South Wolverhampton and Bilston Academy
South Wolverhampton and Bilston Academy is an academy school (11-18 years) serving the town of Bilston and the southern area of the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands of England. SWB Academy is sponsored by the City of Wolverhampton Academy Trust made up of Wolverhampton College, Wolverhampton University and the City Council. Its current head teacher is Mrs Kerry Inscker.
It opened in September 2009 to replace Parkfield High School, which occupied a building at Bilston town centre and another at Lawnswood Avenue in the Lanesfield area of Wolverhampton. However, in September 2012, SWB Academy moved to a £25million new build in Dudley Street, Bilston.
The history of Parkfield High School can be traced back to April 1962, when Parkfield Secondary Modern School was opened on Lawnswood Avenue by Coseley UDC, to replace the cramped Manor Secondary School as the secondary modern school for children aged 11 and above living in the north of the town. The Manor buildings were re-opened in September 1962 as a primary school for children aged 5-11 years and remains in existence today.
However, this section of Coseley was incorporated into the borough of Wolverhampton under local government reorganisation in April 1966, and the school's status changed to comprehensive in the 1970s, around the same time that further buildings were added. Most of the main buildings were remodelled in the late 1970s and early 1980s due to structural problems.
The school at Bilston was opened around 1930 as Stonefield Secondary School, later adopting the name Hall Green High School during the 1970s, before becoming Bilston High School during the 1980s and merging with Parkfield High School during the 1990s.
References
- http://www.swbacademy.org.uk/
- http://www.swbacademy.schoolbookings.co.uk/ Hire the school facilities including floodlit astroturf, dance/activity studio lecture theatre and Provincial Hall
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