Mount Carmel and EGA honoured as high-performing specialist schools
Mount Carmel RC Technology College
and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Language College have been classified as ‘high-performing specialist schools’
by the DfES and the Specialist Schools Trust. Both schools were invited to
attend a special seminar in September hosted by the Rt Hon Ruth Kelly MP,
Secretary of State for Education and Skills.
More than 100 of the country’s top performing schools are being offered a new
element to their specialist status, under recent Government plans.
High-performing specialist schools applying for redesignation this year will
be able to take up one of four additional roles in addition to their existing
specialism:
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Take up a second specialism in a curriculum area
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Take up a second specialism in vocational learning
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Become a training school – providing teacher training and professional
development
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Work to raise achievement with partner schools.
Seven of Islington’s nine secondary schools are now specialist. There are
currently 1686 specialist schools across the country – 54 percent of all
secondary schools. Specialist schools focus on a chosen subject, while still
meeting National Curriculum requirements and delivering a balanced education
to all pupils. Mount Carmel became a specialist technology college in
September 2000, while Elizabeth Garrett Anderson became a specialist language
school in September 2002 and receives sponsorship from the Guardian.
Notes to editors
For more information on the Specialist Schools Trust, please visit
www.specialistschools.org.uk
Islington’s seven specialist schools are:
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (language)
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Mount Carmel (technology)
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Central Foundation (business and enterprise)
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Highbury Grove (business and enterprise)
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Highbury Fields (science)
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Islington Arts and Media School (performing arts and media)
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Holloway School (sports)
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