Moorhouse Academy
Academy sponsor led primary school in Rochdale (Rochdale).
Location
iSchool location from Get Information about Schools. Nearby schools are coloured by phase. Open Map+ for a full-screen map with neighbourhood deprivation (England only).About
Our school is devoted to serving our community and enabling the children within our care to thrive in life, ensuring their own success and happiness and that of those around them. Everything we do at Moorhouse Academy is an expression of our core ethos, LEARN: LEARN represents the qualities that we seek to develop and instil within our learners and to prepare them for life.
It was developed in partnership with the children and is embedded within the curriculum to promote a love of learning. We want to support the children to be the best that they can be and to value and respect the community in which they live.
Ask any child or adult in our school about LEARN and they will tell you how much it means to us and how well it guides everyone within our community to be the best we can be.
We are a friendly and welcoming school with high standards and energy and as part of the Watergrove Trust family of schools we are very well resourced and supported, providing a great environment for learning and growth. Come and see how much we have evolved as a school! You wont be disappointed.
In the school’s own words, from the school website.
Enrichment
11 activitiesiFound on the school website by WhatSchool. Not verified by Governance Register; the school website is the authority.- Football
- Rugby
- Rounders
- Cricket
- Handball
- Hockey
- Athletics
- Yoga and mindfulness
- Gymnastics
- Dodgeball
- Real PE (Create Development)
Key facts
- URN
- 148436
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Nursery
- Has Nursery Classes
- Local authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Rochdale
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 2021
Governing body (7 current, 1 former)
iAcademy trust: local governing body and trust board.1 governor is linked to a profile (all confirmed).
Governors marked “Confirmed same person” have exactly the same forename and surname as the only officer of that name at the school’s own academy trust company on the Companies House register, so we treat them as the same person. The governance record itself comes from DfE.
Leadership
| Name | Role | How appointed | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mr James Bannon | Chair of Local Governing Body | Appointed by GB/board | since 2021 · until 2029 |
Full governing body
| Name | Role | How appointed | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Talia Comer | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2026 · until 2030 |
| Ruth Merrick | Local Governor | Elected by school staff | since 2025 · until 2029 |
| Emma Butterworth | Local Governor | Appointed by foundation/Trust | since 2024 · until 2028 |
| David Johnson Confirmed same person | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2023 · until 2031 |
| Mrs Kelly Milnes | Local Governor | Ex-officio by virtue of office as headteacher/principal | since 2021 |
| Ms Christine Ainley | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2021 · until 2029 |
| Barbara Kenyon Former | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2023 · term ended 2026 |
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools (governance records, as at 25 October 2026). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Names are shown as published; there are no addresses or contact details. Current and former are worked out from term end dates when the page loads. Object or ask for removal · Report an issue with this record