King Edward VI Community College
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King Edward VI Community College (KEVICC) is a secondary school in Totnes
, Devon
, England
. The College enjoy a favoured open site in the Dart valley amidst the rolling South Hams countryside. KEVICC serves the people of Totnes and surrounding towns and villages.
KEVICC’s attractive, spacious campus is home to 1700 students of whom 400 are at the Kennicott Sixth Form centre adjoining the main site..
KEVICC enjoys the strong identity of a school which recently celebrated its 450th anniversary
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In October 2007, it was awarded the International School Award
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OFSTED awarded it Satisfactory last year
Totnes
Totnes is a market town and civil parish at the head of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon, England within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty...
, Devon
Devon
Devon is a large county in southwestern England. The county is sometimes referred to as Devonshire, although the term is rarely used inside the county itself as the county has never been officially "shired", it often indicates a traditional or historical context.The county shares borders with...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. The College enjoy a favoured open site in the Dart valley amidst the rolling South Hams countryside. KEVICC serves the people of Totnes and surrounding towns and villages.
KEVICC’s attractive, spacious campus is home to 1700 students of whom 400 are at the Kennicott Sixth Form centre adjoining the main site..
KEVICC enjoys the strong identity of a school which recently celebrated its 450th anniversary
Admissions
It is situated on Ashburton Road (A385).Grammar school
It was the King Edward VI Grammar School, Totnes, a boys' grammar schoolGrammar school
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching classical languages but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school.The original purpose of mediaeval...
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Comprehensive
It became the King Edward VI Comprehensive School in 1966 on a new site. This also included the former Totnes High School for Girls on Plymouth Road and Redworth Secondary Modern School. The school was good example of what a comprehensive school could be, given the right circumstances. From April 1974, Devon Education Committee changed it to a community college.In October 2007, it was awarded the International School Award
International School Award
The International School Award is a British Council accreditation scheme rewarding schools with a notable global element in their curriculum.The scheme began in 1999 and since then, over 1000 International School Awards have been granted....
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Academic performance
It gets above average GCSE results but below average A level results.OFSTED awarded it Satisfactory last year
Alumni
- Huw Campbell artist
- Tristram Carfrae, structural engineer and executive with ArupArupArup is a global professional services firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom which provides engineering, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of the built environment. The firm is present in Africa, the Americas, Australasia, East Asia, Europe and the...
- helped design the City of Manchester StadiumCity of Manchester StadiumThe City of Manchester Stadium in Manchester, England – also known as the Etihad Stadium for sponsorship purposes– is the home ground of...
and the Beijing National Aquatics Center - Cressida Cauty (nee Bowyer)
- Jonson Cox, Group Chief Executive of Anglian WaterAnglian WaterAnglian Water is a privatised water company that operates in the East of England. Named for East Anglia, apart from Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire it also covers Lincolnshire, Essex, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, a small part of north Nottinghamshire and Greater London...
since 2004 - Mary NightingaleMary NightingaleMary Nightingale is an English newsreader and television presenter. She is a newsreader for ITN on ITV News, and presents the cookery series Britain's Best Dish on ITV1.-Education:...
, ITN presenter - Toby YoungToby YoungToby Young, MA, FRSA is a British journalist and the author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, the tale of his stint in New York as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine...
(briefly), who wrote How to Lose Friends and Alienate PeopleHow to Lose Friends and Alienate People (memoir)How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is a memoir by Toby Young about his failed five-year effort to make it in the U.S. as a contributing editor at Condé Nast Publications' Vanity Fair magazine... - Joanna BriscoeJoanna Briscoe-Early life:Joanna Briscoe was born in London in 1963. Much of her childhood was spent in the southwest of England. At the age of 10 years she moved with her family from Somerset to Jordan Manor, an isolated six-bedroomed thatched Devon long house set within of land in a valley in Dartmoor...
- novelist
King Edward VI Grammar School
- Julian AshtonJulian AshtonJulian Rossi Ashton was an Australian artist and teacher, known for his support of the Heidelberg School and for his influential art school in Sydney....
CBE, artist - Charles BabbageCharles BabbageCharles Babbage, FRS was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer...
(briefly), mathematician - John Barry, mountaineer and author
- George Jackson ChurchwardGeorge Jackson ChurchwardGeorge Jackson Churchward CBE was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway in the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1922.-Early career:...
, mechanical engineer - John DavisJohn Davis- American politicians:*John Davis , Massachusetts state representative and federal judge*John Davis , U.S. Representative from Kansas...
