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| type         = [[Academy (English school)|Academy]]
| gender       = [[Co-educational]]
| head_label   = Headmistress 
| head         = Gina Newton
| address       = Birley Lane
| city         = [[Sheffield]]
| county       = [[South Yorkshire]]
| country      = England
| postcode     = S12 3BP
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'''The Birley Academy''', previously known as Birley Community College, is a [[secondary school]] in [[Birley]], [[Sheffield]], [[South Yorkshire]], [[England]]. It is part of the L.E.A.D. Academy trust. The headteacher is Gina Newton.

==Facilities==
The school is split into three levels, the topmost one being the modern foreign languages block; the first floor being English, Languages, Science, Art, Food Technology and Graphics; and the ground floor containing Maths, History, Creative iMedia, Drama, Music, Geography, BTEC Tourism, Resistant Materials, PE and Religious Studies.

The school has a Main Hall with a projected screen for presentations. The school has many areas to eat lunch, or to a have break. There are seating areas outside Music, Maths and Design Technology. The main areas to eat are the canteen (dining hall) where students can order food and sit there, outside the Hot and Cold Snack Bars, where there are numbers of seating, the DT courtyard, where students can sit outside as well as the main hall, where the large seats are pulled up to make space for dining tables, this means there are always places to sit.

The school contains a learning resource centre equipped with technology such as interactive whiteboards and computer systems. The school also has dedicated special needs previsions, with a pastoral care department and a separate section of the school, the Interactive Resources Unit, dedicated to assisting children with learning difficulties access mainstream education. Birley also has a Drama Studio with fully equipped lighting and sound and a large number of instruments and electronic musical equipment (i.e. Mac computers, synth drums and Keyboards) in the Music department.

==Available GCSE Courses==
Courses available at Birley are: Maths, English, Science (combined and separate), Food Preparation and Nutrition, Graphics, Creative iMedia, Art, Music, Drama, History, BTEC Sport Science, BTEC Travel and Tourism, Geography, BTEC Engineering, GCSE French and Resistant Materials.

==History==
===Thornbridge School===
It is the former Thornbridge School, the former Thornbridge Grammar School also known as Birley Thornbridge Grammar School. The first headmaster of Thornbridge Comprehensive School was Walter Snook.

===Birley School===
The school has connections with the village of [[:sw:Pwani Mchangani|Pwani Mchangani]], [[Zanzibar]].<ref>[http://www.cyec.org.uk/reportsdetails.asp?id=21 cyec - Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council]((webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060821125254/http://www.cyec.org.uk/reportsdetails.asp?id=21 |date=21 August 2006 ))</ref>((failed verification|date=January 2015))

Birley Secondary Modern School existed throughout the 1960s.

In 2012 work began to demolish the old building and replace it with a new modern one. The construction of the new building finished in early January of the same year.

The site is off the [[A6135 road|A6135]] (former [[A616 road|A616]]) in south-east Sheffield, north of [[Birley Lane tram stop]].

In 2017 it was granted academy status and became part of the LEAD Academy trust alongside three local feeder schools as well as two other secondary schools.

==Notable former pupils==
===Thornbridge Grammar School===
* [[Phil Burgan]] - racing driver and businessman
* [[Tommy Eyre]] - Musician

===Thornbridge School===
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===Birley Community College===
* [[Regan Slater]] - Professional footballer. (Midfielder)

==Former teachers==
* [[Veronica Hardstaff]] from 1986 to 1994 she taught French and German, Labour [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]] from 1994 to 1999 for [[Lincolnshire and Humberside South (European Parliament constituency)|Lincolnshire and Humberside South]] (the only MEP it had), and married to [[Alan Billings]], the [[South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner]] since 2016

==See also==
* Totley-Thornbridge College of Education also known as [[Totley Hall College of Education]], which became part of [[Sheffield Hallam University|Sheffield City Polytechnic]] in 1976

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120817073538/http://www.birleycc.sheffield.sch.uk/ Birley Community College web page]
* [http://www.birleylearningcommunity.org.uk/ Birley Learning Community website]
* [http://www.birleysecondaryacademy.co.uk/ The Birley Academy Website]

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