Matthew Humberstone School
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Matthew Humberstone Church of England School, often shortened to MHS or, more affectionately, Matty, was a comprehensive school
in Cleethorpes
, North East Lincolnshire, with a Church of England
tradition. The school was a specialist Business and Enterprise College
and the only Church of England secondary school in North East Lincolnshire.
who lived in Humberston
, with a gift of £500 in his will. When it opened on Clee Road in 1882 it was an all-boys grammar school with only 15 students, and known as the Clee Foundation School. Old Clee
, the area after which it was named, was actually mostly in Grimsby.
The Clee Grammar School for Boys (also known as the Clee Humberstone Foundation School and Old Clee Grammar School) was on the south side of Clee Road (then the A18, now the A46
) in Old Clee
, opposite Clee Crescent. It had around 500 boys, rising to nearly 1000 by the mid-60s, and was a voluntary controlled school
with a two-form entry. The original neo-gothic school building was extended between the wars with a quadrangle of classrooms, a large assembly hall and a spacious science wing (not without architectural merit). In the late 50s a swimmming pool and gymnasium complex was provided by a local benefactor, Mr Justice Kirby. A less architecturally successful "new block" was constructed to provide more teaching space in the early 60s. The grammar school had a variable to good reputation which culminated in 1964 when almost 10% of the sixth-form gained places at Oxford or Cambridge universities.Genesis
played at the grammar school on 19 December 1970. The school magazine of the grammar school was called The Humberstonian. There was a school song ("Some men boast of their ancient lineage, Humberstone none had he...") and the school's original Coat of Arms boasted a Latin tag, "Fax mentis honestae gloria" (Glory is the beacon of a noble spirit). Further east along Clee Road (the boundary at that point between Grimsby and Cleethorpes) was Cleethorpes Girls' Grammar School, later the site of the Lower School of The Lindsey School
. At the boys' grammar school, in the 1940s and 1950s, a physics teacher for seven years was Dr Albert Lammington Bettison, who had been a wartime atomic scientist. He drowned when walking and was cut off by the tide, aged 37 in October 1953, and his body was found by Cleethorpes police at the beach at North Cotes. There were several other notable science teachers at the grammar school in the 50s and 60s, Joseph Gregory (Chemistry) and Brian Leatherbarrow (Biology).
The Beacon Hill Secondary Modern School was on Chatsworth Place
. Being outside of the borough of Grimsby (by a few metres), it was controlled by the Lindsey County Council Education Committee, based in Lincoln. It had 1,750 boys and girls, with the headmaster being Mr D Johnston. Less than a year after it was formed, it was administered by the Grimsby Division of Humberside Education Committee.
The school used to be on two sites - the former secondary modern
and grammar school, being separated by Davenport Drive. This was not of greatest benefit to school administration, so the school's students all moved to the upper school site in September 2008. There were plans to merge the school with St Mary's Catholic School
on Wootton Road in Nunsthorpe
(another low performing school) and have a joint school on the Upper School site at Chatsworth Place. This site was also next to St Joseph's RC Primary School on Philip Avenue.
This former plan was amended and the new 'joint faith' school will be built on the old Lower School site on Clee Road (A46). The new school is to be called 'St Andrew's School' and is due to open in 2012. Although at the time of writing (May 2010) no building works have started nor has the old building been demolished
as its discipline system.
by a team of school inspectors. They were taken out of special measures by a group of Her Majesty's School Inspectors on 28 March, 2008. It received low results at GCSE
and SAT
s - well under the English average.
Comprehensive school
A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of a selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to the United...
in Cleethorpes
Cleethorpes
Cleethorpes is a town and unparished area in North East Lincolnshire, England, situated on the estuary of the Humber. It has a population of 31,853 and is a seaside resort.- History :...
, North East Lincolnshire, with a Church of England
Church of England
The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...
tradition. The school was a specialist Business and Enterprise College
Business and Enterprise College
Business and Enterprise Colleges were introduced in 2002 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enables secondary schools to specialise in certain fields...
and the only Church of England secondary school in North East Lincolnshire.
History
The school was founded in 1823 by Matthew Humberstone, a London customs officerCustoms officer
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who lived in Humberston
Humberston
Humberston is a large village and civil parish to the south of Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire...
, with a gift of £500 in his will. When it opened on Clee Road in 1882 it was an all-boys grammar school with only 15 students, and known as the Clee Foundation School. Old Clee
Old Clee
Old Clee is located in the Clee Road and Carr Lane area of eastern Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England and adjoins the neighbouring town of Cleethorpes, with which it has historic links. Previously a separate village, its parish church of Holy Trinity and Saint Mary, claimed to be the oldest...
, the area after which it was named, was actually mostly in Grimsby.
