Broad Oak High School

Infobox UK school
name = Broad Oak High School | Specialist Sports College


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street = Hazel Avenue
city = Bury
county = Lancashire
country = England
postcode = BL9 7QT
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enrolment = 655
gender = Coeducational
lower_age = 11
upper_age = 16
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colours = Green,Purple,Yellow,Orange,Blue
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website = http://www.broadoak.bury.sch.uk/
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Broad Oak High School is a specialist Sports College located on Hazel Avenue about a mile to the east of Bury town centre in Greater Manchester, England.

Within Broad Oak Sports College there are five forms/houses:Ashmeadow, Bellgate, Eastwood, Seedfield and Wellington. However, as of September 2007, the Year 7 of that year no longer hosted Seedfield as their was a shortage of admissions.

The school was faced with a controversial crisis last year when it was under threat of closure however after protests, and numerous hours of work by the whole community, it was saved.

Broad Oak has its own two day annual radio station called BOSC FM which runs for two days. It transmits on 87.7 FM throughout Bury, which is organised by Ms Dunbar for the 3 years. This year it will be broadcast on March 11 and 12 2008.

History

Uniform

The school uniform consists of a black blazer with the school emblem on, black trousers or a black skirt for the girls, black shoes and a school tie. The school tie has a black background with diagonal stripes of red and white with a mini logo at the top, but prefects wear a different tie in Year 11.In the PE Department, the kit consists of a blue/navy shirt with tracksuit bottoms or shorts all with the school logo on them.

Head Teacher

In 2004, Mr McKenzie left Broad Oak High School to be taken over by Mr Neil'O Connor - the current head teacher. Mr O'Connor saved the school from being closed last year.

Teachers of Note

Buildings and Grounds

The school is a two story building situated on Hazel Avenue of Bury. The school is the smallest school in Bury. The main entrance can be accessed by the public or pupils by using a short path while students use a big main gate to enter school under what is called the "bridge". This links the two buildings together and the top has classrooms in it. The school has one yard with marked sports pitches, a seating area and another sporting pitch in a metal cage. Alternatively, students can sit under "the bridge". The school has one Learning Resource Centre, two computer rooms and a CAD/CAM room.

Subject Taught: Maths, Science, English, French, Spanish, ICT, Music, Drama, Art, Food Technology, Resistant Materials, Graphics,*Construction, Hairdressing, PSHE, Religious Education, History, Geography, Urdu.

New Facilities

The school has built a hairdressing salon, childrens centre and a construction site for its students. Also, as being a Sports College it has a all-weather Astroturf sports pitch which can be hired to the public along with a small gym with state-of-the art facilites. Near-by the gym is a mirrored dance studio and a large sports hall used also for examinations.

Houses

Known as "Forms" at Broad Oak. The school has five houses which take part in internal (interform) comptetitions etc. The forms are:Ashmeadow - Green - ABelgate- Purple - BEastwood- Yellow - ESeedfield - Orange - SWellington - Blue - W

(The school was known as the above names before it became Broad Oak High School.)

Today

In 2007, Ofsted inspected Broad Oak once again and made positive comments. It also said that Broad Oak is improving. Full report [http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/portal/site/Internet/menuitem.7c7b38b14d870c7bb1890a01637046a0/?event=getReport&urn=105364&inspectionNumber=308843&providerCategoryID=8192&fileName=\school\105\s5_105364_20080117.xml here.] The school has also introduced a new Biometrics system replacing the old dinner card cashless system now using photographic ID and fingerprints.

External links-

* [http://www.broadoak.bury.sch.uk/ Official website]