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23-425: Denby Dale Pies is a manufacturer of pies founded in 2001 in the "Pie Village" of Denby Dale , West Yorkshire , England. Their products are sold in branches of Sainsbury's , Tesco , Waitrose , Co-op Food , Asda , Morrisons and Booths . The village of Denby Dale has a tradition baking giant pies to celebrate events and occasions of national importance. The first of these is thought to have been in 1788 to mark

46-438: A 2012 episode of Channel 5 's The Great Northern Cookbook , Denby Dale Pies took part in recreating the pie which marked the 1887 Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria, based on historical accounts of the recipe, and weighing in at 3.8 tons. The pies were also featured in a September 2015 episode of the hit BBC One show The Great British Bake Off . Denby Dale Pies was judged to produce the country's best meat and potato pie in

69-680: A contest held by ITV's The Paul O'Grady Show in 2004, with the final of the competition held live on the teatime chat show. In 2012, the Denby Dale Chicken and Gravy Pie was awarded silver in the British Pie Awards. In July 2013, Princess Anne visited the company's flagship factory in Denby Dale. Denby Dale Denby Dale is a village and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire , England. It

92-451: A proposal to the Minister to cease to maintain a school. This was done in cases where the local authority and school could not agree. Some of these schools became private schools : Direct grant status was abolished at the same time and over 40 such schools, almost all Roman Catholic, converted to voluntary aided status. Many voluntary aided schools converted to grant-maintained status in

115-759: A railway station on the Penistone Line . Denby Dale provided the textile industry with raw materials, coal, and transportation. Silk for the Queen Mother 's wedding dress was made at Springfield Mill. With the economy flourishing, the population increased and the village grew. The village is served by Denby Dale railway station , and also has 2 bus stops. The D1 Denby Darts bus service runs to Skelmanthorpe and Huddersfield . Denby Dale First and Nursery school (formerly known as Gilthwaites First School and Denby Dale Nursery) provides education from aged 2 to aged 10. Denby Church of England Voluntary Aided First School

138-574: A village hall. The most recent in 2000, weighed 12 tonnes (13 tons) and celebrated the new millennium. Denby Dale Pies was founded in the village. In 1940 it was agreed by the Denby Dale Local Comforts Fund, the giant pie dish would be sold for scrap to help the war effort. There was a procession, cricket match, dancing all followed by the selling of the dish. Voluntary aided school Such schools have more autonomy than voluntary controlled schools , which are entirely funded by

161-434: Is 8 miles north-west of Barnsley and 10 miles south-east of Huddersfield The village is the main village in the Denby Dale civil parish that also covers Lower Denby , Upper Denby , Upper Cumberworth , Lower Cumberworth , Skelmanthorpe , Emley , Emley Moor and Clayton West . The parish had a population of 14,982 according to the 2001 census, increasing to 16,365 at the 2011 census. The parish council gives

184-522: Is a voluntary aided primary school associated with the Church of England in Upper Denby. The school has two classes, infants and juniors, with the infants running through years reception to year 2 and the juniors running through the years 3 to 5. At the turn of the millennium, there were around 40 to 50 pupils in the school. Denby Dale has a tradition of baking giant pies, which started in 1788 to celebrate

207-558: The British and Foreign School Society and the National Society for Promoting Religious Education sought to provide elementary schooling for poor children, setting up non-denominational British Schools and Church of England National schools respectively. From 1833, the State began to provide grants to support these elementary schools and the less wealthy endowed schools. They were joined by

230-482: The Catholic Poor School Committee , which established Roman Catholic elementary schools and received its first state grant in 1847. Secondary education also expanded at the same time, including a series of Roman Catholic secondary schools established by religious orders. The state began to provide elementary education in 1870 and secondary education in 1902, but also continued to increase funding to

253-566: The corn laws . The seventh (the Infirmary Pie) raised money to endow a cot at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary . The eighth pie, in 1964, was to celebrate four royal births but was marred by the deaths of four committee members in a car accident while returning from filming in London for a pilot of a television show (later to become the Eamonn Andrews Show). The eighth pie raised money to provide

