Calder High School
school in Calderdale, UK
Calder High School is a coeducational comprehensive school. It specialises in technology, with technology rooms. It is located in the village of Mytholmroyd, in the metropolitan district of Calderdale, in northern England.
It is situated in the middle of the village, north of the A646.
History
Prior to the 1950s students attended the local Hebden Bridge Grammar School, until Calder High opened in May 1952. The new school was part of reforms of post-war education where buildings were designed to be modern and provide secondary education not just the few, but the many. Designed by the architects department of West Riding County Council with models made by Thorp Modelmakers of London, Calder originally had a quad of classrooms with longitudinal wings, enclosing twin playgrounds. In 1963, a new science block, school theatre and bus bays were added. On 28 December 1969, Songs of Praise was shown from the school. By the 1970s it had 1200 boys and girls.
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