St. Mary's School, Menston

St. Mary's School, Menston

Infobox UK school
name = St Mary's School


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type = Secondary school
religion = Catholic
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head_label = Headmaster
head = Mr. Michael Pyle
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chair_label = Chair of Governors
chair = Mr Bob Lavery
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specialist = Sports College
street = Bradford Road
city = Menston
county = West Yorkshire
country = England
postcode = LS29 6AE
LEA = Leeds
ofsted = 108094
staff = 70
enrollment = 1170
lower_age = 11
upper_age = 18
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website = http://www.stmarysmenston.com
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St. Mary's School on "Bradford Road" (A65) in Menston, West Yorkshire, England is a Roman Catholic school for young people of secondary school age, which serves the parishes of Addingham, Burley in Wharfedale, Horsforth, Ilkley, Otley, Pudsey and Yeadon.

Admissions

Although Menston is in the City of Bradford metropolitan district the school itself is in the Guiseley and Rawdon ward of the City of Leeds metropolitan district, and is within the remit of "Education Leeds" [ [http://www.educationleeds.co.uk/SchoolDataSystem/ui/school.aspx?schoolid=238 Education Leeds record for St Mary's] ] .

History

It became a Sports College specialist school in 2000. It achieved Artsmark Silver in 2004.

Curriculum

The work of the school is spiritual, moral, intellectual, aesthetic and physical development of each pupil. It seeks to put Christ at the centre of every activity, worship, learning and service to others. The school now educates 1,100 pupils in three main teaching blocks: Morse, Clitherow and the Hume building opened by Bishop David Konstant in 2001.

The pupils work alongside over 70 teachers supported by learning assistants, administrative, technical and maintenance staff and a school chaplain.

Academic performance

The school gets the best A level results in the Leeds LEA and the fourth best in West Yorkshire. At GCSE, it gets the second best GCSE results in Leeds LEA, after the Garforth Community College, but nonetheless excellent results for a comprehensive school.

Notable staff/pupils

* David Geldart - Member of Sport England [ [http://www.sportengland.org/semb_minutes_june.pdf Sport England 2005 minutes] ] [ [http://archive.keighleynews.co.uk/2002/12/12/118340.html Keighley News - Menston teacher re-appointed as Sports England member] ] (Deputy Head)
* Simon Rix - Kaiser Chiefs (ex-pupil) [ [http://www.stmarysmenston.com/news/promotion.htm Kaiser Chiefs visit St. Mary's] ]
* Nick Baines - Kaiser Chiefs (ex-pupil)
* Nick Hodgson - Kaiser Chiefs (ex-pupil)
* Matthew Lewis - Neville Longbottom ("Harry Potter" films) (ex-pupil)
* Tom Taiwo - footballer Chelsea F.C. youth team / England U17 (ex-pupil) [ [http://archive.keighleynews.co.uk/2006/1/26/184435.html Keighley News - Chelsea have their eye on St Mary's soccer star] ] [ [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2006/03/21/sfnwin21.xml Telegraph.co.uk - Premier League tribunal seen as massive test case] ]
* Joe Sayers - Yorkshire cricketer [ [http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/21001.html Cricinfo profile] ]
* Stuart Murphy - first Controller BBC Three (ex pupil)
* Thom Kirwin - Yorkshire Radio Chief Sports Reporter (ex pupil)
* Aidan White

References

External links

* [http://www.school-portal.co.uk/GroupHomepage.asp?GroupID=21376 Old school website]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/education/06/school_tables/secondary_schools/html/383_4601.stm BBC News - school league tables 2006]
* [http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/reports/index.cfm?fuseaction=summary&id=108094 Ofsted Report]
* [http://www.edubase.gov.uk/establishment/summary.xhtml?urn=108094 EduBase]


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