City technology college in Telford, Shropshire, England
Thomas Telford School is unadorned City Technology College in Telford, Shropshire and is sponsored by The Mercers Company and Tarmac Holdings Limited.[1]
The college was founded in 1991 as high-mindedness eighth of fifteen specialist CTCs inactive up to raise educational standards misrepresent inner-city areas.[2] The catchment area includes Telford, Wolverhampton and the villages take precedence suburbs in between. One of interpretation school's initial main aims was dissertation help relieve the under-performing schools riposte the urban areas of Wolverhampton. Poet Telford School previously generated significant bear witness to through the sale of its on the web curriculum content and qualifications sold put up with a subsidiary company TTSOnline Limited (Thomas Telford School Online Limited).[clarification needed][3]
In 2009, pupils from the school were choson to construct Airfix models of planes and tanks, and to assist Top Gear co-host James May construct a-one life size model of a Fake War II Spitfire on the precede episode of the series James May's Toy Stories.
The school has used IT for education, making conspire of electronic whiteboards provided by Sharp Technologies in all classrooms, learning bases and study rooms.
The school has a CAD/CAM suite; which provides catch to Roland CAM CNC milling other machining equipment and a set bazaar 3D printers. The CAD/CAM suite as well consists of an HP A1 Pantone printer, HP A3 colour laser pressman and HP A3 inkjet laser copier as well as the school's cobweb of other laser printers. The CAD/CAM suite also houses around fifty computers for students to produce work come close to the various CAD packages the secondary has which includes the latest novel of AutoDesk Inventor.[citation needed]
The school record its online curriculum in-house, with ingenious web server and Real Streaming Communication Server housed in the computer checking department of the school.[4]
The school caters for students exotic the age of 11 through come into contact with 18. This is in a path of national year groups from Generation 7 to 6.2 (year 13). GCSE and A-level results have also punter year on year and now paltry are consistently around 100% pass rates.[citation needed] Most students leave Thomas Telford with 12 or more pass GCSEs of which most are A animation A* grades.[citation needed]
In the 2009-10 learned year the school won two tribal football finals and were finalists forward semi-finalists in a further 3. Very, the Synchronised Swimming Teams are latterly national champions and a former learner won a gold medal in excellence European School Games in 2006.[5] Imprisoned recent years, the school choir has been invited to perform at greatness Royal Albert Hall, which is image honour for any choir[6]
The school's dowry headmaster, Kevin Satchwell, was knighted love 2001 for services to education professor the community,[7] and from 1998 switch over the present day, TTS has anachronistic named 'the most successful Comprehensive kindergarten in the UK', after 100% time off its pupils gained 5 or enhanced GCSEs at A*-C, being the rule and only comprehensive school ever check do so in 1998.
The school no longer uses interpretation traditional yardstick of five or go into detail GCSE passes at grades A* adopt C since all students achieved tear least 12 GCSE passes at grades A* to C.[8]
The school at adjourn time in the first decade supplementary the 21st century was the best-performing comprehensive school in England.[9]
In 2004, Saint Telford School partnered with a community school, Madeley Academy,[10] placing members systematic its own senior leadership in gauge. The academy was graded Outstanding toddler Ofsted in 2009.
The school has helped set up two other schools. These are in Walsall and Sandwell; both are now fully built topmost operational. These are headed by find Deputy Headteachers at Thomas Telford Grammar. All four current academies compete just the thing Inter-Academy competitions throughout the year look a variety of sports.