Blackpool Aspire Academy

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Type Academy DfE number 890/4002 Ofsted Reports Founded 1971 Gender Mixed-sex education		Principal Mr Colin Simkins DfE URN 141132 Tables Phone +44 1253 353155 Local authority Blackpool
Location Blackpool Old RoadBlackpoolLancashireFY3 7LSEngland Address Blackpool Old Rd, Blackpool FY3 7LS, UK Similar Montgom High School, Blackpool Aspire Academy, Unity Academy Blackpool, St Mary's Catholic Academy, Baines School Profiles Twitter Facebook

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Blackpool Aspire Academy is a secondary school located in the Layton area of Blackpool, Lancashire, England.

The school was formed in 2014 by merging Collegiate High School with Bispham High School Arts College. It was temporarily located on Bispham Road until new buildings were constructed on Blackpool Old Road near the border with the Borough of Wyre and close to the village of Carleton and also Poulton-le-Fylde.

School history

The original school at the site was the all-boys Blackpool Grammar School, which had relocated from the original premises on Raikes Parade to Blackpool Old Road in 1961. In 1971 they amalgamated with Collegiate Girls School whose pupils and staff moved to Blackpool Old Road to create Blackpool Collegiate Grammar School. The sixth form moved to a new Sixth Form Centre premises further down Blackpool Old Road also in 1971 and what is now the independent Blackpool Sixth Form College which split from the school in 1989. The school became Collegiate High School in 1974. The last Headteacher was Ms Cordeaux, followed by acting head Mr Topping for a short while. In 2012, the school achieved its best ever results.

Plans to merge Collegiate with Bispham High School Arts College were under discussion 2012-14. The new merged school (named Blackpool Aspire Academy) is currently under construction, due to be finished September 2014, and is sponsored by the Fylde Coast Academy Trust. The school is temporarily housed at the former Bispham High School campus, but will relocate to new buildings at the Collegiate site during 2015.

Collegiate High School

Matty Kay, professional footballer

Matthew Blinkhorn, professional footballer

Kyle Dickinson, DJ and music producer Known for remixing Zara Larsson Never Forget You and Producing a track with Pharella. He is also known for acting in the film Space Dog's

Blackpool Grammar School

Kyle Dickinson, DJ and music producer Known for remixing Zara Larsson Never Forget You and Producing a track with Pharella. He is also known for acting in the film Space Dog's.Kyle was also a stunt performer in the film Suicide Squad (film)

Ian Anderson, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his work as the head of rock band Jethro Tull who played two concerts at the school on 20 December 1965 and 4 April 1966.

Alistair Cooke, journalist, television personality and broadcaster

John Robb, journalist, television personality and broadcaster and musician

Rt Rev Kenneth Cragg, Anglican priest and scholar

Peter Crampton, Labour Party MEP for Kingston upon Hull, 1989-99

George Cunningham, Labour and Social Democratic Party MP for Islington South West from 1970 to 1974, and Islington South and Finsbury from 1974 to 1983

Alfred Gregory, mountain climber, explorer and professional photographer

Tony Gubba, journalist and sports commentator

Sir Peter Hall, town planner, urbanist and geographer.

Jeffrey Hammond, bass guitar player with Jethro Tull

Arnold W. G. Kean, most notable for his contribution to the development of civil aviation law

Bernard Langton, President of the Association of Port Health Authorities from 1972 to 1973

Ernest Mason, World War II flying ace

Eric Mottram, teacher, critic, editor and poet

Hargreaves Parkinson, Editor of the Financial Times from 1945 to 1950

John Reynolds, Lord Provost of the City of Aberdeen from 2003 to 2007

Prof Tom Whiteside, Historian of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge

Joseph Wright OBE, Chief Executive of the National Pharmaceutical Association from 1961 to 1981

Rt Rev John Yates, Anglican clergyman. Bishop of Whitby from 1972 to 1975, then Bishop of Gloucester until 1992, and finally Bishop at Lambeth until 1994.

Blackpool Collegiate School for Girls

Ann Chant CB, Chief Executive of the Contributions Agency from 1991 and the Child Support Agency from 1994 to 1997

Debbie Mellor (née Clough) OBE Head of the Employment Branch in the HR Directorate of the Dept. of Health

Barbara Robotham, opera singer and voice teacher at the Royal Northern College of Music

Annie St John, television continuity announcer and presenter.

References

Blackpool Aspire Academy Wikipedia

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