“ Students leave well equipped as citizens, ready to continue their studies and well prepared for employment ”

Ofsted 2006

Valentines High School

News at Valentines

News at Valentines
It's Official - We Invest in People

It's Official - We Invest in People

Valentines High School has just received notification that we were successful in obtaining Investors in Peo... more

Keeping in Touch with Parents

Keeping in Touch with Parents

As you will know, we try very hard to improve the service that we deliver to parents by communicating as fr... more

Valentines Supports Children in Need

Valentines Supports Children in Need

On Friday the 16th November, students and staff came to school dressed in non uniform, contributed a pound ... more

Valentines Gallery

Valentines Gallery
  • Basketball, one of the many sports
  • Maths Matters
  • Striving to win
  • Brand new state of the art building
  • Team sports are important
  • AfL is at the heart of what we do



Accessibility:

Access keys

If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 on a PC, press alt and the access key character at the same time

If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or higher on a PC, press "alt" and the access key character at the same time, then press the enter key

If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 on an Apple Macintosh, press ctrl and the access key character at the same time

For Netscape 6 and Mozilla, use the alt key on a PC, or the ctrl key on an Apple Macintosh

For FireFox 2.0 (and above) use shift + alt and the access key character at the same time

The following keys are mapped for your convenience

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skip navigation
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Homepage
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About us
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Parents & Carers
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VI Form
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News at Valentines
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Events at Valentines
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Contact us
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Accessability information (this page)
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Site map

Keyboard Navigation

Using the keyboard for navigation is often handy and quick to use.

There are a few simple techniques for navigating in this way:

  • The backspace (delete) key can be used in the same way as the back button in your browser. Using shift + backspace works in the same way as the forward page button.
  • The tab key can be used to navigate through links. Each successive keypress will take you to the next available link in the page. Using shift + tab reverses this effect and moves to the previous link.
  • Accesskeys as described earlier are very handy and can be quicker to use than mouse navigation.
  • The up and down cursor keys (arrows) can be used to scroll the page up and down rather than having to use the scroll bar.

Speech enabled

This site has been optimised for use with all speech enabled programs and browsers.

Increase the font size

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5+ for Windows

Method One

  1. Click on the Tools menu
  2. Click on Internet Options
  3. Click on the Accessibility button (on the General tab)
  4. Click in the Ignore font sizes specified on Web Pages checkbox
  5. Click on the OK button to close the Accessibility dialog box
  6. Click on the OK button to close the Internet Options dialog box

Method Two

  1. Click on the View menu
  2. Point to Text Size
  3. Click on Larger/Largest to increase and Small/Smallest to decrease
  4. Please note if you do not like the colour contrast between background and text, you can follow the first tree stages in Step One described above and select Avoid colours specified on web pages.

Netscape Navigator 4+ for Windows

  1. Click on the View menu
  2. Point to Text Zoom (100%)
  3. Click on your preferred text size or click on the smaller/larger options until you find a size with which you are comfortable.
  4. Further Accessibility Preferences, including changing the colours used, can be chosen by clicking on the Edit menu, selecting Preferences and expanding the Appearance category at the top left of the dialog box. Expand the category either by clicking on the + sign or by double-clicking on Appearance.

Microsoft Internet Explorer for an Apple Macintosh

  1. Click on the Edit menu
  2. From the options menu which appears, select Preferences
  3. Click on Web Content
  4. Click on the Show style sheets checkbox to remove the tick
  5. Return to the list of Preferences
  6. Click on Web Browser
  7. Select Language/Fonts
  8. Select the font size you require

Mozilla Firefox

Method 1

  1. Click on the View menu
  2. Select Increase/Decrease Text Size until you are comfortable

Method 2

  1. Hold down the Control (Ctrl) key and press the Plus ( + ) key to Increase
  2. Hold down the Control (Ctrl) key and press the Minus( - ) key to Decrease

Opera

  1. Click on the View menu
  2. Point to Zoom
  3. Click on the appropriate size in the list
  1. Hold down the Control (Ctrl) key and press the Plus ( + )* key to Increase
  2. Hold down the Control (Ctrl) key and press the Minus ( - )* key to Decrease

Low Resolution / Text version

This site is text based and has some imagery added by way of the stylesheets. Images and the stylesheet can be turned off to provide low resolution versions without the need for seperate pages.

If you experience any problems with this site, please contact us and let us know. We will endevour to correct any problems in as short a timescale as possible