Monk's Walk School
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Monk's Walk School is a comprehensive secondary school on the outskirts of Welwyn Garden City.
Relatively new, it was built in the 1960s and, contrary to popular belief, is not on the site of an old abbey. It has recently acquired a new headmaster—Mr. Phillip Bunn—and adopted the title of 'Specialist Science College'.
Monk's Walk consists of five blocks: A, B, C, D and E. When the school became a Science College the names were altered to Archimedes, Babbage, Curie, Darwin and Einstein.
Archimedes houses the departments of Maths, ICT, Music, History, Geography, and Physical Education.
Babbage, the largest, consists of Science, Languages, English, Drama, ICT and a Library which of late has acquired fingerprint recognition systems.
Curie has Music, Art, Religious Education, Business Studies, Geography, ICT and a large Sixth form Common Room for A Level students' relaxation and study time.
Darwin, the smallest, has but two: ICT and Design and Technology.
Einstein, the newest (only about 2-4 years old) has science and other forms of Design Technology in a two-storey modernised complex.
Other secondary schools in the area include Sir Frederic Osborn and Stanborough as well as a private school named Sherrardswood.
The school's annual student intake is approximately 220 eleven year olds of both sexes, with an estimated 1230 students throughout the school. It also has approximately 100 teachers and staff.
[edit] Interesting facts
In 2005–2006, Year 9 had the highest SAT grades the school has ever had.
The school is situated near the end of Knightsfield Road, Welwyn Garden City.
Although no abbey is ever thought to have been the school's namesake, a part of the local forest, Sherrardswood, is called Monk's Walk, and has been for longer than the school's existence.
The school uniform is a blue jumper, white polo shirt and black trousers. Before it was a grey jumper, a red polo shirt and black trousers.
Lessons finish at 3:20, except for year 7's who leave at 2:20.
From the School Year 2005-2006 there were 6, 50 minute lessons a day, but as of September 2006 it was changed to 5, 60 minute lessons a day to provide longer lessons for students. As well as this early Wednesday (2:20) was restricted down to Year 7. Before Years 7,8, 9 would leave early.
