Featherstone Technology College

About the College

Principal: Mr W Parkes

Age: 11-16

Type: Community

Number on Roll: 508

Annual Admission Number: 180

Students achieve a great deal at Featherstone Technology College, in terms of examination results and in becoming self confident individuals.  We try to ensure that every individual student feels valued and supported in all of their studies.  We also believe in helping children learn how to learn, offering them challenging and successful experiences which they will remember all their lives.  Undoubtedly, our new Technology College Status helps us to provide the outstanding resources and teaching that our students deserve.

Featherstone Technology College is no ordinary college; it is a special place and a caring community with high standards.  In addition to the successful delivery of the National Curriculum, our enthusiastic staff support a large number of extra-curricular activities including sport, music, drama, art, cultural and theatre visits and computer clubs.  Examination results are important to us at Featherstone, but we believe in helping students realise their full potential in other areas as well.  We encourage the development of every student's abilities and we celebrate their achievements at every possible opportunity.

The college's purpose is to maximise all learning inside and beyond the classroom, in ways that respect individual differences and reflect the principles outlined above.  This purpose is pursued through the application of the following values and aims - Featherstone Technology College is a PLACE that CARES.

Values

• People feel valued and supported;

• Learning is rewarded;

• Achievement is celebrated;

• Consideration for others is paramount;

• Enterprise and responsibility are encouraged.

Aims

• Challenges are set for successful learning;

• All student potential is maximised;

• Relationships are nurtured with the wider community;

• Expectation is consistently high;

• Specific individual needs are met by the college.

OfSTED Inspectors recognise the achievements of the college in the following statements:

• Students have very positive attitudes to work and their behaviour is very good;

• There is good provision for students' personal development which includes a broad range of curricular and extra-curricular opportunities;

• The staff and students create a very positive ethos that is characterised by a caring attitude and very good relationships.

Featherstone Technology College is an exciting place for our students to learn and become the young adults we would want them to be.