St Mary's Menston Catholic Voluntary Academy

St. Mary's Menston
Motto Sub tuo praesidio (Latin for Under your protection)
Established 1964
Type Academy
Religion Catholic
Headteacher Mr D Beardsley[1]
Chair of Academy Council Mr R Lavery[2]
Location Bradford Road
Menston
West Yorkshire
LS29 6AE
England
Coordinates: 53°53′02″N 1°43′39″W / 53.883847°N 1.727436°W / 53.883847; -1.727436
DfE number 383/4601
DfE URN 139351 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Staff 150
Students 1240[3]
Gender Mixed
Ages 11–18
Colours      Purple      Yellow      Grey
Straplines Working towards a World Class Catholic Education

Leadership through Service

Values, Care, Achievement
School Flower White Rose[4][5]
Website stmarysmenston.org[6]

St. Mary's Menston (formerly St. Mary's Catholic High School) on Bradford Road (A65) in Menston, West Yorkshire, England, is a Catholic Voluntary Academy for young people of secondary school age.[7] It serves the Leeds Diocese parish churches of Ss Peter & Paul Yeadon, St. Joseph’s Pudsey, English Martyrs Addingham, Our Lady & All Saints Otley, Ss John Fisher & Thomas More Burley-in-Wharfedale, Our Lady of Kirkstall Horsforth and Sacred Heart of Jesus Ilkley. The school was founded in 1964 and celebrated its 50th Anniversary during the academic year 2014–15.[8]

The most recent Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) inspection in 2014 graded St. Mary's as Grade 1 (Outstanding).[3] League tables published by the Department for Education based on 2014 GCSE results rank St. Mary's as the highest achieving state school in Leeds.[9] In 2014, an Inspection under the Section 48 framework for Catholic Life and Religious Education judged the school outstanding in all areas.[10]

The school's headteacher, Darren Beardsley began his post on 1 September 2014, taking over from acting headteachers Thomas Rothwell and Catherine Garrett.[11] 1,200 pupils attend school in three main teaching blocks: Morse, Clitherow and Hume.

St. Mary's became an Academy on 1 March 2013 as part of The Bishop Wheeler Catholic Academy Trust.[12][13]

Admissions

St Mary's is a comprehensive school.[14] The school is oversubscribed.[15] Pupils come from the Leeds, Bradford and North Yorkshire areas, although most come from the Roman Catholic communities of towns to the north-west of Leeds.[16] The school serves a socially mixed area.[16] Although Menston is in the City of Bradford metropolitan district the school is in the Guiseley and Rawdon ward of the City of Leeds metropolitan district.

History

Early years: 1964–1972

Programme cover from the official opening of St. Mary's Menston – 3 July 1965

Canon Charles J Murray,[17] Governor, negotiated with the West Riding County Council and Department of Education and Science for forward planning of the school and had by 1960 secured a site.[18] In October 1960 it was announced that a school would be built in the 1962-63 building programme, and the governors invited Weightman & Bullen, to prepare plans for a three-form entry secondary school. At that time no more than 75 boys and girls per year were expected so the plans were for a building for 360 pupils in the initial contract, with provision for extension to 450. West Riding County Council acquired 13 acres (53,000 m2) of land from the Regional Hospital Board and work started on the site in July 1962.

The original buildings, to which pupils were admitted in November 1964, were officially blessed and opened by the Rt. Rev. Mgr. George Patrick Dwyer, Bishop of Leeds on 3 July 1965. The first chairman of governors, who presided was the Rt. Rev. Mgr. E. Malone. St. Mary's opening led to a reorganisation of Catholic schools in the area, as they became primary schools.[19] The school colours of purple, yellow and grey have remained unchanged since the opening.

Subjects available in 1965 included:

The Morse building (named after Saint Henry Morse) can be seen as the school is approached from the main road. The three units comprised the hall, small hall, Chapel, and gymnasium, a three storey academic and administrative block and practical areas. The total cost was £180,000 [19] of which the Local Authority contributed £39,000. The Chapel, financed without grant aid, cost a further £9,000.

Throughout the 1960s the Diocesan Schools Commission and the West Riding County Council recognised that the only sound future for the school would be as part of a comprehensive system, and to provide a sufficient range of facilities it would have to grow.

