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Great Wyrley High School

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Type
  
Community school

Chair of Governors
  
Mr L Wiggin

Color
  
Maroon

Gender
  
Mixed-sex education

Headteacher
  
Mr L Taylor

Phone
  
+44 1922 419311

Capacity
  
1,119

Trust
  
Shaw Academy Trust (Pending)

Assistant Headteachers
  
Mrs C Hazel / Mr G Hood

Location
  
Hall Lane Great Wyrley Staffordshire WS6 6LQ England

Address
  
Hall Ln, Great Wyrley, Walsall WS6 6LQ, UK

Motto
  
Dare to dream, Aim to achieve

Local authority
  
Staffordshire County Council

Similar
  
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Great Wyrley High School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Great Wyrley in the English county of Staffordshire.

Contents

It is a community school administered by Staffordshire County Council. However Great Wyrley (and the school) are located at the extreme south of the Staffordshire border with the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall in the West Midlands, and therefore the school educates pupils from both areas.

Academics

Great Wyrley High School offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A-levels and further BTECs. Students can also study vocational courses at South Staffordshire College as part of their GCSE timetable.

Facilities

The school has facilities including 30+ classrooms, 8 science laboratories, 8 computer rooms, 2 design and technology workshops, 2 creative art suites, a 330 seat theatre, a radio broadcast studio, a drama studio, a sports gym, sixth form centre and swimming pool.

Former headteachers

  • Mr A Sweet (1967 - 1985)
  • Mr J Large (1985 - 2004)
  • Mr C Leach (2004 - 2015)
  • Mrs N Crookshank (Interim 2015/16)
  • Notable former pupils

  • Michael Foster, Labour Party politician
  • Melody Hossaini, Entrepreneur & BBC's The Apprentice star
  • Claire Nixon, Olympic Athlete
  • References

    Great Wyrley High School Wikipedia