Working Together for Success‘Access-Ability’We can provide the information in this prospectus in different formats – please ask for further details. A version is available on our website. Please ask if you feel any learning resources or facilities are not accessible to you. You do not need to have a disability to receive access support from the College.

Risedale Sports and Community College

Risedale Sports and Community CollegeHipswellCatterick GarrisonNorth YorkshireDL9 4BD Tel: 01748 833501 Fax: 01748 836149Website: www.risedale.org.ukEmail: enquiries@risedale.org.uk

Risedale Sports and Community College is a Specialist Sports College, working in partnership with Northallerton College. Our resources are first rate and our staff are highly dedicated. In choosing Risedale, students are committing themselves to high personal standards of work and behaviour.

Both students and the wider community have access to a range of sports facilities including a gym and sports hall, playing fields, indoor and outdoor basketball, netball and tennis courts, and a Drama studio. We have excellent ICT facilities, up-to-date Science labs, a new Food Technology room and interactive teaching facilities in every classroom.

Moving into Key Stages 3 and 4 marks the beginning of a new and defining period in a young person’s education. We will help students to put in place the building blocks that will enable them to fulfil their plans for life after College.

If you have any unanswered questions, please do not hesitate to contact the College for further information.

John Dennis, our Chair of Governors, joins me in wishing students every success at Risedale Sports and Community College.

John KellyAssociate Principal

The College fully supports good practice principles of equal opportunity and diversity.

As a College, we will:

Welcome to our learning community

l work to raise standards for all our students across the ability range

l prepare all students for success in life, working in partnership with other professionals, educational institutions, employers and parents

l generate an excitement and enthusiasm for learning, and help our students to become confident, independent learners who are able to make a positive contribution to the community

l provide young people with the skills they need to progress into employment, training or higher education

Enjoy and achieve

Guidelines:l students are encouraged to play an active

part in College life l this is a community of learners, where

members are trusted to fulfil their obligations and to use responsibly the freedoms they are given

l everyone is responsible for their own behaviour, and for helping to set the tone of the working environment

l the College expects everyone to work consistently to the best of their ability and to make the best of the equal and exciting opportunities on offer

l students who are inconsiderate and irresponsible are entitled to fair and consistent responses, but the College’s first priority is to make sure that all students’ learning takes place in the best possible conditions

The PSHE programme is delivered to all year groups weekly, and includes Careers Education and Guidance, Sex and Health Education, and Enterprise Education. Students also gain a half-GCSE in Preparation for Working Life.

In all our working relationships and caring principles we are strengthened by the support of parents.

Stay safe

Risedale works hard to develop a team approach to building successful relationships with our students, their families and the outside agencies who support, guide and nurture our students.

We have a successful transition programme that supports the move from primary to secondary school. This includes our excellent Student Support Team, which encourages and cares for every student. In addition, Year Team Managers are on hand to offer guidance, and to meet with parents and offer additional help if it is required.

Strength through supportTogether we will:l work closely with our partner and cluster schoolsl support and care for every person as an individuall acknowledge students’ increasing maturityl invest heavily in the provision of expert guidance

to enable students to plan for their future

Working relationships and caring principles

Promoting responsibility and good citizenship

Learning for lifeStudent progress is reviewed regularly. Students, subject tutors and form tutors work together to set personal learning targets. Students receive a Student Planner at the start of the year, which is monitored by form tutors, in partnership with parents.

Regular consultation meetings are held between subject/form tutors, students and parents, and there are frequent progress reports and detailed written reports of students’ work in various subjects.

Students and their parents can request detailed information about progress at any time.

Risedale Sports and Community College is committed to ensuring that everyone in the community benefits from learning that is relevant to the 21st century.

We will work together to raise standards and strive for excellence through an innovative approach to learning and by ensuring equal access and full opportunity for individual development and growth.

All students will:l experience a lively curriculum, enhanced by the power of technology l be challenged and extended, both socially and academicallyl increasingly accept and enjoy responsibility for their own lives and learningl be encouraged to celebrate diversity and respect their own, and other

people’s achievements and values

The curriculum has been designed so that students satisfy the requirements of the National Curriculum, as well as working in areas that suit their strengths and interests. In Year 10 all students undertake a one-week work-experience placement.

We recognise that studying for GCSEs can be demanding and so we run a highly effective and successful mentoring programme for students in need of a little extra support.

Key Stage 4 (Years 10 and 11)

Progress, recording and assessment

Individual careers education and guidance from independent careers advisers is offered to all students in Years 10 and 11. We work closely with the Connexions service, further and higher education establishments, and local employers.

Achieve economic well-being

We have been re-designated as a Healthy School. Healthy food choices and pure drinking water are available to all students, who are encouraged to eat a healthy diet.

Extra-curricular activities are an important part of life at Risedale Sports and Community College. Student participation is high in a wide range of events, including sports, Drama, Music, Dance and the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award.

Risedale Sports and Community College aims to be a centre of sporting excellence and the hub school for the schools sports partnership. This provides cluster primary schools and secondary partner schools with opportunities for shared, collaborative development of curricular and extended-curricular activities.

Homework is set regularly in all subjects, with the type and amount tailored to meet individual needs. Students record homework in their Planner.

The College library, with its excellent linked ICT facilities and study areas, is available to students at lunchtimes and is open until 4.15pm every day.

Making a positive contributionCommunity aims

Home learning

Be healthy

Risedale Sports and Community College is a Specialist Sports College, working in partnership with Northallerton College. Our resources are first rate and our staff are highly dedicated. In choosing Risedale, students are committing themselves to high personal standards of work and behaviour.

Both students and the wider community have access to a range of sports facilities including a gym and sports hall, playing fields, indoor and outdoor basketball, netball and tennis courts, and a Drama studio. We have excellent ICT facilities, up-to-date Science labs, a new Food Technology room and interactive teaching facilities in every classroom.

Moving into Key Stages 3 and 4 marks the beginning of a new and defining period in a young person’s education. We will help students to put in place the building blocks that will enable them to fulfil their plans for life after College.

If you have any unanswered questions, please do not hesitate to contact the College for further information.

John Dennis, our Chair of Governors, joins me in wishing students every success at Risedale Sports and Community College.

John KellyAssociate Principal

The College fully supports good practice principles of equal opportunity and diversity.

As a College, we will:

Welcome to our learning community

l work to raise standards for all our students across the ability range

l prepare all students for success in life, working in partnership with other professionals, educational institutions, employers and parents

l generate an excitement and enthusiasm for learning, and help our students to become confident, independent learners who are able to make a positive contribution to the community

l provide young people with the skills they need to progress into employment, training or higher education

Enjoy and achieve

Working Together for Success ‘Access-Ability’We can provide the information in this prospectus in different formats – please ask for further details. A version is available on our website. Please ask if you feel any learning resources or facilities are not accessible to you. You do not need to have a disability to receive access support from the College.

Risedale Sports and Community College

Risedale Sports and Community CollegeHipswellCatterick GarrisonNorth YorkshireDL9 4BD Tel: 01748 833501 Fax: 01748 836149Website: www.risedale.org.ukEmail: enquiries@risedale.org.uk

Working Together for Success‘Access-Ability’We can provide the information in this prospectus in different formats – please ask for further details. A version is available on our website. Please ask if you feel any learning resources or facilities are not accessible to you. You do not need to have a disability to receive access support from the College.

Risedale Sports and Community College

Risedale Sports and Community CollegeHipswellCatterick GarrisonNorth YorkshireDL9 4BD Tel: 01748 833501 Fax: 01748 836149Website: www.risedale.org.ukEmail: enquiries@risedale.org.uk