Cape Cornwall School is a

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located in

St Just in Penwith St Just (), also known as St Just in Penwith, is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies along the B3306 road which connects St Ives, Cornwall, St Ives to the A3 ...

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, England. , the school had 270 pupils aged 11 to 16 years. The Head Teacher is Jon Hall.

The school

The UK Government awarded

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Arts status to the school in 2006. The funding, which amounts to over £300,000 over four years, started in September 2006, and was spent on an art gallery 'for the school'. The Creative Arts department are pioneering the new 14-19 Diploma of Creative Media. In December 2010, Cape Cornwall School's History department was inspected by

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and assessed as outstanding. In May 2012, it was announced that Cape Cornwall School had reached the final four for the 'Cook For The Queen' competition at

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to celebrate the

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. Cape Cornwall School was formerly part of the 'Penwith Education Trust' and therefore had

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'Cooperative Trust Status', meaning the school had links and shared facilities with other local secondary and primary schools. In 2012, Cape Cornwall School received funding from The Belling Foundation, a charitable trust from the electronics firm

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, to improve their ICT suites. In September 2012, a new school uniform was introduced: a blue blazer with white shirt and blue striped tie. The traditional Sky Blue and Navy tie has been worn since the founding of the school. The uniform was democratically voted for by the students, staff and parents. The new uniform was made compulsory for all 2012 Year 7 students, and is being slowly introduced in other years. Quality issues with this initial blue blazer meant that the uniform manufacturer replaced these blazers for black replacements. In 2017, the school was classed as Inadequate by OFSTED. The school then converted to academy status and is now sponsored by the Truro and Penwith Academy Trust. Mrs Jan Woodhouse is currently the Executive Headteacher, with Mr Jon Hall as Head Teacher. In 2021 it was announced that the Governors had decided to appoint Mr Jon Hall as the new Head of School and have subsequently appointed Jon as the Head Teacher. In June 2022, Cape Cornwall School became a pilot school for the Trust's 1:1 student iPad project, with every student being assigned their own iPad to enhance their learning.

Houses

The school has three houses: Kelynack (named after the local settlement), Lafrowda (a small area of St Just and the name of the local festival) and Lyonesse (a fictional county in

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legend which has strong

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links). The houses are mainly used for organising sports teams within the school. Houses are different from tutor/form groups, however each tutor/form group is assigned a different house which they support. They all compete against each other every year on sports day to earn a cup.

References

External links

School website
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