Foldr | HP Email | Teams | Wisepay | Staff Home About Information School Life Enrichment Sixth Form School DIrect Contact Latest News Music Enrichment Day By Hove Park School • 17 Nov, 2021 • 0 Comments Our second Curriculum Enrichment Day was themed as Music from Around the World. Students participated in a range of workshops from external companies on genres such as the music and dance of China, African drumming and samba. There were also many classroom-based activities such as using the app Garageband to create music and the Year 7s enjoyed making their own rap music. Our very own Mr Miles and Mr Barbour also organised and led sessions to whole year groups, which students clearly found both fascinating and engaging. Mr Miles’ session, for example, was a very loud samba extravaganza! Students really enjoyed the day and were fully engaged in these enrichment activities which are designed to supplement the breadth and depth of our curriculum offer. The curriculum days later in the year will look to develop these areas, as well as a focus on supporting other areas of the Key Stage 3 curriculum. Read More > Christmas Market & Ice Rink By Hove Park School • 05 Nov, 2021 • 0 Comments Thursday 2nd December - Hove Park Valley Campus - Christmas Market & Ice Rink Book your Ice Skating tickets here > www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/192260194417 ﻿ Hove Park School for the first time ever, will have a 10m x 10m synthetic ice rink at our annual Christmas Market, complete with music, lights and a snow machine to add to the fun! Tickets are £6 per adult or child, for 20 minutes skating (price includes skate hire). There are 3 penguin aids available per session for our younger skaters, these can be reserved on a first come first served basis for an extra charge of £2.50. To book visit - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/192260194417 If you would like to advertise your business, we are selling advertising space around the ice rink’s barriers – please contact ksalter@hovepark.org.uk with your advertising enquiries. If you would like to run a stall contact dwillard@hovepark.org.uk All profits from our Christmas Market and Ice rink will be going to The Sussex Cancer Fund. Read More > Equalities Enrichment day By Hove Park School • 15 Oct, 2021 • 0 Comments All students in Years 7 to 11 enjoyed a range of activities and learning experiences outside of their normal timetabled lessons on Friday 15th October. This was the first of our Project Days this year and the focus was on Equalities. We had a variety of external agencies and companies who presented to the students on topics around Equalities and Diversity including Disability in Sport, Race and Racism, LGBTU presentations including a talk from Sophie Cook, who presented on trans-gender themes. At the Valley Campus some of our students also participated in a talk about the refugee status of people who enter the country at Gatwick airport. This talk was really interesting as it highlighted the situation and context of many of these refugees, including their welfare, human rights and many other issues. Our aim is for the annual Equalities Day to supplement the thorough and comprehensive education we offer around the Equalities Agenda in Learning for Life sessions. In future editions of Parklife lookout for information about our upcoming Project Days, where we will be focusing on key aspects of the curriculum, including Music Around the World and other Creative Arts themed days. Read More > Latest building developments By Hove Park School • 28 Sep, 2021 • 0 Comments After several months of building we are delighted to share the latest developments at Hove Park School. Our floodlit 3g Astroturf pitch, Cullum Centre on our Nevill Campus, photographic studio, brand new Nevill canteen, refurbished music room and Nevill library are all complete. The newly created science wing on our Nevill campus provides outstanding facilities and an environment that students are already starting to use and benefit from. Most other projects, for example our brand new sports hall, new fitness suite and refurbished Valley dining hall and reception will be finished by half term with our new Cullum Centre on the Valley campus completed by April 2022. It's an exciting time to be part of Hove Park School. Read More > Open Evening 2021 By Hove Park School • 06 Sep, 2021 • 0 Comments Hove Park School’s Open Evening will be on Tuesday 5th October from 6pm. We are planning for this event to be in person, however I am sure you will appreciate that this may be subject to change. We are also hoping to host both Open Mornings and Year 6 taster sessions. Details and dates regarding how to book onto these will follow shortly. Read More > GCSE results By Hove Park School • 12 Aug, 2021 • 0 Comments The staff at Hove Park School would like to congratulate all our Year 11 and Sixth Form students today for the hard work that has seen so many achieve success in their GCSEs. After what has been another challenging year, they can now celebrate gaining the qualifications that will take them on to the next stage of their education at school, sixth form or college! Our students have shown great resilience in coping with the huge disruption to their learning caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite