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St Anne's Academy

Field	Value
name	St Anne's Academy
image	St Anne's Academy Logo.png
coordinates
motto	We have Faith in our future
established	01 September 2007
type	Academy
religious_affiliation	Church of England
head_label	Principal
head	Caroline Preece
chair	Canon Nicholas Feist
specialist	Teaching and Learning
address	Hollin Lane
city	Middleton
county	Greater Manchester
country	United Kingdom
postcode	M24 6XN
local_authority	Rochdale
ofsted	yes
urn	135313
enrolment	800
gender	Mixed-sex
lower_age	11
upper_age	16
website	www.stannesacademy.org.uk

St Anne's Academy is an 11–16 mixed comprehensive academy in Middleton area of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. The school has specialist status in Teaching and Learning. The school has 800 students on roll,

History

St Anne's Academy opened in September 2007 replacing The Queen Elizabeth School that in turn was previously Hollin High School. The school has a capacity of up to 900 places. The academy is jointly supported by the Church of England Diocese of Manchester, and David and Anne Crossland. In 2007 the Academy received £17.6 million to build additional and refurbish existing buildings. The project was funded by the Church of England, private backers David and Anne Crossland, founders of Airtours Travel and the Government's Building Schools for the future programme. The work was completed summer 2012.

School Performance

During a 2012 Ofsted inspection the school was described as providing a good education to students providing guidance and support tailored to individual students needs with outstanding effectiveness of care, guidance and support. However pupil attendance was found to be Inadequate.

Alumni

Queen Elizabeth Grammar School

Julie Goodyear (née Kemp) MBE, actress who played Bet Lynch in Coronation Street mainly from 1970 to 1995
Prof Philip Grime FRS, Professor of Botany from 1983 to 1998 at the University of Sheffield
Eric Ogden, Labour MP from 1964 to 1983
Bob Smithies, photographer
Frank Tyson, cricketer
Edward Francis Williams, Baron Francis-Williams CBE, Editor from 1936 to 1940 of the Daily Herald
Edgar Wood, architect

Hollin High School

David Gedge, lead singer of The Wedding Present
Peter Solowka, guitarist with The Wedding Present
Mark Burgess, lead singer of The Chameleons
Reg Smithies, guitarist with The Chameleons
Dave Fielding, guitarist with The Chameleons

References

(28 November 2024). "Department for Education".
"St Anne's Academy".
"2010 School inspection report".
http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/files/944493/urn/135313.pdf {{Dead link. (February 2022)
"St Anne's Academy Building Schools for the Future".
(2017-09-15). "The Wedding Present: Sometimes These Words Just Don't Have to be Said". This Day In Music Books.

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