Ulverston Victoria High School
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Ulverston Victoria High School (UVHS) is a Mathematics and Computing Specialist school in the town of Ulverston, Cumbria, Northern England. It is a comprehensive school and takes its students from the local area as well as some from Barrow-in-Furness, Grange-over-Sands and Coniston. The school was praised in a 2004 Ofsted Report [1][2] and has a successful Sixth Form drawing students from a large area.
The school's most notable sporting achievement is winning the BSOA Large Secondary School Orienteering crown for the last 12 years [3]. In 2006 the school took both 1st and 3rd place[4] in the Large Secondary School category. The orienteering team have come back from the 2006 World Schools Orienteering Championship with 4th, 7th and 5th places for their three teams. [5] The School Orienteering team also has trips to Scandinavia, where the students get to compete in Sweden for five days. This event is one of the biggest orienteering events in the world, attracting in excess of 20,000 competitors.
The school's Mexico Link allows students a unique opportunity to link up and discuss with people from another culture. The school has also become known for playing host to a Muslim school in North West London to break down barriers and build bridges between the two very different cultures. This trip was also the first of its kind in the UK.
The school has launched an alumni website for former Sixth Form students to keep in touch with each other and the school.
The school has recently been placed in 'special measures' as a result of the 2007 Ofsted inspection. Ofsted concluded that the school failed to give the students an acceptable education.[6]
[edit] External links
- Ulverston Victoria High School - UVHS
- Ulverston Victoria High School Sixth Form
- Ulverston Sixth Form Alumni
- Ulverston Adult Education Centre
- Orienteering Club Website
- UVHS Mexico Link Website
Schools in Cumbria | |
|---|---|
| Comprehensive | Caldew School · Dallam School · Kirkbie Kendal School · Nelson Thomlinson School · Parkview Community College of Technology · Queen Katherine School · St Bernard's Catholic High School · Ullswater Community College · Ulverston Victoria High School · William Howard School · Wyndham school |
| Sixth Form Colleges | Barrow-in-Furness Sixth Form College |
| Further Education Colleges | Furness College, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Grammar | Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Penrith |
| Independent | Austin Friars St Monica's School · St Bees School · Chetwynde School · Sedbergh School · Windermere St Anne's School |
