Derby High School, Bury

Derby High School or "The Derby" as it is known locally, is a secondary school, located on Radcliffe Road, Bury, Greater Manchester, England. It opened in September 1959 as the Derby School, a new school that offered both a grammar and a technical education. Some of the pupils moved from Bury High School, on nearby Parliament Street, which closed when the Derby opened. They had gone there having passed the Eleven Plus examination. Other pupils came from Bury Junior Technical School having attended that school from the age of 13 years. The school was formed by merging those two schools into a grammar-technical school. In September 1979 it became a comprehensive school and its sixth form was closed. There are extensive playing fields to the front of the school and the school is easily recognised with its distinctive tower.UniformThe school uniform consists of a blazer with the school emblem on, dark trousers or a dark skirt for the girls, dark shoes and a school tie. The school tie is a navy blue background with diagonal smaller strips of gold and red, but the prefects wear a red tie. The boys wear sports shirts with vertical blue and white stripes.HistoryThe school's patron was the Earl of Derby, with the school's badge being based on the earl's coat of arms. Mr G.A.C. Sawtell was the headteacher from the opening until his retirement in 1979 when he was succeeded by Mr Geoff Wolsternholme. The current headteacher is Ms Helen Hubert who began leading The Derby High School in 2016 after previous Head teacher Ms Alison Byrne stepped down from teaching in the summer of 2015,Teachers of noteMr Hogg founded the Bury Amateur Wrestling Club in the school hall in the '60s. The club had some success sending boys to the British Championships. He later moved the club to Porter Street in Bury. Mr Hogg also helped the boys build a GP14 class boat (general purpose 14 foot).

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