Garforth Academy
[4][5] Barbara Castle, Member of Parliament for Blackburn, performed an official opening of the school on 11 October 1969.[9] Since 2008, Garforth Academy has partnered with Mzuvele High School in KwaMashu, Durban.[11] In the book The Modfather, David Lines describes his time at the school in the late 1970s and early 1980s in great detail.He described the school as looking like a cold hard slab of institutionalised concrete and, after leaving a leafy Nottinghamshire grammar school, described his shock on his first day of the pupils wearing 'menacing boots' and watching his classmates 'literally kicking seven shades out of each other'.[12] As a result of improvements in the previous decade, the headteacher, Paul Edwards, received a knighthood in the New Year Honours 2009 for services to local and national education.