A secondary school or high school is an institution that provides secondary education . Some secondary schools provide both lower secondary education (ages 11 to 14) and upper secondary education (ages 14 to 18), i.e., both levels 2 and 3 of the ISCED scale, but these can also be provided in separate schools. There may be other variations in the provision: for example, children in Australia, Hong Kong, and Spain change from the primary to secondary systems a year later at the age of 12, with the ISCED's first year of lower secondary being the last year of primary provision.
38-608: Bablake School is a secondary co-educational private day school located in Coventry , England . It was founded in 1344 by Isabella of France , widow of Edward II , making it one of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom . It is a part of the Coventry School Foundation, a registered charity , along with King Henry VIII School , King Henry VIII Preparatory School and Cheshunt School. As of January 2021, Bablake
76-472: A high school (abbreviated as HS or H.S. ), can also be called senior high school . In some countries there are two phases to secondary education (ISCED 2) and (ISCED 3), here the junior high school , intermediate school, lower secondary school, or middle school occurs between the primary school (ISCED 1) and high school. Back in Time for...#Series Six – Back in Time for School Back in Time for...
114-454: A Chief Or, Three Mullets of the second. The Bablake site houses two schools: a junior school that takes children between year 3 and year 6, and a senior school that takes children between year 7 and sixth form. Although the junior school is formally independent, its intake generally move up as a group to the senior school. In the main school, there are blocks allocated to specific subjects, such as science, music, drama and English combined, and
152-551: A different education system and priorities. Schools need to accommodate students, staff, storage, mechanical and electrical systems, support staff, ancillary staff and administration. The number of rooms required can be determined from the predicted roll of the school and the area needed. According to standards used in the United Kingdom, a general classroom for 30 students needs to be 55 m , or more generously 62 m . A general art room for 30 students needs to be 83 m , but 104 m for 3D textile work. A drama studio or
190-628: A greater variety of classes, or sponsoring a greater number of extra-curricular activities . (Some of these benefits can also be achieved through smaller but specialized schools, such as a dedicated special school for students with disabilities or a magnet school for students with a particular subject-matter interest.) In terms of structure, organization, and relationships, larger schools tend to be more hierarchical and bureaucratic , with fewer and weaker personal connections and more rigidly defined, unvarying roles for all staff. Teachers find that large schools result in more information to process in
228-509: A languages block. The main school building contains rooms for history, geography, computer science, art, design & technology and maths. The school has a swimming pool and indoor sporting facilities on site including an indoor artificial climbing wall and fully equipped gym. It also has four tennis courts, which are used as netball courts at other times in the year. Off site there are six rugby pitches, hockey astroturf (with floodlights) and three cricket squares. The cricket pavilion, which housed
266-571: A modern-day family of South Asian Brits Back In Time to experience what life in the city would have been like for previous generations." The series debuted in the UK on BBC Two on 17 March 2015. Internationally, the series premiered in Australia on The LifeStyle Channel on 24 September 2015. The second series began on 2 February 2016. The first six-episode series was co-presented by restaurant critic Giles Coren and food historian Polly Russell . It followed
304-529: A public school with six all-boys boarding houses. In the 1930s fifty acres of land on Hollyfast Road were purchased to expand the playing fields of the school. During the Second World War , the school was evacuated to Lincoln . In 1975 the first female pupil was admitted. The school had long ceased taking boarders; what had been the bedrooms became the Mathematics department, and the headmaster's house became
342-422: A secondary school may have a canteen, serving a set of foods to students, and storage where the equipment of a school is kept. Government accountants having read the advice then publish minimum guidelines on schools. These enable environmental modelling and establishing building costs. Future design plans are audited to ensure that these standards are met but not exceeded. Government ministries continue to press for
380-561: A single basketball court could serve a school with 200 students just as well as a school with 500 students, so construction and maintenance costs, on a per-student basis, can be lower for larger schools. However, cost savings from larger schools have generally not materialized, as larger schools require more administrative support staff, and rural areas see the potential savings offset by increased transportation costs. Larger schools can also support more specialization, such as splitting students into advanced, average, and basic tracks , offering
418-417: A specialist science laboratory for 30 needs to be 90 m . Examples are given on how this can be configured for a 1,200 place secondary (practical specialism). and 1,850 place secondary school. The ideal size for a typical comprehensive high school is large enough to offer a variety of classes, but small enough that students develop a sense of community. Research has suggested that academic achievement
