Glossopdale Community College

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Glossopdale Community College
Motto	An Exciting Education Is On Your Horizon
Type	Community secondary school
Principal	John Hart
Chair	R. Ryan^[1]
Specialism	Arts College
Location	SK13 7DR Glossop Derbyshire SK13 7DR England
LEA	Derbyshire
Ofsted number	112957
Gender	Mixed
Ages	11 to 18
Houses	Cavendish, Lowry and Westwood
School colours	House Colors: Green, Orange and Purple Uniform Colors: Black & White (with sun logo)
Website	www.glossopdale.org

Glossopdale Community College is a secondary school in Glossop, Derbyshire, England. The school is spread over three sites; Hadfield, Glossop and Talbot House. The youngest students attend Hadfield site on Newshaw Lane, Hadfield. When the students move into year 9 they move to Glossop Site on Talbot Road, Glossop. There is also a Sixth Form College in Talbot House, also situated on Talbot Road.The school is old and is in need of replacing. Its funding process is now controlled by the council and it is rumured that the school is in £600,000 in debt, although the school refruit this. The school is part of a pilot scheme which is called c3 and involves the yr7 and 8 students to take part in a completely diferent curiculam. The school has alos taken part in several teachers tv documentarys.

1 Specialist Arts School status
2 Houses
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Specialist Arts School status

In 2002 the school successfully applied to become a specialists Arts School. Thanks in part to the sale of two paintings by L.S. Lowry.

[edit] Houses

All students at Glossopdale are split into one of three Houses. These are named Lowry, Cavendish and Westwood. Each House is named after a family or person with some close association to either the school or the Glossop area. Brothers and sisters are placed into the same house and all the teachers have there own house group. Mr Hart is in Lowry. The school has a bad reputation in Glossop, and some people ven go as far to say that the students are scum but this is simply un true. The tutor groups are split into vertical tutoring with year 7 and 8 students in one and 9,10 and 11 in another.