Bohunt School is a

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and

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located in the rural village of

Liphook Liphook is a village in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is 4.1 miles (6.6 km) west of Haslemere, bypassed by the A3 road, and lies on the Hampshire/West Sussex/Surrey borders. It is in the civil parish of Bramshott an ...

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, England. The school was opened in 1978.

History

In 2009 the

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reported that Bohunt students had achieved higher than the national average at

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in four years. and had ranked mid-table in Hampshire on the proportion of pupils achieving the Level 2 threshold . Bohunt was designated a

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, which meant that it specialised in modern foreign languages and all pupils took at least one

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. Bohunt offered

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and

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. In 2005 Bohunt was credited with an

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. Previously a

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administered by

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, in April 2011 Bohunt School converted to academy status. The school is sponsored by the

Bohunt Education Trust Bohunt School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in the rural village of Liphook, Hampshire, England. The school was opened in 1978. History In 2009 the BBC reported that Bohunt students had achieved higher than the nati ...

. In 2014 Bohunt School was awarded TES Overall School and Secondary School of the Year at the TES Awards.

Bohunt Chinese School

Bohunt Chinese School was an experiment that took place at the school in 2015. The experiment involved fifty

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students at the school being educated by Chinese teachers using traditional Chinese teaching methods for a period of four weeks. This included mostly lecture-based teaching and 12-hour shifts at school. At the end of the experiment, the academic achievement of the 50-pupil group that received Chinese education was compared with an equivalent group of their peers through an assessment carried out by an independent board by a peer review. In the assessment, pupils in the Chinese-educated group performed 10% better than their other peers in maths, science, and

. This experiment was broadcast by the

as part of a three-episode documentary.

Catchment

Bohunt's main intake comes mostly from four schools known as the 4-16 Partnership. These are Liss Junior School, Liphook Church of England (controlled) Junior School, Greatham Primary School and Grayshott Primary School. Bohunt also draws from other primaries in

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, and

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Houses

The pupils are split up into a

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, consisting of six houses, each taking the name of an important person. These are: *Attenborough House after

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*Curie House after

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*Hawking House after

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*Nightingale House after

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*Parks House after

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*Turing House after

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Notable alumni

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, Conservative Party politician, Member of Parliament for

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References

External links

* {{authority control Academies in Hampshire Educational institutions established in 1978 Secondary schools in Hampshire 1978 establishments in England