About The School
About The School
Our Aims
What We Can Offer You
Gifted & Talented and SEN
Curriculum Information
Ofsted
Falinge Park High School is a mixed 11 – 16 comprehensive situated in the Rochdale area. Conveniently located, the area is served well by motorway and public transport links. We are a larger than average school with 1177 students on role and getting bigger! The school is gaining in popularity and draws students from the Rochdale and surrounding area.
We are very proud of the ethos at our school and welcome new teachers and encourage career progression. Each member of staff is encouraged to realise their potential and are given sufficient support to do so.
This is a very exciting time to join our team at Falinge Park High School. We want to hear from those candidates who are passionate about the education of our students and who truly want to pass on their own enthusiasm to our pupils.
If you want to teach in a school that encourages potential and believes in nurturing the career progression of their staff then Falinge Park High School is the place for you!
Our goal is to unlock the potential of all students and staff who work within our school. We learn together, work together and grow together and firmly believe in the notion of “personal best”. We want to build a bright future for both staff and students and we do this by building on traditional values of respect, tolerance and understanding. We have a first class team in our school and are now seeking excellent teachers to join our already successful team.
We currently host Rochdale’s City Learning Centre and we have just received Specialist Arts College status. We are an EiC school with Investors in People, ArtsMark Gold and SportsMark Silver status. The school has a long standing success in supporting, developing and promoting staff who are committed to excellence for both their own career and student performance. We are able to offer:
- Laptop computer
- Many classrooms with interactive facilities
- Excellent technical and administrative support
- A caring and supportive working environment
- Impressive PANDA grades in all categories
- Towards the top of local Value Added League Table
- A most improved school nationally at KS3 for English, Maths and Science
We are also very proud of the feedback which we receive about our school. Teachers and visitors who come to our school frequently comment on the positive and friendly atmosphere that they find.
One visitor even made a point of saying that they had never been in a school where so many children were smiling and seemed so happy to be here!
We are lucky enough to be part of the Excellence in Cities learning programme. This means that we have the opportunity to take part in many more activities in the classroom, on visits, and working with other schools in the borough. As a school, we are constantly looking at what we do and evaluating our methods of teaching. As such, we are looking at ways to improve the experiences of our pupils in and outside the classroom.
We help them to achieve their maximum potential in all areas of school life through:
- Use of new differentiate resources
- Use of computer technology
- Learning mentors
- Increased visits to develop motivation and understanding
- Working with colleges and universities to plan for the future and work with specialists
- Setting realistic targets
- Developing outside hours learning
Key Stage 3 (7, 8, 9)
To help our students make a comfortable transition from primary school to secondary school, all Year 7 pupils follow our Foundation Curriculum. This means they have a large part of their timetable in their own room with one teacher – enabling them to settle in and get used to life at secondary school!
Most of our teaching is to mixed ability groups but there is ability setting throughout key stages in Maths. A broad curriculum is offered throughout key stage 3 with students studying the core subjects of: Maths, English and Science as well as PE, RE, History, Geography, PHSE (including Citizenship), Design Technology, MFL, Music, Art, Drama, Dance and ICT.
We like to enhance our student’s learning by inviting guest speakers into school so they can learn about other people’s experiences. This is further complemented but a full enrichment programme of domestic and foreign visits.
Key Stage 4 (10, 11)
At Key Stage 4 we feel that it’s important to offer a wide range of optional subjects over and above the core subjects offered at Key Stage 3. Options embrace the following:
- Applied Business Studies (Dual Award)
- Art and Design
- Dance
- Drama
- Digital Applications Diploma
- Food Manufacturing (Dual Award)
- Food Preparation NVQ
- French
- Geography
- German
- History
- Humanities
- Leisure and Tourism (Dual Award)
- Media Studies
- Music
- PE
- RE
- Resistant Materials
- Urdu
The school was last inspected in 2004. The school has been awarded Beacon Status, Investors In People, Artsmark Gold and Sportsmark.
The report describes the school as: “Falinge Park high school is a good and effective school. It provides its pupils with a good standard of education and gives good value for money”.
“The Head Teacher’s leadership provides a very clear vision for the school”
The leadership of the school is also praised and so is the harmonious relationship between all ethnic groups within the school. Specific comments were:
- Standards are rising because teaching and learning are good.
- Relationships between all groups of pupils are strong features.
- The school provides education of good quality
- Key Stage 3 test results have improved faster than they have nationally
- Pupils behave well both in and out of classes
- The school has high expectations of pupils’ behaviour and monitors it carefully
To read the complete report, please visit: www.ofsted.gov.uk
