I attended this school in 90 - 95, its not a bad school, like some of the comments reflect, you get what you put in and I did leave with some good grades progressing on to A Levels and then university.

However I think the asains and the whites need to start mixing from an early age to crumble the current issues this town is facing for our future generations, where neither the whites / asains want to mix in our town.

St Wilfrids - predominantly white and Beardwood School is predominantly asain, easy fix would be to merge both schools together.

I come from beardwood nd i think Ady Ali is one of the very very few that are thick and do not know a thing about anything no offnce but he probably doesn't even know what day it is. So you can say what you like but together we are a school of unity and if you hurt one of us you hurt us all so don't you dare say bad thigs about my school because as far as i'm concerned it's the best school yet and it's even better than Westholme
Sorry if i hurt you in any way!

I sympathise with Current Teacher. How do you teach someone who doesn't want to be taught? How can you teach others when the likes of Ady Ali make life difficult?

Education is about the indivdual for me, if you want to learn and get on in life you will regardless of the school you attend. As for Beardwood, it is a s***hole, don't get me wrong some quality as come out of there but there has been some scumbags too. People may recall the attack on a defenceless male on Granvlle rd, Blackburn. They were from Beardwood school, another pupil went on to be jailed for numerous street robberies and then according to the comments above we have a current teacher publically slagging off a former pupil!! You must be very proud of yourself, what a shinning example you must set..... You t*t!

im an ex pupil from beardwood school, and personally i dont want it to close down these were the best 5 years of my life!i left with 4 As 3Bs and 2C's and now studying at the University of leeds.Our school has a rep..but if you speak to the people who actaully study and teach at the school they will quash it..it truly is a lively school and the standards are improving..btw ady ur a thick **** u get what u put it in

Dear Ady Ali. I seem to recall you attending this school and remember how useless an individual you were. Do not blame the staff at Beardwood for your short-comings as many children in your year left with plenty of good grades. In fact Adnan, I seem to remember how useless you were at most things. You were often rude, arrogant and displayed challenging behaviour. The only person to blame for not getting any grades is yourself. Your whole outlook to schooling was poor and this truly maifested itself into you leaving Beardwood School a loser!

Annie wrote:

we are there.,,,,,,, wrote:
WHAT a bad idear>>>>>
Why do local govement not learn from others. Look what happen to the schools in padium.ofstead but it straight into speacail measure.The police are there every day.Two schools that cant get on together.It will alway be I come from Beardwood you come for Pleckgate.fights will be a every day.They fight now and there not under the same roof.what will be ....but tax up to police it.good idear,leave thing as they are.spend the millons on up gradeing not rebuilding,

As an ex- teacher at Beardwood, the \'literacy\' used in comment above only goes to justify why the school should close.

This is exactly how I would have commented a few yrs ago.

I agree with Annie this does show how Beardwood High School teaches their pupils.

I am living proof & I could go on forever with my terrifying experience at Beardwood.

I think the school should close very soon. As you can see from my name I was an ex pupil at Beardwood.

I was over the moon when I left in 2003 because the school was absolutely dreadful a few yrs back.

I left with nothing no qualifications no GCSE's and this was because of the poor education I was receiving.

I really doubt that the school has changed much and I doubt that the school will improve much in the coming yrs.

So thats why the school should be closed down.

frm
Ady Ali

I think that annie is right if there is kik offs nearly every day in blackburn then of course there is gonna be loads aginst each school. The BSF scheme is NOT a good i dea i dont think!bold italic

I am also a past member of staff from Beardwood and I would support all Annie said above. I could even go much further, but no doubt I would then be called racist, which I definitely was not before I started workin there. When you see it from the inside you learn.

Annie,
I am not sure how long ago it was that you taught at Beardwood but I would like to invite you into the school at any time of the school day to take a learning walk round the building and meet with the Headteacher, pupils and myself. Then you will be able to make an up to date and informed judgement about the school.

We have plenty of time to put a stop to those plans. Watch it go.

Annie, dont you realise that Bearwood will close and be replaced by an all girls Muslim School. I am sure this ill prepare these girls for an integrated life in Blackburn. Beardwood as improved in both results and integration greatly the last few years. What the proposals will do is create an all girls Islamic school and in doing so a mainly Muslim Boys Community School.I am not sure this is the right way to go.

so annie why exactly do you feel unsafe?