(1550? - 29) December 1605, was one of the chief EnglishEnglish peopleThe English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
navigators and explorers under Elizabeth I, especially in the North Polar regions and the Far East.He is remembered also for his invention of the "Davis quadrant" and his book, The Seaman's Secrets. - Nathaniel Temple HamlynNathaniel Temple HamlynThe Rt Rev Nathaniel Temple Hamlyn was an Anglican bishop in Africa in the first decade of the 20th century.Educated at Totnes Grammar School and Durham University, Hamlyn was ordained in 1891 and began his career with a Curacy in Eglingham...
, inaugural Bishop of AccraBishop of Accra-Bishops:*1909 The Right Revd Nathaniel Temple Hamlyn*1913 The Right Revd Mowbray Stephen O'Rorke*1924 The Right Revd John Orfeur Aglionby*1951 The Right Revd John Charles Sydney Daly*1956 The Right Revd Reginald Richard Roseveare... - Lieutenant ColonelLieutenant colonelLieutenant colonel is a rank of commissioned officer in the armies and most marine forces and some air forces of the world, typically ranking above a major and below a colonel. The rank of lieutenant colonel is often shortened to simply "colonel" in conversation and in unofficial correspondence...
'Tich' Harvey MC, fought with the 5 Gorkha Rifles - Rear-AdmRear AdmiralRear admiral is a naval commissioned officer rank above that of a commodore and captain, and below that of a vice admiral. It is generally regarded as the lowest of the "admiral" ranks, which are also sometimes referred to as "flag officers" or "flag ranks"...
Roger Moylan-JonesRoger Moylan-JonesRear admiral Roger Charles Moylan-Jones is a former English cricketer and Royal Navy officer. Moylan-Jones was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born in Torquay, Devon and educated at King Edward VI Grammar School in Totnes.Moylan-Jones first represented the Royal...
, Chairman from 1997 to 2009 and current President of Devon County Cricket ClubDevon County Cricket ClubDevon County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Devon and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy....
, President from 1993-5 of the Royal Navy Cricket ClubRoyal Navy Cricket ClubThe Royal Navy Cricket Club is a cricket team representing the British Royal Navy and based at the United Services Recreation Ground, Portsmouth, Hampshire...
, and Director General Aircraft (Navy) from 1992-5 - Air Vice-MarshalAir Vice-MarshalAir vice-marshal is a two-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force. The rank is also used by the air forces of many countries which have historical British influence and it is sometimes used as the English translation of an equivalent rank in...
Deryck Stapleton CB CBE DFC, (born 1918) commanded No. 1 Group RAFNo. 1 Group RAFNumber 1 Group of the Royal Air Force is one of the two operations groups in Air Command.The group is today referred to as the Air Combat Group, as it controls the RAF's combat fast-jet aircraft and has airfields in the UK plus RAF Unit Goose Bay in Canada, which is used extensively as an...
from 1964-6, and Commandant of the RAF Staff College, BracknellRAF Staff College, BracknellThe RAF Staff College at Bracknell was a Royal Air Force staff college active for most of the second half of the 20th century. Its role was the training of staff officers in the administrative, staff and policy aspects of air force matters...
from 1966-8 - Squadron Leader Gerald 'Stapme' StapletonGerald StapletonSquadron Leader Basil Gerald "Stapme" Stapleton DFC was a Royal Air Force officer and fighter ace who flew Spitfires and Typhoons during World War II. He preferred the name Gerald and was nicknamed 'Stapme' after a phrase used in his favourite cartoon strip Just Jake published in The Daily Mirror...
DFC, WWII fighter ace. - BrigadierBrigadierBrigadier is a senior military rank, the meaning of which is somewhat different in different military services. The brigadier rank is generally superior to the rank of colonel, and subordinate to major general....
James Vickers CBE DSO, commanded the 4th Battalion of the 10th Gurkha Rifles10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha RiflesThe 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles, , was originally an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. The regiment was first formed in 1890, taking its lineage from a police unit and over the course of its existence it had a number of changes in designation and composition...
in the Burma CampaignBurma CampaignThe Burma Campaign in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II was fought primarily between British Commonwealth, Chinese and United States forces against the forces of the Empire of Japan, Thailand, and the Indian National Army. British Commonwealth land forces were drawn primarily from... - Major Richard Willis V.C. who was awarded the VC for outstanding bravery on W Beach, Cape Helles, Gallipoli on 25th April 1915.
Former teachers
- Peter Snape OBE, headmaster from 1964-83 (oversaw the move from grammar to comprehensive), and General Secretary from 1983-88 of both the Secondary Heads AssociationAssociation of School and College LeadersThe Association of School and College Leaders , formerly the Secondary Heads Association , is the British professional association for leaders of secondary schools and colleges.-History:...
and the Headmasters’ Conference