St Ambrose Barlow RC High School is a
secondary school
A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ...
located in
Wardley,
Greater Manchester, England. The school is named after St
Ambrose Barlow
Ambrose Edward Barlow, O.S.B. (1585 – 10 September 1641) was an English Benedictine monk who is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church. He is one of a group of saints canonized by Pope Paul VI who became known as the Forty Martyrs of En ...
, one of the
Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
The school serves a wide range of parishes including St Charles' RC Primary School in
Swinton, St Mark's RC Primary School in
Pendlebury
Pendlebury is a town in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England. The population at the 2011 Census was 13,069. It lies north-west of Manchester city centre, north-west of Salford and south-east of Bolton.
Historically in Lancash ...
, St Mary's RC Primary School in
Swinton, St Luke's RC Primary School in
Irlams o' th' Height, St Edmund's RC Primary School in
Little Hulton and Christ the King RC Primary School in
Walkden. St Ambrose Barlow has been accredited with many national awards including National Teaching School status, the School Inclusion Award and Dyslexia Friendly Status. The majority of pupils are baptised Roman Catholic.
History
The school was established in the 1950s on land at Shaftesbury Road in nearby
Swinton.
In April 2013, the school moved into a new building in
Wardley near Swinton.
St George's RC High School closed in August 2014 with most pupils transferring to St Ambrose Barlow.
Ofsted
In 2018 an inspection of the school was carried out in accordance with Section 48 of the Education Act 2005. The Diocese of Salford awarded the school "Good" in all seven categories.
At the latest inspection carried out by Ofsted in 2018, the school was rated as "requires improvement"
Leadership
Executive Principal, Mrs. C. M. Garside, was awarded CBE for Services to Education in January 2015.
Mr Ben Davis was appointed as the Headteacher of St Ambrose Barlow in 2015.
In popular culture
The old site of St Ambrose Barlow was used for filming the CBBC show ''
4 O'Clock Club
''4 O'Clock Club'' is a British comedy drama and musical children's television series set in a secondary school, which premiered on 13 January 2012 on CBBC. A second series began airing on 4 January 2013, and the third series premiered on 20 Dec ...
'' for both interior and exterior shots.
The site was first used for filming in the summer of 2013 for the third series which began airing in January 2014. The site continued to be the building for the fictional Elmsmere Manor High School until 2017 when production moved to a former school in
Walkden.
The former site is currently used as the set for series 11 of ''
Waterloo Road'', which was broadcast on BBC One in early 2023.
References
External links
Department for Children, Schools, and Families page about the schoolSt Ambrose Barlow RC High School, Ofsted report
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Catholic secondary schools in the Diocese of Salford
Secondary schools in Salford
Voluntary aided schools in England
Educational institutions established in 1955
1955 establishments in England