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#1733085276582456-632: A working title. Made by Wall to wall casting for a Major USA TV Network https://www.walltowall.co.uk/casting/1492/the-american-dream Similar to other back in time series a family is transported "back in time" from the 1950s to present day, Their own home is their time machine. Back in time for (Back to the Frontier) a working title. Made by Wall to wall casting for either the USA or internal national audience (Unknown as of June 2024) https://www.walltowall.co.uk/casting/1492/the-american-dream Unknown as of June 2024 if
494-570: Is a British factual entertainment television series produced by Wall to Wall and broadcast on BBC Two from 17 March 2015 to 23 June 2022. Each series takes one "typical" family or multiple individuals relating to the topic (e.g., factory workers in Back in Time for the Factory) and immerses them in life of past decades. The first series, Back in Time for Dinner , centred on the Robshaw family trying foods from
532-740: Is a selective, fee-charging independent school and a member of the HMC . Started by Edward II 's widow Queen Isabella in 1344, Bablake (or Babbelak in Middle English) was a public school first sited at Hill Street in Coventry. Isabella endowed the Guild of St John with the Babbelak land on which was founded the St John's chapel and the Bablake school linked to it. Bablake church, now known as St John's, still stands adjacent to
570-550: Is best when there are about 150 to 250 students in each grade level, and that above a total school size of 2,000 for a secondary school, academic achievement and the sense of school community decline substantially. Arguments in favor of smaller schools include having a shared experience of school (e.g., everyone takes the same classes, because the school is too small to offer alternatives), higher average academic achievement, and lower inequality . Arguments in favor of larger schools tend to focus on economy of scale . For example,
608-409: The 'minimum' space and cost standards to be reduced. The UK government published this downwardly revised space formula in 2014. It said the floor area should be 1050 m (+ 350 m if there is a sixth form) + 6.3 m /pupil place for 11- to 16-year-olds + 7 m /pupil place for post-16s. The external finishes were to be downgraded to meet a build cost of £1113/m . A secondary school locally may be called
646-615: The 1890s to 1990s. A seventh series, Back in Time for the Corner Shop , began airing in February 2020. An eighth series, Back in Time for Birmingham was broadcast on BBC Two, and ran for four episodes (over consecutive nights) Monday 20 June till Thursday 23 June 2022. The four episodes featured the Sharma family and was presented by host Noreen Khan and social historian Yasmin Khan . It "follow[ed]
684-557: The English model, but differs significantly in terms of labels. This terminology extends into the research literature. Below is a comparison of some countries: Schools exist within a strict legal framework where they may be answerable to their government through local authorities and their stakeholders. In England (but necessarily in other parts of the United Kingdom) there are six general types of state-funded schools running in parallel to
722-469: The English-speaking world, there are three widely used systems to describe the age of the child. The first is the 'equivalent ages'; then countries that base their education systems on the 'English model' use one of two methods to identify the year group, while countries that base their systems on the 'American K–12 model' refer to their year groups as 'grades'. The Irish model is structured similarly to
760-599: The Factory , consisted of five episodes and aired on BBC Two in September 2018. These episodes looked at modern-day workers experiencing work in a garment factory in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, with each episode focusing on a specific year. A sixth series, entitled Back in Time for School , aired its first episode in January 2019. This series followed a group of students and teachers experiencing school during different time periods from
798-575: The Geography department. In the late 1980s the school built its Modern Languages block; a few years later Bablake Junior School opened and in 2000 the English, Drama and Music block was completed, sited on what was originally the headmaster's garden. In October 2020, it was announced that Bablake would merge with King Henry VIII School . The proposed new school was initially named Coventry School , before backlash from parents and staff led to Bablake and King Henry VIII School being chosen. The combined school
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#1733085276582836-496: The Robshaw family - Brandon, his wife Rochelle and their three children, Rosalind, Miranda and Fred. The second six-episode series was again co-presented by restaurant critic Giles Coren and food historian Polly Russell . It followed the Ashby-Hawkins family, a couple and their two children. The third six-episode series was again co-presented by restaurant critic Giles Coren and food historian Polly Russell . Series Three saw
874-497: The ages of 13 and 18. Secondary schools follow on from primary schools and prepare for vocational or tertiary education . In high and middle income countries, attendance is usually compulsory for students at least until age 16. The organisations, buildings, and terminology are more or less unique in each country. In the ISCED 2014 education scale, levels 2 and 3 correspond to secondary education which are as follows: Within
912-502: The changing rooms, was hit by lightning on 28 June 2005, and was out of use until spring 2006. In the EDM – English/Drama/Music block – there is a large theatre and a rehearsal room which are both used for plays and music recitals. Former students, known as "Old Wheatleyans", include: Part of the 2009 Christmas film Nativity! was filmed at the school. The first three episodes of the 2019 BBC Two series Back in Time for School , covering
950-442: The education has to fulfill the needs of: students, teachers, non-teaching support staff, administrators and the community. It has to meet general government building guidelines, health requirements, minimal functional requirements for classrooms, toilets and showers, electricity and services, preparation and storage of textbooks and basic teaching aids. An optimum secondary school will meet the minimum conditions and will have: Also,
