HECC

Our Developing Education Facilities

During recent years we have continued to improve the facilities on offer. We have a purpose built Sports Hall and Performing Arts suite, a swimming pool and well-equipped gymnasium and a 'national\ standard Gymnastics Centre. Over 120 new computers for learning plus Interactive Whiteboards in each department will support learning in our Specialist College. We are fortunate to have 57 acres of Sports pitches and can provide year round sporting opportunities not only for the college but also for the community. Sadly, during the new build process our pitches are limited.

We look forward to moving into the 'all through' provision on the Hartcliffe Campus in January 2009. We are able to watch our new buildings grow everyday.

The Future

Hartcliffe Campus - Trust in Learning, Trust in Success

Hartcliffe Campus will provide an integrated educational experience for children and young people from the Hartcliffe community, providing preschool nursery, primary, secondary, special, vocational and community educational opportunities through partnerships with all interested and relevant agencies.

This will be achieved following consultation with partners, students, parents and staff by:

• Providing a curriculum relevant to the needs, strengths and learning characteristics of individual students, recognising the importance of emotional intelligence, while encouraging maximum personal success in terms of academic and other qualifications;
• ensuring that all students are encouraged to progressively take increasing responsibility for their activities, their learning, themselves and each other and develop the social skills they need to benefit from and contribute to the campus and successfully implement the decisions they take for their lives;
• forming effective working partnerships with parents in the joint responsibilities of encouraging their sons and daughters to achieve their full potential at Hartcliffe;
• developing active partnerships with relevant community groups, including the youth service, to achieve an integrated learning community in which community resources are enabled to contribute fully to the personal development of all students, and the campus resources are able to reinforce and support the work of the community groups;
• encouraging close working partnerships with local employers so that the engineering specialist role of the campus can both benefit from local businesses and contribute positively to their work;
• working in close partnership with the Bristol City College, the University of the West of England and Community Education to deliver lifelong learning opportunities for adults in the community maximising the effectiveness of the resources of the whole Campus