Abington's Specialist School Status Success

Abington, in partnership with other local schools, made an application to become a Specialist School in the Performing Arts.

We were informed in January 2008 that we had been successful in our bid. This is fabulous news for the school and we are all really pleased.

This success follows on from our previous successes this year with the awards of Sportsmark, Investors in People and the Princess Diana Gold Award, as well as being in the top 1% of schools in England for pupil progress.

We are now a Specialist Arts School working in partnership with Guthlaxton College who have had Arts status since 1999. We will be working closely with other local schools including our special partner primary schools being All Saints, The Meadow, Thythorn Field and St John Fisher.

Being a specialist Arts School does not mean that other subjects will be given less priority. Rather, it means that our chosen subjects of Music, Dance/Drama and ICT (Digital Media) will receive extra funding from the Government and will allow us to work with local community groups and businesses.

This is very exciting and will benefit the children enormously. For the children it will mean extra activities, more clubs, more trips and visits and improved resources with more concerts and productions. We are looking forward to all these exciting activities for the children.

Incidentally, we will be the only High School in Leicestershire which will be specialising in new computer technologies relating to ICT Digital Media.

Thank you to everyone who helped with the application which enabled this fantastic achievement.