Admissions procedure: in accordance with Durham LEA guidelines and procedures.

Leadership Team

The Buildings

Tudhoe Grange School is situated on two sites within walking distance of each other. For the first three years of their time with us, students are taught the majority of their lessons in our Durham Road premises. Years 10 and 11 then move into the St Charles Road premises. Thus we get to know our students as individuals and they each have the opportunity to develop in a small social environment and to build up relationships between themselves and with teaching staff.

Our Durham Road Premises are both traditional and substantial and fully equipped to teach all the National Curriculum subjects. Facilities include refurbished specialist Information Technology rooms where pupils can improve the skills learnt at Junior School on compatible computers. There are Science laboratories, a Music Suite with adjoining practise and recording rooms, Technology rooms, an excellent stage, a gymnasium, a Resource Centre and recently refurbished English and humanities rooms. The buildings are set in extensive playing fields.

Our St Charles Road Building is only half a mile away on a most pleasant site. Students have access to laptops, three air conditioned computer rooms, a modern Resource Centre, a very modern science block, and extensive Technology suite with the latest equipment for computer-aided design. Classrooms are equipped with interactive whiteboards and data projectors. There is also a conference room and interview room. All help to create the right environment for all our students to achieve their best.

A Secure Environment

We want all of our students to feel happy and secure while they are with us. We take any suggestion of bullying very seriously and work together to ensure that there are no victims in Tudhoe Grange. There is a F.A.B. group of trained peer mentors on both sites (Fight Against Bullying) and Tudhoe Grange has acquired the Anti-Bullying Award for the second year running as a result of the work being done to combat bullying.

We have:
a security fence
a security manager
close links with Spennymoor Police
electronic security locks for entrances/exits
an alarm system

Transport

The L.E.A. arrange for the school buses. Students are provided with a bus pass that must be shown to the driver. Unsatisfactory conduct on the buses may result in the right to free travel being withdrawn.

Complaints Procedure

All complaints must be directed, in the first instance, to the Head Teacher. If you are not satisfied with the way a complaint is dealt with by the Head Teacher, you should write to the Chair of the Governing Body, or to the Director of Education, County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UY.