Parkwood E-ACT Academy is a secondary school located in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It opened as Parkwood High School, a "fresh start" school, in September 2000, following the closure of Herries School. On 1 September 2009, it became Parkwood Academy. Feeder primary schools include Pye Bank, Longley and Watercliffe Meadow. The principal is Gemma Cottingham.
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Wardsend Cemetery is a Victorian cemetery in the Owlerton district of Sheffield, England, consecrated by the Archbishop of York in 1859 and closed to legal burial in 1968.
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Sheffield Hillsborough was a Parliamentary constituency in the City of Sheffield. It was considered a safe Labour seat and was represented by Helen Jackson from 1992 to 2005. She did not stand again in the 2005 general election and was succeeded by Angela Smith.
The Sheffield Hillsborough constituency was abolished at the 2010 General Election. It was divided up and incorporated into the Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, Sheffield Hallam and Penistone and Stocksbridge constituencies.
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Southey ward—which includes the districts of Fox Hill, New Parson Cross, Southey, Wadsley Bridge, and part of Old Parson Cross—is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England. It is located in the northern part of the city and covers an area of 1.8 square miles. The population of this ward in 2011 was 19,086 people in 8,295 households. It is one of the wards that make up the Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough constituency.
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Shirecliffe is a suburb of the City of Sheffield. It lies three kilometres north of the city centre, it is now a residential neighbourhood consisting mostly of public housing. In the past it was a rural area made up of farmland and scattered small country houses. The name of the suburb derives from "Scir-clifff" meaning a bright steep hillside, this is appropriate as it is located at the top of a steep escarpment which rises out of the Don valley at Neepsend.
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Neepsend power station supplied electricity to the City of Sheffield and the surrounding area from 1910 to 1976. The power station was owned and operated by the Sheffield Corporation Electricity Department prior to the nationalisation of the British electricity supply industry in 1948. It was operated in conjunction with Blackburn Meadows and Kelham power stations and was closed in 1976.
The school was featured in an episode of Channel 4's documentary series The Secret Teacher in 2019. The academy is sponsored by E-ACT, and moved into a new building in April 2012.
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