Newhouse Academy is a

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located in Heywood,

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, England.

History

Siddal Moor School opened in September 1968. It was formed from Heywood Grammar School and the Bamford Road and Hornby Street

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s. It was originally to be the new site of the

grammar school A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented secondary school ...

. The former site of the grammar school on ''Hind Hill Street'' became the Hind Hill Centre. It was demolished in 2006 and is now th
Phoenix Centre
As part of the specialist schools programmes, Siddal Moor School was awarded

Sports College Sports Colleges are senior secondary schools which promote sports alongside secondary education. United Kingdom Sports Colleges were introduced in 1997 as part of the Specialist schools programme, Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdo ...

status and was renamed Siddal Moor Sports College. The school was allocated money for the refurbishment and rebuild. The project included a new building at the front for teaching and administration with the rest of the school being refurbished. The project was finished in 2011. Previously a community school administered by

Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council Rochdale Borough Council is the local authority of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale in Greater Manchester, England. It is a metropolitan district council, one of ten in Greater Manchester and one of 36 in the metropolitan counties of England ...

, in April 2020 Siddal Moor Sports College converted to academy status and was renamed Newhouse Academy. The school is now sponsored by the Hollingworth Learning Trust.

Notable former pupils

Siddal Moor Sports College

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, actor. *

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Siddal Moor School

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, singer and actress

Heywood Grammar School

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, former captain of Lancashire Cricket Club * George Bellairs (Harold Blundell), author * Charles Booth CMG LVO, Ambassador to Burma from 1978–82 and High Commissioner from 1982-85 to Malta *

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, and former President of the

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, striker for

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in the 1970s *

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Sir

Malcolm Pledger Air Chief Marshal Sir Malcolm David Pledger, (born 24 July 1948) is a retired Royal Air Force officer. RAF career Pledger was educated at Heywood Grammar School (became part of a comprehensive in 1968 and is now Siddal Moor Sports College) and ...

OBE AFC, Station Commander from 1990-92 of

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, and

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from 2002–04 *

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Dean of Monmouth Newport Cathedral (Welsh; ''Eglwys Gaderiol Casnewydd''), also known as St Gwynllyw's or St Woolos' Cathedral, is the cathedral of the Diocese of Monmouth within the Church in Wales, and the seat of the Bishop of Monmouth. Its official title is ...

since 2012 *

Wilfred Turner Wilfred Turner, (10 October 1921 – 26 June 2015) was a British diplomat in the second half of the Twentieth century. He was educated at Heywood Grammar School and the University of London. He was with the Ministry of Labour from 1938 to 194 ...

CMG CVO, High Commissioner to Botswana from 1977–81 *

John Welsby John Kay Welsby, CBE (26 May 1938 – 4 October 2021) was Chief Executive of the British Railways Board from 1990 until 1998; and its Chairman from 1995 to 1999. Welsby was educated at Heywood Grammar School, the University of Exeter and the U ...

CBE, the last Chief Executive from 1990-96 of the

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, and President from 1999-2002 of the CILT

References

External links

Siddal Moor Sports College

Heywood Grammar School

EduBase

News items

Demolished former school

Teacher dies in plane crash in July 2004

Council signs Building Schools for the Future contract
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