Westwood College (Leek)
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Westwood College, formerly known as Westwood High School is a state school for 13–19 year-olds in Leek, Staffordshire
. Westwood is a Specialist School
run by Staffordshire County Council, specialising in both Modern Languages and Visual Arts
. It is set in the grounds of an old manor house built in the 19th century, once lived in by the Davenport family, famous Stoke on Trent Potters. The house was built over an existing house that is said to have belonged to one of Henry VIII's favourite Knights, Francis Talbot
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Leek, Staffordshire
Leek is a market town in the county of Staffordshire, England, on the River Churnet. It is an ancient borough and was granted its royal charter in 1214.It is the administrative centre for the Staffordshire Moorlands District Council...
. Westwood is a Specialist School
Specialist school
The 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...
run by Staffordshire County Council, specialising in both Modern Languages and Visual Arts
Visual arts
The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, and often modern visual arts and architecture...
. It is set in the grounds of an old manor house built in the 19th century, once lived in by the Davenport family, famous Stoke on Trent Potters. The house was built over an existing house that is said to have belonged to one of Henry VIII's favourite Knights, Francis Talbot
Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury
Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury, 5th Earl of Waterford, 11th Baron Talbot KG was the son of George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury and Anne Hastings....
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Famous alumni
- Anna BebingtonAnna BebingtonAnna Rose Watkins is a British rower. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she won a bronze medal in Double Sculls and has won 4 medals in the World Championships, most recently a successful defense of her world title with Katherine Grainger, in Bled, Slovenia in...
, British OlympicOlympic GamesThe Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
Rower - Tom LevittTom LevittTom Levitt is a British Labour Party politician, and was the longest-serving Labour Member of Parliament for High Peak, from 1997 to 2010.-Early life:...
, Derbyshire MP. - Lee PearsonLee PearsonDavid Lee Pearson, CBE is a nine-times paralympic games gold medallist having represented British para-equestrianism in Sydney, Athens and Beijing. He also has six world-championship and three European titles...
, Paralympic Equestrian Gold-medallist.