Sharnbrook Upper School and Community College
| Motto | Stronger Together |
|---|---|
| Established | c. 1975 |
| Type | Academy |
| Executive Principal | Mr Iain Denning |
| Chair of Governors | Hugh Carr-Archer |
| Location |
Odell Road Sharnbrook Bedfordshire MK44 1JL England 52°13′24″N 0°33′26″W / 52.22320°N 0.55720°WCoordinates: 52°13′24″N 0°33′26″W / 52.22320°N 0.55720°W |
| Local authority | Bedford Borough |
| DfE number | 822/5402 |
| DfE URN | 136470 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports Pre-academy reports |
| Staff | c. 300 |
| Students | 1934 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 13–18 |
| Houses | Grange, Ouse, Templar, Colworth, Parentines, Loring |
| Colours | Yellow and Grey (formerly with Emerald Green) |
| Website | SUS Website |
Sharnbrook Upper School, commonly referred to as Sharnbrook Upper School or simply Sharnbrook, is a large, rural academy school located in Sharnbrook, a village in the English county of Bedfordshire. Built in 1975, the school now has over 1900 students and around 300 staff, and includes a large sixth form of around 650 students.
The school is very popular and is currently oversubscribed, with some parents resorting to moving house into Sharnbrook's catchment area to guarantee their children a place at the school. Quite a sizeable proportion of sixth form students join the school in Year 12, having completed their compulsory education at other schools.
Most students join the school in Year 9, when they are aged 13–14. They take GCSE exams, in year 11 (ages 15–16), after which some students will leave to attend a technical college or an alternative sixth form. Most, however, stay and join the sixth form (Years 12 and 13, ages 16–18+), where they are joined by a large number of students who have completed their GCSEs at other schools and have moved to Sharnbrook for their final two years at school.
At the beginning of the 2003-4 academic year, Sharnbrook introduced vertical tutoring, a pastoral system in which each tutor group has students from each year group, from Year 9 to Year 13 (Upper Sixth). In contrast, almost all UK secondary schools organise their tutor groups horizontally, with the school population divided primarily into National Curriculum year groups, and each form or tutor group has students from only one year group. The school's senior management now share their expertise in running a vertical system by running workshops and seminars for headteachers, senior managers and pastoral leaders from around the UK.
To accommodate the new vertical tutor groups, a House system was devised, comprising six houses, one of which every student is a member. Most of the staff are also assigned to a house. Each house contains fourteen tutor groups and is led by a Head of House and an Assistant Head of House, titles which are sometimes abbreviated to HOH and AHOH, respectively. Traditional Heads of Year still exist, although their role has greatly diminished with the arrival of Heads of House.
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