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Parklands High School is a Specialist Language College High School in the north-west borough of Chorley . The current headteacher is Mrs J McGrath. HISTORY Parklands High School was opened in the 1950s. In the beginning, Parklands was called Chorley Grammar School. This was changed in 1969, when the school was changed from a Grammar School to a Comprehensive School , to Parklands High School. The oldest buildings of the school are the North and South wings while the Admin corridor, which also houses the school library, is of similar age. The school has an outdoor changing facility known as the Pavilion or "pavvy", built in 1969. There was an area of the school known as the ROSLA Block , which was knocked down in 2002 to make way for a brand new state of the art Sports Hall and office facility. The ROSLA block was home to the Art rooms and to the year 11 common room but a new building was built to accommodate these known as East Block. The School sports hall has a blue rubber floor ideal for sports such as Badminton, Basketball and Indoor Football. The sports hall also has Cricket batting nets, these are used on a weekly basis by the local cricket club. The East block was completed in Spring 2003 and is home to two Art rooms and two multi-function rooms, there is an ICT suite in the block also and a large room currently used for Drama. The newest area of school is the extenion to the rear of the school library. This houses two state of the art ICT rooms, each capable of holding thirty students, based on one student per computer. These were completed in 2004. The school gained Specialist Language College status in 2005 and as a result every student from years 7 through to 11 studies languages with the top two sets studying two languages. As a consequence of the last Electronics teacher retiring, Electronics has now been axed from the timetable and has been replaced by Drama. A former storeroom has been converted into a Drama room. LANGUAGE COLLEGE STATUS Parklands was first made a Language College in 2003, and was awarded an extra £500,000 for language purposes. The languages that are now taught are French , German , Spanish , Russian , Arabic and Japanese . French and German are taught as compulsory language subjects and the other languages are taught in a variety of extra-curricular classes and clubs. NOTABLE ALUMNI
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