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A school for today, preparing our students
for tomorrow
Our vision, our strategies and the education
we deliver
For parents, students, teachers and other
people interested in the education we provide.
Measuring our Success |
What We Aim to Achieve |
Our Vision | Maintaining
our Performance | Developing
Each Student | The College
& The Future |
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Measuring Our Success
As you walk into Callington Community College we hope you sense
the exciting, challenging and supportive educational environment
we aim to provide.
We are a very successful school. This success can be measured
in a variety of ways:
- Academically – our results at all levels, particularly
the value that we add to student performance, are excellent.
- Personal
development – our students are self-confident
and have increasingly high aspirations.
- Skill development – the
education we provide deliberately develops a wide range of
essential skills aimed at helping our
students to be successful in today’s world.
- Opportunities – we
provide a very wide range of opportunities for our students
with the aim of broadening their experiences
and finding the key to unlock talent.
- A sense of belonging – our
students enjoy college and are extremely well supported within
a very safe and happy learning
community.
- Individual growth – all our students are
treated as individuals and we try very hard to address their
individual
needs.
- A community school – we are a very popular school.
Virtually every young person in our 300 square mile community
attends the
college, with a great many more from outside our natural catchment
area also attending the college.
Our success is locally and nationally recognised:
- Sports College status – achieved in 2000. We are recognised
nationally for our success as a Sports College. As a Sports
College we also operate the School Sports Co-ordinator scheme
(SSCO)
for eight secondary schools and their feeder primaries in
East Cornwall. Our Sports College status has not only helped
to develop
high quality sport provision at the college but has also
helped develop personal and leadership skills in all our students.
- Training School – achieved in 2000. We were the first
Training School in South-West England. As a Training School
we train new teachers and explore new ways of improving both
the
training of new teachers and the teaching and learning of our
students. This enables our teachers to develop their own skills
through working in partnership with trainee teachers. Our students
benefit from having new teachers with new ideas, often two
teachers in a class and their own teachers improving their
teaching skills.
The Training School initiative has led to a great improvement
in the quality of teaching and learning at this college.
- The
Learning Institute – building on the success of
the Training School this was set up in 2004. The learning Institute
was set up, in partnership with Ivybridge Community College
and South Dartmoor Community College, as an organisation
accredited
to provide teacher training across the three schools. This
is of great benefit to our students as subject teachers are
working
very closely together across the three schools, sharing and
improving good quality teaching. The Learning Institute is
regularly inspected
by Ofsted and in December 2004, it was described as ‘outstanding’ and ‘unlike
any other teacher training organisation’.
- A Network
Learning Community lead school – from 2003.
Callington Community College is the lead school of the Learning
Co-operative, which encourages our feeder primary schools and
the secondary schools of South-East Cornwall and West Plymouth
to work together.
- A Leading Edge Partnership lead school – from
2004. We are the lead school for the coveted Leading Edge
Partnership award, working closely with other local schools
to help raise
the quality of teaching and learning in all schools to the
same high level.
- A specialist Music college – achieved
in 2004. Due to the success of our Sports College work we
were invited to apply
for a second specialism. We are the only Sports and Music College
in the country and the first Music College in the South-West.
- An
International School - awarded 2004. To provide a full range
of opportunities for our students we have many links with
the wider world.
We are successful because we are continually
looking to move forward in the pursuit of high quality teaching
and learning.
We have high standards and continually review the teaching
and learning in the college.
Measuring our Success |
What We Aim to Achieve |
Our Vision | Maintaining
our Performance | Developing
Each Student | The College
& The Future |
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