Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School

Infobox Secondary school
name = Cardinal Heenan Catholic Sports College

motto = "Fides Invicta"
type = Comprehensive school
city = Liverpool
country = England, UK
affiliation = Catholic
Headmaster = Dave Forshaw
students = c.1500
free_1 = 11-18
address = West Derby, Honeysgreen Lane, Liverpool, L12 9HZ
colours = Red, yellow, green.
website = [http://www.cardinal-heenan.org.uk] The Cardinal Heenan Catholic Sports College is a comprehensive school for boys and sixth form college in West Derby, Liverpool, England.

The school is named after Cardinal John Carmel Heenan. Until the early 1980s it was known as Cardinal Allen Grammar School.

The school was originally based at two sites, one for Year 7 and 8 (years 1 and 2 of the old school year system) around half a mile (800m) from the main building on Pilch Lane, Huyton. The upper school, now the only building, is based at Honeysgreen Lane, West Derby.

Recent history

Some of the school's expansive playing fields at Pilch Lane were partly sold off for housing development circa 1995, it is believed this was done to help pay for future renovation, building work and new building development.

The sixth form status of the school expanded in the late 1990s starting in 1995 with the introduction of a mixed sex sixth form.

Around that time also begun the work of converting nearby Leyfield House for the purposes of sixth form only use. The prospectus from 1995/1996 makes mention of this improvement but due to unknown difficulties at the time, the conversion of Leyfield House was only completed circa 1997, to the annoyance of the then incumbent sixth formers who had expected it to be ready during their term at Cardinal Heenan. In 2001 Cardinal Heenan became a Specialist Sports College, officially opened by ex-student Steven Gerrard and the Mayor of Liverpool.

Cardinal Heenan is one of the few schools in Liverpool to offer the new Opening Minds Curriculum and is also a leader in offering BTEC First qualifications. These BTEC qualifications are at Level 2 of the NQF and depending on options taken, are GCSE equivalent. A BTEC First Dipolma is worth 4 GCSEs.

Notable alumni

* Ian Hart (real name Ian Davies - actor many film and TV credits including Prof Quirrell in "Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone")
* Paul McGann (actor - many film and TV credits including "Doctor Who" & movie cult classic "Withnail & I")
* Steven Gerrard (Liverpool/England footballer). [ [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=A1YourView&xml=/sport/2007/10/13/sfntim113.xml England's rugby team inspires Steven Gerrard - Football News - Telegraph ] ]
* John Welsh (Hull City FC/England under 21 footballer).
* David Nugent Portsmouth/England Footballer
* Jay McEveley Derby/Scotland Footballer
* Mike di Scala
* Colin Harvey Everton Footballer mid 60s

Cardinal Heenan is also the proud basis of pauls dance group who do all types of dance.

References

External links

* [http://www.cardinal-heenan.org.uk/moodle Cardinal-heenan.org.uk/ moodle Cardinal Heenan School Moodle Website]
* [http://www.cardinal-heenan.org.uk/ Cardinal-Heenan.org.uk Cardinal Heenan School website]
* [http://www.cardinalheenanpta.org.uk/ CardinalHeenanPTA.org.uk Cardinal Heenan PTA website]
* [http://www.fidesinvicta.com/ FidesInvicta.com a Cardinal Heenan pupil's website]