DESIGN & TECH ENGLISH
GYMNASIUM
HUMANITIES
LANGUAGES
MATHEMATICS MUSIC
SCIENCE
CANTEENS
ICT
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Seven rooms for Art and Design
Drama workshop and two reserved classrooms. Well stocked Library.
With changing rooms, tennis courts, three hectares of playing fields, fitness suite.
History, Geography, RE: three rooms adjacent to the Library.
French & Spanish: highly resourced for individual learning.
Has a suite of specialist rooms.
A music room adjoining hall; 4 practice cells, instrument store and recording studio.
Four laboratories, preparation room.
Two, providing four additional general-purpose classrooms.
Three computer suites.
STAFFING STRUCTURE and ADMINISTRATION
The staffing structure of the School allows for a Headteacher, two Assistant Headteachers, Key Stage 3
Director (Years 7-9), Key Stage 4 Director (Years 10-11) and eight Heads of Department. There are,
in addition, teacher co-ordinators with special responsibility for music, information technology, careers
education, and students with special educational needs. Taken together, this group constitutes the
Policy Committee. Key Stage Directors, helped by their tutorial teams, are directly responsible to the
Headteacher for the pastoral care, academic progress and good discipline of their students. The fulltime, highly qualified teaching staff numbers thirty-three. Peripatetic teachers give instruction on the full
range of orchestral instruments. School administration is computer-aided using S.I.M.S. software.
EXAMINATION RESULTS
The school is justifiably proud of its examination results, both at K-S3 and at GCSE. Students are given a
great deal of individual help and attention, which leads to a high level of success. Results are not only
high but also have good value added.
K-S 3 – 2010
% Level 5 +
% Level 6 +
K-S 3 – 2009
% Level 5 +
% Level 6 +
English Maths
80
46
English
80
45
76
58
Maths
87
71
Science
85
56
Science
87
68
GCSE – 2010
% 5+ A* - C:
% 5+ A* - C (En,Ma:
% 1+ A* - G:
Av Points Score:
KS2-4 CVA
82%
70%
100%
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GCSE – 2009
% 5+A* - C
% 5+A* - C
% 1+A* - G
Av Points Score:
KS2-4CVA
73%
58%
100%
422.4
1001.5
FURTHER INFORMATION
There is total support from the parents and governors of the School that students should wear uniform:
details are published in the School Handbook which is supplied to parents who are considering the
transfer of their child to Mullion School. The Handbook also contains an invitation to play an active part
in Mullion School Association; details about the curriculum, the House system and School Council; how
to claim for free school meals; transport arrangements; daily routine etc. A section of the Library is
reserved for information of interest to parents.
The demography of the Lizard Peninsula means that for the next few years the school will have an
intake of about 90, instead of 120 pupils. This is despite that fact that some 25% of our intake
comes from outside the catchment area, with parents deliberately choosing to send their children to
the school because of its small size, good exam results and caring ethos. In the last few years, we
have carried out two voluntary redundancies and this exercise may need to be repeated in the
future.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about Mullion or you would like to
arrange a visit.
Mike Sandford
Headteacher
THE LIZARD COAST
Church Cove is flanked by the Mullion Golf Course (on National Trust owned grassy Gunwalloe
Towans) and close to it are two places well worth seeing - Poldhu Cove and Cury. POLDHU COVE
is a deeply indented bay with a splendid beach and green-topped cliffs extending seaward on either
side. It affords perfect swimming and sunbathing and is very much a children’s beach. It was from
Poldhu that Marconi made his first long-distance radio signals - to St John’s Newfoundland and
Sydney - and here now stands the Marconi Monument. It is a National Trust property. CURY,
which is a mile inland, is a tiny hamlet but with an ancient church worth the trouble of a detour to
visit.
Back to the coast and we come to MULLION, one of the best know villages of the Lizard Peninsula.
