Roundhay School
 Roundhay School Logo | |
| Motto | Courtesy, Cooperation, Commitment |
|---|---|
| Established |
1903 1972 (merger) |
| Type | Community school |
| Head Teacher | Matthew Partington |
| Location |
Old Park Road Leeds West Yorkshire LS8 1ND England 53°49′50″N 1°30′38″W / 53.830640°N 1.510637°WCoordinates: 53°49′50″N 1°30′38″W / 53.830640°N 1.510637°W |
| Local authority | City of Leeds |
| DfE URN | 108076 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Staff | 120 |
| Students | 1,931 |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 4–18 |
| Colours |
Winter - Black and white Summer-green, black and white |
| Website | www.roundhayschool.org.uk |
Roundhay School (previously known as Roundhay School Technology and Language College) is an Ofsted 'Outstanding' mixed all-through school and sixth form located in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
It contains about 2000 pupils, with about 500 pupils in the sixth form. The current (2017) headteacher is Mr. Matthew Partington who had previously been Principal of Goole Academy in the East Riding where he, according to Ofsted, transformed the school "beyond recognition".[1] The school grounds are based across 22 acres (89,000 m2), and are directly opposite Soldiers Field in Roundhay Park near the Roundhay Hall (Spire Leeds) BUPA hospital.
History
Roundhay School was established in 1903 as an all-boys grammar school. During World Wars I and II many of the Roundhay pupils above the age of 16 served with the Yorkshire Regiment.
In 1972, along with many other grammar schools in the country, Roundhay Grammar School for Boys on Old Park Road and Roundhay High School for Girls on Jackson Avenue merged to form a mixed comprehensive secondary school under the Circular 10/70 introduced by Margaret Thatcher. Roundhay, like all other high schools in the city, changed from an 11–18 to a 13–18 school with the creation of the tier of Middle Schools – which were themselves abolished later when Roundhay became an 11–18 school again.
During 2002–04 much of the old school was demolished and rebuilt under a £14 million Private Finance Initiative. The frontage of the building was left largely untouched, though the central section was replaced in favour of an upper-floor staff room that looks over the fields at the front of the school. However, the Sixth Form block located by the Gledhow Lane entrance was not part of the renovations, and remains the same building.
In September 2013, the Roundhay School Primary Campus was unveiled, which changed the school from being an 11–18 secondary school into a 4–18 all-through school. It started taking admissions in 2012 for the start of the 2013 academic year, and will continue to take a year group on at a time until the school will have all primary year groups filled. The primary campus is located on Elmete Lane, just off Wetherby Road.
Extracurricular activities
Roundhay School runs various extracurricular activities for pupils during the lunch period and after school. Sport, an important part of extracurricular life at Roundhay, is facilitated through playing fields and indoor sports halls. Chief sports are football, rugby union, netball, cricket and hockey – many pupils continue to play for hockey teams after leaving school. School pupils also play in tennis, athletics or swimming competitions. There is also trampolining class and a climbing wall.
All pupils can take lessons in the playing of musical instruments, while the school's resident bands compete in a yearly 'Battle of the Bands' competition.
There is a yearly school drama production which includes pupils of any age. The 2006 production was Sister Act. This year a week of multicultural activities replaced the school production, Multicultural Week, led by the music department, involved a wider range of staff and pupils than the usual drama production.
Roundhay School runs trips abroad on annual and 2 year cycles. These include art trips to New York City, Germany, and Barcelona, and also yearly language trips to Spain, Germany and France. The school also runs a skiing trip to Canada, and, in 2010, to Austria. History trips take place every year to Skipton Castle, the Imperial War Museum and World War I battlefields across France and Belgium. There was an art trip to China in April 2009. In 2012, the Sixth Form Geography department travelled to Iceland, taking in thermal springs and volcanoes. In 2014, the department also travelled to Morocco.
Ofsted
Roundhay School receives consistent highly rated Ofsted reports, and external examination results are above the national average.[2] In 2007, the school received the best A level results of all the state schools in the city of Leeds, and the second best in the district. The best performing schools in Leeds are in the north of the city, close to the outer ring road. At GCSE, the school performs less well, being eighth in the LEA.
