"Sports College Status has had a tremendously positive impact on pupils and the Torbay community as a whole." (OFSTED September 2006)

Specialist Sports status involves a clear expectation that the curriculum centre of excellence will drive whole school improvement. Its role is to spread best practice and raise standards, delivering the National strategy through links with PE, School Sport and Clubs.

Specialist Status will aim to:

• raise attainment for all students both in Physical Education and across the whole curriculum;
  strengthen and develop the quality of teaching and learning
• strategies in Physical Education and use them to help raise standards throughout the school;
• extend opportunities for vocational learning and enrichment activity through Physical Education and Sport through links with sponsors, business, employers, further and higher
  education institutions and organisations related to the specialism;
• develop within the school, characteristics which signal its specialist ethos and identity and which are reflected in the school's mission and objectives - through encouragement of increased take-up and interest in Physical Education and Sport;
• strengthen collaboration with partner schools, primary and secondary, to provide or facilitate high quality learning opportunities and outcomes in Physical Education-by sharing specialist facilities and resources, enhancing further the quality of teaching and developing and disseminating good practice;