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Birkdale School is a Christian public school for boys in the city of Sheffield, Yorkshire in England, and is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. Image File history File links Birkdale. ...
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An independent school in the United Kingdom is a school that relies for all or most of its funding on non-governmental sources. ...
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The Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference (HMC) is an association of the headmasters or headmistressess of 242 leading day and boarding independent boys and coeducational schools in the United Kingdom, Crown dependencies and the Republic of Ireland. ...
History
Birkdale was founded in 1904 by the Reverend Maurice Asterley as a preparatory school for boys between the ages of 4 and 13 to provide a Christian education, an ethos it has stuck to throughout its 100 year history - it also employs staff on a preferred Christian basis. First housed in Birkdale House on Newbould Lane, it moved in 1915 to its present location in Oakholme House. Birkdale extended from just being a preparatory school in 1980, and established a Sixth Form in 1988, girls being admitted for the first time in 1995.[1] The school has gradually extended, and now is home to over 700 pupils, including approximately 50 girls in the co-educational Sixth Form. England, Wales, Northern Ireland The sixth form, in the English, Welsh and Northern Irish education systems, is the term used to refer to the final two years of secondary schooling (when students are about sixteen to eighteen years of age), during which students normally prepare for their GCE A-level...
Houses There is a House system employed at Birkdale, four in total, each named after old Head Masters: - Asterley House (1904-09)
- Griffiths House (Alban Griffiths 1909-33)
- Hall House (John Hall 1963-83)
- Heeley House (Howard Heeley 1943-63)
The Prep School has a slightly different house system, with a house dedicated to J.G.Roberts, Head Master 1933-43, and one to the family of Sir John Osborn, Conservative MP for Sheffield Hallam 1959–1987, of Osborn House, the current site of the Preparatory School. Sir John Holbrook Osborn (born 14 December 1922) is a British Conservative Party politician. ...
The Birkdalian The Birkdalian has since the mid twentieth century been the school magazine of Birkdale School. Currently published once a year late in the Christmas term it provides for current pupils and parents as well as Old Birkdalians and prospective parents an account of a year in the life of the school. Articles are written by staff and pupils and edited by a small group of staff and senior pupils.
Recent developments Birkdale managed to enter the First Division of independent schools results tables in 2005. There is a consistent stream of students gaining places at Oxbridge each year, due to highly successful annual A-level results. 2005 GCSE results were the school's best ever. Oxbridge is a name used to refer to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the two oldest in the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world. ...
The A-level, short for Advanced Level, is a General Certificate of Education qualification in England, Northern Ireland and Wales, usually taken by students during the optional final two years of secondary school (Years 12 & 13*, commonly called the Sixth Form except for Scotland), or at a separate sixth form...
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Birkdale School is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. The Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference (HMC) is an association of the headmasters or headmistressess of 242 leading day and boarding independent boys and coeducational schools in the United Kingdom, Crown dependencies and the Republic of Ireland. ...
The current Head Master is Robert Court, educated at St Paul's School, and a Cambridge graduate. He was the Deputy Head Master at Westminster School for 4 years prior to taking up the leadership at Birkdale.[1] St Pauls School is/was the name of many schools, starting with St Pauls School in London, England, which was re-founded in 1509 to replace an earlier foundation of 1103. ...
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The Deputy Head is Alastair Gloag, from King's School, Gloucester. He replaced Andrew Johnson, who left at the end of the Summer Term 2006 for the post of Headmaster at Stonyhurst College. // The Kings School Gloucester The Kings School, Gloucester is an independent school, taking students from the ages of 3-18, with around 800 students. ...
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Facilities
Sporting facilities The school has a selection of sporting facilities, most notably large playing fields at Castle Dyke located on the outskirts of Sheffield. A new £2,000,000 sports pavilion was completed here in 2006, offering reasonable new facilities. Castle Dyke is primarily used for football, rugby, cross country and during the summer, athletics and cricket.
On campus the school has a sports hall and an attached gym (for use of older pupils and staff only), containing weights and equipment for badminton, basketball and other sports.
During the 2007-2008 school year, the U15 Rugby team became one the most successful teams in Birkdale's history by reaching the national quarter final of the Daily Mail Vase.[2]
Buildings There are several large areas forming the Senior School Campus: - Johnson Building (Lower School common room, English, Maths, Religious Studies)
- Grayson Building and Sixth Form Centre (Modern Foreign Languages, Sixth Form Biology/Chemistry laboratoriess, Latin/Classics, Lecture Theatre)
- Endcliffe (History and Government, Politics)
- School House (Headmaster's House)
- Science Block (Middle and Lower School Sciences)
- Heeley Hall (Main school hall)
- Westbury (Art and Library)
- Caxton (Design Technology and Information Technology)
- Sports Hall
- Oakholme and Octagon (Music, Geography, Business Studies/Economics)
Note- Oakholme, Octagon, Caxton, Westbury, Heeley Hall and Science block are all in the same building.
Head Masters - Reverend Maurice Asterley (1904-09)
- Alban Griffiths (1909-39)
- Howard Heeley (1943-1963)
- John Hall (1963-83)
- Reverend Michael Hepworth (1983-98)
- Robert Court (1998-present)
Links With Nepal As part of the school's charity projects it has developed strong links with some institutions in and around Kathmandu in Nepal. Most notable are the Peace Garden School, for which the school has helped raise money for a new school building, and a leprosy colony on the outskirts of Kathmandu, where Birkdale is helping to build new facilities and most recently the colony's own Flower Field School. Money has also been granted to other schools to help purchase equipment or develop facilities. For other uses, see Kathmandu (disambiguation). ...
As with other school charity projects, the money is raised through charity events and fundraisers (as opposed to from the school accounts). Since the year 2000, trips have been run once a year to Nepal for pupils and teachers. These involve volunteer work teaching or otherwise working at the schools and leprosy colony as well as a trek in the Anapurna region and a visit to the Chitwan jungle. The trips are crucial in maintaining strong personal links with contacts in Nepal and helping charitable funds to be focused effectively. Annapurna is a 55-km-long massif whose highest point, Annapurna I, stands at 8,091 m (26,538 ft), making it the 10th-highest summit in the world and one of the eight_thousanders. Annapurna is a Sanskrit name which is translated as Goddess of the Harvests. ...
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As well as links with Nepal, the school has begun to form links with J. E. B. Stuart High School in Virginia, USA, following on from a teacher exchange, and in October 2007 a group of pupils traveled to visit the school. J.E.B. Stuart High School is a high school in Fairfax County, Virginia named after the famous Confederate cavalry leader J. E. B. Stuart. ...
Notable Old Birkdalians Sir Reginald Rex Carey Harrison, KBE (5 March 1908 – 2 June 1990) was an Academy Award- and Tony Award-winning English theatre and film actor. ...
Michael Edward Palin, CBE (born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries. ...
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Richard Allan (11 February 1966) was the British Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam from the general election of Thursday the 2nd of May 1997 until the dissolution of Parliament on the 11th of April 2005. ...
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