The Burgate School and Sixth Form Centre

The Burgate School is an 11-18 academy school. The school is situated in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, and at the current time has approximately 1025 students. The school achieves results above the national average at all levels. GCSE results in 2013 were significantly improved on previous years with 79% of students achieving 5A*-C grades including English and Mathematics.The school's motto is 'Learning for Life'.Ofsted inspectionsThe school was last inspected by Ofsted in January 2013: the inspection report judged the school to be 'good' overall with outstanding features, notably behaviour. The Burgate Sixth Form was recognised separately by Ofsted in 2008 and 2011 as 'outstanding'. After a successful grant from the government a new extension was recently added to house up to 310 6th form students. In October 2011 Ofsted undertook a subject inspection of Business Studies, Economics and Enterprise which were found to be 'outstanding'Tutor groups and housesEach year group has six tutor groups and each of the tutor groups in the 11-16 school is given a house. These are Roe, Fallow, Skia and Red, which in turn supplanted a system based on the London 2012 Olympics (house colours were green, yellow, blue & red). Houses compete against each other during the annuals sports day and in interhouse competitions. The school has a wonderful sporting tradition.StaffThe previous headteacher,Mrs Celia Nicholls, first joined the school as a teacher in 1983, from Ansford School, Castle Cary, and became headteacher in 1988. She announced her resignation at the end of the 2009/10 academic year, after that Mr David Pover was appointed as headteacher. Mr Pover joined The Burgate as a newly qualified teacher in 1992.