Swavesey Village College
| Swavesey Village College | |
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| Address | |
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Gibraltar Lane Swavesey Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB24 4RS England, United Kingdom | |
| Coordinates | 52°17′42″N 0°00′20″W / 52.29491°N 0.00555°WCoordinates: 52°17′42″N 0°00′20″W / 52.29491°N 0.00555°W |
| Information | |
| School type | State secondary school |
| Religious affiliation(s) | No religious affiliation |
| Established | 1958 |
| Founder | Henry Morris |
| Specialist | Languages, Science |
| Principal | Andrew Daly |
| Staff | 190+ |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Age | 11 to 16 |
| Language | English |
| Hours in school day | 6h 25m |
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| School colour(s) | Maroon and sky blue |
| Nickname | 'SVC' |
| School roll | c.1200 |
| Type | Academy |
| DfE URN | 110863 |
| Website | swaveseyvc.co.uk |
Swavesey Village College is a village college and academy school in the village of Swavesey in south Cambridgeshire. As of 2010 the school has around 1,200 students. The school was officially opened on 14 November 1958.
The school has an intake from many surrounding villages including Bar Hill, Over, Longstanton, Fenstanton, Fen Drayton, Hilton, Papworth Everard, Boxworth, Elsworth, Lolworth and Willingham.
On 11 June 2008, Swavesey Village College became a foundation school within the Swavesey Village College Educational Trust. On 1 April 2011, Swavesey Village College became an academy. The school also has specialisms in science and languages.
Swavesey Village College received a comment of 'outstanding in every respect' from Ofsted. SVC achieved full marks in every category in the Ofsted report.
The school runs many after school extra curricular clubs, which vary in category greatly, from sports to maths, to journalism to chess.
The school is able to accept students with learning disabilities such as Autism.
House System
The school is divided into six houses. Students are sorted into houses at random after their enrolment at the school. While it was once common practice to sort siblings into the same house, this was discontinued in to school year of 2009–10 and so now house allocation is entirely random.
The different subjects taught as SVC are also divided into houses, for example English belongs to Orwell House. This means that all subject teachers belong to their subject's house, and that these subject classrooms are adorned in the appropriate house colours. Form Groups contain pupils of only one house and are congregated in appropriate house classrooms with a Form Tutor from that house.
Each house is named after an influential person in history, and this generally reflects the subjects administered by that house. While each house has its own colour, this is not reflected in school or sports uniforms and is only usually seen on a house's noticeboard as to distinguish it from those of other houses.
An inter-house competition known as the 'Swavesey Superleague' runs each year, with houses gaining points for being successful in various competitions throughout the year. The pupils of the winning house usually receive some sort of reward or prize at the end of the school year.
| Name | Colour | Subjects | Additional information |
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| Brunel | Red | Culinary Science, Design & Technology, ICT | Named after Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
| Cavendish | Pale Blue | Natural sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Physics) | Named after Henry Cavendish |
| Newton | Green | Mathematics | Named after Isaac Newton |
| Orwell | Blue | English (Literature and Language) | Named after George Orwell |
| Pendleton | Orange | Drama, Music, Sport | Named after Victoria Pendelton New house as of September 2014 |
| Wilberforce | Purple | The humanities (Ethics, Geography, History) | Named after William Wilberforce |