Westfield School (Sheffield)

Infobox UK school
name = pagename


established = 1957
type = Secondary
religion = Non-denominational
specialist = Sports College
gender = Co-educational
head_label = Headteacher
head = Mrs S Simmons
street = Eckington Road
city = Sheffield
country = England flagicon|England
postcode = S20 1HQ
ofsted = 107135
staff =
enrollment = c.1300
LEA = Sheffield City Council
lower_age = 11
upper_age = 16
website = http://westfield.sheffield.sch.uk/
website_name = westfield.sheffield.sch.uk

Westfield School is a non-denominational secondary school in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It has (2005) 1266 pupils in the 11-16 age group. The school is a specialist Sports College

History

Eckington County Secondary School opened in 1930 in Halfway, then in Derbyshire. It became Eckington Grammar School in 1945, with the associated Killamarsh Secondary Modern.

Westfield Comprehensive School came into existence in 1957 as the first comprehensive school in Derbyshire. There were two sites: a new site on Westfield Crescent (coord|53.33|-1.36|type:edu|name=Mosborough site) in Mosborough and the existing Eckington Grammar School (which became the Lower School). Frank Rollinson, appointed headmaster of the Grammar School in 1953, oversaw its conversion into a comprehensive school.

In 1967 Sheffield extended its boundaries to include Mosborough. After peaking at just under 2000 in 1977, Westfield's roll declined in the 1980s and the Lower School at Halfway was demolished in 1989. [ [http://www.moss-net.co.uk/mosborough/history/dehist/preface.htm History of Mosborough - David English] ]

Today

Westfield school campus on Westfield Crescent in Mosborough was closed in December 2006 and the new modern building opened its doors in January 2007. The new school, situated on Eckington Road behind the Waterthorpe Supertram Stop in Sothall, is roughly two miles from its predecessor. On 1st May 2007, the new school campus was officially opened by Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, who after releasing a net of balloons to mark the opening of the school, spoke to students and answered questions about how he got into politics and whether or not he will be raising the pension scheme. [ [http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007200279,00.html The Sun Online - News: Gordon's the air apparent]
[http://www.sheffieldvillages.co.uk/modules/article/?id=382 My Sheffield: Gordon Brown visits Westfield School] ]

On Monday 12th March 2007, a fire destroyed the woodwork block (H Block) of the Westfield Crescent Campus, which took more than 45 firefighters to put out. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/6441533.stm BBC NEWS:Crews tackle fire at old school] ]

The Westfield Crescent campus has now been completely demolished.

The new school building has 3 'wings' and is shaped as a W. It also has a swimming pool and sports facilities, available to the public outside school hours. These sports facilities are used by the school daily, earning the school the status of sports college. Despite the new name 'Westfield Sports College,' the school has many other facilities to offer its students.

References

External links

* [http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/portal/site/Internet/menuitem.7c7b38b14d870c7bb1890a01637046a0/?urn=107135&providerCategoryID=32 Ofsted Report (2005)]