The Hermitage School

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The Hermitage School

North East Film Archive
Chester-Le-Street
1996
Sound

The students of the Hermitage Comprehensive school will go a long way to excel, but what's taking them all the way to Korea?

A film about the Hermitage Comprehensive school in Chester-Le-Street, exploring some of the academic, cultural and sporting subjects the school offers are areas in which pupils have excelled. The film also look the connections the school has made with the likes of Sunderland University and with another school in South Korea.

Educating the North East

Schools and colleges make the most of the fresh opportunities the new millennium brings.

For generations schools in the North East have prepared young people for careers in heavy industry, coal mining or the merchant navy. But with a change in the employment landscape towards the end of the 20th century educators have had to innovate to find new ways to prepare students for unpredictable futures and broader horizons.

10 videos in this collection

It's Your Life

Middlesbrough
1995

The Power of Partnership

North Shields
1996

Apprenticeships Return to Tyneside

Wallsend
1996