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276-652: The Roman Catholic schools and the schools of non-Christian faiths. Almost all voluntary aided primary schools and 93% of voluntary aided secondary schools were linked to a religious body, usually either the Church of England or the Catholic Church, with a minority of other faiths. In November 2012, the interpretation of the Education Act 2011 , which appeared to prioritise the creation of academies over maintained schools,

299-431: The direct grant schools became direct grant grammar schools . The Act also imposed higher standards on school facilities, and offered the remaining voluntary schools a choice in funding the costs this would incur: The Catholic Church chose to retain control of all of its schools, while more than half of Church of England schools became voluntary controlled. The state contribution to capital works for voluntary aided schools

322-646: The electorate of the village itself as 2,143. The River Dearne runs through the village; in the floods of 2007 it burst its banks on two occasions and caused damage to Springfield Mill. First recorded as Denby Dyke. Before the Industrial Revolution the village was sparsely-populated with a small textile industry at the crossroads of the Barnsley to Shepley Lane Head and the Wakefield to Denby Dale roads. Within 25 years, factories and mills had been built and had

345-470: The late 1980s, generally reverting to voluntary aided status when grant-maintained status was abolished in 1998. A few formerly independent faith schools that had become grant-maintained in the early 1990s also converted to voluntary aided status at that time. By 2008, within the maintained sector in England, approximately 22% of primary schools and 17% of secondary schools were voluntary aided, including all of

368-510: The recovery of King George III from mental illness. To date ten pies have been made as part of nine pie festivals. In August 1887, a pie baked to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria spoiled and was buried in quicklime. A replacement pie (the 'resurrection' pie) was baked in September 1887. The sixth pie was baked on 1 August 1896, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the repeal of

391-422: The return to sanity of King George III and the tenth, a Millennium Pie baked in 2000, measured 40 feet (12 m) and weighed 12 tons. The Denby Dale Pie company was founded in 2001. It went into administration in 2011 and was sold to Chapel Foods Ltd. In 2012, Yorkshire laureate Ian McMillan wrote and performed a "Piem" about Denby Dale pies. Denby Dale Pies became part of Country Style Foods in 2016. In

414-520: The school's land and buildings, although there are instances where VA schools use local authority land and buildings. The foundation appoints a majority of the school governors , who run the school, employ the staff and decide the school's admission arrangements, subject to the national Schools Admissions Code. Specific exemptions from Section 85 of the Equality Act 2010 enables VA faith schools to use faith criteria in prioritising pupils for admission to

437-427: The schools run by other organisations (usually the churches), now known as voluntary schools . In return these schools were increasingly influenced by the state, and were subject to jointly administered inspections. In 1926, secondary voluntary schools were required to choose between being "grant-aided" by the local authority, or receiving a "direct grant" from central government. Under the Education Act 1944 , most of

460-508: The schools. Pupils at voluntary aided schools follow the National Curriculum . Like all faith schools, VA faith schools may teach religious education according to their own faith. Prior to the 19th century, there were a variety of schools in England and Wales, from charity schools providing basic education for the poor to endowed schools (often grammar schools ) providing secondary or all-age education. Early in that century,

483-412: The state, with the school's foundation contributing the remaining 10%. Many VA faith schools belong to diocesan maintenance schemes or other types of funding programme to help them to manage those costs. VA schools are not allowed to charge fees to students, although parents are usually encouraged to pay a voluntary contribution towards the schools' maintenance funds. The foundation usually owns

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506-482: The state. In some circumstances local authorities can help the governing body in buying a site, or can provide a site or building free of charge. Hong Kong 's education system also has aided ( Chinese : 資助 ) schools. The running costs of voluntary aided schools, like those of other state-maintained schools , are fully paid by central government via the local authority . They differ from other maintained schools in that only 90% of their capital costs are met by

529-510: Was originally 50%. It was increased to 75% by the Education Act 1959 , and is now 90%. By the mid-1970s, under Harold Wilson's second Labour government, most local authorities were in the final stages of reorganising secondary education along comprehensive lines. The Roman Catholic hierarchy supported this change. Some non-Catholic voluntary aided grammar schools opposed it. Local authorities could not compel voluntary aided schools to change any aspect of their admissions, but they could submit

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