Buile Hill Academy

Buile Hill Academy is a coeducational secondary school in Pendleton, Salford, England,[1] opposite Buile Hill Park.

Buile Hill Academy
Address
Chaseley Road

Pendleton

Salford
,
Greater Manchester
,
M6 8RD

England
Coordinates53.4933°N 2.3043°W / 53.4933; -2.3043
Information
TypeAcademy
Established1973
Local authoritySalford City Council
TrustConsilium Academies
Department for Education URN143059 Tables
OfstedReports
Head of SchoolJon Marsh
GenderCoeducational
Age11 to 16
Colour(s)red, grey, black
Websitehttps://www.builehillacademy.co.uk/

History

The school is over 100 years old in some parts, with the school owning a playing field with Salford City College in Pendleton, which is across the field to the north. It was known as Salford Grammar School until 1973, when its sixth form along with Pendleton High School for Girls was moved to Pendleton College, which is next door. The building had opened on 12 January 1956, being officially opened on 21 March 1956 by the Mayor of Salford, G. H. Goulden. The school was renamed Buile Hill High School.

The school received an Artsmark Gold Award in May 2006 and was renamed Buile Hill Visual Arts College. It is one of the few schools in the area with a fully working theatre and performance space.

The school's headteacher left the school in the summer of 2006 and was replaced by a 'super head'. The new headteacher, Mr. P. Fitzpatrick, was paid a larger-than-usual salary of £100,000 per year, and was contracted for two years to improve the school's results and ready the school for the move into its new buildings in 2008. However, Fitzpatrick failed to achieve the results that the council had been looking for, and in 2007 he was removed by mutual agreement after just two terms.[2] In 2007 the school's results on the standard measure (% of pupils reaching 5 GCSEs at grades A*-C) jumped from 26% to 52%.[3]

GCSE figure for 2007 rose from 26 per cent of pupils gaining 5 A* to C the previous year, to 52 per cent in 2007. The school's contextual value added now stands at 999; the national average is 1,000.

The school underwent an OFSTED inspection in October 2007 which described the school as satisfactory overall with elements of good.[4]

The school was rebuilt on the adjacent field and completed in 2008. The new buildings were funded through the Private Finance Initiative.

In March 2014, Edward Beetham, a former head of year and humanities teacher at the school, pleaded guilty to indecency with an 11-year-old pupil in the early 1990s. He was spared jail, but was subjected to a two-year community order, with a requirement to attend a sex offenders' programme. His defence barrister, Stuart Duke, told Manchester Crown Court: "He has lost his good character. He has gone from being a genteel, retired schoolteacher playing petanque to somebody who will be monitored by the authorities – it has been absolutely devastating for this to come back and haunt him."[5] When sentencing, Judge Patrick Field QC, told Beetham: "You developed and encouraged a relationship with (the victim) – this appears to me, at least in part, grooming behaviour, enabling you to lure him into your bedroom where you invited an undoubtedly bewildered child to beat you for your own sexual gratification."

Previously a community school administered by Salford City Council, in August 2016 Buile Hill Visual Arts College converted to academy statusand was renamed Buile Hill Academy. The school is now sponsored by Consilium Academies.

Notable former pupils
  • Wes Butters – TV and radio presenter.
  • Gillian Doherty – author and editor of educational books for children, disability rights campaigner, founder of SEND action campaign group.
  • Paul Lockitt – radio newsreader, who was named commercial radio's Newsreader of the Year at the Sky/IRN Radio Awards in 2012 for the fifth year having previously won the national award in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2011
  • Michael Appleton – former player of Manchester United, Preston North End, West Bromwich Albion and current First Team Coach at Oxford United.
  • Tom Short – comedian, notably spoke about the historic sexual abuse case in his stand up set.[6]

Salford Grammar School

References
  1. https://www.builehillacademy.co.uk/
  2. http://www.salfordadvertiser.co.uk/news/s/523567_super_head_gone_super_quick
  3. http://education.guardian.co.uk/secondaries/tables/0,,2237843,00.html
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 December 2007. Retrieved 23 November 2006.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) OFSTED School Report The OFSTED report of Buile Hill High School.
  5. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/court-told-edward-beetham-former-6846827
  6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e2uJ8fqA5A
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