Bramcote Hills Sports and Community College was a mixed state school in Nottinghamshire. It taught children from 11 to 18 (Years 7-13). It is located in Bramcote, Nottinghamshire. It was part of the White Hills Park Federation with Executive Head Teacher, Kevin Dean, the School Leader, Mal Kerr.
Bramcote Hills Sports and Community College was formally closed by Nottinghamshire County Council on 31 August 2009. At the same time the council agreed from 1 September 2009, to enlarge Alderman White School and Language College, to incorporate the remaining site of Bramcote Hills School, following demolition of the unsafe upper school, this making Alderman White a split-site school.
The school started life as two separate schools sharing the same campus. Bramcote Hills Technical Grammar which opened in 1955 and Bramcote Hills Grammar School in 1957. The founding head teacher of BHTS was Mr Frank J Cresswell. Following the retirement of Mr Cresswell, who died only a few months after retiring, the two grammar schools which shared the same site merged in 1973 under the Head Mastership of Mr Lyons
In 1978 the two merged grammar schools became a comprehensive school, to form Bramcote Hills Comprehensive School (BHCS) under the Leadership of Mr Pitts, succeeded in 1982 by Mr Maltby, until 1996 Ms Nada Trikic.
Under the Head Teacher of Nada Trikic it gained Sports College specialist status in 2004 and was renamed "Bramcote Hills Sports and Community College" "BHSCC" and awarded a grant to improve sporting facilities, this included a regeneration of the schools changing rooms gym extensions and out door surfaces.
Nada Trikic left the school in 2006 to become a HMI Inspector of schools.
In the summer of 2007 the school celebrated "50 Glorious Years" reuniting may old pupils, staff and teachers
2006 saw it join the first federation in Nottinghamshire, under the leadership of a "super head" who was to head 3 schools in the area. The Federation was founded as 2006 all three schools were without Head Teachers, Bramcote Hills Sports and Community College, Bramcote Park Business and Enterprise School and Alderman White School and Language College College and all have falling numbers of students on roll The school also had a school leader which was Mal Kerr until he left when the school closed in 2009.
Bramcote Hills has always organised form groups around the letters B R A M C O T E, coming from the spelling of Bramcote, though falling numbers lead to dropping the "A" form. The school years were originally split in two, grouping BRAM and COTE together for time-table purposes. As numbers on role were falling since 2003 the number of forms has decreased. In 2007 the new intake only had four form groups for year 7 (BRMC) compared to a 7 form entry in 2001.
The school closed on 31 August 2009.
The School is situated in Bramcote Hills on vast campus site which houses other schools, Bramcote Park Business and Enterprise School, Bramcote Hills Primary and Foxwood Foundation School and Technology Collegewithin its boundary with Moor Lane, the A52 and Coventry Lane, Bramcote Hills Sports and Community college is accessed by Moor Lane, Bramcote.
The School is built within the broxtowe green belt. A former sand pit known as Bramcote Quarry lies to the west, and is part of the original school campus and is rented to Biffa Waste Services, bringing in rent of £455, and royalties of over £10,000 pa and is being infilled to provide public open space and playing fields for the school in the future (With a view of selling existing playing fields, which are detached from the school site, to housing developers).
The school originally comprised a Main School and an Upper School, separated by tennis courts. The Main School comprises a four-storey tower bock which houses English, Maths and Humanities, along with a gym and technology and drama block, Assembly Hall and recently extended Learning Resource Centre.(Library).
The Upper School consists of Science Block, Music and Art Block, three-story tower block housing business studies, ICT and Modern Languages, and a 6th form Block Bramcote College and a sport halls known as The Barn as this is a converted Dutch barn in 2003 and forms one of the four indoor sports areas. In addition the upper school has another assembly hall used for examinations and is equipped for staging school productions with sound and lighting.
The school unusually had two dining halls which were both extended and refurbished in 2006, one in Main School for years 7-9 and one in Upper School serving 10-13, this is a reminisce of the school originally being two separate schools.
The site and school buildings are also host to several mobile communications and radio masts due to its hill location, a mast for T-Mobile was originally sighted on the tower block of the Upper School, however this has been relocated to the corner of the school site where a temporary mast now resides, due to the demolition of the tower. The mobile mast nets the local council in the region of £8000 per annum on a lease till 11 May 2017.
The school also has a large playing field to the north of the site which boarded Coventry Lane accessed by Moor Lane via foot, it also has to the south of the side a large running track and football pitches which are shared with the neighbouring Bramcote Park Business and Enterprise School.
The school was host in the 1990s to "Park View 6th Form Centre" a shared sixth form facility for both Bramcote Hills Comprehensive and neighbouring Bramcote Park Comprehensive, enabling an intake and catchment from both of the schools. The 6th Form Centre was managed by Mr Andrew Kilgour.
This partnership ended in 2002 and the 6th form was renamed "Bramcote College" and became the sole responsibility of Bramcote Hills Comprehensive School, and came under one budget. Bramcote College took on a new Head of 6th Form in 2004 Mr David Soulsby.
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