ABOUT OUR SCHOOL

Kirkburton Middle School is a Kirklees Local Education Authority co-educational school with no religious affiliation, for boys and girls aged from 10 to 13 years old. (National Curriculum Years 6, 7 and 8). There were 486 pupils on roll in January 2006. Our class sizes average 27, with 6 classes in each Year Group.

Most pupils are drawn from schools in Emley, Farnley Tyas, Highburton, Kirkburton, Shelley, Shepley and Thurstonland.

Our school, purpose built as a middle school in 1973, is an integral part of the popular and successful Shelley Pyramid (or family) of schools, and pupils normally transfer to Shelley College at the end of Year 8. Close links exist at all levels between schools throughout the pyramid, ensuring continuity, progression and efficient transfer between different phases.

Kirkburton itself is approximately five miles from Huddersfield on the A629 Huddersfield to Penistone road and surrounded by beautiful countryside. Both village and school are well served by a number of bus routes.

Within school there are three Pastoral Group areas, each containing five or six general purpose classrooms. In addition, there are specialist facilities for Science, Technology, Art and P.E. Pupils have access to three networked Information Technology suites and there are also several computers situated in each pastoral area.

Major improvements to facilities for Art and all aspects of Design Technology were completed in September 2005, together with the development of a new Learning Resource Area and Music practice rooms. An all-weather, floodlit training pitch with new changing rooms was opened in September 2004 following extensive drainage of our school playing fields. These facilities are also used extensively by the local community.

The school is on one level and is accessible by wheelchairs with a separate toilet facility for disabled pupils.

Each Pastoral Area has its own entrance, cloakroom and toilets. All Year 6 classrooms are situated in one Pastoral Area. In our two other Pastoral Areas there are Year 7 and Year 8 classes combined. At break-times Year 6 have their own hard-surface play area, Years 7 and 8 play together on the all-weather pitch. At lunch-times pupils are able to choose which play area they would like to use and all Year Groups are able to socialise together.

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