Basic details.

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Duke’s Secondary School, is an 11 to 18 Church of England Academy in Ashington, Northumberland. It is quite a new building having been built on the site of a previous school in Ashington called Hirst High. The school offers a very broad curriculum with a lot of enrichment activities available to all of the students. We could talk about the lessons we study but probably they would be no different from most schools in Europe, we learn Maths, (NOTE Maths is plural, in America it is singular), we study one of two languages, French or Spanish, Science, Art, ICT, History, Geography or Religious Education. So we are going to talk about the things that make  us different from the other schools.

 

International links, Our school was awarded the international school Award, to get that, our school

 

The Academy’s international work includes exchanges with Spanish French and German schools, educational visits to South Korea and Spain, an annual sixth form volunteer trip abroad and hosting of the Pearl of Africa children’s choir from Uganda.

 

The sixth form also visit Kenya to carry out voluntary work.

 

The school also supports the Shoe Box Appeal each year which enriches the lives of thousands of young people from many schools across the world at Christmas time.

We are involved in two Erasmus projects, one a Bilateral with a Spanish School and the other one is a multilateral one with schools from Spain, Italy, Portugal , Croatia and Poland this is Maths Routes around Europe.

The other project we are involved with at the moment is a “buurclass” project with a Belgian partner school, this is an architectural design project.

The structure of the Academy allows the secondary school to support all the primary schools and The Centre with many different international themes.

The Academy has also gained the Princes trust  award for Modern Foreign Languages, which promotes enriching all aspects of the curriculum via an international culture approach which is disseminated to all primaries.