Rainford High Technology College


Rainford High Technology College is a community secondary school and sixth form college located in Rainford, Merseyside, England.
The school specialises in technology, and has a tradition of producing competitive sports teams.
The school was recently rebuilt as part of the UK government's Building Schools for the Future programme.

Rainford Connect

Rainford Connect is Rainford's Virtual Learning Environment. Connect is one of the most advanced Secondary School VLEs in the UK and contains a wide range of interactive activities as well as access to student data. Connect is hosted and developed in-house by the school and is based on the Moodle LMS platform.

Rainford High Wind Band

Its largest organisation is the Wind Band for both brass and woodwind players. It is open to students of all ages and practices weekly in order to play in local primary schools, and also the main showpiece - the 'Summer Concert', usually held in July.
Vocal Group often performs in the Summer Concert as well. This group offers musical tuition for guitar, piano, brass, percussion and woodwind in order to promote musicianship amongst its students. Sixth Formers are also involved. The group participates in a regular 'Performance Evening' as well as charity music events, such as for Children in Need 2010.

Notable former pupils