Mullion village is a mile inland but it extends towards the coast and at Porth Mellin one comes
down to Mullion Harbour, a pocket-handkerchief of a harbour protected by sturdy break waters and
with the rugged Mullion Cliff leading the eye around towards Mullion Island offshore. Much of this
coastal scenery is National Trust property - to the north is beautiful Polurrian Cove and south,
beyond Mullion Cliff, is Predannack Head.
Mullion is a popular holiday resort with hotels and guesthouses, shops and, indeed, the look of a
town about it. In its centre is the parish church of St Melanus, a building that has a ‘dog’s door’
among its features, a beautiful wagon roof and one of the finest groups of richly carved bench
ends.
“Mullion is a good school with many outstanding features, because it is led and managed in an
exemplary way. The pupils are splendid ambassadors for the school, keen to explain why they rate
it highly and to express their appreciation. Standards are high and pupils are making exceptional
progress in Years 7 to 9, with their achievement in Maths and Science among the best in the
country. The excellent atmosphere of a safe, well disciplined school where adults and young
people people work harmoniously together in friendly and supportive ways creates a very positive
learning environment.” OFSTED April 2007.
Mullion School opened in September 1978. It provides secondary education for all students from the
nine primary schools on the Lizard Peninsula as well as attracting pupils from outside the catchment
area. The building is designed for a four-form intake of 120 students per year (Group 5). It will
accommodate up to 600 boys and girls between the ages of 11-16, and has facilities to cater for
children of all abilities and diverse talents. Students who wish to continue in full-time education at
16+ transfer to a Sixth Form Centre or to a Further Education College in the County.
CURRICULUM
A full curriculum is available to all students. Throughout the School students register in mixed ability
groups. In Year 7-8 students remain in these groups for most of their lessons; however, the timetable is constructed in such a way that it is possible for individual departments to re-group into bands
or sets. In Years 10-11 individual time-tables are constructed, following consultation with parents,
from a range of subject options and examination courses within the framework of the national
curriculum.
Road: M5 to Exeter
A30 / A390 to Truro
A38 / A394 via Truro to Helston
A3083 Lizard
Air:
Exeter / Plymouth / Newquay – then rail to Redruth
Rail: via Exeter – Plymouth to Redruth
Bus regular services from Redruth to Helston
A programme of Personal and Social Health Education is included for all students. Cross-curricular
themes and skills are woven into all schemes of work. Students are entered for public examinations
at a level which aims to extend the able, tutor the talented, and harness the enthusiasm of all; for our
concern is with the social and personal development of all our students, as well as for their academic
progress.
FACILITIES
The building provides all those specialist facilities that one would expect to find in a purpose-built
comprehensive school. All facilities are accessible to students in wheelchairs and the Audiology
Service has a room which has been equipped to support students with hearing impairment.
The School is well endowed with equipment. The Assembly Hall has a grand piano, flexible staging
arrangements and a production/lighting control room. Colour televisions and camera; sound and
video-recording equipment; film, slide and transparency projectors are available for the use of all
departments. Facilities for ICT include a computer network linking every classroom in the School,
Internet access for all students, video-disc equipment, modem links and three computer suites. Most
classrooms now have their own computer and ceiling mounted data projectors. In all we have some
150 computers giving a computer-pupil ratio of 4:1.
The School has one Variety Club Sunshine coach (14/15 seater) and is at present in the process of
acquiring a second bus.
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The school has won 6 awards for community work, the School Curriculum Award (1982 - 97) and the
Charter Mark ‘for excellence in public service’ was renewed in 1995. We also received the TES
recognition for Annual Report to Parents (1993/4/6). More recently we have gained Investors in
People status (2004; 2007), the Quality in Study Support Award (2004) and Dyslexia Friendly School
(2005), and Healthy Schools (2007). Having achieved the difficult task of raising £50,000 in
sponsorship we became a Specialist School in the Performing Arts of Dance, Drama and Music on
the 1st September 2005, and we have just been re-designated for a further 3 years, from September
2010.