Hitchin Boys’ School operates as an Academy Trust, providing a comprehensive and traditional single-sex school education which is both highly academic and rooted strongly in its community. Hitchin Boys' School is a state school secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England. The school currently has over 1,200 boys as pupils. The school is part of a consortium for sixth form teaching with other schools in the town whereby the classes are mixed with the pupils from Hitchin Girls' School and The Priory School.
Facilities
In years 12 and 13 students are required to wear a suit or jacket and trousers, a formal shirt with a collar and tie.
Students who live more than a mile from the School may cycle if they receive their Head of Year's permission (a parental letter is required).
Facilities in the department are excellent with seven fully equipped teaching rooms. These include; T1: Computer/graphics room equipped with 20 PCs, printing facilities, laser cutter, drawing board desks and its own store. The computers are for the use of all D&T staff and can be booked when IT access is required. T2: Multi-media room with facilities for metalwork, woodwork, IT and CAD/CAM, plus two store rooms. T3: Graphics room equipped with 20 drawing board desks, 20 PCs, printing facilities plus a large store room. T4: Resistant materials room fully equipped to deliver woodwork and benefiting from a separate teaching area and 4 laptops. A wood mill and prep area is connected by a separate door. T5: Food teaching room with 5 laptops and printing facilities. T6: Food teaching area recently completed and fully equipped with 20 work stations and the luxury of Corian worktops throughout. The food rooms further benefit from laundry facilities and a separate store. T7: Electronics room fully equipped to deliver electronic products with ample storage and a separate manufacturing workshop. The department has its own office with desk space for five and a reprographics room. All teaching rooms have a fixed data projector.
All boys will be assessed in the first two weeks in cardiovascular fitness, hand-eye co-ordination and spatial awareness. From this information each group will be set according to ability. However, hard work can result in a change in sets.
All boys must take part in Physical Education unless exempted by a medical certificate. If parents wish their son to be temporarily excused they should write to his Games/P.E. teacher explaining the reason. Boys and parents are encouraged to come and watch the school teams play.
Much valuable work is done outside the classroom. Boys are encouraged to participate in clubs & societies which meet during the lunch hour and after school. A Homework Club is open every day of the week in N3 and is supervised by a member of staff.
Instrumental music lessons are taught to a large number of students and evening concerts take place every term.
School trips are organized by many departments during both term and holiday times; these include foreign exchanges, Science, History and Geography field trips, Art gallery visits, Design & Technology industrial visits, trips to China, Iceland, Japan and New York, Rugby tours to Paris and the annual school Ski Trip and MFL trip abroad.
The School is keen to support the Duke of Edinburgh Award and continues to promote this and other expeditions which have taken place in South America (2003), India (2005), Peru (2007), Zambia/Malawi (2011), Kenya/Tanzania (2013), Malaysia (2014), Thailand/Cambodia (2016), China (2018), Malaysia (2017, 2018, 2019, 2022) and Costa Rica (2009 & 2022).
Every February, the school presents a drama production involving large numbers of pupils from all years. Recent performances have included "The Producers", "Hot Mikado", "Bugsy Malone", “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”, "Spamalot", "Cabaret", "The Wedding Singer" and “Sweeney Todd”.
Students are often entered for national and local competitions, including Rotary Youth Speaks, Maths Challenges, Science Crest Awards, Rotary Technology Challenge, Young Enterprise, Race for the Line and the Quadcopter Challenge.
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