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List Of Schools In Knowsley
This is a list of schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley in the English county of Merseyside. State-funded schools Primary schools *Blacklow Brow School, Huyton *Cronton CE Primary Academy, Cronton *Eastcroft Park School, Kirkby *Evelyn Community Primary School, Prescot *Halewood CE Primary Academy, Halewood *Halsnead Primary School, Whiston *Holy Family RC Primary School, Cronton *Holy Family RC Primary School, Halewood *Hope RC/CE Primary School, Huyton *Huyton With Roby CE Primary School, Huyton *Kirkby CE Primary School, Kirkby *Knowsley Lane Primary School, Huyton *Knowsley Village School, Knowsley *Malvern Primary School, Huyton *Millbrook Community Primary School, Westvale *Northwood Community Primary School, Kirkby *Our Lady's RC Primary School, Prescot *Park Brow Community Primary School, Kirkby *Park View Academy, Huyton *Plantation Primary School, Halewood *Prescot Primary School, Prescot *Ravenscroft Community Primary School, Kirkby *Roby Park Primary Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Borough Of Knowsley
The Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley is a metropolitan borough in Merseyside, North West England. It covers several towns and villages, including Kirkby, Prescot, Huyton, Whiston, Halewood, Cronton and Stockbridge Village; Kirkby, Huyton, and Prescot being the major commercial centres. It takes its name from the village of Knowsley, though its headquarters are in Huyton. It forms part of the wider Liverpool City Region. The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of Huyton-with-Roby Urban District, Kirkby Urban District and Prescot Urban District, along with most of Whiston Rural District and a small part of West Lancashire Rural District, all from the administrative county of Lancashire. It is known for Knowsley Hall and Knowsley Safari Park. History The modern-day borough of Knowsley was formerly composed of villages and towns in Lancashire dating back to 650 AD. The Earls of Derby have their ancestral home in the borough at Knowsley Hall, the surroundings of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockbridge Village
Stockbridge Village is an area of Knowsley in Merseyside, England. The population of the ward at the 2011 census was 6,018. It was the subject of an article in a special report by ''The Economist'' entitled "A new kind of ghetto", which described it a predominantly White area of high unemployment and low aspirations. History The original Cantril Farm council estate was built in the mid 1960s to rehouse some 15,000 people from inner-city slum clearances in Liverpool. It was part of a deal to rehouse some 200,000 people from inner-city Liverpool in new residential areas beyond the city's borders, with other families from inner-city Liverpool moving to other overspill places including Leasowe, Huyton, Kirkby, Halewood, Skelmersdale and Runcorn New Town from the 1950s into the 1970s. The land on which Cantril Farm would be built was purchased by Liverpool council in 1961 for a sum of £132,500. The first tenants arrived on the estate in 1965, but initially the estate lacked f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knowsley Community College
Knowsley Community College is a further education college based over three sites in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, in Merseyside, England. History The college was established in 1990 as a tertiary college, as a result of a merger between Kirkby College of Further Education and Knowsley Central Tertiary College. Today, the college has two main further education sites in Kirkby and Knowsley and previously a sixth form centre in Roby. Courses Courses offered by the college include A Levels, BTECs, apprenticeships and Access courses. Knowsley Community College also offers some higher education courses in conjunction with Edge Hill University. KCC Live KCC Live is a community radio station based in Knowsley Community College, broadcasting across Knowsley, surrounding areas such as Liverpool anonlineto 10 - 24 year olds. History KCC Live was launched on 1 December 2003 by Hywel Evans as the college radio station for Knowsley Community College. It broadcast on 1251 Medi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy, Whiston
St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy (formerly St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School) is a coeducational Roman Catholic secondary school located in Whiston in the English county of Merseyside. The school is named after Saint Edmund Arrowsmith, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Formerly St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School was located on Scotchbarn Lane. In 2010 the school relocated to a new building located on the site of the former Knowsley Higher Side Comprehensive School on Cumber Lane. The new-build was funded as part of the Building Schools for the Future programme, and the new school was named St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Centre for Learning. In 2018, the school was renamed back to St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School. St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School was a voluntary aided school administered by Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council. In 2019 the school was rated 'Inadequate' by OFSTED and was placed into special measures. In May 2021 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Prescot School
