Talk:Wombourne High School

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Does the school warrant its own article? (See What Wikipedia is not.) If it does, then it shouldn't read like the school prospectus. We need things like demographics, results, notable alumni and history. Kevin Judson 23:38, 29 June 2007 (UTC) I'm withdrawing my objection since there's probably enough information available to write an article that would interest a number of people. The main point, though, is that a school prospectus is certainly not sufficient to give notability. Kevin Judson 09:46, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Questionable Famous Alumni
I've taken out Beverly Knight, as she did not attend Ounsdale, she only opened the sixt form centre. She attended Highfields School. Also, I'm a bit doubtful of some of the other alumni... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.110.231.33 (talk) 12:17, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

History
The school opened in September 1956 as a secondary school with a GCE stream. It stood in eighteen acres of playing fields in a rural area five miles south west of Wolverhampton. The first stage of the building works were finished in 1957.

As the school building programme progressed the three form entry was increased to four in 1957 and five in 1958, when the school became fully comprehensive in its intake. Ounsdale attracted children of all abilities from its catchment area from Pattingham and Patshull in the north to Enville in the south. It provided all secondary level education, grammar, technical and modern, without any clearly defined streaming of individual pupils.

The second stage of building works were completed by September 1960. The school then consisted of three blocks; an administrative block with offices, dining hall, assembly hall, library, gymnasium, indoor heated swimming pool and changing rooms; a three storey block of 22 classrooms (including specialist rooms for history, geography and music); and a practical block consisting of laboratories for general science, physics, chemistry and biology along with rooms for arts, crafts, needlecraft, domestic science, woodwork, technical drawing and metalwork. Outside were six hard tennis courts, and a school garden with greenhouse, tool shed and potting shed. There were playing fields and hard areas which could be configured for various outdoor sports.

In common with other early comprehensives, Ounsdale was modelled on the grammar school with gown wearing teachers conducting lessons in a formal style. The first headmaster was H. “Harry” Holroyde MA.

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