News and Features
Nutritious School Meals
School Catering … not just Nutritious School Meals
Nidderdale recognises the important contribution that nutritious school meals make to students’ health and learning. School meals are an essential part of lunchtimes. We aim for all students to be able to eat in school with their friends and to enjoy their social time in a modern, pleasant environment.
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Strong GCSE Performance 2017/18
Nidderdale High School is celebrating another year of strong GCSE performance across a wide range of subjects.
Overall, 71% of students achieved at least a Grade 4 (broadly equivalent to a Grade C) in English and 69% achieved this level in Maths. The majority of these students achieved the more challenging 'Strong Pass' mark of Grade 5.
Students continue to excel across a wide range of subjects, with eleven subjects achieving an overall Grade 4-9 pass rate of 80% or higher.
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This is a Good School
Nidderdale High School is celebrating success with the publication of their most recent Ofsted inspection findings. The school was once again judged to be good and getting even better. Leadership, Teaching, Behaviour, Personal Development and Progress were all singled out for praise in the report published recently.
Head of School, Kath Jordan said, "I am delighted that all areas of school have been judged good and that our continued commitment to excellence is recognised not just through our impressive GCSE outcomes for our students but also through Ofsted's recognition that teaching, behaviour and progress are all 'good and improving'.
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Parent Zone and CEOP
Parent Info is a website service for schools. On the website you'll find a collection of useful articles, tips, expert advice and resources designed to help parents keep up with what their children are doing on-line. Parent Info is a collaboration of Parent Zone, (which has been providing information and support to parents for a decade), and CEOP, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection command of the National Crime Agency. The articles are available at http://parentinfo.org/articles/all
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Attendance target 95.5%
We encourage and reward good attendance. Every student’s good attendance is vital as it has a clear link with progress, attainment and more positive life changes. Students must come to school every day they are not ill.
We work closely with the Local Authority and the Officer for Behaviour and Attendance to deal with truancy, term time holidays and casual absenteeism
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Online Safety - Useful Information for Parents
Parents/Carers play a crucial role in ensuring that their children understand the need to use the Internet/mobile devices in an appropriate way.
However, research shows that many parents and carers do not fully understand the issues and are less experienced in the use of ICT than their children and schools should take opportunities to help parents understand these issues.
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