HECC

'Improving on our previous best' is our motto and is exactly what we have done over the last two years.

Hartcliffe Engineering Community College has grown and developed over the past few years. Our core values of hard work, clear discipline and valuing all achievement remain from Hartcliffe School. We are now looking forward to a fantastic new phase of development and being part of a Trust with nursery, primary, secondary and special education all under one roof. We will be breaking new ground and able to offer our students fantastic new learning opportunities that can only occur through true partnership working. We will be able to offer accelerated programmes, support programmes, specialist programmes. In fact we will be able to personalise learning to a level not seen before in Bristol.

As a specialist College we recognise the value of the 'trinity' of Maths, Science and Technology and continuously seek ways to engineer successful learning for all.

Our Philosophy

Our intent is to provide a centre of excellence in teaching for learning, to embrace new technologies and ways of learning so that our motto 'Aim High' is achieved by all students in the College and we 'improve on our previous best'.

Our Motto

Aim High

Our Vision

Creating chances, raising aspirations, building for the future

Our Mission

To be a high achieving school that delivers 'Success for All'

Our Beliefs

• We respect each other in our daily lives
• We are all on individual learning journeys and that together we can all achieve more than we did in the past
• Young people, families and schools can be a force to change lives and to build a world where all can live, learn and find personal satisfaction in communities which share a wish to improve

History of Hartcliffe Enfineering Community College

Hartcliffe School was completed in the early 1960s to serve the new housing that was replacing bomb-damaged property in the post war period. At a time of large families the school was one of the largest in the country - exceeding 2400 students on two sites. Currently it has 855 students and forms part of the emerging lifelong learning provision on the Hartcliffe Campus - from nursery, primary through secondary to the College and vocational centre provision. This provision will be open in December 2008 as the Campus puts its vision into place, with new buildings and community supported projects. Hartcliffe 'Campus' is on its way to being 'the place to be' and Hartcliffe Engineering Community College will be the secondary stage of education on the Campus.

Working with the Community for Success for All

Our purpose at Hartcliffe is to ensure that all children achieve their full academic, physical and spiritual potential.

The change from primary to secondary education is an enormous and exciting step and we have made it our business to make those changes as smooth as possible. All those who will be joining Hartcliffe Engineering Community College meet myself and visit our school in the summer before they join. For those who need to, we provide further induction support, with family visits where necessary. During the visit, students meet their Hartcliffe tutors and the new friends they will make in their tutor groups, try new subjects and discover the layout of a large building. We will be able to show them our new building development during 2007/08! This all familiarises them with the college and the new ways of working.

Raising Standards in the First Three Years

Through effective communication with our partner primary schools we build on the learning that has already taken place. Our knowledge of young people in their first year is thus robust and enables us to place high expectations on them to achieve. We are developing a new curriculum in Year 7 to ensure students have the literacy levels to access all areas and know how to learn to learn.

In the first three years at Hartcliffe Engineering Community College, we focus on ensuring that Literacy, Numeracy and Information Communication Technology capabilities are secure, by clear teaching of these skills in English, Mathematics, Science, Design Technology, Modern Foreign Languages, Humanities, the Arts and Physical Education. Specialist provision for those young people who find the transition to secondary education difficult is tailor made.

Ofsted Quotes

• "The senior leadership provide good direction and support for their colleagues"
• "Achievements and standards, and the personal development and well-being of students, show significant and sustained improvements"