Message from the Principal

Welcome! May I extend a very warm welcome to all visitors to the redesigned Manor Community College website. We hope to launch an Intranet and a Virtual Learning Environment to compliment this very soon. This will allow students, parents, governors and staff to log into their user areas from home! We will also be able to share information and ask for your views on school issues on line.

This is an extremely exciting time for the college and I am delighted to have been appointed as its new Principal. The future is bright: our results are improving - especially at KS3. This year we had an extremely good CVA (Contextual Value Added) score of 1024. This was the second highest score in Cambridgeshire (after Parkside)! CVA measures the progress students make from KS 2 to 4 here at the college. We have also been designated as a specialist performing arts college by the Department for Children, Schools and Families which will help to further drive up standards. A number of high profile links have already been made and we are already working in partnership with Abovo Creative, CCORRN, feeder primary schools and a number of community groups.

In order for you to see where I want to take the college, I would like to share our values and aims with you. With a bit of luck these hyperlinks will transport you to these documents!

At Manor, we realise that choosing the right school can be a very difficult task. After all it is one of the biggest decisions a family has to make. Although this website and our school prospectus will not be able to tell you all the things you need to know to make that decision, it will help you to go through the process. Naturally, any website or publication can only give you an impression of what a school is really like. Therefore we urge you to make an appointment to come in and see us in action. These opportunities are in addition to our 'open evenings' which will be advertised on this website and in the local press. Needless to say, we would love to see you at these events too!

We work extremely hard to ensure that the transition from Primary to Secondary school is as smooth and relaxed as possible so as to ease the stress or anxiety that you and your child/caree will inevitably feel at this time. Being a small school we also pride ourselves in knowing a great deal about each and every student.

Above all we attach a great deal of importance to students feeling safe, enjoying school, achieving (and indeed exceeding) their target grades in an atmosphere of mutual respect, tolerance and positive behaviour. I believe your role, as parents and carers, in ensuring that this happens is crucial. We can only be successful if we work in partnership. As such your involvement will always be respected and welcomed.

Very best wishes for 2008,

Ben Slade - Principal