History
The school has had a varied history. The school was built in 1957. It closed through the summer of 1967 and turned from Whitley Bay County Secondary School into Valley Gardens Middle School . In 2000 the school was threatened with closure after North Tyneside council wanted to turn to a two-tier system instead of the three-tier system that was then used, this did not happen. In 2002 an extra year five class was added to take the numbers from 5 classes to 6, at that time every other year had six classes already. This move was taken to increase capacity and increase chances of getting into sixth form in later life. Also in 2002 the school governors encouraged the local education authority to provide more classrooms and modernise the buildings.
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