Languages
Our diverse and ever-expanding modern languages department offers students the
opportunity to study European languages and, because they are often helped by teachers
who are native speakers, they also learn good pronunciation and come to speak the
languages fluently and with confidence.
The languages department is generously resourced with a language laboratory, multi-media computers, textbooks, cassettes, newspapers and magazines. Our advanced satellite TV and radio receiver enables the school to receive multiple foreign language broadcasts simultaneously. Teaching in French, Spanish, German, and other languages is provided.
The Sciences
A science centre encompasses the Chemistry, Physics, Biology and Psychology departments
whilst providing separate, purpose-fitted laboratories for each discipline. All science
staff are graduate specialists. The study of Maths and the sciences is structured to
demonstrate the links between ideas, experimentation and practical applications.
This helps our pupils to develop a clear analytical approach which will contribute to every facet of their academic work. Advancing each pupil’s knowledge of the scientific fundamentals, as part of the school’s core curriculum, is linked with the relevance of science to everyday life now and in the future; the pupils are encouraged to adopt a questioning approach to their studies and explore the creative aspects of scientific development.