Laisterdyke High School

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Laisterdyke Business and Enterprise College
Headteacher	Mrs Joan Law
Specialism	Business and Enterprise College
Location	Thornbury Road Bradford West Yorkshire BD3 8HE England
LEA	Bradford
Ofsted number	107443
Students	1094
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	11 to 18
Website	http://www.laisterdykehigh.org.uk/
Coordinates: 53°47′47″N 1°42′53″W / 53.79635, -1.71459

Laisterdyke School is a secondary school and sixth form for boys and girls in Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK. The age range of the pupils is 11-18. The school currently holds Business and Enterprise College status, and also uses the name "Laisterdyke Business and Enterprise College".

Following the re-organisation of education in the local education authority (LEA) in September 1999 the school changed from a middle school for pupils aged 8 to 13 to its current designation. The school is oversubscribed and continuing to grow. In September 2002, the school admitted its first intake of sixth form students and became an 11 to 18 school.

1 Students
2 Facilities
3 Achievments
4 Pakistan Link
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Students

A high proportion of pupils (almost 80 per cent) are from ethnic minority backgrounds and almost all have English as an additional language. Most pupils come from Pakistani backgrounds with smaller numbers from Indian and Bangladeshi backgrounds. Other than English, the main languages spoken are Urdu, Punjabi, Pushto and Hindi.

[edit] Facilities

As part of their upgrade and new building development, the school has invested in ICT facilities for pupils, staff and surrounding schools.^[1]

[edit] Achievments

The school has won a Schools Drug Prevention Charter Award for its efforts in anti-drug education icarried out jointly with local units of the Rotary Club and the Soroptimists Club of Great Britain, as well as with the Bradford Bulls rugby club.^[2]

[edit] Pakistan Link

In December 2006, a delegation of educational professionals led by the University of Bradford travelled to Pakistan for a five-day International Education Conference. Representatives from Laisterdyke school were amongst the delegates. The conference was organised following the publication of a report entitled The Mirpur Connection in July 2006. One of its recommendations was to organise an International Educational Conference including practical workshops for teachers, children and young people.^[3] The purpose of that visit was to forge links between schools, colleges and Universities in Mirpur and Bradford and to provide a co-ordinated platform for close collaboration between organisations in the Bradford district and those in Mirpur.

Mirpur is important to many British Muslim communities in West Yorkshire because of the strong social and cultural ties between the communities. These ties began in the 1960s when the families of many Bradford citizens migrated to the region, mainly because of the development of the Mangla Dam, which flooded 485 villages in the 60s making 100,000 people homeless.