Pent Valley Technology College is located in Folkestone Kent and is a foundation, secondary modern school specialising in Technology. It takes both boys and girls aged 11-18.
 
Pent Valley is in its sixth year as a Technology College and is the first school in Folkestone to achieve this coveted Specialist School Status. Design & Technology, ICT, Mathematics and Science are our specialist subjects.
 
As a Technology College we aim to provide a service to the community as well as to our own students.
 
The specialist status has helped to raise standards of achievement and the quality of learning across the school and especially in Design & Technology, Science and Mathematics for all students across the ability range. These subjects contribute to whole school improvement by developing innovative approaches to teaching and learning. They develop and share good practice across the curriculum particularly between the specialist subjects.
 The school is organised into five smaller communities which we call our Mini Schools. Each student belongs to a mini school and stays within that community throughout their time at Pent Valley. Each Mini School has its own leadership team, specialist subject teachers, teaching assistants and administrative staff. Each Mini School also occupies its own set of buildings and arranges and hosts parent events such as celebration evenings. The ethos behind our Mini Schools is that each develops the strong relationships needed to encourage every student to achieve their full potential.
In 2010 as a school we have celebrated our fourth successive set of ‘best ever results’. Since 2006 each set of GCSE results has improved on the previous year’s results as shown in the graph below. We believe that the strong focus we have on ensuring that each student achieves their full personal and academic potential has enabled us to achieve these outstanding results.

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