988-534: The first family, the Robshaws, pushing them half a century earlier, beginning in 1900 and ending in 1949. The series was first broadcast on Tuesday 23 January 2017. Back in Time for Tea This began airing in February 2018. This series focuses on the food and lifestyle of working-class Northern households, exemplified by the Ellis family, from post-World War I through to the end of the 1990s. A fifth series, Back in Time for
1026-410: The larger environment (e.g., announcements about 100 programs instead of just 10) and that as individuals they form fewer relationships with teachers outside of their primary subject area. Smaller schools have less social isolation and more engagement. These effects cannot be entirely overcome through implementation of a house system or " school within a school " programs. The building providing
1064-446: The middle-class Ashby Hawkins family, spending a week living through different decades from the 1950s to the 1990s and experiencing leisure time from the differing eras. On 14 and 15 December 2015, a two-part Christmas special titled Back in Time for Christmas was broadcast which featured the Robshaw family trying Christmas food from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s (Episode 1) and the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s (Episode 2). A special edition of
1102-511: The past 100 years. The school itself is their time machine, transporting them through seven eras of British history - from Victorian grandeur and the age of Empire through a postwar grammar, a 1960s secondary modern, and finally the dawning of the digital revolution in the 1980s and 1990s. The first three episodes were filmed at Bablake School in Coventry. The next four episodes were shot at Arden Academy , Solihull. The last episode that went back to
1140-527: The period from 1895 to 1959, were filmed at the school. Secondary school In the United States , most local secondary education systems have separate middle schools and high schools . In the United Kingdom , most state schools and privately funded schools accommodate pupils between the ages of 11 and 16 or between 11 and 18; some UK private schools, i.e. public schools , admit pupils between
1178-556: The present day was filmed at various schools around the Midlands. The Ardern family embark on an extraordinary time-travelling adventure - going back in time to run that great British institution, the corner shop. Sara Cox returned as a presenter alongside Polly Russell. The series covers the lives of British Asians from the 1950s onward and will be broadcast over four nights from the 20 June 2022. Back In time for (the American dream)
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1216-579: The private sector. The state takes an interest in safeguarding issues in all schools. All state-funded schools in England are legally required to have a website where they must publish details of their governance, finance, curriculum intent and staff and pupil protection policies to comply with The School Information (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 and 2016 . Ofsted monitors these. School building design does not happen in isolation. The building or school campus needs to accommodate: Each country will have
1254-486: The return of the Robshaw Family, as they journey even further back into the 20th Century. The fourth six-episode series was co-presented by Sara Cox , with returning food historian Polly Russell . It followed the Ellis family from Bradford, a couple and their three children. The family was joined by guests throughout the episodes, some who lived the times, for specific cultural references. The fifth five-episode series
1292-530: The school's original buildings. The school still holds concerts in the church, and has even sung Evensong there once. Many of the pupils were originally choristers of the church. The relationship continued through the figure of Edward Jackson, who from 1734 was both vicar of the church and headmaster of the school. The expansion of the Bablake site continued via land grants. In the 1890s, Bablake began to move to its current site in Coundon Road, where it continued as
1330-513: The second half of the twentieth century, and experiencing what it was like to live then as a middle-class family. Each hour-long programme covers one decade, and the family's own kitchen, dining, and living rooms were re-designed by the TV team each week to give an accurate representation of what it was like to cook and eat then. The second series, Back in Time for the Weekend , featured different participants,
1368-501: The show titled Back in Time for Brixton and consisting of two episodes, aired on BBC Two in November 2016. This focused on a black British family called the Irwins "through 60 years of cultural and social shifts, charting the story of how African-Caribbean immigration has changed British culture and society". A sequel to the first series, titled Further Back in Time for Dinner , returns to
1406-499: Was presented by Alex Jones . It followed the Brabon family from Rhondda in Wales and focused on factory workers throughout the decades of the second half of the 20th century, this time spending each episode in a specific year rather than a whole decade. Fifteen pupils and three teachers embark on an extraordinary time-travelling adventure to discover just how much life at school has changed over
1444-413: Was set to open in September 2021. The plan was abandoned during the course of 2021, with the decision to share some facilities and teaching (particularly in the sixth form) between King Henry VIII School and Bablake School. In June 2022, Governors agreed to return to the original name, Bablake School. The arms of Bablake School are those of its benefactor, Thomas Wheatley: Sanguine a Lion Rampant Argent, on
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