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| Shenfield - Schools & Education - DetailsContentsA full listing of all educational establishments within the Shenfield area is available on the main Schools & Education page return to main Schools & Education page
Adult Community LearningBishops Hill, Rayleigh Road, Hutton, Brentwood CM13 1BD Telephone: (01277) 218593 Fax: (01277) 230471 Website: www.essexcc.gov.uk/adultlearning Email: lifelong.learningwest@essexcc.gov.uk The Adult Community Learning Service provides a wide range of high quality part-time courses for adults across Essex. Currently more than 35,000 learners are enrolled on 5,000 courses at 400 venues. We recognise that adults want to learn in flexible ways so we plan our courses to fit into your lifestyle, whether you want to study for one day, one term, one year, or online. Our staff are friendly, experienced and well qualified. We offer a huge range of courses, to help improve skills, develop new interests and gain qualifications to help improve job prospects, gain promotion, or to prepare for entry to higher education. We also provide supported learning for adults with learning difficulties and disabilities. The Adult Community Learning Service also delivers a range of specialist services including work-based learning and bespoke training for example National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs). We work in partnership with schools, libraries, district, borough and parish councils, government organisations, voluntary and community groups and employers, to address local and national training needs. return to main Schools & Education page
Anglo-European SchoolWillow Green, Ingatestone CM4 0DJ Telephone: (01277) 354018 Fax: (01277) 355623 E-mail: enquiries@aesessex.co.uk Website (Administration): www.aesessex.co.uk Website (Learning Web): www.angloeuropean.essex.sch.uk Head teacher: Mr R.Reed Number of Pupils: 1,150 (September 1999) The Anglo-European School, Ingatestone, is committed to achieving the highest academic success within a caring environment and through a curriculum which is reinforced by a strong European and international dimension. The success of this blend of academic excellence and European ethos is evident in the outstanding results obtained by the students. Successful education also results from an active partnership between the school, the student and the parents. Parents are always welcome in the school and encouraged to play an active part in shaping the life of the school. Care for the individual and their needs is always the priority. Each year, over 700 of the students participate in one or more of 19 visits and exchanges overseas which vary in length from one to eight weeks. Over 40 overseas students visit the school each year in return. The most developed aspect of the curriculum is found in the sixth form where, for many years, students have been offered the international Baccalaureate as an alternative to 'A' levels as a matriculation to both UK and overseas universities and higher education. 'A; levels are also offered in the sixth form of more than 200 students, and students from other schools are regularly accepted at this stage. return to main Schools & Education page
Brentwood County High SchoolShenfield Common, Brentwood CM14 4JF Telephone: (01277) 238900 Fax: (01277) 200853 Head Teacher: Mrs C.Mason Number of Pupils: 1,375 (September 1999) This over subscribed school is situated in the pleasant Shenfield Common area of Brentwood. Founded in 1913 as a girls' grammar school, it became a mixed comprehensive in 1972. Academic achievement is valued and examination results are well above national averages at GCSE and A level. The school aims to develop pupils as individuals and rewards artistic, social and academic achievements. Following their A levels, the majority of sixth-formers proceed to university. Brentwood County High School aims to provide a traditional, well-ordered and caring environment. The staff are highly professional and dedicated, marinating good relationships with pupils and parents. Excellent facilities include a large well-stocked school library, modern computer systems with new computer laboratories, heated outdoor swimming pool, suites of specialist teaching room and science laboratories and a new block of classrooms, Further new building will take place during the year 1999/2000 and will provide additional classrooms, drama rooms and science laboratories. The sport hall, gymnasium, drama hall, sixth-form suite and other facilities are extensively used by pupils during the day and by parents and other adults in the evening and at weekends. return to main Schools & Education page
