Our Community

Community Objectives

• To ensure all students recognise and respect other cultures, languages and backgrounds and integrate fully into the life of the school.
• To ensure deprivation does not impact on attainment.
• To increase community involvement, local residents, businesses, potential stakeholders.
• To achieve engagement, equity and excellence through the curriculum and enrichment and extended services provision.

Community Engagement

• Adult learning programmes are delivered by the school at 2 of the local community centres (book-keeping and return to work).
• ICT sessions have been delivered to 5 feeder primary schools.
• Enterprise learning was delivered in 5 feeder primary schools in 2010/11. 
• Dance festival involved over 120 primary students and over 200 parents autumn 2010/11.

Extended Services

• Successful earlier festivals have been run at the school for Whitley and feeder primary students.
• The school’s Sports Co-ordinator works very successfully at increasing sporting opportunities for Whitley students and students from partner primary schools, including:-
• Dance festivals
• Primary football tournament
• Whitley students coaching athletics in feeder primary schools
• Whitley students completing the Kielder challenge with special needs students locally

• Breakfast and lunch clubs help support some students. These are run by the Inclusion and SEN teams.
• The Well Being Mentor, Youth Worker and counsellors based at the base are available for students and parents.