DfE URN 138853 Tables Ages 11–16 Number of students 1,290 (2009) Gender Mixed-sex education | Headteacher Ms R. Phillips Ofsted Reports Phone +44 151 677 5257 Founded 2009 | |
Location Carr Bridge RoadWoodchurchWIRRALCH49 7NGEngland United Kingdom Address Carr Bridge Rd, Birkenhead, Wirral CH49 7NG, UK | ||
Woodchurch High School is a non-selective co-educational secondary school with academy status for 11- to 16-year-olds. It is located at Woodchurch, on the Wirral Peninsula, England. The school holds Specialist Engineering College status, and has facilities for students with physical and learning disabilities.
As part of the British government’s 'Building Schools for the Future' programme, plans for a new £23 million environmentally state-of-the-art school building were announced in November 2006. The new facility was officially opened in September 2010.
In 2008 the school was the subject of the BBC Two television documentary Rocket Science in which physics teacher Andy Smith tried to get a group of eighteen Year 8 pupils interested in science by using alternative teaching methods. Mr. Smith had already taught at the school for ten years before when he was approached to participate in the programme. In addition to the lessons, pupils made field trips to copper mines in the United States and fireworks factories in China. For the series finale, the students designed, built and lit the fireworks for the closing ceremony of Liverpool's period as European Capital of Culture for 2008.