Yewlands Technology College (formerly known as Yewlands Secondary School) is a secondary school with academy status located in the Grenoside area of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The school was originally located on three sites; Elm, Yew and Willow. The school was rebuilt as part of the Building Schools for the Future programme and reopened in September 2009. The new building was designed to make the atmosphere more 'grown up' and college like. The school has under 900 students, which is below the British average.
The school uniform is a v-neck black jumper, either a grey, pink or orange polo shirt and black trousers and shoes. The logo is three circles in the same colours as the polo shirts with 'Y' 'T' & 'C' in them. This is meant to represent unity and togetherness and was designed by a former pupil.
Former pupils include Olympic Long Jumper Sheila Sherwood (née Parkin) who won Silver at the Mexico Games in 1968, and a Commonwealth Gold two years later.
Famous quotes containing the words technology and/or college:
“Radio put technology into storytelling and made it sick. TV killed it. Then you were locked into somebody else’s sighting of that story. You no longer had the benefit of making that picture for yourself, using your imagination. Storytelling brings back that humanness that we have lost with TV. You talk to children and they don’t hear you. They are television addicts. Mamas bring them home from the hospital and drag them up in front of the set and the great stare-out begins.”
—Jackie Torrence (b. 1944)
“I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)