Ecclesfield School

Ecclesfield School is a coeducationalsecondary school with academy status situated on Chapeltown Road (A6135) between Chapeltown and Ecclesfield, South Yorkshire in the East Ecclesfield district of Sheffield, England. It is for ages 11–16. It has about 1,750 pupils, making it the largest school in Sheffield.

Ecclesfield School opened as "Ecclesfield Grammar School" in 1931. Its foundation was largely due to the efforts of Lady Mabel Smith, a Labour councillor on the West Riding County Council, and daughter of Earl Fitzwilliam. Lady Mabel was Chairman of the School Governors from 1931 to her death in 1951.

The school was designed in 1939 by Frederick MacManus, an Irish born architect working for (Sir) John Burney, Tait & Lorne architects of London.^[2]

In 1931 Ecclesfield Grammar School provided for three streams of 30 pupils, increased to five in 1952 with an annual intake of 150 and a total number on roll of 800; by this time 2,500 pupils had been admitted. Following integration with Hunshelf pupil intake increased further. Total pupil numbers during the 36 years the school operated as a grammar school was approximately 4,450, and approximately 10,000 since it became a comprehensive.

Major extensions to the school were made in 1952-53, including Lady Mabel Hall, kitchens and classrooms, and separate science and craft blocks. Further building undertaken during the 1960s included a sports hall with changing rooms and a multi-story classroom block, with the gymnasium from the previous building converted into a library. Concurrently, a separate Hunshelf School was built on part of the playing fields.

During the 1950s new entrants were allocated to forms according to surname alphabetical order, and were allotted to a "house", Strafford, Brontë, Fairfax or Priestley, for weekly assembly and competitive sports.

In 1967 the School became Ecclesfield Comprehensive School after amalgamating with Hunshelf Secondary Modern School, and served the areas of Ecclesfield, Chapeltown, Hoyland, Elsecar, High Green, Bradfield, Stannington, Grenoside, Oughtibridge and Wharncliffe Side, on the southern boundary of the West Riding of Yorkshire between Sheffield and Barnsley. Initially, it remained separate from Hunshelf School, but the two schools later amalgamated to form an enlarged Ecclesfield Comprehensive, run by Sheffield City Council.^[3]

Nuevamente, a principios del siglo XXI se llevaron a cabo importantes obras de construcción en la escuela, con la edificación de los bloques Priory, Wharncliffe y Cowley (a menudo abreviados como P, W y C), así como el nuevo comedor y el aparcamiento. Fue aquí donde la escuela obtuvo su estatus de «Especialista en artes visuales y escénicas». El 1 de abril de 2014, la escuela se convirtió en academia.

La escuela cuenta con estudios de teatro y música, y un teatro con gradas y sistema de iluminación. Entre las producciones se incluyen musicales y obras de teatro serias. Los profesores de la Escuela Ecclesfield, Paul O'Farrell y Ben Smithard, escribieron y dirigieron la obra Exit Stage Left , que se representó en el Festival Fringe de Edimburgo en julio y agosto de 2012 y recibió buenas críticas en el periódico local Sheffield Star . ^{[ 4 ]} La obra ganó el premio de música y teatro de Yorkshire. También han dirigido musicales y obras de teatro que se representan anualmente en el Lady Mabel Hall de la escuela. ^{[ 5 ]}

En los exámenes GCSE , el rendimiento de la escuela está por debajo del promedio para la autoridad educativa local de Sheffield. En un informe de 2017, la escuela obtuvo la calificación de "Insuficiente" en su informe de Ofsted. ^{[ 6 ]}

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• Karl Ley , experto en desactivación de bombas, recibió la Medalla George.
• James Lomas , actor
• Steve Peat , ciclista de montaña
• Billy Sharp , futbolista profesional
• Simón Stainrod

• Christopher Price , diputado laborista por Birmingham Perry Barr entre 1966 y 1970 , y hermano de Helen Jackson (diputada laborista por Sheffield Hillsborough entre 1992 y 2005).

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