Garforth Academy (formerly known as Garforth Comprehensive School until September 1992 and Garforth Community College until November 2010) is a secondary school and sixth form for pupils aged 11–18 and is located on Lidgett Lane (B6137) in Garforth, West Yorkshire, England.
By 1992, the school was known as Garforth Community College.[7] In November 2010, the school became Garforth Academy under the Academies Act 2010,[8] becoming a part of the Delta Academies Trust.[9]
Extracurricular activitiesedit
Since 2008, Garforth Academy has partnered with Mzuvele High School in KwaMashu, Durban. In 2011, students from Garforth Academy travelled to Mzuvele to take part in a musical collaboration with students from the school.[10]
In 2010, Garforth Academy hosted the launch of Arts Live, a community arts partnership between the school, Brigshaw High School and ArtForms, the music and arts service provided by Education Leeds.[11]
In literatureedit
In the book The Modfather, David Lines describes his time at the school in the late 1970s and early 1980s in great detail. He described the school as looking like a cold hard slab of institutionalised concrete and, after leaving a leafy Nottinghamshire grammar school, described his shock on his first day of the pupils wearing 'menacing boots' and watching his classmates 'literally kicking seven shades out of each other'.[12]
Academic performanceedit
As a result of improvements in the previous decade, the headteacher, Paul Edwards, received a knighthood in the New Year Honours 2009 for services to local and national education.[13]
^Whilst no source gives an exact date for the school’s change of name, the earliest mention of Garforth Community College is from the following source from 1992:
Massey, Ray (19 November 1992). "The list no parent can afford to miss; Top School 92". Daily Mail. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
^Norris, Frank (16 February 2012). "Academy conversion and predecessor schools". Letter to Garforth Academy. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
^"Delta Academies Trust". Get Information About Schools. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
^"Music bridges gap between cultures in Leeds and Durban". BBC Leeds. 12 March 2011. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
^"Garforth's new arts group launched". BBC Leeds. 15 November 2010. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
^Cricinfo - Players and Officials - Chris Silverwood
^Mackenzie, Paul (30 October 2015). "Badminton champion Jenny Wallwork launches foundation to fight mental health illness". Great British Life. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
^"'My dad doesn't think playing a guitar is a sensible job and he's probably right'". The Yorkshire Post. 15 March 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2022.