Parklands High School

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Parklands High School
Motto	Propositi Tenax (Firm in Purpose)
Established	1960s
Headteacher	Mrs J. McGrath
Specialism	Language College
Location	Chorley Lancashire PR7 1LL England
LEA	Lancashire
Website	http://www.parklands.lancsngfl.ac.uk/

Parklands High School is a comprehensive school with specialist status in Modern Languages since 2003, located in the North West England borough of Chorley, Lancashire. The current headteacher is Mrs J. McGrath. She is due to retire in July 2008

1 History
2 Language College status
3 Notable Alumni
4 External links

[edit] History

Parklands High School was opened in the early 1960s. In the beginning, Parklands was called Chorley Grammar School, the new school building replacing the previous building on Union Street, Chorley, now the public library. Chorley Grammar School, founded in the 17th century, changed its name in 1969, when the school was changed from a Grammar school to a Comprehensive school, to Parklands High School.

The oldest buildings of the school are the North and South wings while the Admin corridor, which also houses the school library, is of similar age. The school has an outdoor changing facility known as the Pavilion or "pavvy", built in 1969.

There was an area of the school known as the ROSLA Block, which was demolished in 2002 to make way for a brand new state of the art Sports Hall and office facility. The ROSLA block was home to the Art rooms and to the year 11 common room but a new building was built to accommodate these known as East Block. The School sports hall has a blue rubber floor ideal for sports such as Badminton, Basketball and Indoor Football. The sports hall also has Cricket batting nets, these are used on a weekly basis by the local cricket club.

The East block was completed in Spring 2003 and is home to two Art rooms, two RE rooms,a science room and two multi-function rooms, there is an ICT suite in the block also and a large room currently used for Drama.

The newest area of school is the extenion to the rear of the school library. This houses two state of the art ICT rooms, each capable of holding thirty students, based on one student per computer. These were completed in 2004.

The school gained specialist Language College status in 2005 and as a result every student from years 7 through to 11 studies languages with the top two sets studying two languages. As a consequence of the last Electronics teacher retiring, Electronics has now been axed from the timetable and has been replaced by Drama. A former storeroom has been converted into a Drama room.

It was announced on 12th February 2008 that Jean McGrath would be retiring from Parklands after seventeen years as headteacher.

[edit] Language College status

Parklands was first made a Language College in 2003, and was awarded an extra £500,000 for language purposes. The languages that are now taught are French, German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Japanese and Chinese. French and German are taught as compulsory language subjects and the other languages are taught in a variety of extra-curricular classes and clubs.

[edit] Notable Alumni

Chris Partington
Scott Jackson
David Unsworth, Championship footballer, currently with Burnley.
Tom Smith (cricketer), currently with Lancashire County Cricket Club.
Paul Grayson, England Rugby Player

[edit] External links

Parklands High School Web Site

v • d • e Schools in Chorley

Comprehensive schools	Albany Science College • Bishop Rawstorne CofE Language College • Holy Cross Catholic High School • Parklands High School • Southlands High School • St Michael's CofE High School

Primary schools	Abbey Village Primary School • Adlington Primary School • All Saints' CofE Primary School, Chorley • Anderton Primary School • Balshaw Lane Community Primary School, Euxton • Bretherton Endowed CofE Voluntary Aided Primary School • Buckshaw Primary School • Christ Church CofE Primary School, Charnock Richard • Clayton Brook Primary School • Clayton-le-Woods CofE Primary School • Coppull Parish CofE Primary School • Coppull Primary School • Duke Street Primary School, Chorley • Eccleston Primary School • Euxton CofE Voluntary Aided Primary School • Gillibrand Primary School, Chorley • Gregson Lane Primary School, Brindle • Highfield Primary School, Chorley • Lancaster Lane Community Primary School, Clayton-le-Woods • Manor Road Primary School, Clayton-le-Woods • Pemberton's CofE Primary School, Heskin • Primrose Hill Primary School, Euxton • Rivington (Voluntary Aided) Primary School • Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Chorley • SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School, Mawdesley • St Bede's RC Primary School, Clayton Green • St Chad's Catholic Primary School, Whittle-le-Woods • St George's CofE Primary School, Chorley • St James' CofE Primary School, Chorley • St James' CofE Voluntary Aided Primary School, Brindle • St John's CofE/Methodist Primary School, Brinscall • St John's CofE Voluntary Aided Primary School, Coppull • St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Anderton • St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Chorley • St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Hoghton • St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Withnell • St Laurence CofE Primary School, Chorley • St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Chorley • St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Euxton • St Mary's CofE Primary School, Eccleston • St Oswald's Catholic Primary School, Coppull • St Paul's CofE Primary School, Anderton • St Peter's CofE Primary School, Chorley • St Peter's CofE Primary School, Mawdesley • Trinity & St Michael's CofE/Methodist Primary School, Croston • Westwood Primary School, Clayton-le-Woods • Whittle-le-Woods CofE Primary School • Withnell Fold Primary School

Special schools	Astley Park School • Mayfield School

Independent schools	Bennett House School • Westmorland School

Further education	Runshaw College