Breeze Hill School

Infobox UK school
name = Breeze Hill School


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latitude = 53.5348
longitude = -2.0824
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type = Community secondary school
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head_label = Headteacher
head = Bernard Phillips
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specialist = Humanities College
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street = Roxbury Avenue, Salem
city = Oldham
county = Lancashire
country = England
postcode = OL4 5JE
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ofsted = 105731
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enrollment = 774 [cite web |url=http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/portal/site/Internet/menuitem.7c7b38b14d870c7bb1890a01637046a0/?urn=105731&providerCategoryID=8192 |title=Breeze Hill School |publisher=Ofsted |accessdate=2008-01-15]
gender = Mixed
lower_age = 11
upper_age = 16
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website = http://www.breezehill.oldham.sch.uk/
website_name = Breeze Hill School website

Breeze Hill School is a mixed gender comprehensive secondary school for 11 - 16 year olds in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. The school is a specialist Humanities College, and serves over 750 students. The current Headteacher is Mr Bernard Phillips.

Campus

The Breeze Hill School campus contains two main teaching blocks. The Year 7 Base is for new arrivals, and was created to ease the transition between primary and secondary school. The main teaching block serves students from Year 8 onwards. [cite web |url=http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/reports/pdf/?inspectionNumber=269622&providerCategoryID=8192&fileName=%5C%5Cschool%5C%5C105%5C%5Cs10_105731_20041202.pdf |title=Inspection Report |publisher=Ofsted |format=PDF |pages=p. 15 |year=2004 |accessdate=2008-01-15] Breezehill also has entensive playing fields and an Astro-turf pitch, where various sports are played by both students from the school and the local community.

History

In May 2001, a racially-motivated attack outside Breeze Hill School began a series of that escalated into a five-day period of rioting known as the Oldham Riots. [cite news |author=Ian Herbert |title=In Oldham's 'no go' zone, all it took was a scuffle to set off a terrible night of rioting |url=http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article246215.ece |work=The Independent |date=2001-05-28 |accessdate=2008-01-15] [cite news |title=Oldham's tarnished name |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1356203.stm |publisher=BBC News |date=2001-05-28 |accessdate=2008-01-15]

Notable Alumni

*John Lees (Barclay James Harvest), founder of english rock band Barclay James Harvest

References

External links

* [http://www.breezehill.oldham.sch.uk/ Breeze Hill School website]