Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form College

• The Cheadle College, Cheadle Road, Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester. SK8 5HA
• Marple Sixth Form College, Buxton Lane, Marple, Stockport. SK6 7QY

The college was inspected by Ofsted in March 2014 and September 2016 and received 'Good' grades on both occasions.^[2] In the latest report, Ofsted commented that 'the principal and senior leadership team have successfully promoted a culture of high expectations and high standards of teaching, learning and assessment', and 'learners demonstrate a high level of respect for each other and for their teachers.'

The college offers a very wide range of courses, including GCSEs (General Certificate of Secondary Education), AS (Advanced Subsidiary Level) and A-Levels (GCE Advanced Level), vocational NVQs and BTECs. They also offer Access courses for adults.

 

In 1946, following the Education Act 1944, a building known as Moseley Hall on Wilmslow Road was acquired by the local authority for £6,500. Moseley Hall had been owned by John Henry Davies, President of Manchester United Football Club, since 1904. His widow, who lived at Bramall Hall till 1935, re-purchased Moseley Hall at some point after his death in 1927. During the war the building was used for four years as the National Fire Service headquarters for Manchester. It was converted into a grammar school, which took its name from the building it occupied. It was run by the Cheadle and Wilmslow Educational Executive of Cheshire Education Committee. It was situated north-west down the road (A5149) from the current campus, and bordered neighbouring Cheadle. It was originally co-educational. The first headmaster was Wilfred Simms, aged 34.

 

In January 1956 a new school was built where the current Cheadle campus is today and this became Cheadle County Grammar School for Girls. Moseley Hall therefore became a boys-only school. The girls' school had around 950 girls and was situated on Cheadle Road (A5149).

In 1970, a new school was built adjacent to the girls' school on North Downs Road. It cost £370,000, and became known as Cheadle Moseley Boys' Grammar School^[3] with 900 boys. The two schools, whilst next to each other, remained separate, despite plans to merge them.^[4][5] Moseley Hall was eventually demolished in the late 1970s and replaced by the Village Hotel and an entertainment complex.^[6] The boys' school at one time had its own railway line.^[7]

The schools were eventually merged in 1983 and became known as The Manor County Secondary School, a comprehensive school. It was the first state comprehensive to take the International Baccalaureate in 1990.

In 1991 it was converted into a college of further education; the girls' school became known as the Bulkley Building, and the boys' school became the Moseley Building. Initially the college was called Margaret Danyers College on North Downs Road. In the early 1990s, Stockport replaced its school sixth forms with separate sixth form colleges. Margaret Danyers started at the age of 14 and was effectively an upper school, not just a sixth form college. The Cheadle Adult Centre was next door.

The Marple Campus was initially called Marple Ridge College; Marple Ridge High School had closed in 1989. In 1995 Margaret Danyers College and Marple Ridge College combined to become Ridge Danyers College with two campuses.^[8] There were some problems with the Cheadle Campus as part of the Moseley building was declared unsafe in the early 1990s due to the decay of the reinforced concrete with which it was constructed. This building was eventually demolished in August 2000, and replaced by a new building.

In October 2004 the college changed its name to CAMSFC (Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form College).^[9] It was the largest further education college in the country in 2004, with around 9001 students.^[10]

In 2016, Marple Sixth Form College completed an extension and refurbishment of the Buxton Lane site, enabling all provision to be based at one site. New facilities included a sports hall, science labs and a learning resource centre.^[11]

• Qasim Akhtar, actor
• Tom Ogden, Joe Donovan and Myles Kellock from the indie pop band Blossoms^[12]

• Owen Jones, socialist commentator, author of Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class^[13]
• Councillor Greg Stanton, Elected Member for Didsbury West ward on Manchester City Council ^[14]
• Dame Sarah Storey, 14-time gold medal winning Paralympian^[15]
• Wyl Menmuir, Man Booker Prize nominated author, 2016^[16]
• Adio Marchant, singer, known professionally as Bipolar Sunshine and former vocalist with the Manchester band Kid British

• Tim Grundy, radio presenter, son of Bill Grundy
• Stephanie Tague, actress in Coronation Street
• Kaye Wragg, actress, played Diane Noble in The Bill

• Prof Stephen Busby, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Birmingham
• Steve Heighway, footballer
• Admiral Sir John Kerr, commanded HMS Illustrious and Second Sea Lord
• Ian Walters, chief executive of Action Mental Health (based in Northern Ireland)
• Mr Simon Lea Smith MITIE account director
• Andy Ritchie, footballer with Manchester United, Leeds United and Oldham Athletic
• Paul Bate Headmaster, The Park School, Yeovil and Emmanuel School, Oxford
• Trevor Williams (1938-2015) a British plant geneticist who was instrumental in the creation of plant gene banks.

• Gwyneth Powell, actress
• Anne Smith, Lady Smith, Senator of the College of Justice

• Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form College Website
• Moseley Hall Grammar School Web Site