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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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North Bromsgrove High School

North Bromsgrove High School is a coeducational upper school and sixth form located in the centre of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England.

History

Grammar school

The school dates back to the co-educational grammar school Bromsgrove County High School.

Comprehensive

It became comprehensive in 1970, when the grammar school took those at the secondary modern schools of Catshill, Parkside, and Watt Close. The school was rebuilt in 2007 at the same time as it was designated as a specialist Media Arts College.

Curriculum

It offers education for GCSE and A level courses. It accepts students aged 13 to 18 (Years 9-13) from middle schools in the local area and beyond. Nick Gibson was appointed Headteacher in 2019.

Facilities and key information

North Bromsgrove High School was rebuilt in 2007 as a PFI project ensuring a high standard of construction and annual maintenance. Its facilities management is currently led by BAM. It has five acres of playing fields, a sports hall, gym, dance studio, an Apple Mac suite, drama studio, equipment to deliver music technology, a radio station, and science laboratories. The creative suite has two food rooms, two design and technology rooms for the delivery of engineering and product design, a textiles room and three art and photography rooms. The area houses a specialist kiln and light room to support the curriculum with two technicians across the faculty.

The school has five computer suites to deliver Business Studies, Computing, Film Studies, Health and Criminology. They are supported by an in-house IT technical support team. The school has a modern foreign languages department that offer French and Spanish.

It has a house system made up of four houses voted for by students: Churchill, Attenborough, Rowling and Earhart.

The school also has a specialist mainstream autism base for 10 children that are allocated by the Local Authority from across Worcestershire and a large sixth-form accommodation which offers both traditional A Levels and Level 3 qualifications.

North Bromsgrove has an established range of extra-curricular activities including the Duke of Edinburgh Award. It produced a film for the local community over Christmas 2020 celebrating local heroes..

The new school was opened officially by an ex-pupil, the actor Mark Williams. He established an award in the name of former teacher Alan Holden and this is presented annually to the student who has shown the most dedication and commitment to the performing arts.

Catchment

The school's main feeder schools are Parkside Middle School and Catshill Middle School. Students also come from Alvechurch Middle School, Aston Fields Middle School and St John's Middle School as well as other middle schools in the surrounding areas of Redditch and Droitwich.

A significant number of students stay on into the school's successful Sixth Form, and applications are accepted from students attending other schools as well.

Notable alumni

Bromsgrove County High School

Catshill Secondary Modern School

Notable teaching staff

References

  1. ^ OFSTED report 2014 Retrieved 9 June 2015
  2. ^ "Headteacher's Welcome - North Bromsgrove High School - North Bromsgrove High School". Northbromsgrove.worcs.sch.uk. 3 June 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  3. ^ David Penny

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