Pudsey Grammar School
Pudsey Grammar School | |
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Mount Pleasant Road , , LS28 7ND England | |
Coordinates | 53°47′56″N 1°39′46″W / 53.79884°N 1.66290°WCoordinates: 53°47′56″N 1°39′46″W / 53.79884°N 1.66290°W |
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Type | Foundation School |
Motto | "Be Just and Fear Not" |
Established | 1905[1] |
Local authority | City of Leeds |
Trust | 21st Century Learning Partnership |
Specialist | Mathematics and computing |
Department for Education URN | 108079 Tables |
Ofsted | Reports |
Chair | David Webster |
Headteacher | Mark McKelvie |
Gender | Coeducational |
Age | 11 to 18 |
Website | http://www.pudseygrammar.co.uk/ |
Pudsey Grammar School is a secondary school with a sixth form in Pudsey, West Yorkshire, England. It was first established in 1905 under the name Pudsey and District Secondary School, meeting in Pudsey Town Hall until the school's first purpose built building opened on Richardshaw Lane in 1911, with construction having started in mid-1909. The name changed to Pudsey Grammar School in 1944 and was known by this name until 1980 at which point the name changed to Pudsey Grangefield School. It was later given the status of a specialist college of Maths and Computing. In September 2021 the school changed its name back to Pudsey Grammar School[2] to reflect its proud history and several significant improvements including the redesign of the entire school curriculum. It serves around 1,250 pupils from the town and surrounding area. The school has a large Sixth Form of over 260 students offering 20 A level courses and 6 Applied General courses.[3]
History[]
The school's lifelong logo is the official coat of arms of Pudsey, bearing the slogan "Be Just and Fear Not". The logo is built into the face of the original Grammar School Building; this Grade II listed building at the front of the old site has been converted into flats, and the rest of the site was demolished to make an open recreational area for the new building.[citation needed]
On 21 September 2009, the school was visited by the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott.[4] The school was also visited in 2010 by Labour leadership candidate and former Foreign Secretary David Miliband,[5][failed verification] who described the new building as "a great monument to Labour government".[6]
Headteacher Ken Cornforth was promoted from Deputy Headteacher in 1996–97 on the retirement of long-serving Headteacher Margaret Cooke.[citation needed]
The school has its own TV program, "Friday World", broadcast every Friday breaktime at 10:40 am since 1987. The school also has its own radio station, which began in 1986 as "Radio Grangefield". Since 1997 it has broadcast for a few weeks each year on FM under a Restricted Service Licence, issued by Ofcom, originally under the name "Pudsey Grangefield FM", later abbreviated to PGFM.[citation needed]
International links[]
Revival Grammar Secondary School[]
The school established a partnership with the Revival Grammar Secondary School, Matugga, Uganda in 2008.[citation needed] As the school moved to a new building, a team of volunteers spent two days in the old school gathering furniture and equipment to be shipped to Africa. Amongst the items donated were: 220 chairs, 51 desks, 76 exam tables, 4 stationery cupboards, 4 filing cabinets, 12 four-seater dining tables, 4 LCD projectors, 3000 text books, 13 boxes of lab equipment, kitchen equipment, 12 sewing machines, 4 woodwork benches with vices, carpentry machinery and tools and 60 computers.
The partnership has continued with regular visits between the two schools and the completion of a sustainable energy research project conducted by students at both schools.
Notable former pupils[]
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- Jerry Brotton, Chair of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London and presenter of the BBC series Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession
- Carolynne Good, finalist on Fame Academy
- Matthew Hoggard, England cricketer
- Nile Wilson, Olympic gymnastics bronze medallist on the horizontal bar in Summer 2016
Pudsey Grammar School[]
- Sir Len Hutton, opening batsman for England and Yorkshire
- Nick Nelson, managing director from 1987 to 1991 of Parcelforce[7]
- Peter Ransley, screenwriter
- David Shutt, Baron Shutt of Greetland OBE
- Dudley Williams FRS, Professor of Biological Chemistry from 1996 to 2006 at the University of Cambridge;[8] his work led to effectiveness of the antibiotic vancomycin
References[]
- ^ "Pudsey Grangefield School, Richardshaw Lane, Pudsey". Leodis. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
- ^ "Pudsey Grangefield plans to change name back to 'Grammar School'". West Leeds Dispatch. 11 February 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
- ^ "Home". Pudsey Grammar School. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
- ^ "Leeds school puts Prescott in the spotlight". Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
- ^ pudseygrangefield.leeds.sch.uk Archived 20 July 2012 at archive.today
- ^ twitter.com
- ^ Getty Images 1990
- ^ Dudley Williams
- Secondary schools in Leeds
- Pudsey
- Educational institutions established in 1911
- 1911 establishments in England
- Foundation schools in Leeds
- Specialist maths and computing colleges in England