Mark Rutherford Upper School & Community College

These can be worn after the Easter holiday. They are available from the School Shop in house colours. Buy one get one half price. £10 each

Sixth Form Parents' Evening
Yr 13 Parents' Evening Thursday 25th March

Yr 12 Parents' Evening Tuesday 30th March

Students should attend with their parents

Year 8 into Year 9

There will be several letters sent to you over the coming months. To keep up to date with the transition process please check here regularly. You can also read some FAQ's by using the link above

OFSTED Report

Please read the report we received from OFSTED following our inspection in February by clicking the link above

Students from Mark Rutherford Upper School travelled to Stevenage Leisure centre on Wednesday 24th February to take part in The Global Rock Challenge competition. The piece was performed by the schools' in house dance company ‘Marked Movement’ which is made up of twenty six students from years 9 through to 13.

Three of our Year 13 Drama students also joined the company as actors. The students worked for five months to create a dance theatre piece based on bullying and the effects this has on young people in everyday life. We also explored and presented different types of bullying from cyber bullying to physical abuse. Rock Challenge is a national competition and its aim is to highlight to young people that they can experience a natural high as opposed to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.

We have attended the competition 4 times in total and this is the third time we have been awarded Best Choreography gaining excellent feedback from the judges on how we used movement to portray the dance idea. We were also placed 3rd in the competition with a total of nine schools involved. The piece is being showcased in this year’s annual Dance Display which is on Tuesday 22nd and Wednesday 23rd June 2010. We are extremely proud of the students and the hard work they have put in. We feel it was our best Year yet!

Please take time to click on the link above to read the full OFSTED report. The report makes for positive reading with the school being graded in 30 different areas of which 23 were good, 6 were satisfactory and 1 area outstanding.

"Academic mentoring is excellent. I was shown which levels my son was working at
in October and December. There is no hiding place for students in any subject due to
this thorough tracking system."

‘Our daughter has been given excellent
opportunities and experiences to pursue her particular interests in dance and sport in
extra-curricular activity sessions.’

‘I can’t praise this
school enough; their standards are very high and my child is doing extremely well
and is loving every minute of it.’