TABOR SCIENCE COLLEGE

'Tabor Science College' is a high school located in Braintree, Essex, England. The head teacher is Steven T. Clark, Britain's youngest head teacher.
The school building is brand new, shares facilities with Braintree Leisure Centre, and has been built in three stages. Stage one contains 30 classrooms, and was intended to be the new building for the Senior section of the high school. The second stage was completed when the Senior and Middle schools merged, and contains a similar amount of classrooms, and the Third stage (a new building built for the languages faculty was completed in the summer of 2006.
In 2005 the school had a "Celebration Day", in which several bouncy castles, dodgems cars, a simulator, magician Michael J. Fitch and other such attractions littered the school grounds for an afternoon. This is now a yearly event.
The School has recently developed a new Reward Scheme and Mentoring system, All of which pioneered by Steven T. Clark. The school is now also split into houses, Turner house, Brunel House, Austin House and Redgrave house. These houses are then split into forms in which pupils from all years are placed within a form (about six from each year).
The family ethos created by this innovative development has been very beneficial.
The students now wear new badges on blazers, featuring the school logo and a coloured rim depending on the house the student belongs to. Brunel = Blue, Redgrave = Red, Austen = Green, and Turner = Yellow. The house names were suggested by staff and pupils and decided on by the senior management team, one - an artist, another - a sportsman, another - an engineer and the last an author. The design differs from the old badge, the new logo consists of a round maroon patch with an uppercase 'T'. Unconfirmed accounts speculate that this T stands for Tabor, although this is not clear. This is then surrounded with a white circle. The badges themselves are square.
The School has a teacher/student mentoring programme for year 11's in which under-achievers are helped to achieve their potential. This has been a very successful scheme and many pupils have voiced their appreciation for the help given.
The GCSE results from Tabor Science College have been extremely well regarded, proving the school's brilliance and the high standard of teaching.
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The school is an RM center of Excellence, and a Cambridge Partner School. It has just over 1000 pupils, of which:
- 3% are Senior Prefects,
- 6.5% are Prefects,
- ~1% are Student Leadership members, and
- 5% are Mentors.
The school was also voted best in Essex in an Essex FM competition.

External links

★ Tabor Science College's official website

★ BBC NEWS league tables for Tabor Science College