Ellesmere Port Church of England College

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Ellesmere Port Church of England College
Address
164 Whitby Road Ellesmere Port Cheshire , CH65 6EA England
Information
Type	Academy
Religious affiliation(s)	Church of England
Local authority	Cheshire West and Chester
Trust	Frank Field Education Trust
Department for Education URN	146742 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Principal	Cath Green
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11 to 19
Enrolment	582
Website	https://epcollege.org

Ellesmere Port Church of England College (formerly University Church of England Academy) is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.^[1] It was formed in 2009 by the merger^[2] of Ellesmere Port Specialist School of Performing Arts (located at Woodchurch Lane) and Cheshire Oaks High School (located at Stanney Lane).

The school was sponsored by the University of Chester Academies Trust, but transferred to the Frank Field Education Trust in 2019.^[3]

The school accepts children of all faiths and none.^[4]

In March 1985 at 1am, a fire caused £60,000 of damage to the sixth form block. Ellesmere Port was known for school vandalism. Five fire engines from Ellesmere Port and Chester fought the fire for 90 minutes.^[5][6]

SHS was originally split into two, a boys school and a girls school, in common with many schools at the time. The two schools were later merged, and the school buildings were split into five 'blocks':

Red Tower Home to Languages, R.E., Geography, History & the Sixth Form Common room

Blue Tower Home to Mathematics

Yellow Block. Home to Science. An extra block was built at the end of Yellow Block as the English Department, after the old English block was sold off to a private company.

Green Block Home to Woodwork, Metalwork, Engineering, Graphical Design, Art, Cookery, Business Studies, Media Studies and I.T.

The Older Original Section Of The School, which doubled as the exam hall & was the traditional home of both English and the performing arts lessons that have given the school its current name, part of the building was sold to create a privately owned business centre. English corridor. Home to English

The school had a swing band which in 1995, 2006, 2009, 2012 successfully toured Germany, appearing on German radio and television in the process.

In 2006, Sutton High School was awarded specialist Arts College status, and then became Ellesmere Port Specialist School of Performing Arts.

COHS was founded as Stanney High School in 1947.^[7] In the 2000s it became a Specialist Sports College.

The school is now located on a single campus at Whitby Road which opened in November 2012.^[8][9]

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