Specialist Schools
The Specialist
Schools Programme is about provision of opportunity, challenge, raising standards for all
pupils, and the celebration by schools of their own distinctive character and ethos. Any
secondary school in England may apply to be designated as a specialist school in
a variety of specialist areas
- technology
- languages
- sports
- arts
(visual, performing or media)
- business
and enterprise
- engineering
- humanities
- science
- mathematics
and computing
- music
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Archbishop Lanfranc School - Sport
Archbishop Tenisons School- Mathematics and Computing
Coloma Convent RC High School - Music
Coulsdon High
School - Technology
Edenham High School - Technology (ICT)
Norbury Manor - Business and Enterprise
Riddlesdown - Science
Selhurst High School - Mathematics and Computing
Shirley High School - Performing Arts
St Josephs - Mathematics and Computing
Thomas More - Science
Virgo Fidelis Convent School - Mathematics and ICT
Westwood High School - Languages
Woodcote High School - Sports
Other Croydon secondary schools have or are in the
process of submitting proposals.
The Specialist Schools Trust is now taking Primary
Schools into Affiliated Membership. Specialist Schools are required
to work with an identified family of schools : primary, middle,
special and secondary schools, to devise a community plan that meets
the needs of all the partners.
The purpose of the scheme is to -
- support and develop co-operation and
partnership working between Specialist and non-specialist schools
- improve transition between phases and
key stages
- enable collaborative working on common
issues
- enable the family of schools to access
more fully the benefits of links to Specialist Schools
- develop a coherent approach to teaching
and learning from 5 - 19 years; support and develop an integrated
approach to continuous professional development