Hello everyone, this Annie again. I must put the record straight. I have never taught at pleckgate, in fact I don’t even know where it is, only in Blackburn somewhere and Burnley I went through it once and won’t be going again
I taught at Beardwood for 3 year or so, I have also taught at many other schools, mainly in inner city Manchester. I must add that Beardwood was the school with the most intolerant view on integration with the wider population, let alone the standard of English spoken there. The headteacher stated in one meeting that the children should be allowed to speak in their native language rather than English. How are the staff at the school able to teach our language in those circumstances? If the children do not learn to speak and write the English language, how are they supposed to integrate? Yes, there are some ‘English as a fist language students’ (i.e. those who speak English in their homes) as Mr Smith’s children show, but when I was there (only a few years ago) we were talking about 20 in a school of near on 1000.
As the Bishop stated only this weekend, there are areas now which are becoming ‘no-go areas’ and the schools are the places to stop this happening by ensuring the language and culture of this country is taught and respected. I assume that is why the initial commenter was scared of joining schools, he or she may be forced to integrate. This alone is a reason to close the Blackburn schools and maybe even give out the places by pulling them out of a hat. That way there may be a cross population of the communities.
As I stated earlier in my rant, I have taught in many very hard inner city schools over the years and in non of those did I feel as unsafe as a white female teacher. I am sorry if this will ruffle some feather but as we say in Darwen, ‘I speak as I find’.

Beardwooder wrote:
My apologies, its obvious to all normal people, except those who attend pleckgate...
Her assumption that the burnley commenter attends beardwood because she simply mentions beardwood made it obvious. Understand now?

No I don't. You assume that I attend Pleckgate, I don't. Does your teacher know you are using the computers during lessons?

Beardwooder wrote:
My apologies, its obvious to all normal people, except those who attend pleckgate...
Her assumption that the burnley commenter attends beardwood because she simply mentions beardwood made it obvious. Understand now?

No I don't. You've assumed that I attend Pleckgate,, I don't. Think you should go back to your lesson now, I can hear your teacher calling you.

My apologies, its obvious to all normal people, except those who attend pleckgate...
Her assumption that the burnley commenter attends beardwood because she simply mentions beardwood made it obvious. Understand now?

beardwooder wrote:

Pleckgater wrote:
It is irrelevant where they are from. If they can't spell or punctuate correctly then they should keep their illiterate comments to themselves. Leave Annie alone.

Annie obviously teaches at pleckgate.

Why is it obvious?
Witless idiot.

Pleckgater wrote:
It is irrelevant where they are from. If they can't spell or punctuate correctly then they should keep their illiterate comments to themselves. Leave Annie alone.

Annie obviously teaches at pleckgate.

It is irrelevant where they are from. If they can't spell or punctuate correctly then they should keep their illiterate comments to themselves. Leave Annie alone.

Yes Annie, you are quite right the literacy used in THE comment above does leave a lot too be desired, however, if you look closely you will see that the comment was sent from somebody in Burnley - not Beardwood.

Annie wrote:

we are there.,,,,,,, wrote: WHAT a bad idear>>>>> Why do local govement not learn from others. Look what happen to the schools in padium.ofstead but it straight into speacail measure.The police are there every day.Two schools that cant get on together.It will alway be I come from Beardwood you come for Pleckgate.fights will be a every day.They fight now and there not under the same roof.what will be ....but tax up to police it.good idear,leave thing as they are.spend the millons on up gradeing not rebuilding,

As an ex- teacher at Beardwood, the 'literacy' used in comment above only goes to justify why the school should close.

She is not from beardwood, she is from Burnley, she was only giving an example when refering to beardwood and pleckgate, any idiot can recognise that, let alone a 'teacher'...

Seems like someone should have paid a bit more attention at school!! Judging by your educational standard i dont think this is really an area where your comments count for much!!

we are there.,,,,,,, wrote:
WHAT a bad idear>>>>>
Why do local govement not learn from others. Look what happen to the schools in padium.ofstead but it straight into speacail measure.The police are there every day.Two schools that cant get on together.It will alway be I come from Beardwood you come for Pleckgate.fights will be a every day.They fight now and there not under the same roof.what will be ....but tax up to police it.good idear,leave thing as they are.spend the millons on up gradeing not rebuilding,

As an ex- teacher at Beardwood, the 'literacy' used in comment above only goes to justify why the school should close.

WHAT a bad idear>>>>>
Why do local govement not learn from others. Look what happen to the schools in padium.ofstead but it straight into speacail measure.The police are there every day.Two schools that cant get on together.It will alway be I come from Beardwood you come for Pleckgate.fights will be a every day.They fight now and there not under the same roof.what will be ....but tax up to police it.good idear,leave thing as they are.spend the millons on up gradeing not rebuilding,