Alun School

Our school is a co-educational comprehensive situated in the county town of Mold, Flintshire. The school roll is comprised of 250 students in each of the Years 7 to 11, together with almost 400 students in the sixth form. Alun School has an enviable record of academic success achieved with a fully comprehensive intake.

The school provides a high standard of facilities, including a sports centre with swimming pool, large playing fields and all-terrain pitch, excellent expressive arts studios, modern design technology workshops and extensive ICT facilities, as well as a well-resourced school library.

Our vision is to be a centre of educational excellence for all and we ensure that every student reaches their full potential in all aspects of school life. For these reasons, the rates for staying-on into the sixth form, and then progression into higher education, are consistently excellent.

Alun School Aims are..

• To maintain a culture of high expectations and excellence for all students.
• To enable all students to achieve excellent academic standards.
• To provide excellent and varied learning experiences.
• To ensure excellent levels of support and pastoral care in a safe and happy environment.
• To improve the school through excellent leadership and management.
• To promote the school as an excellent institution within the community that it serves.

The timetabled curriculum of 25 one-hour sessions per week has been arranged to serve two important principles. Firstly, that all children are of equal value and should be resourced accordingly; secondly, that all children should follow a broadly-based and balanced curriculum throughout the period of statutory education.

In Year 7, students are taught in mixed-ability groups for all subjects except mathematics, which groups according to ability. In Years 8 and 9, a mixture of broad banding, setting and mixed-ability groupings is used. In Key Stage 4, teaching groups are determined largely by the options choices and by examination requirements.