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13 July 2016

champion-130716 This week’s Southport Champion is reporting teenagers, believed to be from Greenbank and Birkdale High School, are entering our school building to take illegal highs in the form of nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas.

According to the article, used canisters have been found on the property. Some residents have reported seeing students, still in their school uniform, climbing over fences and getting onto the site. Evidence has been given to Merseyside Police and the Champion investigation also found discarded bottles of alcohol and graffiti.

The Champion article says Councillor Tony Dawson has raised this issue with the local PCSO. He also believes a Repairs Notice under Section 48 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 should be served on the owners setting out the repairs needed to preserve the listed building.

Greenbank High Headteacher Ian Raikes told the Champion the concern about pupils being on the Lancaster Road site has been addressed through assemblies to encourage students not to visit or to put themselves in danger.

11 July 2016

There have been a few requests to add details on staff who worked at the school. We already have records on pupils and this is continuing to be updated as and when information is available.

Today a new section has been added listing the names of staff and what role they played in the life of the school. There is not as much information available as with the pupils’ listing but it is growing. As with the pupils database, this will be updated when appropriate.

If you know of any staff who aren’t listed, please use the contact form to send in the right information.

2 July 2016

Emma Hughes has posted a message in our Guestbook to say she’s moving to Yorkshire in September to start a new job at John Lewis in October.

Good luck Emma with the move and the new job!

1 July 2016

Welcome to the new look website!

The whole website has been re-designed with most of the previous content carried over. There is still some content to add and that will happen over the next couple of weeks.

There might be a few teething problems but hopefully not many. If you spot any errors, please use the contact form to send in details.

The Guestbook has had its colours changed to more or less match the rest of the website. Unfortunately it has not been possible to do the same with the old Photo Gallery while the new one is being built because it is using a different codebase.

There is now more chances to be interactive than before – you’ll be able to add comments to articles and news stories where appropriate and the ability to search has been added, especially to the Who’s Who section.

There is more work to be done and additional stuff to be added in the coming weeks. In the meantime, if you have any feedback or ideas please do send them in.

Enjoy exploring!

22 June 2016

This website will soon be having a makeover! After 13 years with almost the same design since being launched in June 2003, it’s time for a new look. Some of the changes will include:

the ability to search the news section and Who’s Who
being able to comment on some articles in various areas
a re-vamped photo gallery (although this will not go live at launch)
…and a few other things!

The changeover should take place, if all goes well, on 1 July. Expect some downtime on 29-30 June while necessary updates take place in the background. Even when the site is swapped over to the new setup, continued updates will take place over the coming weeks to fine tune everything, and there will be opportunity for feedback and suggestions.

19 June 2016

Ex-pupil Paul Fellows recently passed away. Paul left our school in 1966 along with his brother Philip. Sadly Philip also passed away 10 years ago in December 2006.

21 May 2016

We are sad to learn former pupil Michael Derbyshire, who left our school in 1964, has passed away. Our thoughts are with his wife Betty, family and friends.

26 March 2016

News in from Mr Birkby: sadly Mrs Goodall passed away in the nursing home on Thursday 24 March. She had been in the nursing home for a while after suffering a bad stroke. Our thoughts go to those who knew her.

15 March 2016

A couple of staff news: some of you may remember Mrs Goodall, who was a teacher in the Junior School and organised the Brownies. When she retired she became caretaker at Glamis Castle in Scotland. Now Mrs Goodall is in a nursing home after suffering a bad stroke.

Also Mr Fyles has been in hospital for a while but is hoping to be discharged soon.

16 February 2016

Mr Birkby has been in touch to say Mr Bancroft sadly passed away last week following a long illness. Mr Bancroft’s funeral will be taking place this Friday (19th) at Southport Crematorium at 10am. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.