The Grange Academy is a flourishing mixed, non-selective secondary school and sixth form based in Bushey, Hertfordshire, admitting students from the ages of 11 to 18.
Facilities
They have a fitness centre with the latest CV and resistance equipment, a sports hall featuring a modern climbing wall with varying levels of difficulty, a floodlit all weather MUGA for netball and tennis, and extensive playing fields including football and rugby pitches. They are also about to install a new all weather cricket pitch here at Bushey.
The academy boasts excellent facilities across the performing arts. In addition to fabulous art and music rooms, they also have a state-of-the-art lecture theatre, and a specialist drama studio.
Features
Things to note
In addition to the PE curriculum, the academy offers a range of sports enrichment clubs, many of whom boast teams which compete in local and regional competitions. Boys and girls can get involved in football, basketball, netball, athletics, cricket, dance, handball, table tennis, trampolining, rounders and badminton at a casual or competitive level.
Every year they have students in Year 11 who stay at sixth form and go on to study A-levels in one or more of the performing arts.
At The Grange Academy they encourage all students to actively participate in comprehensive extra-curricular programme. This year they have introduced a range of new clubs, including a new debating society, a maths champions club, a board games club and a modern languages film club cine club where students get to watch and learn about new and old foreign language cinema.
Experiences outside the classroom enhance our students' knowledge and help them relate classroom teaching to the world outside the school gates. Students have also had the chance to see natural wonders in China, the USA, Italy, France and Spain. Team building and resilience is further developed through Outward Bound residential stays in Wales and Scotland, and skiing trips to France and Italy challenge even the most accomplished skiers.
The holistic and personalised approach ensures that all students can succeed in developing their academic and character skills and traits. To ensure this they insist that every student joining the school has a 1:1 interview with a senior leader. This is followed by a baseline skills assessment to ensure that classes, subject choices and study groups are the right fit from the start.
Every student will be linked to a peer buddy and within days of joining will have a trusted adult. Parental communication regarding the progress of your child is ongoing and feedback is consistently provided from day one. You will be invited to a welcome event within days of your child starting at the school, regular reports will communicate academic progress and pastoral links with the Form Tutor and Head of Year are maintained daily. They are not selective and do not hold any admissions tests.
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