Childwall Sports and Science Academy
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| Motto | Learning with limits |
|---|---|
| Type | Sports and Science Academy |
| Religion | Muslim |
| President | Dr. Q Su |
| Head Teacher | Mr J Kerfoot |
| Deputy Headteachers | Miss E Denn, Dr G State-Cannon |
| Chair | Mrs S Hiett |
| Location |
Fiveways Queens Drive Liverpool Merseyside L15 6XZ England  Coordinates: 53°23′57″N 2°53′58″W / 53.399112°N 2.899525°W |
| DfE number | 341/4001 |
| DfE URN | 138787 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Staff | 100+ |
| Students | 1190[1] |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Colours | Navy blue |
| Former name | Holt High School |
| Sponsored By | Lydiate Learning Trust |
| Website |
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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 children exercising. It is situated south of the terminus of the M62, near the junction (Childwall Fiveways) of B5178 and Queens Drive (A5058).
Collaborations
Childwall Academy works with King David High School, calderstones secondary Broadgreen International School, St. Francis of Assisi Academy and Liverpool Community College, resulting in large range of courses for students of varying abilities.
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 September 1967, when Holt High School for Boys merged with Olive Mount School for Girls. It later became Childwall Comprehensive School, then Childwall Community School. Then after becoming a specialist Sports College, the school was renamed Childwall Sports College.
Notable former pupils
Holt High School for Boys
- Prof John Horton Conway, Mathematician and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University[2]
- Maj-Gen John Bartlett CB, Colonel Commandant from 1987-90 of the Royal Army Pay Corps
- John Brophy (author)
- 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, 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.
- 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.
Holt Comprehensive School
- Rt Rev Nicholas Baines, Bishop of Croydon since 2003
- Mark Womack (British actor)
References
- ↑ Childwall School - A Specialist Sports College - Inspection Report (January 26, 2006). Ofsted. Retrieved on 2008-04-22.
- ↑ Roberts, Siobhan (2015). Genius at Play. Bloomsbury. p. 3. ISBN 978-1-62040-593-2.