Brentwood SchoolIngrave Road, Brentwood CM15 8AS Telephone: (01277) 214580 Fax: (01277) 263816 E-mail: headmaster@brentwood.essex.sch.uk Website: www.brentwoodschool.co.uk Headmaster: John Kelsall, MA Number of Pupils: 1,400 (September 1999) Brentwood School is an independent co-educational school, admitting boys and girls from the age of three into nursery and pre-preparatory school, and into the senior school at 11. It has 1,400 pupils in total, ranging in age from three to 18. Four years ago, a new Pre-Preparatory School with room for 126 youngsters was opened and the Preparatory School is fully co-educational with 233 children. In the Senior School of 1,041 a broad education is provided up to and including A level with boys and girls taught separately from 11 to 16 when they take their GCSE exam. The Sixth Form of 300 pupils, 120 of whom are girls, is fully co-educational. The school maintains boarding houses for boys and girls from the age of 11 upwards. Some 95 per cent of leavers go on to university, with an average of 10 to 15 students being offered places at either Oxford or Cambridge. Developments include the building of an all-weather floodlit pitch and the new hardy Amies Design Centre, named after an illustrious old pupil, providing up-to-date facilities for art, design technology, food technology, ceramics, photography and information technology. There are plans for a 6-lane indoor heated swimming pool with adjacent learner pool. The Senior School has totally re-organise itself along departmental lines and upgraded classrooms. Brentwood School successfully combines the best of the old with the best of the new. Traditional subjects, including the Classics, thrive but new subject, including theatre studies, business studies, psychology and food technology have been added. There are five ICT laboratories in the school, computers in all departments and Internet and intranet connections available for all pupils. Music, drama, CCF, voluntary service, the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme, a wide range of sports and other out of classroom activities thrive. return to main Schools & Education page
Brentwood Ursuline Convent High SchoolQueen's Road, Brentwood CM14 4EX Telephone: (01277) 227156 Fax: (01277) 229454 Headmaster: Miss Helen Penny, BA, BMus, LLCM Number of Pupils: 968 (September 1999) The school stands on a pleasant wooded site in the centre of Brentwood, minutes from the station, High Street and cathedral. The gardens include a natural lake and orchard as well as tennis courts and a hockey pitch. The sports accommodation is supplemented by a 10-acre field at Priests Lane. Facilities in the school include, amongst others, four computer rooms, a dance studio, music practice rooms, a recording studio and music technology room and a technology suite. A modern block, built in 1963, provides science laboratories, art rooms, classrooms, offices and the gymnasium. The school admits Catholic girls from the diocese of Brentwood, providing a full range of national curriculum subjects with the addition of RE, Latin, Classics and a second modern language. Music has a special status in the school. As part of the international Order of Ursuline, the school has links with schools in France, Spain and Germany. The school's examination results bear witness to the high quality of education offered. Pupils gain entrance to a wide range of degree courses. The sixth form offers a particularly wide and flexible combination of 'A' levels and new GCSE subjects. The provision is enriched by mini enterprise schemes, work experience abroad and the change to work on a mission station in Kenya. The school ahs a record of excellence in sport and has produced over the years sportswomen at county, national and international level. return to main Schools & Education page
Peniel AcademyBrizes Park, Ongar Road, Kelvedon Hatch, Brentwood CM15 0DG Telephone: (01277) 374123 Fax: (01277) 373596 E-mail: academy@peniel.org Senior School Head: Mrs R.Colman, BA Hons, PGCE Primary School Head: Mrs S.P.Brown, Bed Hons Number of Pupils: 160 (September 1999) The school is affiliated to the Peniel Pentecostal Church. It caters for children aged between two and 18 years. It follows the National Curriculum, with students studying for both GCSE and 'A' level examination. The aims of the school are to prepare children for both life temporal and eternal to help them develop lively enquiring minds, giving them the ability to question, argue rationally and to apply themselves to tasks; and to develop each to his fullest potential, mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually, bearing in mind the needs of each child. The school has both an excellent academic and sporting record, holding seven National titles in English Schools Table Tennis. The school also participates in other sports including netball, hockey, golf and football, and has an outdoor swimming pool. return to main Schools & Education page