The Clee Grammar School for Boys (also known as the Clee Humberstone Foundation School and Old Clee Grammar School) was on the south side of Clee Road (then the A18, now the A46
A46 road
The A46 is an A road in England. It starts east of Bath, Somerset and ends in Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, but it does not form a continuous route. Large portions of the old road have been lost, bypassed, or replaced by motorway development...
) in Old Clee
Old Clee
Old Clee is located in the Clee Road and Carr Lane area of eastern Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England and adjoins the neighbouring town of Cleethorpes, with which it has historic links. Previously a separate village, its parish church of Holy Trinity and Saint Mary, claimed to be the oldest...
, opposite Clee Crescent. It had around 500 boys, rising to nearly 1000 by the mid-60s, and was a voluntary controlled school
Voluntary controlled school
A voluntary controlled school is a state-funded school in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in which a foundation or trust has some formal influence in the running of the school...
with a two-form entry. The original neo-gothic school building was extended between the wars with a quadrangle of classrooms, a large assembly hall and a spacious science wing (not without architectural merit). In the late 50s a swimmming pool and gymnasium complex was provided by a local benefactor, Mr Justice Kirby. A less architecturally successful "new block" was constructed to provide more teaching space in the early 60s. The grammar school had a variable to good reputation which culminated in 1964 when almost 10% of the sixth-form gained places at Oxford or Cambridge universities.Genesis
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played at the grammar school on 19 December 1970. The school magazine of the grammar school was called The Humberstonian. There was a school song ("Some men boast of their ancient lineage, Humberstone none had he...") and the school's original Coat of Arms boasted a Latin tag, "Fax mentis honestae gloria" (Glory is the beacon of a noble spirit). Further east along Clee Road (the boundary at that point between Grimsby and Cleethorpes) was Cleethorpes Girls' Grammar School, later the site of the Lower School of The Lindsey School
The Lindsey School
Cleethorpes Academy is a secondary school with academy status, based in Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, England. The school opened in September 2010, on the site previously occupied by the Lindsey School and Community Arts College...
. At the boys' grammar school, in the 1940s and 1950s, a physics teacher for seven years was Dr Albert Lammington Bettison, who had been a wartime atomic scientist. He drowned when walking and was cut off by the tide, aged 37 in October 1953, and his body was found by Cleethorpes police at the beach at North Cotes. There were several other notable science teachers at the grammar school in the 50s and 60s, Joseph Gregory (Chemistry) and Brian Leatherbarrow (Biology).
The Beacon Hill Secondary Modern School was on Chatsworth Place
Comprehensive
They merged in September 1973 to form a comprehensive schoolComprehensive school
A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of a selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to the United...
. Being outside of the borough of Grimsby (by a few metres), it was controlled by the Lindsey County Council Education Committee, based in Lincoln. It had 1,750 boys and girls, with the headmaster being Mr D Johnston. Less than a year after it was formed, it was administered by the Grimsby Division of Humberside Education Committee.
The school used to be on two sites - the former secondary modern
Secondary modern school
A secondary modern school is a type of secondary school that existed in most of the United Kingdom from 1944 until the early 1970s, under the Tripartite System, and was designed for the majority of pupils - those who do not achieve scores in the top 25% of the eleven plus examination...
and grammar school, being separated by Davenport Drive. This was not of greatest benefit to school administration, so the school's students all moved to the upper school site in September 2008. There were plans to merge the school with St Mary's Catholic School
St Mary's Catholic High School (Grimsby)
St Mary's Catholic School was a Roman Catholic secondary school located in Grimsby, Lincolnshire. The school closed at the end of the academic year in 2010, in preparation for its amalgamation with Matthew Humberstone School to form St...
on Wootton Road in Nunsthorpe
Nunsthorpe
Nunsthorpe is a suburb and housing estate in the western part of Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England...
(another low performing school) and have a joint school on the Upper School site at Chatsworth Place. This site was also next to St Joseph's RC Primary School on Philip Avenue.
This former plan was amended and the new 'joint faith' school will be built on the old Lower School site on Clee Road (A46). The new school is to be called 'St Andrew's School' and is due to open in 2012. Although at the time of writing (May 2010) no building works have started nor has the old building been demolished
New school
It merged with St Mary's Catholic School to form St Andrew's College in September 2010. This involved knocking down former buildings of the Clee Grammar School for a new school to open in 2012. A closing re-union event for former staff and students of the school was held on Saturday 17 July 2010.Discipline System
In September 2006, the school began using Positive DisciplinePositive Discipline
Positive Discipline is a discipline model used by schools that focuses on the positive points of behaviour. Some practitioners believe that educators should act with a philosophy that there are no bad children, just good and bad behaviors. You can teach and reinforce the good behaviors while...
as its discipline system.
Awards
- The school was awarded the Learning and Skills beacon by the Department for Education and Skills.
- It was awarded the Basic Skills Agency award.
