Pudsey Grangefield School

Pudsey Grangefield School
Address
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Mount Pleasant Road Pudsey , West Yorkshire , LS28 7ND England
Coordinates	53°47′56″N 1°39′46″W / 53.79884°N 1.66290°W / 53.79884; -1.66290Coordinates: 53°47′56″N 1°39′46″W / 53.79884°N 1.66290°W / 53.79884; -1.66290
Information
Type	Foundation School
Motto	"Be Just and Fear Not"
Established	1905[1]
Local authority	City of Leeds
Trust	21st Century Learning Partnership
Department for Education URN	108079 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Chair	David Webster
Head teacher	Mark Mckelvie
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11 to 19
Website	http://www.pudseygrangefield.co.uk/

Pudsey Grangefield School is a secondary school and sixth form located 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 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. It serves around 1,185 pupils from the surrounding area along with two other Pudsey schools, Crawshaw and Priesthorpe. The school also runs the Pudsey Consortium sixth form with these two schools.^{[citation needed]}

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, with the rest of the site being demolished to allow construction of 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.^[2] The school was also visited in 2010 by Labour leadership candidate and former Foreign Secretary David Miliband,^{[3][failed verification]} who described the new building as "a great monument to Labour government".^[4]

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[]

Pudsey Grangefield established a partnership with the Revival Grammar Secondary School, Matugga, Uganda in 2008. 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 1987-91 of Parcelforce^[5]
• Peter Ransley, screenwriter
• David Shutt, Baron Shutt of Greetland OBE
• Dudley Williams FRS, Professor of Biological Chemistry from 1996-2006 at the University of Cambridge;^[6] his work led to effectiveness of the antibiotic vancomycin

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