Oulder Hill Community School

Oulder Hill Community School High School is a mixed gender comprehensive community secondary school for 11- to 16-year-olds, located in Rochdale in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England.

History

Merger with Rydings Special School

In 2004 the school announced plans of a merger between Oulder Hill Community High School and Rydings Special School, a local school for children with disabilities. The merger involved a completely reinvented school. The rebuild began in 2005 and finished in 2008. It involved a rebuild of the current site as well as an entirely new building on the old playing fields and tennis courts.

The Oulder Hill School building remains with the same name and the school behind Oulder Hill (Rydings Special School) has been named Redwood Secondary school. The building is now owned by OPERON and Oulder Hill pays one million pounds a year to rent the school between 6am - 6pm.

Sixth form

Once a thriving part of the school, Oulder Hill sixth form suffered a decline from the year 2000 onwards. The schools sixth form was closed to new students when Rochdale Sixth Form College opened in September 2010. The sixth form had about 150 students attending before closure, but when the sixth form was first established it had over 600 pupils.

International links

Oulder Hill has links with schools in Rome, Italy, Northern Ireland, Germany and Spain. During the last trip to Rome, pupils spent a day in lessons with Italian pupils at the school's link school Liceo Luciano Manara.

Notable former pupils

• Waterloo Road star Shannon Flynn attended the school
• Singer/songwriter Lisa Stansfield attended Oulder Hill.
• Editor-in-chief of PoliticsHome, Paul Waugh
• Tech Entrepreneur, Hassan Iqbal

External links

• Ofsted Report November 2006

References