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Castlebrook High School is a comprehensive school located in Unsworth, in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England. Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ...
A Comprehensive school is a type of school providing secondary level education in England or Wales. ...
Unsworth is one of the areas subsumed into the Metropolitan Borough of Bury as part of the local government re-organisation of the 1970s. ...
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England which has a population of 2. ...
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A Local Education Authority (LEA) is the part of a council in England or Wales that is responsible for education within that councils jurisdiction. ...
The Metropolitan borough of Bury is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, in the northwest of England. ...
Ofsted logo The Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) is a non-ministerial government department, established in 1993 under the Education (Schools) Act 1992. ...
A Comprehensive school is a type of school providing secondary level education in England or Wales. ...
Unsworth is one of the areas subsumed into the Metropolitan Borough of Bury as part of the local government re-organisation of the 1970s. ...
The Metropolitan borough of Bury is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, in the northwest of England. ...
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England which has a population of 2. ...
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New Headteacher and Deputy
In the 2006-07 term, Castlebrook got a new headteacher, Mr. Roberts, this was to fill in the post that Mr. Gannon retired at the end of the previous term. Mrs Armstrong in April 2007 was also brought in for Mr. Rhys-Williams who also retired at the end of the previous term.
History The school originally opened in September 1971 and was originally called Unsworth Comprehensive School. Its initial enrolment was 146 pupils. In 1981, the school merged with Whitefield High School (aka Albert Road) and was renamed Castlebrook HighSchool.[1]
Intake and catchment It has a wide ranging catchment area with some pupils travelling from central Manchester or neighbouring Prestwich and Crumpsall. Some even come from as far as Bolton. However the majority of the school's intake is from the surrounding residential area which is a mixture of private owned post-war semi-detached housing and some local authority housing. The intake is very mixed, as with most comprehensives, some pupils are from very low socio-economic backgrounds whilst other are relatively middle-class. In recent years the school has been underperforming in the league tables although it is still highly regarded amongst many of the local residents. This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ...
, Prestwich is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, in Greater Manchester, England. ...
Crumpsall is a suburb some 3 miles to the north of Manchester, in the United Kingdom. ...
For the larger local government district, see Metropolitan Borough of Bolton. ...
Possible closure Throughout 2006, along with several other schools in the wider Bury borough, it had been under a sustained threat of closure. It is believed that there will be 2,000 fewer high school students in Bury by 2015, so Bury Council wanted to close two high schools in the area. It was possible that Castlebrook would amalgamate with nearby Philips High School, or that either Castlebrook or Philips will be closed.[2] The Metropolitan borough of Bury is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, in the northwest of England. ...
As of 2004, 952 pupils attend the school.[3] 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Notable alumni The actress Gemma Atkinson attended the school before landing her role in Hollyoaks. Also Trevor Sinclair attended Castlebrook, who was part of England's world cup squad in Japan/Korea 2002. Alex Hargreaves guitarist/songwriter with The Rascals. Gemma Louise Atkinson (born 16 November 1984 in Bury, Greater Manchester) is an English actress, and is also a glamour model. ...
Hollyoaks is a British television soap opera, first broadcast on 23 October 1995, on Channel 4. ...
Trevor Lloyd Sinclair (born 2 March 1973 in Dulwich, London) is an English footballer who currently plays for Cardiff City. ...
In the first series of the X Factor candidate Rowetta Satchell was interviewed, and it stated she did not attend Castlebrook High School, even though it is rumoured she did. The X Factor is a British and Irish TV music talent show contested by aspiring pop singers drawn from public auditions. ...
Rowetta Satchell (born 1966 in Manchester, England) is an English Black Jewish singer. ...
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Talent of the school The school have been known for their great musical and theatrical ability and have staged many productions, musicals and plays, from Hobson's Choice, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, and most recently in 2006 one of the first, if not the first, comphrehensive school to perform the musical Thoroughly Modern Milly. The School has also been known to create its own musicals and stage them themselves, for example in the year 2001 the school staged a producion (musical) called 'Sold Out' which was written by the performing arts staff of the school. Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theatre combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ...
A play (noun) is a common literary form, usually consisting chiefly of dialog between characters, and usually intended for performance rather than reading. ...
For other uses, see Hobsons choice (disambiguation). ...
My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, based on George Bernard Shaws Pygmalion. ...
This article is about the musical. ...
Mastertronic was originally a publisher and distributor of low-cost (budget) computer game software founded in 1983. ...
The performing arts are those forms of art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artists own body, face and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some...
Specialist Status Catslebrook is proud to have the speicalist status of Science and Technology College. That title provides extra GCSE options for older pupls as well as excellent opportunities for all pupils attending.
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