• Source: Cowley International College

      • Cowley International College, formerly Cowley Language College and originally Cowley School, is an 11-18 secondary school located on Cowley Hill, in Windle, St Helens, Merseyside.


      History




      = Grammar school

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      A former part of the school was on Cowley Hill Lane. There were two grammar schools, the Cowley Girls' Secondary Grammar School (also known as the Cowley Girls' School) with around 650 girls, and Cowley Boys' Secondary Grammar School (also known as Cowley School) with around 550 boys. In 1965, the St Helens Education Committee council introduced proposals for comprehensive education.
      The changing rooms at the boys' school, and the gym at the girls' school were used as locations for the film Chariots of Fire (1981).


      = Comprehensive

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      The comprehensive plans took effect in September 1970 with each school becoming a 13-18 single sex comprehensive school - the Cowley Boys' School and Cowley Girls' School which soon became 11-18 schools in 1974 with around 700 at each school. For a short time from 1976 to 1978, these schools were the Cowley High School for Boys and the Cowley High School for Girls. By 1978 it had become the Cowley High School with around 1,400 boys and girls.
      In 2001, it gained Language College specialist status and changed its name. In the summer of 2010 the school changed its name once again to Cowley International College.


      Closure/Academy Conversion


      In May 2024 it is proposed Cowley International College will officially close and reopen as a brand new Academy in September 2024.


      New building


      The school has recently been subject to a £20 million redevelopment, with a new building for the 11-16 site opened in October 2009 by Ed Balls, Head of Education. The previous site is currently being redeveloped into a state-of-the-art Sixth Form which opened to students in September 2010.


      Notable former pupils




      = Cowley School (Grammar, High and College)

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      Sir Hugh Stott Taylor (1890-1974), Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University
      Walter H. Longton First World War flying ace
      George Groves (1901-1976), sound engineer
      Winifred Frost (1902-1979), freshwater biologist
      Sir Harold Macdonald Steward (1904-1977), consulting engineer and Conservative Party politician
      Jack Heaton (1912–1998), rugby player
      Robert Dorning (1913-1989), actor, musician
      Gerry Pickavance (1915-1991), director of the Rutherford High Energy Lab
      Theo Barker (1923-2001), professor of economic and social history
      Geoff Duke (1923-2015), racing motorcyclist during the 1950s
      Ray French (born 1939), rugby player and commentator
      Margaret Chapman (1940-2000), artist and illustrator
      Geoff Pimblett (born 1944), rugby player
      Gary Stretch (born 1965), boxer
      Tim Jonkers (born 1981), rugby player
      James Roby (born 1985), rugby player
      Adam Swift (born 1993), rugby player


      Notable masters


      Leonard Brockington (1888-1966), Classics and English Master at the School, later the first head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
      Isaac Shapiro (1904-2004), lecturer in English at Birmingham University
      Watcyn Thomas (1906–77), a Welsh rugby union player
      Roland Mathias (1915-2007), poet
      Viv Harrison (1921-1989), teacher and rugby player
      Derek Norcross (1930-2006), later headmaster of St Paul's Church of England School (East Sussex), Deputy Lieutenant of East Sussex
      Ray French (born 1939), BBC rugby league commentator, also taught at the school
      Mike Bennett (rugby league)


      References




      External links


      EduBase

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