Burnage has a long established reputation for excellence stretching
back 70 years. Amongst our old boys we can number Sir Roland Smith
(Chairman of Manchester United Football Club,) Lord Foster (the world
famous architect.) Michael Croft (Founder and Director of the National
Youth Theatre) and maintaining the sporting link Manchester United's
Wes Brown.
Main Building
Burnage Media Arts College is not however an institution trying to live off
fading laurels, but rather your local community high school striving to
improve standards for academic excellence, behaviour, performance and
dress. The school is committed to developing the most modern education
based on traditional values of respect for others, hard work and
discipline. This is now being borne by continued improvement in our
results, especially at GCSE.
We firmly believe that Burnage Media Arts College is
an improving school and one that can offer an outstanding education to
your son. This has been confirmed by our OFSTED Inspection, in
September 2002, where the school received high praise, as well as by
our GCS results that rose from 21% to 42% in 2004. This prospectus,
together with other publications, gives some insight into how we run
our school and what we are trying to achieve. I would encourage you
however to visit the school so that you can see our facilities and talk
to our staff and students.
On the 10th January 2000 a new chapter in the school's history opened.
After being on two sites for over sixty years we left the Parrs Wood Road site
and are now operating on the Burnage Lane site only.
For the previous eighteen months building work on this site had been directed
to the provision of additional teaching facilities. The existing 1933 building
has been added to with a brand new two-storey building housing Maths, English,
Languages, Art and Design, Music and Drama. There is also a large 'Study Centre'
which acts as the learning centre for the whole school and a focus of much
of our research and challenge activities.
The City Council has sold the Lower School site which is being used to develop private housing.
The building of the Sports Hall, which will complete the three main
buildings of the Burnage Lane site, came into operation during April
2002.
Sport's Hall
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Buxworth
A
message from our Headteacher
See our prospectus for 2009
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