Priesthorpe Specialist Sports College

Priesthorpe Specialist Sports College
Motto Pride in priesthorpe
Type secondary school
Headteacher Mr Ken Hall
Chair Mr I Featherstone
Specialism Sport
Location Priesthorpe Lane
Farsley
Pudsey

West Yorkshire
LS28 5SG
England
Local authority City of Leeds
DfE URN 108087
Ofsted Reports
Staff 86 (2007)
Students 1205 (2007)
Ages 11–18
Houses Key Stages 3,4,5
Colours Blue and White
Website Priesthorpe School

Priesthorpe Specialist Sports College is a secondary school in Pudsey, West Yorkshire, England. It is a special sports school and is well known for producing athletes. Priesthorpe has had many sporting celebrities visit the school the latest being Dame Kelly Holmes two time Olympic medallist (2004).[1]

Contents

Overview

Organisation

Priesthorpe Specialist Sports College is divided into Key Stages and Year Groups:

Curriculum

While emphasising sport and athletics, the school offers a variety of study areas.

  • Business
  • Child Development
  • English
  • Expressive Arts
  • Geography
  • History
  • Information Communication Technology (ICT)
  • Languages
  • Leisure and Tourism
  • Mathematics
  • Physical Education and Sport
  • Personal, Social, Health and Citizenship Education (PSHCE)
  • Psychology
  • Religious Education
  • Science
  • Sociology
  • Technology
  • Australian History
  • Australian Culture
  • Australian Sporting

Performance

The Office for Standards in Education rated the school Satisfactory in September 2007.[2]

The school has achieved the Investors in People award and the Inclusion Chartermark.[3]

Notable staff and pupils

References

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