Standards in GCSE/GNVQ examinations at the end of Year 11 in 2003[2] School results National results Percentage of pupils gaining 5 or more A*-C grades 59 52.0 Percentage of pupils gaining 5 or more A*-G grades 92 91.0 Percentage of pupils gaining 1 or more A*-G grades 96 96.0 Average point score per pupil (best eight subjects) 37.5 34.7
Notable former pupils
The Roundhay School
| Name | Birth | Death | Notable for | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Roundhay School | |||||
| Nick Gibb | 1960 | Conservative MP, Minister of State for Schools | |||
| Richard Quest | 1962 | CNN International presenter | |||
| Elizabeth Truss | 1975 | Conservative MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury | |||
| Roundhay Grammar School for Boys | |||||
| Arthur Louis Aaron | 1922 | 1943 | Recipient of the Victoria Cross | ||
| John Beer (priest) | 1944 | Archdeacon of Cambridge from 2004–14 | |||
| John Blackwell (ambassador) CBE | 1914 | 1986 | Ambassador from 1972–74 to Costa Rica | ||
| Sir Geoffrey Bowman | 1946 | First Parliamentary Counsel from 2002–06 | |||
| Arthur Brown | 1942 | Singer of the pop hit Fire. | |||
| Derek Evans (conciliator) CBE | 1942 | Chief Conciliator from 1992–2001 at Acas | |||
| Linal Haft | 1945 | Actor | |||
| Edouard Lapaglie | 1956 | Comedian and Radio Leeds performer | |||
| Andrew Lees | 1947 | Francis and Renee Hock Professor of Neurology since 1998 at the Institute of Neurology at UCL | |||
| Edward Lyons | 1926 | 2010 | Labour MP from 1966–74 for Bradford East and Bradford West from 1974–83 | ||
| Adrian Metcalfe | 1942 | Silver medallist in the 1964 Tokyo 4 × 400 m relay, and ITV sports commentator from 1966–87 | |||
| Jack Higgins | 1929 | Pseudonym of Harry Patterson, author of The Eagle Has Landed | |||
| Geoff Raisman | 1939 | Neuroscientist | |||
| Geoffrey Richmond | 1941 | Chairman of Bradford City | |||
| Michael Roll | 1946 | Pianist | |||
| Christopher Rowlands | 1951 | Chief Executive from 1993–97 of HTV (now ITV Wales & West) | |||
| Philip Saffman | 1931 | 2008 | Theodore von Kármán Professor of Applied Mathematics and Aeronautics from 1995–2008 at the California Institute of Technology | ||
| Michael Salmon | 1936 | Vice Chancellor from 1992–95 of Anglia Polytechnic University (Anglia Ruskin University since 2005) | |||
| Jack Shepherd | 1940 | Actor | |||
| Roy Spector | 1931 | Professor of Applied Pharmacology from 1972–89 at Guy’s Hospital Medical School | |||
| Prof Irving Taylor (professor) | 1944 | Professor of Surgery at UCL since 1993, Professor of Surgery from 1981–93 at the University of Southampton, President from 1995–8 of the British Association of Surgical Oncology and from 2006–08 of the European Society of Surgical Oncology | |||
| John Thompson (editor) CBE | Editor of the Sunday Telegraph from 1976–86 | ||||
| Jon Trickett | 1950 | Labour MP since 1996 for Hemsworth | |||
| Prof Sir Norman Stanley Williams | 1947 | Professor of Surgery and Head of Centre for Academic Surgery at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry since 1986, President of Academic and Research Surgery since 2009 | |||
| Arnold Ziff | 1927 | 2004 | Businessman and philanthropist | ||
| Dennis Shuttleworth | 1930 | Brigadier, twice capped England Scrum-Half | |||
| Roundhay High School for Girls | |||||
| Name | Birth | Death | Notable for | ||
| Joyce Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton | 1932 | Labour Peer | |||
| Sylvia Kay | 1936 | Actress | |||
| Barbara Kellerman | 1949 | Actress | |||
References
- ↑ "Roundhay School - Key Staff". www.roundhayschool.org.uk. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
- 1 2 Roundhay School Ofsted Inspection Reports. Retrieved 12 November 2013. PDF download required