Appleton Academy is a mixed

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for pupils aged 3 to 16. It is located in Wyke in the

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, in the

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. The school is named after Sir

Edward Victor Appleton Sir Edward Victor Appleton (6 September 1892 – 21 April 1965) was an English physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1947) and pioneer in radiophysics. He studied, and was also employed as a lab technician, at Bradford College from 1909 to 1911. He w ...

, a

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who won the

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in 1947. The school was formed in 2009 from the merger of Wyke Manor School (

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) and High Fernley

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. The school moved into new buildings in 2012. It is an

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that is sponsored by the Exceed Academies Trust. Appleton Academy offers

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and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils.

References

External links

Appleton Academy official website
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