The Ridings School The Ridings School The Ridings was a secondary school for ages 11–18 in Ovenden, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, overseen by the Calderdale local authority. It was created in 1995 when two local secondary modern schools merged. The school is relatively small for its type; as of 2007 it had 537 students, of whom 28 were in the sixth form. Before it became the Ridings school, it was known as The Ovenden High School (which closed on 31 December 1994). The headteacher, Anna White was rewarded with a CBE in 1999 for improving the school after it had been labelled "Britain's
Richard Ridings as Silas in "". Ridings voices Daddy Pig in the animated children's series "Peppa Pig", Father Christmas and Boss Dwarf in "Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom", and Grooby in Q Pootle 5. In 2005, he took the lead role in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom "Clement Doesn't Live Here Anymore", playing a sexually obsessed overweight ghost alongside Steve Furst and Amanda Abbington. The second series was transmitted in May, 2007. Ridings has also provided voiceovers in video games, including the voice of Sarge in "Quake III", the Mentor in "Dungeon Keeper" and "Dungeon Keeper 2", Mendechaus in War for the