the uncertainties about exams and how grades would be determined, our students were committed to their learning throughout the year. Head teacher, Jim Roberts, praised the hard work of both the students and staff. He said: "We are all very proud of our students and their achievements. The challenges of the last year should not distract us from acknowledging and celebrating their success. These results are a true reflection of students’ commitment to their studies and resilience. They were also supported by staff that have gone above and beyond to provide high quality teaching and learning. We wish the our students all the very best and look forward to hearing about their future successes." Read More > Sixth Form Results By Hove Park School • 10 Aug, 2021 • 0 Comments Hove Park School is delighted with the results of our A-level students, who have worked so hard this year to achieve success. In Year 13 there were excellent results in subjects such as Law, Biology, Chemistry, English Literature, Maths, Psychology, Sociology, Graphics, Health & Social, Tourism, and History. The accomplishments of our students will allow them to move on to the next step of their career pathways, whether that is university, an apprenticeship, or straight into the world of work. These achievements are the result of the hard work put in by the students, but also by Hove Park School teaching staff. Students leave Hove Park School having benefitted from our programme of support and career guidance, designed to ensure students will be successful in whatever they do. Head teacher Jim Roberts was delighted with the results and praised the hard work of both the students and staff. He said: ‘We are all very proud of the students and their achievements. The challenges of the last eighteen months should not distract us from acknowledging and celebrating their success. These results are a true reflection of student commitment to their studies and high-quality teaching. Hove Park 6th Form is about helping students move forwards and take the next steps in their chosen career path. We wish them all the very best and look forward to hearing about their future successes.’ Individual success stories include…. Aya– achieved A, B, B in English Literature, Art and Sociology and is taking up a place at Bath University to study Sociology Danyal– is going to Sussex University to take a Business degree incorporating management, economics and finance after taking A’ Levels in Business and Biology and the CTEC Sports course for which he achieved a Merit Jess– is going to study Sociology with Criminology at Chichester University after achieving success in Sociology, Business and Law Miriam – is also going to Sussex University to take a Law degree with International Relations. Miriam achieved successful results in English Literature, Sociology and Law Al – has already started a 15-month apprenticeship in insurance at Brighton Met following a successful set of results in Tourism, Art and Maths Read More > DofE Expeditions By Hove Park School • 20 Jul, 2021 • 0 Comments Avid explorers from Year 9, 10 and 11 took part in their Duke of Edinburgh expeditions this term. Year 9 and 10 underwent the Bronze Award, with Year 11 coming back to school for their Silver Awards. The Duke of Edinburgh award is one of the leading awards for achievement outside the classroom which demonstrates that students have many life skills and abilities. Students went out on day expeditions rather than camping, due to the restraints of COVID. As a result, the navigation was over a greater distance and students met the challenge of completing the routes of up to 18km in a day. Both Bronze and Silver teams got to see a lot of the fantastic countryside - mainly the South Downs just outside Brighton & Hove and they demonstrated their camp craft by cooking lunch on Trangia stoves in all weathers! Read More > Sixth Form Taster Day By Hove Park School • 13 Jul, 2021 • 0 Comments Following on from a previous Valley Campus day experience, a group of Year 10 students spent the day experiencing life as a Sixth Former. A light breakfast at the Sixth Form Snack Shack, followed by a choice of three subject-based sessions, gave students the opportunity to look at what content is offered in A-Level courses, how the lessons are run and a chance for students to ask the Sixth Form staff and teachers any questions. Activities on the day included a Photography project, a Graphics task, Maths puzzles, Chemistry and Biology experiments, as well as introductions to other subjects such as Law, Computer Science and Sociology. Students were able to select the subject sessions they were most interested in before the day, which would give them the opportunity of trying out an A-Level course before committing to it on applying to college next academic year. Many of the students commented they have now decided on their A-Level choices based on the taster sessions they attended, and some have got difficult decisions to make after being inspired by a subject they had previously discounted. Students enjoyed the facilities of the Sixth Form area, which is exclusive to HP6 students only, including a suite of classrooms, ICT facilities, private common room seating area and toilets, Snack Shack kitchen and