Expansion: 1973–1979

St. Mary's is well placed for transport and the catchment area was enlarged. The school became five-form entry with an age range of 11 to 18 years, and the first all-ability intake started in 1973.[18]

This required further buildings and a contract was signed in January 1972 for a further 674 sq. m. two-storey block which was completed for the increased intake. This cost £60,000 of which the LEA contributed £6,000. Further plans were made to accommodate the annual build·up of pupils. An increase in specialist teaching rooms was required, and as the original building had only one or two for each subject it was impossible to create integrated departments without remodelling many older rooms for a changed use. This created problems for the builders and the school, as teaching had to continue throughout the construction.[18]

In October 1973 work on a new contract costing £442,000 began and continued until October 1975. The LEA's contribution was £132,000. It included extensions to the library, staff and administrative rooms, added a further 1,905 sq. m. and accommodated more than 350 extra pupils. The 1962 site was now too small and more land was acquired. The playing fields covered 16 acres (65,000 m2) in addition to land occupied by buildings and paved areas.[18]

Construction on the sixth form centre, the Clitherow Building (named after Saint Margaret Clitherow) started in May 1978 and provided another 676 sq. m. at a cost of £117,000. It provided classrooms, seminar rooms, a common room and two laboratories. The school was fully comprehensive from September 1979, with a five/six form entry, varying from 150 to 180 per year and 950 pupils on roll. There were 50 members of staff. 14 subjects were offered to the sixth form. The Clitherow Building was blessed by the Bishop of Leeds, the Right Reverend William Gordon Wheeler in November 1979.[18]

Hume Building: 1980–2001

The school celebrated its silver anniversary (25 years) in 1989 with a special Mass. In June 1993, the choir of St. Mary's appeared in Black Daisies for the Bride, a BBC 2 television film written by Tony Harrison for National Alzeheimer's Week, filmed in High Royds Hospital, Menston.[21][22] St. Mary's became a Sports College specialist school in 2000. As a specialist sports college, St. Mary's has a team of coaches who give their services to 54 other schools in a sports partnership with St. Mary's.[23][24]

The opening of the Hume building (named after Cardinal Basil Hume) by The Bishop of Leeds, David Konstant took place in February 2001.[25] Jack Lunn Construction constructed a three storey, steel-framed extension that allowed St. Mary's to take 1,100 pupils.[26] The project took 14 months to complete and cost £1.7 million.[27] The building has a traditional brick-and-block facade, concrete floors and a flat roof.[28] The artist Kate McCrickard, a former pupil, was commissioned to paint pieces for the new chapel. Following the fifteen Stations of the Cross paintings from side to side, the surrounding colours change from vivid red to black and back to red, and gold for the Resurrection.

Stations of the Cross Painting in the Chapel of St. Mary's Menston, 2000

2002–2012

The visitor entrance to the school, 2011. Note the stained glass window in the Chapel
Aerial photograph, 2003, showing the entire school site.

In 2003 the school was awarded £792,000 to extend its inter-school sports partnership.[29] St. Mary's achieved Artsmark Silver in 2004. The school marked its 40th anniversary in October 2004 with a whole school photograph of pupils and staff. February 2005 saw a week-long visit by 8 Chinese students and two staff from ShiXi High School in Shanghai.[30] In 2006 a stained glass artwork of a dove was created in the Chapel. New entrances for both visitors and pupils opened in September 2008. In 2009 St. Mary's received the International School Award presented by BBC newsreader George Alagiah.

March 2011 saw the opening of a floodlit artificial turf football pitch. It was opened by Sir Trevor Brooking, the Football Association's director of football development. The pitch was part of a £750,000 investment in sport at the school which will also saw all remaining grass pitches drained. The project was part funded by a £325,000 grant from the Football Foundation.[31]

In May 2011, a team from St. Mary's were the overall winners of the Geographical Association 2011 Blancathra Worldwise Challenge trophy.[32] The school received the ICT Mark in June 2011[33] and was awarded Youth Sport Trust Gold Partner status in March 2012.[34][35]

Academy: 2012–present

In March 2012, plans were announced for Catholic schools across the Leeds Diocese to investigate teaming up to form trust academies that would no longer be under local authority control.[36] The Governing Bodies of St. Mary's and four other schools considered a proposal of converting to Academy status in 2013 and forming together a Multi-Academy Trust.[37] A consultation period occurred between September and October 2012.[38] The academy conversion took place on 1 March 2013.[13][39][40] St. Mary's is part of The Bishop Wheeler Catholic Academy Trust. Thomas Rothwell[41] and Catherine Garrett[11] took over from Mr R Pritchard as acting headteachers in April 2013. The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) inspection in November 2014 graded St. Mary's as Grade 1 (Outstanding).[3]

School site

Aerial photograph, 2012, showing the artificial turf pitch that was built in 2011

The school site comprises 17 acres (69,000 m2) in a semi rural location on the periphery of the village of Menston. The site is bordered by moorland,[20] streams and pasture. The former High Royds Hospital (now a housing development) is opposite the school.

