| Type | Voluntary aided secondary modern |
|---|---|
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Headteacher | John Cornally |
| Specialism | Maths and computing[1] |
| Location | Urban Road Altrincham Greater Manchester WA15 8HT England |
| DfE URN | 106376 |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 754[2] |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Ages | 11–16 |
| Website | bth.trafford.sch.uk/new/index.php |
Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College is a secondary school based in Altrincham, Greater Manchester. The school specialises in maths and computing, and is named after Blessed Thomas Holford, a 16th-century priest from Cheshire.[3] The college has a strong Catholic identity,[4] and all pupils are required to wear uniform.[5] On Wednesday the 21st of October Laura White an ex contestant on the X Factor came into BTHCC to promote her new single "You Should Have Known" alongside some other songs which the whole school were present for.
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As a maths and computing specialist school, the college puts special emphasis on maths and computing, and follows the Key Stage process. At Key Stage 3 in year 7 & 8, the pupils take the following subjects:
For GCSE, the pupils take core subjects, and can choose from a variety of additional subjects, including history, geography, art, child care, physical education, food technology, business studies, resistant materials, electronics, music, dance, textiles, French, German, Japanese, Spanish. BTEC courses for art and sport are also available.[6] In 2006, the school was below national average for Key Stage 4.[1]
The college has a strong Catholic identity, and admissions to the school are based on a willingness on behalf of the applicants to be educated with a Catholic ethos. There is a strict order of priority for admissions to the college, favouring those who have had baptised Catholic, and have been at local Catholic junior schools. The school includes non-compulsory religious education in the syllabus as one of its core values, and has a weekly mass on Thursday mornings.[6] the school has also worked with their partner school "notre dame school" based in Uganda in Africa, raising just under £6000 which bought the Ugandan school solar panels and other equipment.
The school has a UEFA-standard FieldTurf artificial grass football pitch which was opened in April 2007 by Bobby Charlton.[7] The pitch, which cost £1 million to install, was used by the England national football team for training prior to an away game against Russia at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, as it uses the same surface as the Russian pitch.[8]
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