the fully equipped mezzanine study area. Year 10 students produced some exceptional work on the day, and many staff members commented how mature and focussed they were in every session. The feedback received reflected the ethos of Hove Park Sixth Form - the students enjoyed the smaller class groups, a more personal approach to education, teachers that show they care, a nurturing and supportive atmosphere. The overwhelming majority of students said they would choose HP6 as their first or second college choice overall. Read More > Update on the Mandarin Excellence Programme 2021 By Hove Park School • 12 Jul, 2021 • 0 Comments For Hove Park School students on the Mandarin Excellence Programme the usual China trip was not possible this year, so the programme team came up with an innovative solution: a virtual China trip. Year 9 and 10 students have been taught intensively by teachers from a Chinese university and were interacting directly with Chinese students. There were also exciting live events where they get to interact with experts on pandas, business people and people involved in China’s upcoming Winter Olympics. The Year 10 team came second out of 75 schools with a superb promotional video for Brighton and Hove in Mandarin (see below) and the local Tourist Board wants to use it on their website! Congratulations to Deneb, Jimmy and Peter on the winning team and to all the other students whose videos were also of excellent quality. “This was a really intensive language learning experience, and over the course of two weeks, students make great progress in Mandarin and get exposed to some fantastic cultural content and get to practice with a range of native speakers”, said James Sandford, Head of Languages at Hove Park. Hove Park School is one of the 75 schools nationwide enrolled in the prestigious Mandarin Excellence Program (MEP) which aims to put students on the road to fluency in Mandarin. Students in all year groups have recently been involved in year-end MEP activities. Year 7 and Year 8 have just successfully finished their MEP exams and have shown how much they have learned in a short period of time. 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Our very own Mr Miles and Mr Barbour also organised and led sessions to whole year groups, which students clearly found both fascinating and engaging. Mr Miles’ session, for example, was a very loud samba extravaganza! Students really enjoyed the day and were fully engaged in these enrichment activities which are designed to supplement the breadth and depth of our curriculum offer. The curriculum days later in the year will look to develop these areas, as well as a focus on supporting other areas of the Key Stage 3 curriculum. Christmas Market & Ice Rink Thursday 2nd December - Hove Park Valley Campus - Christmas Market & Ice Rink Book your Ice Skating tickets here > www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/192260194417 ﻿ Hove Park School for the first time ever, will have a 10m x 10m synthetic ice rink at our annual Christmas Market, complete with music, lights and a snow machine to add to the fun! Tickets are £6 per adult or child, for 20 minutes skating (price includes skate hire). There are 3 penguin aids available per session for our younger skaters, these can be reserved on a first come first served basis for an extra charge of £2.50. To book visit - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/192260194417 If you would like to advertise your business, we are selling advertising space around the ice rink’s barriers – please contact ksalter@hovepark.org.uk with your advertising enquiries. If you would like to run a stall contact dwillard@hovepark.org.uk All profits from our Christmas Market and Ice rink will be going to The Sussex Cancer Fund. Equalities Enrichment day All students in Years 7 to 11 enjoyed a range of activities and learning experiences outside of their normal timetabled lessons on Friday 15th October. This was the first of our Project Days this year and the focus was on Equalities. We had a variety of external agencies and companies who presented to the students on topics around Equalities and Diversity including Disability in Sport, Race and Racism, LGBTU presentations including a talk from Sophie Cook, who presented on trans-gender themes. At the Valley Campus some of our students also participated in a talk about the refugee status of people who enter the country at Gatwick airport. This talk was really interesting as it highlighted the situation and context of many of these refugees, including their welfare, human rights and many other issues. Our aim is for the annual Equalities Day to supplement the thorough and comprehensive education we offer around the Equalities Agenda in Learning for Life sessions. In future editions of Parklife lookout for information about our upcoming Project Days, where we will be focusing on key aspects of the curriculum, including Music Around the World and other Creative Arts themed days. Helpdesk Contacts Nevill Campus Nevill Road, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 7BN Nevill Office: 01273 082817 Valley Campus Hangleton Way, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 8AA Valley Office: 01273 082857 Sixth Form Office: 01273 082870 office@hovepark.org.uk