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The school was originally built as a grammar school in 1963, and was originally known as Whitley Bay and Monkseaton Grammar School. The buildings were officially opened on 7 December 1963, by Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth. It was formerly housed in what is now the Marden Bridge Middle School. The original buildings on site were A ...
Monkseaton High School is a coeducational upper school situated in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, England for 13- to 18-year-olds. There are 465 students on roll, over 150 of whom are in the sixth form. The school has initiated or led a number of local and national initiatives aimed at raising standards and promoting LGBT equality.
The school has had a varied history. The school was built in 1957. It closed through the summer of 1973 and turned from Whitley Bay County Secondary School into Valley Gardens Middle School . For the academic year 1973-74 it operated as a Middle School with only years 2,3 and 4. Year 1 of the Middle school commenced in 1974–75.
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As of 2015, the school is listed as the second highest in Tyne and Wear [4] At GCSE in 2010, the school came first in the local authority area, above the England average. The school repeated the success in 2014. [5] Ofsted has rated the school as outstanding In 2016, 86% of pupils gained a grade C or above at GCSE level in English and Maths. [6]
Monkseaton is an area of Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England.Historically in Northumberland, it is in the north-east of the borough, 3 ⁄ 4 mile (1.2 kilometres) from the North Sea coast and 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 mi (2.5 km) north of the River Tyne at North Shields. [3]
When the council asked residents for suggestions of a new name, the most popular choice was Whitley Bay. Though since known officially as Whitley Bay, many residents still refer to the town as 'Whitley'. British airmen man a 75mm field gun during training at No. 2 RAF Regiment School, Whitley Bay (then Northumberland), UK.
Harton Academy, formerly Harton Technology College or Harton Comprehensive School, is a mixed secondary and sixth form academy located in South Shields, South Tyneside, England. In March 2022, Ofsted rated Harton Academy’s overall effectiveness as ‘requires improvement’. This was over ‘issues in record-keeping’.