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This article is tagged as requiring a clean-up. I've fixed a load of grammatical errors but I'm not close enough to the school any more to update much of this article's contents, but here are some thoughts:k
The school has received outstanding reports from OFSTED and other educational institutions and societies for many years and it continues to offer some of the highest quality of education.
That looks like it should have some kind of source to justify it.
The current headmaster, Steven Kings, has been at the school for 9 years but in May 2007 he will be starting employment as theprinciple of Merchants Academy, Bristol.
Is it relevant where he is going? If it is, can we be a bit more specific?
The school was founded in 1957, with the first year spent in the Naval town of Dartmouth.
Was it? That's kind-of interesting. Can we have some more detail? Has it been at the present site from year 2 onwards?
The school has a strong sporting tradition, currently having one of the best basketball competitions in the country, with such players as DH, TH and Nathan Chant.
Why is this in a section on the school's history? Who are these people? (Are they known much outside of the school circuit?) Is this competition something the school runs, something it takes part in, or is this supposed to say that it has one of the best basketball competition teams?
The school has one of the highest quality CCFs in the country, recruiting from many backgrounds, with Colour Sgt. Rose and Lt. Woods leading the show.
Again, why is this in a section on the school's history and who are these people?
In every examination taken since the school's opening, pupils have achieved above the national average.
Is this so? It should probably be justified with a reference.
The percentage of those obtaining 5 A*-C grades (the government target) has never been below 96%
I would imagine this is incorrect. It is presumably a reference to GCSEs which were not introduced until the late 1980s, and even then I would question whether this is the case (pass rates have been steadily rising - wouldn't 96% have been a phenomenal achievement at the outset?)
Ros0709 13:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
- I rewrote large sections of this to make it more encyclopaedic but kept most of the original subject matter (except the bit about the school staring in Dartmouth, which I'm not sure I believe). I added in more things I thought relevant. It is still desperately in need of a clean up - my previous comment about not being close enough to the school still stands (I can really only comment on the school in the early 80s). Hopefully if pupils of other generations - and, better still, staff - contribute this article will begin to take shape. Right now, it's a long way off.