Lewes Old Grammar School
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Lewes Old Grammar School (LOGS) in Lewes
, East Sussex
, is an independent co-educational day school accredited by the Independent Schools Council
. Its current headmaster is Robert Blewitt.
The Junior School, for ages 4–11, is housed in its own building, Morley House in King Henry's Road. The Senior School is situated in the centre of Lewes, occupying three former townhouses, Mead House, Tyne House and St. Clair House, all of which are grade II listed buildings. The curriculum followed includes three foreign languages (French, Spanish and German), and sciences are studied as individual subjects at senior level. Expansions to the sixth form
college have allowed for the study of psychology, theatre, and graphic design
.
In 2009 a new VIth form building was completed in the gardens of St. Clair and Tyne house and was opened by the Headmaster and the local MP
, Norman Baker
. The library has recently been relocated from Mead to Tyne House in the old VIth form centre. A new laboratory had replaced the old library in Mead house.
LOGS currently has around 480 pupils, having been expanding rapidly since Robert Blewitt took over as headmaster.
Morley House now has planning permission to build a purpose built foundation unit for 2.5 to 5 year olds.
Mead House now has planning permission to Build new Sixth Form Facilities comprising a new Science Laboratory and Teaching facilities.
produces a number of theatrical events, featuring the orchestra, choir and actors from the school. The most notable of these is the annual VIth form pantomime, performed on the last day of the Autumn term. The last assembly of each academic year is primarily held and organised by the leaving upper VIth form.
The school has a number of regular "trips", among them the annual ski trip, a week spent at a sports training camp in Lanzarote and every two years some members of the VIth form venture to Morocco
for 10–11 days, visiting Marrakech
, Zagora
, and travelling into the High Atlas
mountains to visit a school with which LOGS has been in contact with regularly. In recent years LOGS and this school have carried out exchanges, LOGS having several fundraising events in order to pay for travel from Morocco to the UK.
Every year the senior school carries out a sponsored "school walk" - usually from the senior school in Lewes across some of the South Downs
to Stanmer Park
and back. One of the most popular charities is Fish Aid - a charity set up in memory of a former student of LOGS who died of cancer.
There are three houses in the school - DeMontfort house, Barbican house and Malling house. Each of the houses competes in several events throughout the year. Each house performs a Christmas pantomime before the VIth form pantomime on the last day of Autumn Term.
Lewes
Lewes is the county town of East Sussex, England and historically of all of Sussex. It is a civil parish and is the centre of the Lewes local government district. The settlement has a history as a bridging point and as a market town, and today as a communications hub and tourist-oriented town...
, East Sussex
East Sussex
East Sussex is a county in South East England. It is bordered by the counties of Kent, Surrey and West Sussex, and to the south by the English Channel.-History:...
, is an independent co-educational day school accredited by the Independent Schools Council
Independent Schools Council
The Independent Schools Council is a non-profit organisation that represents 1,234 schools in the United Kingdom's independent education sector...
. Its current headmaster is Robert Blewitt.
The Junior School, for ages 4–11, is housed in its own building, Morley House in King Henry's Road. The Senior School is situated in the centre of Lewes, occupying three former townhouses, Mead House, Tyne House and St. Clair House, all of which are grade II listed buildings. The curriculum followed includes three foreign languages (French, Spanish and German), and sciences are studied as individual subjects at senior level. Expansions to the sixth form
Sixth form
In the education systems of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and of Commonwealth West Indian countries such as Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Jamaica and Malta, the sixth form is the final two years of secondary education, where students, usually sixteen to eighteen years of age,...
college have allowed for the study of psychology, theatre, and graphic design
Graphic design
Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...
.
In 2009 a new VIth form building was completed in the gardens of St. Clair and Tyne house and was opened by the Headmaster and the local MP
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
, Norman Baker
Norman Baker
Norman John Baker is a British Liberal Democrat politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Lewes in East Sussex since 1997. Since May 2010 he has been Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Department for Transport....
. The library has recently been relocated from Mead to Tyne House in the old VIth form centre. A new laboratory had replaced the old library in Mead house.
LOGS currently has around 480 pupils, having been expanding rapidly since Robert Blewitt took over as headmaster.
Morley House now has planning permission to build a purpose built foundation unit for 2.5 to 5 year olds.
Mead House now has planning permission to Build new Sixth Form Facilities comprising a new Science Laboratory and Teaching facilities.
History
The School can trace its origins back to the educational foundation started by Agnes Morley in 1512, making it the 38th oldest school in the country. The School has been at its current site at the top of the Lewes High Street since the 19th century.Extra-curricular activities
The sixth formSixth form
In the education systems of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and of Commonwealth West Indian countries such as Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Jamaica and Malta, the sixth form is the final two years of secondary education, where students, usually sixteen to eighteen years of age,...
produces a number of theatrical events, featuring the orchestra, choir and actors from the school. The most notable of these is the annual VIth form pantomime, performed on the last day of the Autumn term. The last assembly of each academic year is primarily held and organised by the leaving upper VIth form.
The school has a number of regular "trips", among them the annual ski trip, a week spent at a sports training camp in Lanzarote and every two years some members of the VIth form venture to Morocco
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
for 10–11 days, visiting Marrakech
Marrakech
Marrakech or Marrakesh , known as the "Ochre city", is the most important former imperial city in Morocco's history...
, Zagora
Zagora, Morocco
Zagora is a town in the valley of the Draa River in Souss-Massa-Draâ, southeastern Morocco. It is located at around . It is flanked by the mountain Zagora from which the town got its name. Originally it was called 'Tazagourt' the singular of plural 'Tizigirt' , Berber for 'twinpeaks', referring...
, and travelling into the High Atlas
High Atlas
High Atlas, also called the Grand Atlas Mountains is a mountain range in central Morocco in Northern Africa.The High Atlas rises in the west at the Atlantic Ocean and stretches in an eastern direction to the Moroccan-Algerian border. At the Atlantic and to the southwest the range drops abruptly...
mountains to visit a school with which LOGS has been in contact with regularly. In recent years LOGS and this school have carried out exchanges, LOGS having several fundraising events in order to pay for travel from Morocco to the UK.
Every year the senior school carries out a sponsored "school walk" - usually from the senior school in Lewes across some of the South Downs
South Downs
The South Downs is a range of chalk hills that extends for about across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen Valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, East Sussex, in the east. It is bounded on its northern side by a steep escarpment, from whose...
to Stanmer Park
Stanmer Park
Stanmer Park is a large open park immediately to the west of the University of Sussex, and to the north-east of the town of Brighton in the county of East Sussex, England, UK....
and back. One of the most popular charities is Fish Aid - a charity set up in memory of a former student of LOGS who died of cancer.
There are three houses in the school - DeMontfort house, Barbican house and Malling house. Each of the houses competes in several events throughout the year. Each house performs a Christmas pantomime before the VIth form pantomime on the last day of Autumn Term.
Notable former pupils
- Wynne Edwin BaxterWynne Edwin BaxterWynne Edwin Baxter FRMS, FGS LL.B was an English lawyer, translator, antiquarian and botanist, but is best known as the Coroner who conducted the inquests on most of the victims of the Whitechapel Murders of 1888 to 1891 including three of the victims of Jack the Ripper in 1888, as well as on...
- Coroner of most of the Whitechapel murders