Welcome
"The Dearne High is committed to achieving the highest standards of educational experience for all; serving its community in an environment which is stimulating and happy; united in its purpose.”
About The School
The Dearne High – A Specialist Humanities College is an oversubscribed, popular, community comprehensive school in the Dearne Valley with 1229 students on roll.
There is no doubt that The Dearne High is an improving school. Staff, students, parents and Governers have worked tirelessly to raise standards, to improve the quality of learning and teaching, to value the student voice promoting learners as partners in the learning process and to raise the profile of The Dearne in its immediate community and beyond.
The Dearne High is in an excellent position to build upon its recent successes planning for an even brighter future.
In 2007, The Dearne has
- Achieved it’s best ever examination results at both Key Stage 3 and 4 with 57% of our students achieving a minimum of 5 A*-C grades, an 18% increase on 2006.
- Acquired Humanities Specialist School Status
- Achieved its best ever attendance figures of 92%
- Gained national recognition for its innovative use of modern technology to support student learning
- Developed support and guidance systems which reflects the needs of the individual, removing barriers to learning, allowing teachers to concentrate on developing learning of the highest quality and turn the vision of the “Every Child Matters” agenda into reality.
We are collectively determined to build upon this solid foundation to:-
- Raise standards to unexplored heights
- Develop learning and teaching practices which equip our students for life and work in the 21st century
- Further develop creative policies and practices which place our students for life and work in the 21st century
- Challenge historical perceptions of how secondary schools operate
- Further develop an ethos where leadership and creativity flourishes at every level
Humanities Specialist School Status provides us with one such driver for change as does our involvement as a phase 1 school in Barnsley’s Building Schools for the Future Programme, which will see us move into a brand new Advanced Learning Centre in 2010. The schools newly built Community Memory Hub utilises digitally enhanced ICT based technologies to portray our rich local heritage, instilling a sense of pride and self-worth in the community.
Our last OFSTED inspection stated the following:
“The leadership and management of the school are good”
“The school is rightly proud that there has been a considerable improvement in the proportion of pupils gaining five or more higher grade passes in the general certificate of secondary education (GCSE)”
You can be sure of a warm welcome should you wish to come and visit the school.
We look forward to hearing from soon.