St Martin's SchoolHanging Hill Lane, Hutton, Brentwood CM13 2HG Telephone: (01277) 238300 Fax: (01277) 238301 Headmaster: Dr N.B.Darby Number of Pupils: 1,500 (September 1999) St Martin's is a co-educational comprehensive school situated in a pleasant semi-rural environment with playing fields which extend to thirty acres. The School Standards Minister has designated St Martin's as a Beacon School of Excellence. This prestigious status has been awarded to less than one per cent of schools. To qualify, St Martin's had to achieve outstanding examination results for four consecutive years and had to demonstrate consistently high standards of teaching. The 1999 Ofsted Report states that St Martin's 'is an outstanding school. Every aspect of its life and work is of high quality'. The Report's main finding include the following: There is an exceptionally high quality ethos that supports pupils; good progress and high achievement. Standards of achievement are well above the national average. Pupils' behaviour is exemplary. Staff know each pupil extremely well and ensure that each is very well cared for. return to main Schools & Education page
Shenfield High SchoolAlexander Lane, Brentwood CM15 8RY Telephone: (01277) 219131 Fax: (01277) 226422 Website: www.shenfield.essex.sch.uk Headmaster: Mr J.Fairhurst Number of Pupils: 1,280 (September 1999) Shenfield High School is situated in Green Belt land with convenient access from Brentwood, Basildon, Billericay Chelmsford and Ongar. On joining the school, boys and girls are taught in separate classes and this situation is maintained throughout the school until the sixth form. Research has shown that the academic progress of both sexes is substantially improved when they are taught in a single sex environment, and this is borne out by national examination statistics which emphasise the good results of single sex schools. However, there is no denying the superiority of mixed schools in educating boys and girls for the mixed society they will find on leaving school. Pupils mix freely at break and lunchtimes and additional clubs and societies have been formed to foster integration. There are over 50 clubs and societies, foreign exchanges and visits, activity and canal holidays, field study, ski trips and much more. In particular, the school enjoys a high reputation for the quality of its numerous musical and dramatic productions using the school hall and the purpose-built drama studio. A wide range of sports are catered for at Shenfield High School, which is equipped with better sporting facilities than most state schools; community sports centre, Heartbeat fitness room, heated indoor swimming pool, gym, 20 acres of playing fields and eight tennis courts. return to main Schools & Education page
Sawyers Hall College of Science & TechnologySawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood CM15 9DA Telephone: (01277) 220808 Fax: (01277) 228142 Email: enquiries@sawyershall.org.uk Website: www.sawyershall.org.uk Principal: Mrs B Goulding Number of Pupils: 1,400 (September 1999) The Sawyers Hall College of Science & Technology has grown from 800 to over 1,400 students in the past decade reflecting the increasing popularity of the school. Over 3 million pounds worth of new building have been added to the school campus in order to accommodate this increased growth. The Neville A.Brown Centre for Excellence in the Expressive Arts, a national standard floodlit Astroturf Pitch and a new Technology wing are part of this expansion programme. The School places particular emphasis on encouraging and recognising achievement, both academic and personal. All our student are expected to participate in our impressively successful Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, in our Junior Sports Leader and in our Sixth Form ASDAN Gold and Platinum Awards. Examination results are above the national average with nearly all our students proceeding to Sixth Form or to College. As well as a broad range of 'A' levels, the large Sixth From also offers Advanced and Intermediate GNVQ courses with most students continuing their studies at University. return to main Schools & Education page
The above information has been copied from the 'Brentwood Official Guide' booklet produced and issued by Brentwood Borough Council. Copies of this guide are available from the Information Centre. We recognise and acknowledge Brentwood Borough Council's copyright and thank them for allowing us to reproduce this and other material contained in this site. |
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