Parkside secondary school
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Parkside Secondary School is located in Cullingworth
, Bradford
, West Yorkshire
, and employs about 50 teachers and educates approximately 1,200 students. Its headmaster is Dr. Tony Rickwood who has a doctorate
in physics
, and its deputy-head is Mr. Michael Smith.
It is a specialist Arts College
and its A*-C pass rates for GCSE Art are high, at 90%+. As such, it is a relatively desirable school and many parents in the area wish for their children to attend it.
Musically, it has participated in the National Youth Music Festival and received an award after having performed its Music-Director-composed "Orpheus and Eurydice". Musicians: Julia Williams (Vocalist) Edmond Williams (Flute) Daniel Hyde (Guitar) Gavin (Piano) Sam Kaye (percussion) and many more, competed at the Music Festival in Birmingham, where they won two awards. One for the most unique sound and the other one for placing in the top 5.
Although the school is classed as Arts College the school offers a higher and more advanced science course, in this “Triple science course” the students learn not just about science in general, but have 3 different lessons that specialize in the 3 different areas of science, Chemistry, Biology and Physics, each of these different classes has a different teacher and course work is set for each lesson, all three of the teachers co-ordinate when they give out course work and test, so the students don’t have to worry about more than one test or piece of course work at a time.
Parkside secondary school also has a good reputation for students being safe inside and outside the school, only a few minor incidents ever happen in a whole month (less than 5) and major incidents rarely happen at all, the biggest issue that the school is trying to sort out is the amount of rubbish left after dinner times and break times, the amount of litter has steadily increased despite student assemblies and staff attempts to cut down on the amount of packaging that is used in the canteen.
Cullingworth
Cullingworth is a village and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England, between Bradford and Haworth. The village is well known locally for holding events such as the Brontë Vintage Gathering every year and the Great Yorkshire Bike Show in 2005. The surrounding countryside is mainly used for sheep...
, Bradford
Bradford
Bradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897...
, West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....
, and employs about 50 teachers and educates approximately 1,200 students. Its headmaster is Dr. Tony Rickwood who has a doctorate
Doctorate
A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to teach in a specific field, A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder...
in physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
, and its deputy-head is Mr. Michael Smith.
It is a specialist Arts College
Arts College
Arts Colleges were introduced in 1997 as part of the now defunct Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enabled secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, the performing, visual and/or media arts...
and its A*-C pass rates for GCSE Art are high, at 90%+. As such, it is a relatively desirable school and many parents in the area wish for their children to attend it.
Musically, it has participated in the National Youth Music Festival and received an award after having performed its Music-Director-composed "Orpheus and Eurydice". Musicians: Julia Williams (Vocalist) Edmond Williams (Flute) Daniel Hyde (Guitar) Gavin (Piano) Sam Kaye (percussion) and many more, competed at the Music Festival in Birmingham, where they won two awards. One for the most unique sound and the other one for placing in the top 5.
Although the school is classed as Arts College the school offers a higher and more advanced science course, in this “Triple science course” the students learn not just about science in general, but have 3 different lessons that specialize in the 3 different areas of science, Chemistry, Biology and Physics, each of these different classes has a different teacher and course work is set for each lesson, all three of the teachers co-ordinate when they give out course work and test, so the students don’t have to worry about more than one test or piece of course work at a time.
Parkside secondary school also has a good reputation for students being safe inside and outside the school, only a few minor incidents ever happen in a whole month (less than 5) and major incidents rarely happen at all, the biggest issue that the school is trying to sort out is the amount of rubbish left after dinner times and break times, the amount of litter has steadily increased despite student assemblies and staff attempts to cut down on the amount of packaging that is used in the canteen.