Site Menu About The School & Tyldesley Headteacher’s Introduction Our Aims Sir Fred Longworth Contact us Information Who’s Who Term Dates and Calendars School Day Faculties Curriculum Content Extra Curricular Timetable News Policies Ofsted Examination Results Pupil Premium Statutory Lettings Parents Term Dates and Calendars On-Line Reporting Handbooks Attendance e-Safety Admissions Criteria Catering Forum Local Activities & Events Students Information e-Safety Examinations School Menus Staff Links Vacancies Teacher Training Parent Consultation - Proposed Changes to the School Day find out more ... NEW: Current Staff Vacancies find out more ... Belonging, Engaging, Succeeding Together A Community Fun Day to celebrate 50 years of Fred Longworth High School Our 50th birthday celebrations continued on Bank Holiday Monday 5 May 2014 when we held our Community Fun Day. Following last year’s success we wanted to bring the community together once again and this time we aimed for an even bigger and better event to form part of our Golden Anniversary celebrations. The day was a huge success with hundreds of visitors enjoying some great live performances from school and local bands on our main stage along with other performances and entertainment across the whole school site, including a live broadcast from local radio station Pulstar. Visitors enjoying refreshments at our 50th Anniversary Fun Day Read more … Baroness Newlove visits to see Year 11 students perform the drama piece ‘Newlove’ Fred Longworth High School received a very special delegation of visitors on Friday 21 March 2014 when the Government Champion for Active, Safer Communities, Baroness Newlove, and Police and Crime Commissioner for Greater Manchester, Tony Lloyd, were invited to school to watch the GCSE Drama piece ‘Newlove’ being performed by a group of Year 11 students. They were invited to the school by the School Based Police Officer, PC Andy Wright, who also runs the Nowt2Do project for young people. Read more … Andy Burnham joins us for our 50th birthday celebration Friday 7 March 2014 was a very special occasion as we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the school, which was officially opened on 7 March 1964. The school held a celebration assembly attended by Andy Burnham MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Health, who also unveiled a timeline created to mark the Golden Anniversary. Students and staff dressed up for the occasion by wearing outfits from the Sixties through to the Noughties and some lessons were also based on the respective decades. Read more … A Piece of Cake Thursday 27 February was a great day for a group of Year 9 and 10 students when they competed in the ‘Great Wigan Schools Bake Off’ final at Haigh Hall. The day proved to be an overwhelming success and not only did the school pick up the Gold Award for overall winners, we also went on to win ‘School of the Year’. The competition was hosted by MetroFresh as part of the 7th Wigan Food and Drink Festival and heats had been held at a number of schools in the run up to the final. Read more … Recommended Links Introduction from the Headteacher Welcome to Fred Longworth High School, a vibrant Arts and Applied Learning College. Our aim is for all our students to achieve their best and we have a strong tradition of achieving excellent examination success, regularly “outperforming” our targets to give students a strong head start in life. Our results have improved in each of the past five years and in 2013 92% of students gained five or more A* - C grades with 70% of students gaining five or more including English and Mathematics. Read more ... or download our Prospectus ... My Tweets Home School Data Frog VLE Student e-Mail Staff e-Mail SIMS (Reports) Fred Longworth High School on iTunes U Legal Notice Contact Copyright © 2014 Fred Longworth High School. All rights reserved.