... an FE College and research that I have carried out into a secondary comprehensive school in Derbyshire. Structures and Systems 'While there are lots of ways of making the actual divisions in a big school, they tend to crystallise into two main groups. These are the schools which split "horizontally" and those which split "vertically" (Haigh, 1975).' A school which has a vertical structure often splits pupils into houses, and it is also often seen to split schools by upper, middle and lower school, each with its own head. A horizontal system splits up the children into year groups and will then be subdivided into manageable tutor groups. This system is also likely to have a head of year. Vertical System 'When the first comprehensive schools were opened in the 1950's it was seen that this new type of school would need new ways of working and new forms of organisation. A common ...

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