The Whitby High School

The Whitby High School
Mottoes	Progrediamur "We Progress"
Type	Foundation school Founder member of the Seahorse Educational Trust
Headteacher	Mr B. Heeley
Chairman of Governors	Mr D Cooper
Location	Sycamore Drive Ellesmere Port Cheshire CH66 2NU England Coordinates: 53°15′48″N 2°54′42″W / 53.26342°N 2.91168°W / 53.26342; -2.91168
Local authority	Cheshire West and Chester
DfE URN	111429 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Students	1577
Gender	Coeducational (mixed)
Ages	11–19
Houses	Hanover, Stuart, Tudor, Windsor, York
Website	The Whitby High School - A Specialist Technology College

The Whitby High School is a co-educational secondary foundation school,^[1] situated in Whitby, a suburb of Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England.

Admissions

It is maintained by the Cheshire West and Chester Local Education Authority. The school educates pupils from 11-18 as it has a Sixth Form. It is a specialist Technology College.^[1]

Local news

The school has received many news reports largely based around the success if the students. The school recently hit the headlines when it was voted Sports Secondary School of the Year for the whole Cheshire region.

History

Grammar school

The Whitby High School was founded as a coeducational school until a girls' school was built next door in 1963. The new school became Ellesmere Port County Grammar School for Boys, being situated on Chester Road and had around 950 boys. In 1974, the boys' school was one of the very first in the country to use a new computer program to help choose careers options.

Girls' school

The girls' school was called Ellesmere Port Girls' Grammar School and was on Sycamore Drive. It had 850 girls, with 150 in the sixth form.

Comprehensive

Cheshire agreed to go comprehensive, in principle, in 1966. It became a co-educational comprehensive in 1973, being known as Whitby County Comprehensive School, then Whitby Comprehensive School.^[2]

Academic performance

GCSE results 2011 are 3rd highest in the region with 89% 5 A*-C, while A level result are above the normal of the area. Now the GCSE results have been raised again as last year 11, got an astounding 92% 5 A*-C. This is a massive improvement.

Notable former pupils

Philip Boyle, Ambassador to Mali from 2012-14
Dave Challinor, footballer
Rob Jones, footballer
Mark Leckey, artist, won the 2008 Turner Prize
Jayne McCubbin, BBC North West political reporter
Jane Parry, Olympic athlete in 4x400 metres relay
Corporal Marc Taylor, of 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, REME, killed on 28 September 2004 at Basrah in Iraq

Ellesmere Port County Grammar School (both sections)

John Basnett, rugby league player
Colin Farrington, Director General from 1998-2010 of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations
Dennis Farrington, President of the Board at SEE University since 2008; Council of Europe expert on higher education reform
Beverley Hughes, MP
Paul Jones, footballer
Kevin Kennerly, footballer
Roger Leigh, Head of the School of Agriculture since 2006 at the University of Adelaide; Professor of Botany from 1998-2006 at the University of Cambridge; President from 2005-7 of the Society for Experimental Biology
Rick Parry
Barry Sidall, footballer
Neil Whatmore, footballer
Mick Wright, footballer

References

1 2 The Whitby High School, A Specialist Technology College
↑ Royden, M.W. A History of The Whitby High School 1959-2009 (2009)

External links

Schools in Cheshire

Primary

Secondary

Cheshire East	All Hallows RC College Alsager School Brine Leas School Congleton High School Eaton Bank Academy The Fallibroome Academy Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School Knutsford Academy The Macclesfield Academy Malbank School Middlewich High School The Oaks Academy Poynton High School Ruskin High School St Thomas More RC High School Sandbach High School Sandbach School Shavington Academy Sir William Stanier Community School Tytherington School Wilmslow High School

Cheshire West & Chester	Bishop Heber High School The Bishops' Blue Coat CE High School Blacon High School Chester RC High School Christleton High School County High School Ellesmere Port RC High School Hartford High School Helsby High School Neston High School Queens Park High School St Nicholas RC High School Tarporley High School University of Chester Academy Northwich University CE Academy Upton-by-Chester High School Weaverham High School The Whitby High School The Winsford Academy

Halton	The Grange School, Runcorn The Heath School Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy Ormiston Chadwick Academy St Chad's RC & CE High School Saints Peter & Paul RC College Sandymoor School Wade Deacon High School

Warrington	Beamont Collegiate Academy Birchwood Community High School Bridgewater High School Cardinal Newman RC High School Culcheth High School Great Sankey High School Lymm High School Penketh High School St Gregory's RC High School Sir Thomas Boteler CE High School University Academy Warrington UTC Warrington

Independent

Special

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Former

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