News and Features
GCSE Results - August 2017
Nidderdale High School is celebrating another year of strong GCSE performance in the face of new and more challenging GCSE examinations in English and Maths.
Overall, 62% of students achieved at least a grade 4 (broadly equivalent to a Grade C) in both English and Maths, with a great many students achieving the new more challenging 'Strong Pass' mark of Grade 5.
Three Nidderdale students were celebrating the incredible of achievement of being amongst the first students nationally to be awarded the new top Grade 9 - Tim Jennings and Grace Morrison reached this top mark in English Literature, whilst Elisha Booth achieved a Grade 9 in Maths awarded to just the top 3% of students nationally.
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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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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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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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NHS placed in top 15% of schools nationally
Nidderdale High School has been placed in the top 15 per cent of schools nationally for the performance of its pupils, according to figures from the Department for Education. What’s more, the benchmark has been achieved for the second year in a row – and current forecasts indicate a third successive year of the same results is highly likely. As well as overall attainment levels, Nidderdale High School continues to excel in the progress its pupils make in specific areas.
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