A BLACKPOOL special school has been singled out for one of the highest accolades a school can receive. Woodlands School has got the government stamp of approval from education watchdog OFSTED ...

Blackpool Council has been fined £120,000 after a four-year-old girl drowned during a school swimming lesson. Emma Farrar was found lying face down in the pool at Woodlands School in Blackpool on 13 ...

Emma-Jane Farrar, four, who was a pupil at Park School, a school for children with special needs, drowned in November 2001 during a swimming lesson at nearby Woodlands School. Blackpool Council, ...

The sixth form opened in a single classroom in September 2015, before moving to remodelled provision with Woodlands School, on the site of Westbury Lodge Children’s Home in April 2016.