Our Lady's R.C. High School, Royton
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| Our Lady's R.C. High School | |
| Motto | Mater Dei (Mother of God) |
| Established | 1961 |
| Type | High School |
| Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic |
| Location | Oldham Greater Manchester England |
| LEA | Metropolitan Borough of Oldham |
| Students | 1,200 (approx.) |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Ages | 11 to 18 |
| Website | School website |
Our Lady's R.C. High School is a coed Roman Catholic high school and sixth form for 11-18 year olds, located in Royton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. The school is a specialist school in Mathematics and Computing, and currently contains over 70 members of staff, with over 1,200 students. The sixth form college offers 19 (as of the 2007/08 academic year) courses. The current head teacher is Mr. Whitaker who joined the school in 2003.
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[edit] History
The school was founded in 1961 as a secondary modern school with 259 pupils. The first head teacher was Mr Eric Critchley. In 1979 further building took place for the school to become an 11-16 comprehensive school for 700 pupils. In 1985 the school's sixth form college opened, converting the school into an 11-18 comprehensive school. The sixth form then had only 11 students. In 1986 the school was reorganised as part of an Oldham Roman Catholic Schools' reorganisation prompting further building work and raising the school's capacity to 800 pupils. In 2005 the school became a specialist school in Mathematics and Computing.
The school has just recently put CcTV in most places also in the toilets not the best place to put them as in boys toilets in science block, the cubicle nearst to the door the camera looks straight into tht cubicle, not nice isit?
[edit] Teachers
Headteachers
- 1961 - 1975 Mr Eric Critchley
- 1975 - 1992 Mr Thomas Keogh
- 1992 - 1995 Mr Joseph Cosby
- 1995 - 2002 Mr Brendan McGowan
- 2003 - 3000 Mr Roger Whitaker
Deputy Heads
Danny Stone Kyle Ogden Rebecca Whitehead
[edit] School Council
Members of the school council are selected from across the school, ranging from Y7 to Y11. A Sixth Form council is crafted from Senior Prefects, with four members of the Sixth Form (Y13) selected as Head Boy/Girl and Deputy Head Boy/Girl.
[edit] Form groups
The pupils in each year are divided into form groups for pastoral support. There are eight forms, but variation in pupil intake means that some year groups use only seven of the eight forms. The forms are named after Roman Catholic saints, and are listed below:
- Becket (after Saint Thomas Becket) (Currently not in use)
- Campion (after Saint Edmund Campion)
- Fisher (after Saint John Fisher)
- Line (after Saint Anne Line)
- More (after Saint Thomas More)
- Plessington (after Saint John Plessington)
- Southworth (after Saint John Southworth)
- Ward (after Saint Margaret Ward)
[edit] School day
The school day at Our Lady's begins at 9am and finishes at 3.15pm (3pm on Friday's), with the lesson timetable arranged in fortnightly cycles, named "Week A" and "Week B". Lessons are termed "periods" and are one hour long (with the exception of period 2, which is 65 minutes long), with five periods per day. Break takes place for 15 minutes at 11:35am and there are two dinner intervals: one from 12:35 to 13:15 for year 7, 8 and sixth form students and one from 13:35 to 14:15 for year 9, 10 and 11 students.
[edit] Inspection Report
The school was last inspected by OFSTED in December 2006.[1]
[edit] Facilities
The facilities at Our Lady's are comparable to schools with similar grade performance. It was noted in the Ofsted report that money has been invested in new computers, moving away from iMac G3 and iBook G4 machines (running Mac OS 9) towards Windows XP based systems. Intel-based iMac's were recently purchased to assist with creative works in Information Technology.
As the school has grown, the two sites have been developed with new buildings. Older buildings include the Vaughan Street and Broadway buildings, whereas the Sixth Form/English blocks are a newer addition (extended recently). Developments have been made to cater for wheelchairs, include lift access in the Vaughan Street and Sixth Form/English buildings. Technology developments have been seen across the school, with the introduction of interactive whiteboard and projector systems. All teachers are provided with laptop computers, used for registration and communication, along with assisting in visual learning techniques.
Amongst the school community, it has often been rumoured and suggested that the Vaughan Street area be demolished and replaced with a playing field.[citation needed] New classrooms would then be built on the excess land at the Broadway regions of the campus.
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