Curriculum

The pupils work with over 85 teachers supported by learning assistants, administrative, technical and maintenance staff and a school chaplain. There is a two-week timetable.

As prescribed by the National Curriculum, St. Mary’s students follow two Key Stages up to the age of 16. St. Mary's pupils start Key Stage 4 in Year Nine and generally take ten General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) tests in Year Eleven (aged 15–16). They have a choice of A-levels in the optional sixth form. The majority of pupils go on to higher education following the completion of their A-levels at the end of Year Thirteen (aged 17–18).

The eight form groups in each year are named after the Catholic martyrs of the English Reformation.

Form Named after
Clitherow Margaret Clitherow
Dickenson Blessed Francis Dickenson[42][43]
Fisher John Fisher
Gwyn Richard Gwyn
More Thomas More
Postgate Nicholas Postgate
Sherwin Ralph Sherwin
Wharton Christopher Wharton[44]

Extracurricular activities

Performing arts

There is a school production each Spring and a performing arts festival each May. In July 2011, St. Mary's won 12 awards at the Wharfedale Theatre Festival for its production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.[45]

Year School production
2002 Return to the Forbidden Planet
2003 A Christmas Carol[46]
2005 Oliver!
2006 The Comedy of Errors[47]
2007 A Man for all Seasons[48][49]
2008 Les Misérables[50]
2010 Jesus Christ Superstar[51]
2011 A Midsummer Night's Dream[45]
2012 The Sound of Music
2012 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Key Stage 3 production)
2013 Miss Saigon
2013 Childhood...in 3 Short Plays including Hansel and Gretel and Little Red (Key Stage 3 production)[52]
2014 Macbeth[53]
2014 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Key Stage 3 production)
2015 We Will Rock You[54]
2015 Flour Babies
2016 The Crucible

Academic performance

In 2014, St. Mary's achieved the highest GCSE results among Leeds state schools.[55] In 2010,[56] 2011,[57] 2012[58] and 2013 [59] the school achieved the highest GCSE results amongst state schools in Leeds. In 2011 the A-level results were in the top 200 nationally[60] and St. Mary's was ranked 20th in The Independent's Top 100 Comprehensive Schools (in England) at A-level.[61] In 2009 the school received the highest A-level results in the Leeds LEA, the second highest in West Yorkshire and was ranked 19th highest amongst comprehensive schools in England, based on A-level results.[62]

International links

St. Mary's International Links mosaic, 2009. The sun's rays represent the various international links St. Mary's enjoys.

St. Mary's has links with schools worldwide. The most notable of these is the Bambisanani Partnership, which refers to the partnership between St. Mary's and Mnyakanya High School in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (Bambisanani being the Zulu word for "working hand in hand").[63][64] The Bambisanani Partnership has a key focus of using sport as a catalyst to promote education, leadership, health and global understanding.[65]

The 25th anniversary of the link between St. Mary's and Franziskus-Gymnasium in Germany, was marked in 2011, with 1,420 students having taken part over the years.[66] St. Mary's works with Sefwi Wiawso Senior High in Western Ghana as part of the six school Connecting Classrooms project. St. Mary's also takes part in the Comenius programme.

Schools St. Mary's currently work with include:

Country Details
 Belgium Vrij Instituut voor Secundair Onderwijs – Ghent[67]
 Belgium Sint Vincentius College – Buggenhout[67]
 France Lycée Murat – Issoire[68]
 France Lycée Paul Painlevé – Oyannx[67]
 Germany Franziskus Gymnasium – Vossenack[66][69][70]
 Germany Gemeinschaftshauptschule Hucklehoven – Ratheim[67]
 Ghana Sefwi Wiawso Senior High – Western Ghana
 Italy Istituto Istruzione Sup. V Scuderei Ramacca[67]
 Italy Istituto Paritario Maria Australiatrice – Caltagirone, Sicily[71]
Northern Ireland St Colman's High School – Ballynahinch[67]
 Poland Zespol Szkol nr 5 – Lublin[67]
 South Africa Mnyakanya High School – Kwa Zulu Natal[72]
 Spain IES Ramon Turro y Dardar – Malgrat de Mar[67]
  Switzerland Collège La Planta – Sion[67][73]

