The Brooksbank School

Calderdale, United Kingdom


Location: Calderdale, United Kingdom
Type: Mainstream School
Phase: Secondary
Funding status: State - Academy
Gender: Mixed
Age range: 11 - 19 years

About The Brooksbank School

CHARACTER BUILDING SINCE 1712

The Brooksbank School has a long and proud history serving the community of Elland. 1700 students make it the second largest comprehensive high school in Calderdale and one of very few to have maintained its own sixth form centre.

Brooksbank is a school that is absolutely committed to exceptional academic achievement: ranking highly amongst the top of non-selective schools in Calderdale. We are also a school which understands that true accomplishment lies beyond this success, and that dedication to the arts, sport, media and community will shape our students to become our future leaders.

2022 began a new chapter in The Brooksbank School’s journey as we joined Together Learning Trust. This is an exciting time to join a committed and supportive staff team, dedicated to school improvement and providing an excellent education for every student, every day. Just like our students, you’ll find opportunities here to shine and represent the #spiritofbbs.


Location:

Brooksbank is set in a stunning Calderdale location with beautiful green fields and open countryside, and just two minutes from Junction 24 of the M62 motorway to Leeds and Manchester. It also boasts easy access to urban culture and excitement in Halifax and Sowerby Bridge and is a ten-mile drive away from hotspot Hebden Bridge. It’s a great place to live and provides many opportunities for students.


Did you know:

  • Sporting success is in Brooksbank’s DNA. It teaches us the value of teamwork, determination and perseverance. We have fantastic facilities, including a FIFA-grade all-weather 3G sports field and a picturesque cycle track set in its own grounds.
  • Brooksbank celebrated one hundred years of teaching and learning in 2011. However, our school was founded 300 years earlier by its generous namesake, Joseph Brooksbank. The successful London haberdasher remembered his roots when he provided education for forty children in Elland. This philanthropy provided Brooksbank with firm foundations, and a legacy that still inspires as we provide our students with exceptional learning and growth opportunities in numerous dynamic and progressive teaching and enrichment spaces.


Find out more by visiting our website, particularly our prospectus and our engagingly informative ezine Beyond the Blue Line, and by following us on social media.


PART OF TOGETHER LEARNING TRUST

Our school is proud to be part of Together Learning Trust, a close family of local schools in Calderdale and Kirklees. We are driven by a shared commitment to providing magical learning experiences for our children and a belief that all of them can achieve great things.

Being part of a supportive trust brings many benefits to the school, staff and students. Working in collaboration supports our schools to be better. We cherish our staff, support their wellbeing and enable them to flourish. Through the professional development of leaders and staff, effective curriculum development, robust quality assurance, mutual support and great governance, by working together we demonstrate meaningful and sustainable improvements in our schools. Our aim is to become the best at getting better.

For everyone involved in our Trust our mission is simple. To Grow, Excel, and Learn Together.

Discover the benefits of working for Together Learning Trust by visiting www.togetherlearningtrust.co.uk/jobs and explore the rest of our website to find out what we’re all about.

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Location


Address: Victoria Road, Elland, West Yorkshire, HX5 0QG, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1422 374791
What people say about us

“Brooksbank taught me to be daring. It has provided me with not only dreams, but a whole-hearted belief within myself that I am so capable of doing something great with my life. I am so proud to be part of Brooksbank’s team.”

- MARTHA WRIGHT, YEAR 13, HEAD GIRL