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Chamberlayne Park Secondary School

Motto	Working Together We All Succeed
Type	Secondary
Headteacher	Chris Kelly
Location	Tickleford Drive Southampton Hampshire SO19 9QP England
LEA	Southampton City Council
Students	900
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	11 to 16
Houses	Test Itchen Hamble
Website	http://www.chamberlaynepark.southampton.sch.uk/
Coordinates: 50°53′16″N 1°21′31″W / 50.8878, -1.3586

Chamberlayne Park Secondary School is the main secondary school in Weston, Hampshire. It provides education for around 900 boys and girls aged between 11 and 16. The demand for places at Chamberlayne Park School has been high and as a result, the school has grown in size.

1 History
- 1.1 Headteachers
- 1.2 School name
2 Buildings and grounds
3 Curriculum
- 3.1 Performing arts
- 3.2 Physical education
  - 3.2.1 Groups
  - 3.2.2 Facilities
4 School productions
- 4.1 2007: High School Musical
- 4.2 The past
5 References
6 External links

History

Headteachers

Chamberlayne has seen three headteachers in the past two years. After the Spring Term 2006 Richard Hillary retired after seven years in the role. For the next two terms Ian Knights, head of Hamble Community Sports College stood in as a temporary head. During this time he was head of two schools. In January 2007 Chris Kelly was appointed as headteacher.

School name

The school was known as Weston Park Girls School before 1993. In this year it was decided that the school should become a mixed gender school. In 1998 the last all girls year group left and the school was renamed after the man who donated the land to build the school upon. The same man donated land for the nearby Chamberlayne Leisure centre. In 2005 the school gained a specialist status in the performing arts. Many school with a specialism have changed their name to reflect it (i.e. Woolston Language College). It is currently unknown whether the school will move to a new name in the future.

Buildings and grounds

Southampton City Council and the school have spent in excess of £5 million on buildings and as a result now has specialist rooms for Science, Performing Arts, Technology (including Food, Textiles and Resistant Materials), Art, and ICT.

In May 1999 Patrick Moore opened a set of four science labs, a library and an IT room. Since four more science labs have been added.
In September 2000 Darcey Bussell opened the new Performing Arts block consisting of a music room, a dance studio, a drama studio and four music practise rooms.
Emma Richards opened a new building for Maths and English. Each subject has seven rooms.

Curriculum

Performing arts

In September 2006 the school became a performing arts school. This means the school gets extra money to spend on Dance, Drama and Music. The school gained an Artsmark award in 2001^[1]. In 2004 Ofsted said the school had 'a very strong provision for the performing arts'^[2].

Physical education

Groups

Traditionally physical education has been taught in the school by dividing each year group into two groups. Within each of these big groups would be two boys' groups and two girls' groups. Starting in the 2006 school year the department experimented with groups based not on gender or ability but on different types of PE. For example one group is a team games group, another problem solving and another movement.

Facilities

Chamberlayne Park School has a wide variety of sports facilities:

Extensive playing fields
A gymnasium
Access to the £2.6 million Chamberlayne Leisure Centre

School productions

Since 2000 the school has produced a musical performed in July. The technology department build the sets and the art department paints the sets. The performers in the productions give up break and lunch times; time after school and some of their half term holiday to perfect the performances.

2007: High School Musical

The school is one of the first in the UK to perform the stage version of the film High School Musical. Auditions were held in the week before the Easter holidays and parts were given on 19 April. Rehearsals started later that day. In the Summer Half-term participating pupils attended rehearsals in three days of their half term holidays. Performances will be on four nights in the first week of July. Year 8 pupils were offered the chance to see the show at a discounted price during school time. Several of the main characters were played by different students. These performers shared their performances equally.