Wolgarston High School
A Specialist Technology College
Specialist schools work within a ‘family of schools’ for the benefit of pupils within their pyramid. In our case, this involves the following schools:
- Brewood Middle School
- Marshbrook First School
- Penkridge Middle School
- Princefield First School
- St John’s CE First School
- St Leonard’s CE First School
- St Mary and St Chad First School
- St Mary’s CE First School
- St Michael’s CE First School
- St Paul’s CE First School
Specialist schools also work with groups of people in the wider community and Wolgarston is the hub school for Phase II of the ‘Staffordshire Community and Learning Partnership’. www.staffordshirechildrenstrust.org.uk
As a specialist technology college, we are commiitted to:
- extend the range of opportunities available to pupils which best meet their needs and interests
- raise the standards of teaching and learning of the specialist subjects in schools
- develop within the school and the wider community, characteristics which signal their changed identity
- benefit other schools in the area
Our Sponsors
In order to achieve our specialist status in 2004, we received support from:-
- Barclays Bank
- Brewood Educational Endowment Charity
- CAP Gemini Ernst & Young
- Friends of Wolgarston
- Parental Donations
- Penkridge Middle School PTA
- Royal Bank of Scotland
- Portman Building Society(formerley Staffordshire Building Society and now Nationwide)
Redesignation
We are delighted to announce that our bid for redesignation as a Specialist Technology College has received approval from the Department for Children, Schools and Families
Our Associates:
As part of our development we are associated with a variety of organisations which contribute to the delivery of our technology specialism.
These include:-
1) Dynatech Innovations
2) Engineering Education Scheme
3) Perkins Engines
4) RAF Cosford
5) STEM Awards
6) South Staffordshire Housing Association
7) Specialist Status and Academies Trust
8) Staffordshire University
Celebration
In the summer term 2008 we held a technology week which is reported in the end of term newsletter.
We are currently planning to celebrate Science and Engineering week, 7th -16th March 2008. During this week we will be working with our middle school partners from Brewood and Penkridge.
Our Technology week for this school year will be held 30th June – 4th July 2008, on the theme of ‘Sustainability’. During this week we will be working closely with all our partner schools in the Wolgarston pyramid.
