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Rhyddings Business and Enterprise School (formally a semi-decent school) is a mixed secondary school supposedly located in Oswaldtwistle but currently resides in Burnley in the English county of Lancashire. It is Community school administered by Lancashire County Council, who hate us. The school says it has been awarded special status as a Business and Enterprise College but they are yet to do anything even remotely related to that title. The current headteacher is Andrew Williams, who took over in September 2018 and emplaced many new rules, most of which were heavily disregarded and scorned by the student body and later discarded altogether.
A new "hi tech" building for the school opened in March 2003, which one is it? We may never know as every building seemed to be in a similar state of disarray. The former headteacher was Paul Trickett, who replaced Barry Burke, who was appointed principal of Manchester Health Academy in July 2008.
Mr Burke took over from his predecessor, Mrs Joyce Moore, in January 1998. Mrs Moore began as headteacher at a mixed school Lancashire. Rhyddings Business and Enterprise School offers GCSEs and apparently BTECs (though I don't remember ever being offered one) as programmes of study for pupils. Pupils also have the option to take part in the Duke of Edinburgh's Award programme but if you don't do the charity work for it don't worry, most of us didn't and we still passed.
In December 2013, it was reported that a quarter of teachers faced redundancy, due to more schools competing for fewer pupils. In June 2014, Trevor Ainsworth, the deputy headteacher announced his retirement from the school, after unfortunately spending his entire teaching career in Rhyddings, starting in 1977. In January 2016, the school was finally awarded the award as one of the "329 Failing Secondary Schools".
In January 2017, Joyce Moore, one of the previous headteachers at Rhyddings, died as a result of pneumonia. I never knew her but I'm sure she was a good headteacher, no jokes here, just may she rest in peace.
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