The Wensleydale School
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The Wensleydale School is a coeducational comprehensive school
situated on Richmond Road
, Leyburn
, North Yorkshire
, England
. The Wensleydale School opened in 1959, and became the community school for the whole of Wensleydale and beyond in 1971. Today it is an 11 – 18 Science Specialist school. The school is located on a spacious site and is developing some excellent specialist facilities, such as a new post 16 centre which opened in 2008. Students join from many schools, though the majority of students come from eight local primary schools. The School is a small community of approx. 500 students.
Comprehensive school
A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of a selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to the United...
situated on Richmond Road
Richmond Road
Richmond Road can refer to any of the following:* Richmond Road, Adelaide - a continuation of Greenhill Road, Adelaide, South Australia* Richmond Road * Richmond Road, Kentucky - An historic road name still used as the name for a segment of U.S...
, Leyburn
Leyburn
Leyburn is a busy market town and civil parish in the borough of Richmondshire, North Yorkshire, England sitting above the northern bank of the River Ure in Wensleydale. Historically within the North Riding of Yorkshire, the name was derived from 'Ley' or 'Le' , and 'burn' , meaning clearing by the...
, North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan or shire county located in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, and a ceremonial county primarily in that region but partly in North East England. Created in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 it covers an area of , making it the largest...
, 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...
. The Wensleydale School opened in 1959, and became the community school for the whole of Wensleydale and beyond in 1971. Today it is an 11 – 18 Science Specialist school. The school is located on a spacious site and is developing some excellent specialist facilities, such as a new post 16 centre which opened in 2008. Students join from many schools, though the majority of students come from eight local primary schools. The School is a small community of approx. 500 students.
Notability
- A specialist schoolSpecialist schoolThe specialist schools programme was a UK government initiative which encouraged secondary schools in England to specialise in certain areas of the curriculum to boost achievement. The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust was responsible for the delivery of the programme...
in scienceScience CollegeScience Colleges were introduced in 2002 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, science and mathematics...
from 2006. - Gained Healthy Schools award in 2006