Bishop Ullathorne RC School

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Bishop Ullathorne RC School

Motto	Soli Deo (For God alone)
Established	1954
Type	Secondary school
Religious affiliation	Roman Catholic
Headteacher	Miss Jane Byrne
Specialism	Humanities
Location	Leasowes Avenue Coventry West Midlands CV3 6BH England
Ofsted number	103742
Students	970 (approx.)
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	11 to 19
School colours	Black uniform. Black/red tie.
Website	www.bucsonline.co.uk

Bishop Ullathorne RC School was established in Coventry in 1954. In 2006 it was awarded specialist status as a Humanities College. It is the only school in the UK named after William Bernard Ullathorne. On the 10th July 2007 Bishop Ullathorne Year 9 Cricket team won the Coventry Cricket Cup against King Henry VIII winning their first ever cricket cup in the schools history.

At its peak it consisted of three separate schools, a Boys Comprehensive, a Girls Comprehensive and a Grammar School for those children who passed the Eleven Plus. These later became a Lower School, Middle School and Upper School for pupils of different ages.

The Grammar School later became the home of the Coventry School For The Performing Arts before being sold to Bovis Homes who built a housing estate on the land.

The school currently has approximately 970 pupils, and includes a sixth form college.

Bishop Ullathorne School achieved the highest SATS results for English in the whole of Coventry City (91%)

In 2007 the school gained the best results in its history

Although being a small school in comparison, the school has a rich history in sport, especially football. As well as producing premiership footballer Gary McSheffrey, it has a number of pupils former and present in academies around England.

The school has won many Coventry Schools cups in football as well as winning the West Midlands Schools cup.

In the past five years the school has been in The Coventry Evening Telegraph Cup final four times, winning it three times. A special win came in 2006 when it was the first final to be played at The Ricoh Arena. A 3-0 victory ensured their win.

The main gates of Bishop Ullathorne RC School are off Leasowes Avenue at the bottom of Moat Avenue, off the Kenpas Highway (A45). Finham Park School, with main gains on Green Lane, is close by as the crow flies, but it is on the other side of the Coventry to Kenilworth railway line to Bishop Ullathorne RC school. The school gates of the two schools are at 10-15 minutes walking distance apart, as there is no direct official access across the railway line. There is also said to be a rivalry against Finham Park Secondary School and Bishop Ullathorne RC School. There is such a rivalry, in past years there has been many fights between the two schools. The schools are in such close proximity to one another, that clashes between the two schools are commonplace. This has gone so far as that the schools have arranged 'half days' at the end of terms to be alternated, so the pupils do not leave early on the same day. It is commonplace, however, that this rivalry ends once at 6th form, as many pupils commute between schools for A Level lessons. In 2001, a major fight between the two schools made it to a news report on Midlands Today.