Welcome to Ratton School

A Performing Arts Trust School

Ratton is a highly successful and very popular Trust school with a specialism in the Performing Arts which serves the needs of students from all over Eastbourne. We have a reputation for excellence enshrined in our motto “Achieving Together”. At Ratton, high quality teaching and care ensure that our students are happy and able to develop their potential as confident, creative, and caring citizens.

Feel free to use this website to access resources and information about our fine school.

GCSE Pod

We are pleased to make available GCSEPod to our year 11 and year 10 students. GCSEPod has over 2500 GCSE specific podcasts which you can watch online on a school or home computer or download to play later on your iPod, iPhone, Blackberry or Android device. You can navigate the chapters to focus on specific areas, learn about each subject with audio, text and images and find out exactly which podcasts you need to prepare for forthcoming exams.

GCSEPod is FREE OF CHARGE to all Ratton School students and staff.

How to access:

1) Click here to go to the GCSEPod registration and login page
2) Register using your School email address (if you registered as part of the trial you do not need to register again. Simply ‘Sign In’).
3) After clicking ‘Sign up’, go to your School email account and find the email sent from GCSEPod. Click the activation link in the email and you will be automatically logged in

Once logged in you can view any of the podcasts by searching by subject or go to the ‘Prepare for my next exam’ area to find out exactly which podcasts are relevant to your exams.

Applying for free school meals

click here for more information - Apply Free School Meals

FROM TRUST SCHOOL TO ACADEMY

Following our consultation with staff, parents and stakeholders on the possibility of Ratton School becoming an Academy the Full Governing Body met on Tuesday 6th March 2012. At that meeting, after careful consideration, the Governors made the decision to make an immediate application to the Department for Education, to convert Ratton School to an Academy. The Governors have appointed a working group to manage the process subject to ratification by the Full Governors and the Ratton Trust. We anticipate the application process will take up to four or five months. During this time the school will be keeping parents, carers and stakeholders informed of the progress of the application via the school website.

Peter Lindsey
Chair of Governors

Academy conversion information

Ratton Graduation Booklet

Click here - Graduation Booklet

Job Description for Community Leadership

Click here - Community Leadership Job Description

Text For Help A new support service from Care and Guidance.

Read about it here - Text For Help Letter

Record GCSE Results

Students achieving 5+ A*-C including English and Mathematics:

2009 52%, 2010 54%, 2011 60%

Headteacher David Linsell said, "we are delighted with our results. Once again, the pass rate has improved faster than the national average and we have exceeded our targets. These are our best ever results and we are proud to be able to say that we have significantly improved the life chances and opportunities of our students".

The determination, skill and efforts of staff, students and parents has led to record levels of success; ‘achieving together’ in action.

Special congratulations go to the following students for their exceptional results – Zofia Gibbins and Jacob Bradbrook both achieved 10 A* grades. William Mitchell, Bryony Bruzon-Edwards, Polly Davis, Aidan Pittman and David Martin achieved 10 or more A grades with 6 or more A* grades. Jessica Woodrow, Alexi Filsell, Phoebe Cunningham, Nancy Williamson, Ashley Mignot, Katy Lambert and Milena Thorburn all achieved 8 or 9 A* and A grades.