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Grove School is sited on:

Grove Campus,
Newcastle Road,
Market Drayton,
TF9 1HF.

Phone: 01630 652121
Fax: 01630 658980
E-mail: admin@grove.biblio.net

Who's who

The school's management team is Jane Radbourne (Headteacher), Janice Campbell (Deputy Headteacher) Simon Stoneley and Ceri Bedford (Assistant Headteachers).  For a full list of teachers, follow the link.

The Head's P.A. is Mrs Carol Martin and the School Bursar is Mrs Janet Edwards.  Mrs Trish Huggins is Office Manager House Secretary.

Robert Hope is the school’s Site Manager.  Grove Catering is managed by Claire Murray.

The School Librarian is Mrs Jaqueline Perry and Mrs Kathy Smale is the School Nurse

Grove ConneX is our mentoring scheme, run by Jenny Horner.  Connexions are represented in school by Shelley Robinson.

Peter InghamGrove is a Community School, with 20 Governors drawn from LEA representatives, school staff, parents and members of the community.  The Chair of Governors is Mr Peter Ingham, who can be contacted through the school.  Full list of Governors.

75 teachers work at the school (including 18 part-time) In addition there are over 30 education support staff and teams of site management/cleaning staff and catering staff.

There are currently 1060 students on roll, including 135 in Grove College - our Sixth Form. The school’s admission limit each year is 208.  Applications to join the school in Year 7 are currently made through Shropshire Local Education Authority but all other applications should be made directly to the school.

Grove enters students for a wide variety of examinations at different levels.  These include GCSE, Key Skills, NVQ, GNVQ, AS and A2 level.

  • In recent years the passrate at Advanced level has risen, reaching a school record 98% in 2006 which was almost matched in 2007.  All students from Grove College seeking Higher Education places this summer were successful, with nearly all getting their first choice.
  • The Key GCSE figure of students reaching 5+ GCSE passes at Grade C or better has also climbed steadily and the school is was very pleased to exceed its target for 2007 with 53% - a further increase on steady improvement seen in the past few years.  However, this headline figure does not show the great successes of our more able students: we consistently see over 20% of students achieving over 10 higher passes and our flexible curriculum allows some to pass 12, 13 or even 14 subjects. In 2007, two students actually achieved 19 passes each!
  • Substantial numbers of students added vocational awards to GCSE passes this Summer, mainly National Vocational Qualifications earned in partnership with local businesses.  We also had good success with Key Skills qualifications.

Good attendance is vital to successful education and Grove works hard with our Education Welfare Officer to eliminate truancy.  In the most recent year, unauthorised absence was just 1%.

Grove has a policy of Inclusion and the number of permanently exclusions is consistently low.

 

 


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Grove Campus
Newcastle Road, Market Drayton, Shropshire. TF9 1HF.
Tel: 01630 652121    Fax: 01630 658980    E-mail: admin@grove.biblio.net

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