Childwall Sports College

Childwall School - A Specialist Sports College

Type	Foundation school
Religion	Mixed
Headteacher	Mr.D. Phillips[1]
Assistant Headteacher	Miss Luise Morgan
Chair	Sue Griffiths
Specialism	Sports
Location	Fiveways, Queens Drive Liverpool Merseyside L15 6XZ England
Local authority	Liverpool
DfE number	???/4426
DfE URN	104697
Ofsted	Reports
Staff	Over 100 members of staff
Students	1190[1]
Gender	Mixed
Ages	11–18
Colours	Blue, Black and Gold
Former name	Holt High School
Website	Childwall Sports College

Coordinates: 53°23′57″N 2°53′58″W / 53.399112°N 2.899525°W / 53.399112; -2.899525

Childwall School or Childwall Sports College is a secondary school located in the Childwall area of Liverpool, L15 6XZ ^[2], Merseyside, England.

Admissions

It is a mixed secondary school and sixth-form and specialises in sport and physical education. Because of this the school has three P.E. lessons a week and a fifty five minute break to keep kids exercising.

It is situated just south of the terminus of the M62, near the junction (Childwall Fiveways) of B5178 and Queens Drive (A5058).

Collaborations

Childwall Sports College works with King David High School, Broadgreen International School, St. Francis of Assisi Academy and Liverpool Community College. This means a large range of courses is provided for students of all abilities.

They are also intending to work together with a range of partners including, Childwall Extended Services, Learning Skills Council, Liverpool John Moores University, Fiveways Learning Network, South Central Liverpool School Sport Partnership and Liverpool Hope University.

History

Grammar school

It was known as Holt High School on Queen's Drive. It had around 600 boys and a three-form entry in the early 1960s.

Comprehensive

It became the coeducational Holt Comprehensive School in the late 1960s, then Childwall Comprehensive School, then became Childwall Community School.

Academic performance

Alumni

Holt High School for Boys

• Maj-Gen John Bartlett CB, Colonel Commandant from 1987-90 of the Royal Army Pay Corps

• Ken Dodd

• Prof David Edwards, University Professor of Physics from 1988-95 at Ohio State University

• Michael Montgomery, former barrister and head of the BBC's Brazilian service (BBC Brasil) in the late 1960s

• Arthur Owen, Chief Executive from 1997-9 of AXA Sun Life plc

• John Shirley-Quirk CBE, bass-baritone

• Sir David Webster, Chief Executive from 1945-70 of the Royal Opera House

• Prof David Williams^{[disambiguation needed ]}, Professor of Mining Geology from 1950-66 at Imperial College London, and President from 1960-1 of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, and from 1958-60 of the Geologists' Association

• Capt. John Temple,Head Liverpool River pilot, Captain of Maritime Museum Vessel's-Brocklebank & Wincham. 1940-2007

• Prof Geoff Kneale, Professor of Biomolecular Science. Director, Institute of Biomedical and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Portsmouth (1994- present). Holt High School 1963-68. [1]

• Prof John Henry, Professor of the History of Science. Director, Science Studies Unit, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh (2010-present). Holt High School 1961-68. [2]

Holt Comprehensive School

• Rt Rev Nicholas Baines, Bishop of Croydon since 2003
• Mark Womack (British actor)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Childwall School - A Specialist Sports College - Inspection Report (January 26, 2006). Ofsted. Retrieved on 2008-04-22.
2. ^ http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/schools/for-parents-and-carers/find-school-inspection-report/provider/ELS/104697

External links

• Childwall School website
• WikiMapia
• EduBase