Wilmington Grammar School for Boys

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Wilmington Grammar School for Boys (WGSB)
Address
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Common Lane

Wilmington, Dartford
,
Kent
,
DA2 7DA

England
Coordinates51°25′43″N 0°11′38″E / 51.4287°N 0.1938°E / 51.4287; 0.1938Coordinates: 51°25′43″N 0°11′38″E / 51.4287°N 0.1938°E / 51.4287; 0.1938
Information
TypeGrammar school;
Academy
MottoForward Thinking – Traditional Values
Established1954; 67 years ago (1954)
Department for Education URN137227 Tables
OfstedReports
Head teacherMr Stuart Harrington
Staff73
GenderBoys (Mixed Sixth Form)
Age11 to 18
Enrolment926
Houses6 (Brunel, Darwin, Newton, Stevenson, Telford, *Hawking (*from 2020))
Websitehttp://www.wgsb.org.uk/
Birds-eye view of the school in 1964
Old school building
Staff cricket team 1972
Wilmington Hall 1954
Book of Canings

Wilmington Grammar School for Boys (WGSB) is a grammar school with academy status in Wilmington, Kent.

From 1954 to 1982 the school was called Dartford Technical High School. Today it is a specialist engineering school with a strong emphasis on design technology, mathematics and physics.

The uniform consists of navy blue blazers, white shirts, grey or black trousers and different ties for each house within the school.. Suits are worn in the sixth form. The school is situated directly alongside Wilmington Academy and has multiple bus services that also serve Dartford Grammar School for Girls, Dartford Grammar School, Wilmington Grammar School for Girls and Wilmington Academy.

Departments[]

The school has the following departments: Science, Mathematics, Design & Technology, Business and Economics, Geography, History/Government and Politics, English, Art, Modern Languages (including German, French and Spanish), Media, Information Communication Technology, Religious Education, PE and Music. The school no longer teaches Drama.

Houses[]

There are 6 different houses in WGSB:

  • Brunel, (Dark Blue, Yellow, Light Blue and a Purple Stripe)
  • Darwin, (Dark Blue, Yellow, Light Blue and a Silver Stripe)
  • Newton, (Dark Blue, Yellow, Light Blue and a Black Stripe)
  • Stevenson, (Dark blue, Yellow, Light Blue and a Green Stripe)
  • Telford, (Dark Blue, Yellow, Light Blue and a Red Stripe)
  • Hawking (from 2020), (Dark Blue, Yellow, Light Blue and a Yellow Stripe)

Notable pupils[]

See also: Category:People educated at Wilmington Grammar School for Boys

Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy - Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy (1833–1918) was a life-long campaigner and organiser, significant in the history of women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. She wrote essays and some poetry, using the pseudonyms E and Ignota. Elizabeth Wolstenholme spent most of her life in villages and towns which now form part of Greater Manchester. She was born in Cheetham Hill and was baptised on 15 December 1833 in Eccles. She was named after her mother, Elizabeth (nee Clarke), who died shortly after her birth. Her father, Joseph Wolstenholme, was a Methodist minister, [1] who died before she was 14.[2] Her elder brother, also Joseph Wolstenholme (1829–1891), was afforded an education, and became a professor of mathematics at Cambridge University, but Elizabeth was not permitted to study beyond two years at Fulneck Moravian School. Despite this limited formal education, she continued learning what she could, and became headmistress of a private girls' boarding school in Boothstown near Worsley. She stayed there until May 1867, when she moved her establishment to Congleton in Cheshire

F1 in Schools[]

The technology department at WGSB competes in an international competition called F1 in Schools which is where students form a team of 3–6 students and then design and build a car made from a block of balsa wood (More details on F1 in Schools page). The school has taken part in this competition since the 2007–2008 season, with numerous successes.

The team Redshift succeeded the 2014 London & South-East England Regional Final and then came 3rd in the 2013 National Final at the ExCel Arena, London. This earned them the opportunity to become a collaboration team, meaning that they joined another team from around the globe – which was a team from Singapore. The team renamed from Redshift to X-Shift, a merging of both teams' names, since the Singapore team were called Team X-Treme. This meant that they took part in the 2013 World Finals held in Austin, Texas.

Another team called Turbocharged had taken part in the Bloodhound SSC class, which is the same as the F1 class but it is designing a car based around the Bloodhound SSC. The team succeeded the regional final in the 2012–13 season, and then won the national final, meaning that they were national champions and gained a new world-record time for their car racing down the track (this record was 0.587 seconds). In the 2013–14 season, the team entered again into the competition and were unsuccessful, but after lodging a complaint about other teams being illegal, meant they were able to move to the national finals as a wildcard. The team then proudly attended the national final and won it again, meaning that they are the only team that has ever become national champions twice.

For the 2015 Bloodhound SSC Class, a new team was formed called Vortex. The team consisted of three old members of Turbocharged, and a new member. Vortex did not succeed in the regionals, but were selected as a wildcard to progress to the nationals. They had the fastest time, but this was considerably slower than previous years, as the rules had changed, forcing the 8-gram car up to 30 grams. The team used the same principle of golf balls to create a turbulent boundary layer, to increase the speed of the car. The team won the national finals.

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