Each year at The Haven High School is very busy and this past year has been no exception.

Here are just a few highlights from last year:

The school is now involved in a three year project with the government Department for Education and Skills to support our work on raising standards. This project enables us to link with other schools and to have extra money to fund additional work.

The governors and staff at The Haven High School see the prime purpose of their future plans as being

These are the means by which the school will work to achieve the following targets for the year ahead

With these targets as the challenge for the coming year, the governors and staff have drawn development plans in eight specific areas, each with a programme of action and outcomes. 

These plans can be summarised as:

We shall use our computerised systems and work with the Education Welfare Service to achieve over 90% attendance and reduced the level of unauthorised absence to less than 3%.

We shall use our Literacy Consultant to develop government strategies in helping pupils overcome the difficulties of low levels of literacy. This work will improve the ability of pupils to understand the work, help them make progress more quickly and encourage pupil motivation and attendance.

The school will build on the government numeracy strategy and, as with Literacy, will help support pupils' learning, their rate of progress and encourage motivation and attendance.

We aim to set a high standard in our work on Literacy and Numeracy and thereby achieve the Basic Skills Quality Mark in 2002.

Over the past few years, we have been very fortunate to attract high quality staff and we plan to make much greater use of the skills and abilities of Heads of Departments and Heads of Years, making sure that they are able to make a significant contribution to our school's future and our targets.

MONITORING AND EVALUATING

We have made much progress over the past few years on this crucial aspect of our work. This year we shall look particularly at the way we use information from classwork, homework and tests to make sure pupils are making progress in line with their level of ability.

We will work with all departments to look carefully at the courses offered to pupils in Years 10 and 11. We want to make sure that we meet the needs of the pupils and give them the best chance of exam success.

The systems of support for our pupils are already the envy of many other schools. We plan to enhance our support with the development of our own in-school unit to help pupils whose behaviour prevents them and others from learning.

We shall continue to work in partnership with Boston Grammar School in our bid to be recognised as a Joint Technology College. Both Haven High and Boston Grammar see this as a major new development for young people in Boston, offering them and the local community much better opportunities for success and future employment.

All of these different parts of the School Development Plan have been fully discussed by staff and governors and will involve a great deal of study and work over the next year, with the overall aim of improving the education offered to your child.

from the Local Authority

The Haven High School is maintained by Lincolnshire County Council and receives a budget to manage the school through a common formula applied to all secondary schools in the county. The governing body are responsible for deciding how the school will spend its budget. Once again, with careful management, the school has been able to allocate funds to cover the costs of staffing, resources, repairs and maintenance, as well as setting aside money in a fund for future years. The way in which the budget was spent in the financial year 1999 - 00 is shown below:

Item Expenditure

Teaching staff 925164

Support staff 150780

Property - repairs and maintenance 39180

Premises 106952 Supplies and Services 101953

Insurance, and other expenditure 29027

The Catering contract, which the school started operating in January 1996, has continued to be most successful, saving a substantial sum for the school and generating its own modest profit.