#ALDER COPPICE PRIMARY SCHOOL DUDLEY PROFESSIONAL#

#ALDER COPPICE PRIMARY SCHOOL DUDLEY PROFESSIONAL#

He was being lined up for a career as a professional footballer when he died in December 1994 from a blood clot while playing for Brierley Hill Bullets. Neil Skidmore, who left Alder Coppice in July 1990 (the first year of pupils to leave Alder Coppice in Year 6 on the reduction of the primary leaving age), played for the school football team. Telford United having started his career at Walsall. The boys football team has been particularly successful, having won several local league championships and cups since the 1980s.īruce Wheeler, who left Alder Coppice in July 1997 and later attended the Dormston School, was a member of the boys football team and is now a midfielder for A.F.C. The school has several sports teams which mostly consist of pupils in the two highest year groups (ages 9, 10 and 11).

His predecessor was Mr Barbara Carter.Īlder Coppice was put into special measures in December 1999 after OFSTED inspectors criticised the school's weak management of resources and lack of direction, but it came out of special measures 18 months later and is successful again. The current headteacher is Dr Duncan Jones, who arrived in January 2006 to replace the retiring Mr David Cox, who had been at the school since 1999. The school now provides education for pupils aged 3 to 11 (incorporating a nursery unit for 3 and 4 year olds), and from 1972 until 1990 also included 12 year olds. It was built in 1963 to serve the local area, which had begun developing in the late 1950s and was mostly completed by the early 1970s. Alder Coppice Primary School is situated on the Northway estate in Sedgley, West Midlands.

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