchell as the lead, Jake has previously acted in 'Heartbeat'. 'The Royal' and the TV movie 'If I had you'. All the nights sold out and reviews were generally excellent and credit was given to the cast and Director Sally Eldridge, the school's head of Drama.
References
- ^ a b c d e "www.wakefield.gov.uk: St Wilfrid's Catholic High School and Sixth Form College, Dual Language and Vocational Specialists". Retrieved 2007-05-30.
- ^ "Specialist Schools Home". DfES. July 2006. Retrieved 2006-08-02.
- ^ "2003 Ofsted Report" (PDF). Ofsted. March/April 2003. Retrieved 2007-06-24.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "2007 Ofsted Report". Ofsted. May 2007. Retrieved 2007-06-24.