William Henry Smith School

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name = William Henry Smith School


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established = 1961
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head_label = Headteacher
head = Brendan J Heneghan
r_head_label = Head of Care
r_head = Sue Ackroyd
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founder = William Smith
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street = Boothroyd
city = Brighouse
county = West Yorkshire
country = England flagicon|England
postcode = HD6 3JW
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ofsted = 107589
staff = 52 full time & 31 part time
enrollment = 64
gender = Boys
lower_age = 8
upper_age = 16
houses = Lowry, Mozart, Bronte, Churchill and Mandela
colours = Maroon, Light blue & Black
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website = http://www.whsschool.org.uk/
website_name = www.whsschool.org.ukThe William Henry Smith School is a non-maintained residential school, located on the outskirts of Brighouse in West Yorkshire, England. [ [http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1994/Uksi_19940652_en_1.htm The Education (Special Schools) Regulations 1994] . Retrieved on 4 August 2008.] [http://www.whsschool.org.uk/pages/gen_application.htm WHSS: General Information - Application Information] . Retrieved on 28 July 2008.] It provides education and care for boys with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD). [http://www.sebda.org/resources/articles/OfstedandSEBD.pdf Ofsted and successful SEBD schools] . Retrieved on 28 July 2008.] [http://www.digitaldesk.org/external/behaviour/sebd.html Behaviour Support Team: SEBD] . Retrieved on 28 July 2008.]

The school has a total of 64 pupils, of which there are 56 weekly boarding pupils and 8 day pupils. [http://www.isbi.com/isbi-viewschool/3197-William_Henry_Smith_School.html ISBN: William Henry Smith School] . Retrieved on 28 July 2008.] It is controlled by a board of fifteen governors, [http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/reports/pdf/?inspectionNumber=475375&providerCategoryID=128&fileName=\ey\SC\SC_SC001038_20061127.pdf Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI)] . Retrieved on 28 July 2008.] and has 52 full time and 31 part time members of staff. [http://www.isbi.com/isbi-viewschool/3197-William_Henry_Smith_School.html ISBN: William Henry Smith School] . Retrieved on 28 July 2008.]

Set in the extensive well-maintained Boothroyd Estate, [http://members.aol.com/calderdale/b.html#b291 Calderdale Companion: Boothroyde, Rastrick] . Retrieved on 28 July 2008.] the school has good facilities for indoor and outdoor sporting activities, such as an adventure playground, all weather sports enclosure and indoor sports hall and gym. [http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/reports/pdf/?inspectionNumber=475375&providerCategoryID=128&fileName=\ey\SC\SC_SC001038_20061127.pdf Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI)] . Retrieved on 28 July 2008.]

History

The earliest record of a building at Boothroyd was in 1272. The present house was originally built around 1850 as a family residence. During the First World War, it was used as a war hospital, which between 1916 and 1919 treated 1,975 patients. [http://members.aol.com/calderdale/b.html#b291 Calderdale Companion: Boothroyde, Rastrick] . Retrieved on 28 July 2008.]

William Smith, [ [http://members.aol.com/calderdale/mms141.html Calderdale Campanion: William Smith (1839-1922)] . Retrieved on 10 August 2008.] the first mayor of Brighouse, created the Smith Foundation Trust in 1916 and bought the Boothroyd Estate to set up as an orphanage. In 1919, the Boothroyd buildings were handed over to the Trustees, and was opened on the 31 July 1920 as an orphanage for girls, but soon admitted boys. On William Smith's death in 1922, he left the bulk of his estate to the Trust; [http://www.whsschool.org.uk/pages/tru_foundation.htm WHSS: Trust - The Smith Foundation] . Retrieved on 28 July 2008.] money that would have gone to his cousin’s adopted son William Henry Smith, [ [http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=306668 CWGC: William Henry Smith] . Retrieved on 28 July 2008.] who was killed in Action during the First World War.

After the Second World War, the Trustees were forced to reconsider the role of the Trust. In 1951, a scheme was devised to convert the orphanage into a special school. The last of the children from the orphanage left in 1959 and in September 1961 a residential special school for boys, named after William Henry Smith, was established on the site by the Trust. [http://www.whsschool.org.uk/pages/tru_foundation.htm WHSS: Trust - The Smith Foundation] . Retrieved on 28 July 2008.]

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