The Prescot School is a coeducational secondary school located in Prescot, Merseyside, England. It was previously called Prescot Grammar School. It was announced in late 2015 by the headteacher, Judy Walker, that the historic name and the link to the school's near half-millennium of tradition (which had been deprecated between 2009-2015 by the local authority) was being restored as a consequence of a successful application by the school for academy status. The official opening of the reformed school was on 28 April. The main historical source is local historian F. A. Bailey's 40 page pamphlet published to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the school in 1944 and reissued in 1971 under the title ''PGS 1544 - 1971'' with postscripts by G. Dixon and the then headmaster, J. C. S. Weekes. History Foundation The school was founded in 1544 by Gilbert Lathum, a local clergyman (later Archdeacon of Man) who left £140 in his will to fund a schoolmaster (at a stipend of £7 per year) to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Derby Academy
Lord Derby Academy is a coeducational secondary school. It has an academy status located in Huyton in the English county of Merseyside. Previously known as Knowsley Hey High School, in 2009 the school was merged with Bowring Comprehensive School to form Huyton Sports and Arts Centre for Learning on the site of Knowsley Hey. The school was completely rebuilt under the Building Schools for the Future programme. In February 2014 the school converted to academy status and was renamed Lord Derby Academy. The school is part of The Dean Trust which also includes Ashton-on-Mersey School in Sale as well as Broadoak School and Forest Gate Academy. In 2019 Lord Derby Academy was found to be "Requires Improvement" by Ofsted. They disagreed with this, which led to the delayed publication of the Ofsted Report. The report details how the leaders bear an over generous view of the school and how inadequate progress is being made by the pupils, at fault of the teachers. Notable former pupils Kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirkby High School
Kirkby High School is a Knowsley based co-educational secondary school educating pupils aged 11–16 years of age in the Kirkby area of Merseyside, England. History Previously known as 'Brookfield High School', in 2008 the school was merged with Ruffwood School to form 'Kirkby Sports College Centre for Learning' on the site of Brookfield. The school was completely rebuilt under the Building Schools for the Future programme. In September 2013 the school converted to academy status and was renamed Kirkby High School. Kirkby High School is in the borough of Knowsley which had been singled out by the government for the poor achievement of their students on the assessment targets the government preferred. Kirkby has served their students, who were from a largely disadvantaged, white working class community by entering them for the more vocationally targeted BTEC qualification. In 2013, the government 'reformed' the target. Only academic subjects examined in an end-of-course exam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halewood Academy
Halewood Academy is a secondary school in Halewood, Merseyside, United Kingdom, with over 1,100 students. The current principal is Mr I Critchley. History The school was built under the private finance initiative and opened in 2009 as Halewood Centre for Learning, but became an Academy in May 2013. In April 2015, Ofsted placed the academy in "special measures" following an 'Inadequate' inspection report, though a later inspection in April 2017 overall graded it as 'Good'. The Academy closed its sixth form in August 2017. In 2017 Halewood Academy joined The Wade Deacon Trust. In May 2022 an Ofsted inspection confirmed the school continued to be ‘Good’ Alumni Alumni of the school include Nadine Dorries Nadine Vanessa Dorries (''née'' Bargery, 21 May 1957) is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from 2021 to 2022 under Prime Minister Boris Johnson. A member of the Conservative Party, she .... References {{autho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Saints Catholic High School, Kirkby
All Saints Catholic High School is a Knowsley based Roman Catholic secondary school educating pupils aged 11–18 years of age in the Kirkby area of Merseyside, England. The school also operates a sixth form. History All Saints CCfL opened on 11 January 2010, following the closure of the Bewley Drive site in December 2009. The Bewley Drive site closed because of Knowsley's Building schools for the future scheme. All Saints followed the other 10 Knowsley schools in creating 7 new "centres for learning". Former schools St Gregory's School on Bewley Drive in Southdene, Kirkby merged with St Kevin's School Northwood to form All Saints Catholic High School. St Gregory's School was the first girls' catholic comprehensive school in England, in Southdene. St Kevin's RC School had over 2000 boys, and was the largest comprehensive school in England. Notable former pupils St Gregory's Catholic School * Angela Clarke (British actress) * Margi Clarke, actress * Sharon Maughan actress, mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |