Belper School
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Belper School and Sixth Form Centre is a comprehensive school located in the town of Belper, Derbyshire, England.
Belper School is known for having a no uniform policy and a policy of calling the teachers by their first name. It is a secondary school and technology college which caters for around 1500 students between 11 and 18 years old. The headteacher is Mr Trevor Harding.
The school, previously known as "Belper High School" was created in 1973 from an amalgamation of an existing grammar school and two secondary modern schools. It was originally a 13-18 high school and took shape in a barely complete largely open-plan new building, built adjacent to the local sports centre, with the combined staffs of the three schools. In September 2006, the school rebranded with a new logo as 'Belper School and Sixth Form Centre' and abandoned its use of the "four gates" logo.
In 1986, the school merged with its two feeder middle schools to become Belper School, an 11-18 school based on two sites, later reduced to one. In 1994 it became one of the first group of Technology Colleges and remains so today. Support from Thorntons and other local firms has helped the school remodel most of its accommodation to suit an 11-18 school population and the demands of specialist school status.
It continues to expand in numbers and a new sixth form
block and science laboratories were added in 2002, and a new £1.4 million art block was opened in 2006.
On Wednesday 17th September 2004, the school made national news after a chemical spill in the science department. Iodine crystals were dropped by a lab technician - two pupils had minor burns and 36 were sent to hospital.
Famous alumni include Ross Davenport.