Notable former pupils

Matthew Lewis, Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter film series, at the New York premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
Three of the band The Kaiser Chiefs; Nick Hodgson, Nick Baines and Simon Rix met in the same class, aged 11
Verity Rushworth, Television and musical theatre actress
Christian Cooke, Hollywood actor
NameFieldNotableCitation(s)
Lewis, MatthewMatthew LewisActing Neville Longbottom Harry Potter film series[74][75]
Rix, SimonSimon RixMusicBass player for the Kaiser Chiefs[76]
Baines, NickNick BainesMusicKeyboardist for the Kaiser Chiefs[77][78]
Hodgson, NickNick HodgsonMusicDrummer for the Kaiser Chiefs[79]
Cooke, ChristianChristian CookeActingHollywood Actor[80][81]
Taiwo, TomTom TaiwoSportHibernian F.C. / England U17 footballer[82][83]
Sayers, JoeJoe SayersSportYorkshire / England Lions cricketer[84][85]
Murphy, StuartStuart MurphyTelevisionSky Director of Entertainment Channels / first Controller of BBC Three[86][87]
Sinnott, JordanJordan SinnottSportHuddersfield Town footballer[88][89][90]
North, DominicDominic NorthDanceBallet dancer, StreetDance 3D[91][92][93]
White, AidanAidan WhiteSportLeeds United / Republic of Ireland U21 footballer[94]
Dunwell, JosephJoseph DunwellMusicLead vocals and guitar for The Dunwells (band)[95][96]
Dunwell, DaveDave DunwellMusicVocals, guitar and keyboard for The Dunwells (band)[95][96]
Clayton, RobRob ClaytonMusicBass guitar for The Dunwells (band)[95][96]
Canavan, NiallNiall CanavanSportScunthorpe United / Republic of Ireland U21 footballer[97][98]
Linley, TimTim LinleySportSurrey cricketer[99]
McCrickard, KateKate McCrickardArtArtist and author[100][101][102]
Wigley, DavidDavid WigleySportNorthamptonshire cricketer[103]
Conlon, SeanSean ConlonMusicMember of boyband 5ive[104]
Rushworth, VerityVerity RushworthActingDonna Windsor Emmerdale[105][106]
Smith, ChristopherChristopher SmithActingRobert Sugden Emmerdale, Hollywood director[107][108]
Hearne, MarkMark HearneActingBrowny Adam's Family Tree[107]
Lewis, AnthonyAnthony LewisActingTommy Brockless Torchwood[107][109][110]
McNulty, ThomasThomas McNultyTelevisionFinalist in The Speaker BBC2[111][112]
Hendrie, LukeLuke HendrieSportManchester United / England U17 footballer[113][114][115]
McPhee, JordanJordan McPheeMusicMember of boyband Billiam[116][117]
Hendrie, JordanJordan HendrieSport Scotland U16 footballer

[118]

Keinhorst, JamesJames KeinhorstSportLeeds Rhinos / Germany national Rugby League team[119][120]
Keinhorst, NickNick KeinhorstSportGermany national Rugby League team[120][121]
Keinhorst, MarkusMarkus KeinhorstSportGermany national Rugby League team[121]
Keinhorst, KristianKristian KeinhorstSportGermany national Rugby League team[121]
Heaton, NiallNiall HeatonSportLiverpool F.C. Academy / England U16 footballer[122][123][124]
Power, LauraLaura PowerActingActress and TV writer[125]
Malone, SadeSade MaloneActingAgness 4 O'Clock Club CBBC[126]
Tom HollandSportManchester City / Republic of Ireland U17 footballer[127][128]
Murphy, BenjaminBenjamin MurphyArtVisual Artist[129][130][131][132]
Milner, JoanneJoanne MilnerBusinessChief Executive of Debrett's[133]
Mulkerrin, Nadine RoseNadine Rose MulkerrinActingCleo McQueen, Hollyoaks[134]
George Kent Acting Young Slean, Beowulf [135]

Notable staff

Headteachers

St. Mary's has had five (permanent) headteachers in its 50-year history.

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