“Welcome to the website for The Hawthorne’s Free School in Bootle, Merseyside. Ours is a brand new school with a Christian ethos where every student is made to feel safe, valued and secure.

While we are opening on the former site of St George of England High School, this is a new and bright start for our community. My colleagues and I are aware that ours is an economically deprived area, so we are striving to create an outstanding school based on top-quality teaching, leadership and governance.

With its personalised curriculum tailored to each student’s learning style, The Hawthorne’s Free School will be an oasis of calm where young people are nurtured to thrive academically and socially.

I hope you will enjoy browsing our website – and I look forward to meeting you in person too.”

Lynne Wise

Headteacher

The Hawthorne’s Free School, Bootle

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The Hawthorne’s Free School is proud to announce its first full-scale musical production, Beauty and the Beast. The classic ‘tale as old as time’ has been given a modern pantomime twist while losing none of its lovable characters, beautiful tunes and enchanting sets and costumes. Students think that the show has been a marvellous vehicle for bringing the pupils together, with Becky Allison, who plays the part of Claude, stated “Drama and Performing Arts has helped to balance the academic rigour needed for examinations with a chance for some real fun!” Will the ‘Beast’ understand in time that true beauty lies within? Will Fairy Bovver Boots defeat Goody 2 Shoes? Will Jelly Bottom ever have a shave? All will be revealed!

With a matinee performance for 200 local primary schoolchildren on the 11th December and two evening performances on the 11th and 12th, the cast and crew, including the Asdan group who are responsible for refreshments, have been kept extremely busy. The beautiful Art Deco stage at the school has been transformed into a fairytale castle by the joint efforts of the Art and CDT departments while Business and ICT students undertook marketing and ‘front of house’ for the production. Director Mrs. S. Mullany commented “It has been absolutely wonderful to see the outstanding collaboration of the students and staff come to fruition.  Many of the students only met for the first time in September, yet they have managed to achieve so much through their determination to create something that the local community will remember for a long time to come. The whole cast of extremely talented youngsters should be very proud of their dedication, commitment and energy.”

Mrs Lynne Wise the Headteacher added ‘This is a perfect example of what The Hawthorne’s Free School has set out to accomplish. Our pupils’ being given the opportunity and support to stretch and challenge them to develop their gifts and talents to the full. The Production has brought the whole Hawthorne’s community together, in a thoroughly enjoyable venture, that makes us all extremely proud.’

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