Longhill High School
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| Type | Community school |
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| Headteacher | Kate Williams |
| Location |
Falmer Road Rottingdean East Sussex BN2 7FR England United Kingdom Coordinates: 50°49′06″N 0°04′03″W / 50.8184°N 0.0676°W |
| Local authority | Brighton and Hove |
| DfE URN | 114581 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 11–16 |
| Houses | King, Nightingale, Mandela, Pankhurst and Spencer |
| Website | longhill |
Longhill High School is a co-educational secondary school for 11 to 16 year-olds, which is located in Rottingdean, Brighton and Hove, East Sussex. It is led by head teacher Kate Williams
The School was officially opened in 1964, although took its first intake in 1963. The school had six houses named after Castles in Sussex: Arundel, Bramber, Chichester, Hastings, Lewes and Pevensey. On 16 September 2010, it opened its new block officially, named "Vaughan Block" after one of the longest-serving teachers, after a campaign on the social networking site, Facebook.
The school is currently able to educate 1200 children, but building work on a new block was completed in September 2010. The school is open to students living in a wide range of areas in Brighton. There are pupils from:
Longhill High School is involved in many different projects, some of which are listed below.
Longhill High School offers a wide variety of clubs. Autumn to spring teams include football, year 7 to year 11, both male and female teams, rugby, year 7 - year 9, boys and girls (girls teams generally less participants). Summer sports include cricket (years 7–9), tennis club (years 7–10), athletics (including field and track events) and girls' rounders as well as dance. Longhill also has a Combined Cadet Force (CCF), running all year long, which has won several awards, such as best drill team and best first aid team.
Longhill also offers great music facilities, such as music lessons (a wide variety of instruments from violin to drums), practice rooms to book at lunch and after school, a mixed choir and a variety of different genre bands to join. Also keen homework groups (years 7–9) and revision sessions ( years 10 and 11) run frequently after school and at lunch times. New groups start every term and any suggestions for new groups from parents and students are welcome.
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