Administrative History | The origin of Shooting Butts School was the Shooting Butts Camp, one of the boys' National Camps established by the National Camps Corporation during the Second World War, for evacuated children. It was used as a boys school by Birmingham Education Authority. After the Second World War it became a residential school, run by Staffordshire County Council, one of only a few county secondary boarding schools in the country. In the earliest register from 1948 it appears most pupils came from the Black County area, transferred from Secondary Modern Schools. By 1949 more pupils came from other parts of Staffordshire. It later had some pupils from other parts of the country, and offered a stable "static" education for children of Service families. In 1963 an annexe was added at Pipewood, Blithbury, for juniors aged 11-13, with seniors aged 13-15 remaining at Shooting Butts. Pipewood had been used as a Camp for girls in the Second World War. In the late 1960s there was a proposal for the children to be educated at the Rugeley comprehensive schools with the children continuing to board at Shooting Butts and Pipewood, and the old war-time chalets to be replaced by modern hostels. The changeover to the comprehensive education system brought about the closure of the school in 1971. |