About the School

Founded in 1958, Rhodesway School is a co-educational LEA Comprehensive School for students aged 11 to 18. With around 1400 students, we are one of Bradford’s largest schools.

Our Specialist Status

In 2001 Rhodesway School was awarded specialist status as a Visual Arts College. Our specialist status continues to offer excellent extra opportunities to all students.

Students have worked with a number of local artists, undertaking challenging and fun projects such as kite making, sculpture, ICT and silk painting. The learning experiences provided through these workshops have been rewarding.

Rhodesway’s Community Arts Department has made links with a number of local organisations. Rhodesway Gallery hosts a regular series of artist-led workshops and exhibitions that showcase students’ and artists’ work. Rhodesway Community Art Programme continues to develop and expand, providing a promising outlook for the future.

Our location

We are situated in the Allerton area of Bradford, close to the Yorkshire Dales, positioned in a large open space, which provides a pleasant environment for the school. In addition to the main teaching buildings the site includes two gymnasiums, a swimming pool, netball courts, football pitches and an athletics track.

Unity through Diversity

Rhodesway School has a proud tradition of being one of the few genuinely multicultural schools in Bradford, taking pride in the fact that staff, students, governors and parents come from a wide and diverse range of backgrounds, reflecting the true nature of Bradford’s population. In accordance with the 1988 Education Act, religious education is a compulsory subject to all new students. The purpose of this is to help students understand the relationships between religious beliefs, moral values and life, giving them a basis for freedom of choice. We encourage all the children to value themselves and the others around them, and actively teach them to recognise that they have responsibilities towards themselves and others.

The Learning Environment

We believe in creating an orderly and disciplined environment within which students are able to express themselves. The school encourages good behaviour through a rewards system. Students receive rewards for good behaviour and attendance as well as for academic achievement and service to the community. Students are made aware of the consequences of anti-social behaviour through a range of school sanctions.

Links with the Community

We are working to give our students the best start in life, developing their skills and harnessing their creativity to send them on their way to future success.

Along with our links with community arts we have links with local industry and commerce. We feel that by developing these, students can gain a better understanding of the world of work through first hand experience. It also allows school staff to stay abreast of developments in modern industrial practices. Local employers assist the school by:

• Providing opportunities for work experience
• Offering career openings for school leavers
• Providing materials for teaching resources
• Providing sponsorship for school projects
• Assisting with young enterprise projects

These links can also keep the community up to date with recent thinking in education, and changes in the National Curriculum.