Milltown House is based in Bury Town Centre and makes provision for up to 50 Year 11 pupils through it's various and well-considered pathways. Milltown House has a small teaching facility on site and connects pupils to vocational programmes based at Bury College, Bolton College, Achieve Training, Music for Young People, Brighter Futures and the Princes Trust. The provision works closely with the School's Partnership to secure appropriate curriculum pathways for pupils, in their best interests, where mainstream education is felt to be not meeting need for these these young people.
Pupils attending via Milltown House provision have a curriculum offer of;
Pupils placed across colleges and training providers can select from various vocational options based
on their career aspirations, some examples are;
The curriculum is responsive to the offer from vocational providers and is supported with interventions from Youth Workers who support on attendance and safeguarding at the various provisions, but also support personal development, careers and enterprise.
Given the bespoke nature of our offer and commissioning with Alternative Provision to deliver a broad curriculum offer, typical timetable at Milltown House can vary per pupil.
Lessons on-site start at 9.15am and finish at 2pm, and we aim for over 20 hours per week of education per pupil.
There is no set uniform at Park House, but we expect that pupils wear appropriate clothing to school, that maintains a safe and professional environment
Unit Manager: Mr W Pacey (Senior Lead for Behaviour, Attitudes & Safeguarding)
Phone: 0161 724 2900 Option 3
Email: milltownhouse@bury.gov.uk
Address: Milltown House, 6 Tenterden Street, Bury, BL9 0EG