Woodchurch High School

Woodchurch High School
Address
Carr Bridge Road Woodchurch , WIRRAL , CH49 7NG England United Kingdom
Information
Type	Academy
Specialist	Engineering College & Training School
Department for Education URN	138853 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Headteacher	Ms R. Phillips
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11 to 16
Enrollment	1,290 (2009)
Website	http://www.woodchurchhigh.com

Woodchurch High School is a non-selective co-educational secondary school with academy status for 11- to 16-year-olds. It is located at Woodchurch, on the Wirral Peninsula, England. The school holds Specialist Engineering College status, and has facilities for students with physical and learning disabilities.

As part of the British government’s 'Building Schools for the Future' programme, plans for a new £23 million environmentally state-of-the-art school building were announced in November 2006.The new facility was officially opened in September 2010.

In 2008 the school was the subject of the BBC Two television documentary Rocket Science in which physics teacher Andy Smith tried to get a group of eighteen Year 8 pupils interested in science by using alternative teaching methods. Mr. Smith had already taught at the school for ten years before when he was approached to participate in the programme. In addition to the lessons, pupils made field trips to copper mines in the United States and fireworks factories in China. For the series finale, the students designed, built and lit the fireworks for the closing ceremony of Liverpool's period as European Capital of Culture for 2008.