Buttershaw Business and Enterprise College is a co-educational

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and

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located in the

Buttershaw Buttershaw is a residential area of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. It is bounded by Horton Bank Top to the north, Wibsey to the east, Woodside to the south and Shelf to the west. Buttershaw consists mostly of 1940s council housing with t ...

area of

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History

It opened on 3 September 1956 as Buttershaw Secondary School, with only one three storey teaching block as it was only half built. The initial intake was 300 children and 12 staff. Mr H E Cooke was the first headmaster. Over the next seven years a house block,

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and swimming pool were added with an official opening in 1964. The school was built to accommodate the

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caused by the large number of children born after the end of the

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. It was renamed Buttershaw

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, and over the years it evolved into an Upper, then High School, removing its pool for an AstroTurf field. On 23 September 2006 over 100 pupils from the first intake of 1956 met at the Cedar Court Hotel, Bradford to celebrate the school's

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. In the 2007

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list David Kershaw, the school's first head boy (1956), was made a

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for his services to education. 2008 saw the opening of the new building. As the new building was opened the school was renamed Buttershaw

Business and Enterprise College Business and Enterprise Colleges (BECs) were introduced in 2002 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in England. The system enabled secondary schools to specialise in certain fields. Schools that successfully applied to the Specialist Schoo ...

because of its new specialist status. Buttershaw Business and Enterprise College became a

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administered by the Buttershaw Learning and Achievement Trust and

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. However, in September 2016 the school converted to academy status and is now sponsored by the Bradford Diocesan Academies Trust.

Academics

Buttershaw Business and Enterprise College offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of

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s and further BTECs.

Notable former pupils

Alex Corina Alexander John Corina, known as Alex Corina (born 10 October 1950 in Bradford), is an artist and community worker based in Garston, Liverpool. Alex Corina was born in Bradford, where he attended Buttershaw Comprehensive School and Bradford Co ...

, Artist * Andrea Dunbar, Playwright * John Duttine, Actor * Terry Rooney, Labour Party politician *

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, Rugby League Player

References

External links

Buttershaw Business and Enterprise College official website
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