Breeze Hill School

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Breeze Hill School
Type Community secondary school
Headteacher Bernard Phillips
Specialism Humanities College
Location Roxbury Avenue, Salem
Oldham
Lancashire
OL4 5JE
England
Ofsted number 105731
Students 774[1]
Gender Mixed
Ages 11 to 16
Website Breeze Hill School website
Coordinates: 53°32′05″N 2°04′57″W / 53.5348, -2.0824

Breeze Hill School is a mixed gender comprehensive secondary school for 11 - 16 year olds in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. The school is a specialist Humanities College, and serves over 750 students. The current Headteacher is Mr Bernard Phillips.

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[edit] Campus

The Breeze Hill School campus contains two main teaching blocks. The Year 7 Base is for new arrivals, and was created to ease the transition between primary and secondary school. The main teaching block serves students from Year 8 onwards.[2] Breezehill also has entensive playing fields and an Astro-turf pitch, where various sports are played by both students from the school and the local community.

[edit] History

In May 2001, a racially-motivated attack outside Breeze Hill School began a series of that escalated into a five-day period of rioting known as the Oldham Riots.[3][4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Breeze Hill School. Ofsted. Retrieved on 2008-01-15.
  2. ^ Inspection Report (PDF) p. 15. Ofsted (2004). Retrieved on 2008-01-15.
  3. ^ Ian Herbert. "In Oldham's 'no go' zone, all it took was a scuffle to set off a terrible night of rioting", The Independent, 2001-05-28. Retrieved on 2008-01-15. 
  4. ^ "Oldham's tarnished name", BBC News, 2001-05-28. Retrieved on 2008-01-15. 

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