Swavesey Village College
| Swavesey Village College | |
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Gibraltar Lane Swavesey Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, C3B4ME England, United Kingdom |
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| Coordinates | 52°17′42″N 0°00′20″W / 52.29491°N 0.00555°WCoordinates: 52°17′42″N 0°00′20″W / 52.29491°N 0.00555°W |
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| School type | State secondary school |
| Established | 1958 |
| Founder | Henry Morris |
| Specialist | Languages, Science |
| Principal | Andrew Daly |
| Staff | 190+ |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Age | 11 to 16 |
| Language | English |
| Hours in school day | 6h 20m |
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| School colour(s) | Maroon, grey and sky blue |
| Nickname | 'SVC' |
| School roll | c.1200 |
| Type | Academy |
| DfE URN | 110863 |
| Website | swaveseyvc.co.uk |
Swavesey Village College is a village college and academy school in the village of Swavesey in south Cambridgeshire. As of 2010 the school has around 1,200 students. The school was officially opened on 14 November 1958.
The school has an intake from many surrounding villages including Bar Hill, Over, Longstanton, Fenstanton, Fen Drayton, Hilton, Papworth Everard, Boxworth, Elsworth, Lolworth and Willingham.
On 11 June 2008, Swavesey Village College became a foundation school within the Swavesey Village College Educational Trust. On 1 April 2011, Swavesey Village College became an academy. The school also has specialisms in science and languages.
Swavesey Village College received a comment of 'outstanding in every respect' from Ofsted. Swavesey Village College achieved full marks in every category in the Ofsted report.
The school runs many after school extra curricular clubs, which vary in category greatly, from sports to maths, to journalism to chess.
The school is able to accept students with learning disabilities such as Autism.
The school is divided into six houses. Students are sorted into houses at random after their enrolment at the school. Many siblings are sorted into the same houses however they will most likely not be in the same form
The different subjects taught as Swavesey Village College are also divided into houses, for example English belongs to Orwell House. This means that all subject teachers belong to their subject's house, and that these subject classrooms are adorned in the appropriate house colours. Form Groups contain pupils of only one house and are congregated in appropriate house classrooms with a Form Tutor from that house.
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