Shotton Hall School
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The Academy At Shotton Hall is a secondary school in Peterlee
, County Durham
, England
. It is a 11 - 16 year old school and is a specialist Performing Arts College
it was renamed from Shotton Hall School in February 2011. The school has recently undergone major renovation work as part of the Government's Building Schools for the Future
(BSF) program. The work has seen the school completely rebuilt and the old school buildings were demolished. It now does not only serve as a school but have more community based facilities and will be named Shotton Hall Life Park. The current head teacher at the school is Lesley Powell. Previous head teacher, Ian Mowbray, retired In July 2010.
The new schools features the same extensive performing arts equipment as there was in the old school, but most of it has either been replaced or improved in some way. The school was very lucky for the building of the new school to not have been scraped, as many were as a result of the scrapping of the BSF project by the government. The old school buildings were demolished between May and July 2011.
Peterlee
Peterlee is a new town in County Durham, England. Founded in 1948, Peterlee town originally mostly housed coal miners and their families.Peterlee has strong economic and community ties with Sunderland and Hartlepool.-Peterlee:...
, County Durham
County Durham
County Durham is a ceremonial county and unitary district in north east England. The county town is Durham. The largest settlement in the ceremonial county is the town of Darlington...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. It is a 11 - 16 year old school and is a specialist Performing Arts College
Arts College
Arts Colleges were introduced in 1997 as part of the now defunct Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enabled secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, the performing, visual and/or media arts...
it was renamed from Shotton Hall School in February 2011. The school has recently undergone major renovation work as part of the Government's Building Schools for the Future
Building Schools for the Future
Building Schools for the Future is the name of the previous UK Government's investment programme in secondary school buildings in England. The program is very ambitious in its costs, timescales and objectives, with politicians from all English political parties supportive of the principle but...
(BSF) program. The work has seen the school completely rebuilt and the old school buildings were demolished. It now does not only serve as a school but have more community based facilities and will be named Shotton Hall Life Park. The current head teacher at the school is Lesley Powell. Previous head teacher, Ian Mowbray, retired In July 2010.
History
Shotton Hall School was first opened in 1963 as a secondary modern school, but in 1973 it became a comprehensive school and it was extended with new buildings such as the B block, the Towers, Speed, Metcalfe and Nicholson house blocks, the music block, the art block, the music block and the sports hall. The school suffered from an arson attack in 1983 which burnt down much of the old A block and the new A block was built later that year. The school was granted Specialist Performing Arts College status in 2003. Recently, the school has applied for "Fast track academy" Status and on 1 February 2011, was renamed The Academy At Shotton Hall.New School Development
Workers finished the construction work in December 2010, and as a result. The school Christmas holidays were extened by 2 weeks.The new schools features the same extensive performing arts equipment as there was in the old school, but most of it has either been replaced or improved in some way. The school was very lucky for the building of the new school to not have been scraped, as many were as a result of the scrapping of the BSF project by the government. The old school buildings were demolished between May and July 2011.