East Bergholt High School
East Bergholt High School is a secondary school with academy status East Bergholt, Suffolk, 11 miles (18 km) north of Colchester, Essex, and nine miles (14 km) south of Ipswich, Suffolk. It has 880 students. The current headteacher is Mr Colin Turner.HistoryThe school opened on its present site in 1957/8 as East Bergholt Modern School. It replaced a Victorian-built school at Burnt Oak, East Bergholt, at the junction of Flatford Road and White Horse Road.East Bergholt Modern School took children aged 11–16 from East Bergholt and surrounding villages, including Brantham, Bentley, Capel St Mary, Raydon and Holton St Mary. Many of these villages had their own primary schools. These children would not have passed the 11+ examination; children who passed that exam went to grammar schools in Ipswich, Colchester or Stowmarket. The school's focus at the time was on technical rather than academic ability, with a leaning towards rural and domestic science.The original school building - still in use in 2010 - had a hall, library, kitchens and about ten classrooms. Two of these were equipped for cookery/needlework and science/rural science. A second building opened in 1971, with a ceremony performed by Margaret Thatcher, then Education Minister. This building was largely open-plan with the exception of the music and art/craft rooms. A new science section on the first floor had three rooms, again open-plan. The school roll at the time was 350.