Outwood Academy Hemsworth, known previously as Hemsworth Arts and Community Academy and Hemsworth Arts and Community College, is a mixed

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and

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located in

Hemsworth Hemsworth is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. Historic counties of England, Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire and had a population of 13,311 at the 2001 census, ...

in the

City of Wakefield The City of Wakefield is a local government district with the status of a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. Wakefield, the largest settlement, is the administrative centre of the district. The population of the City of ...

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, England. The school is operated by

Outwood Grange Academies Trust Outwood Grange Academies Trust (OGAT) is a multi-academy trust (MAT) that operates forty schools (twenty-eight secondary and twelve primary) across northern England and the East Midlands. It is an exempt charity, regulated by the Department for E ...

, and the principal Toby Rutter.

History

The school was opened in 1921, set up by the West Riding County Council's Education Committee and known as Hemsworth Grammar School. (It is not to be confused with Archbishop Holgate's grammar school, founded in Hemsworth in 1546 which moved to Barnsley in 1888.) It was renamed Hemsworth High School when the school became comprehensive. In 2001 the school gained specialist status as an Arts College and was renamed Hemsworth Arts and Community College. The school converted to academy status in August 2013 and was renamed Hemsworth Arts and Community Academy. It was sponsored by the Wakefield City Academies Trust, a multi-academy trust. Hemsworth Arts and Community Academy offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of

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s and further BTECs. The school also offers

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courses to the local community. On 1 May 2018 the school became part of

, reopening as Outwood Academy Hemsworth.

Notable former pupils

Hemsworth High School

* David Wainwright, cricketer * Scott Askham, MMA fighter

Hemsworth Grammar School

* Derek Birley, educationalist and writer, Vice-Chancellor from 1984 to 1981 of the

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* Geoffrey Boycott, legendary Yorkshire and England cricketer (batsman) *

Phil Bull Phil Bull (9 April 1910 – 11 June 1989), born West Yorkshire, England, was a professional gambler, racehorse owner and publisher, who founded the Timeform private handicapping system for British horseracing. Since 1948, Timeform have produced ...

, gambler and publisher, who founded Timeform in Halifax *

Jeffrey Ennis Jeffrey Ennis (born 13 November 1952) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Barnsley East and Mexborough from 1996 to 2010, having been first elected at the Barnsley East by-election. Early life an ...

, Labour MP from 1997 to 2010 for Barnsley East and Mexborough *

Leonard Parkin Leonard Parkin (2 June 1929 – 20 September 1993) was a British television journalist and newscaster who worked for both the BBC and ITN. Born in Thurnscoe, West Riding of Yorkshire, he was educated at Hemsworth Grammar School, Yorkshire. H ...

, journalist at ITN in the 1970s and 1980s on the '' News at Ten'' and 5.45 News * Peter Toon, priest and theologian

References

External links

* Secondary schools in the City of Wakefield Academies in the City of Wakefield Educational institutions established in the 1540s 1547 establishments in England

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