- It was an Investor in People.
- It was also an Investor in Careers.
- It received the technology colleges award.
- It was also been awarded the Excellence and Diversity award.
- In August 2004, it received the International Award from the British CouncilBritish CouncilThe British Council is a United Kingdom-based organisation specialising in international educational and cultural opportunities. It is registered as a charity both in England and Wales, and in Scotland...
. - It reached the final of Global Rock Challenge numerous times.
Special measures
In 2007, the school was placed in special measuresSpecial measures
Special measures is a status applied by Ofsted and Estyn, the schools inspection agencies, to schools in England and Wales, respectively, when it considers that they fail to supply an acceptable level of education and appear to lack the leadership capacity necessary to secure improvements...
by a team of school inspectors. They were taken out of special measures by a group of Her Majesty's School Inspectors on 28 March, 2008. It received low results at GCSE
General Certificate of Secondary Education
The General Certificate of Secondary Education is an academic qualification awarded in a specified subject, generally taken in a number of subjects by students aged 14–16 in secondary education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and is equivalent to a Level 2 and Level 1 in Key Skills...
and SAT
National Curriculum assessment
National Curriculum assessments are a series of educational assessments, colloquially known as Sats or SATs, used to assess the attainment of children attending maintained schools in England...
s - well under the English average.
As Clee Grammar School for Boys
- Sir Jack Baker CBEOrder of the British EmpireThe Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
, President from 1944-57 of the British Trawlers Federation - Steve Brailey, Chief Executive of Sheffield International VenuesSheffield International VenuesSheffield International Venues has grown rapidly over the past 10 years to become one of the largest sport, leisure and entertainment companies in Europe...
- Douglas Malcolm Jackson Clark, author who wrote under the name James Ditton
- Jimmy FellJimmy FellJames Irving Fell, was an English footballer, who played in the Football League for Grimsby Town, Everton, Newcastle United, Walsall and Lincoln City.-Grimsby Town:...
, footballer - Leonard Hall, RAF meteorologist who took part in the escape from Stalag Luft IIIStalag Luft IIIStalag Luft III was a Luftwaffe-run prisoner-of-war camp during World War II that housed captured air force servicemen. It was in the German Province of Lower Silesia near the town of Sagan , southeast of Berlin...
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- Geoff Margason, Director from 1984-8 of the Transport Research LaboratoryTransport Research LaboratoryTRL is a British transport consultancy and research organisation based at Wokingham Berkshire with approximately 500 staff. TRL is owned by the Transport Research Foundation , which is overseen by 80 sector members from the transport industry. TRL also own small UK regional offices situated in...
- Dr Edmund MarshallEdmund MarshallDr Edmund Ian Marshall is a British politician and Churchman.-Early life:Marshall was educated at Humberstone Foundation School on Clee Road in Old Clee, Cleethorpes and Magdalen College, Oxford,where he took double first class...
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, former Durham UniversityDurham UniversityThe University of Durham, commonly known as Durham University, is a university in Durham, England. It was founded by Act of Parliament in 1832 and granted a Royal Charter in 1837...
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and former Principal of Trevelyan CollegeTrevelyan CollegeTrevelyan College, often abbreviated to Trevs, is a college of the University of Durham in North Eastern England. Founded in 1966, the college takes its name from social historian George Macaulay Trevelyan, Chancellor of the University from 1950 to 1957. Originally an all-female college , the... - Guy McCracken LVORoyal Victorian OrderThe Royal Victorian Order is a dynastic order of knighthood and a house order of chivalry recognising distinguished personal service to the order's Sovereign, the reigning monarch of the Commonwealth realms, any members of her family, or any of her viceroys...
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, and former Managing Director from 1993-8 of the Food Division of Marks & SpencerMarks & SpencerMarks and Spencer plc is a British retailer headquartered in the City of Westminster, London, with over 700 stores in the United Kingdom and over 300 stores spread across more than 40 countries. It specialises in the selling of clothing and luxury food products... - Dr Madsen PirieMadsen PirieDr Duncan Madsen Pirie, PhD is a British researcher, author, and educator. He is the founder and current President of the Adam Smith Institute, a UK think tank which has been in operation since 1978.-Early life and education:...
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of QinetiQQinetiQQinetiq is a British global defence technology company, formed from the greater part of the former UK government agency, Defence Evaluation and Research Agency , when it was split up in June 2001... - Sir Thomas Robinson, fish merchant
- Very Rev Edward Frank ShotterEdward Frank ShotterEdward Frank Shotter is a retired Anglican priest and author.Shotter was educated at Humberstone Foundation School and Durham University and ordained in 1961. He began his ordained ministry as a curate at St Peter's Plymouth, after which he was intercollegiate secretary of the Student Christian...
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See also
- Humberston Maths and Computing CollegeHumberston Maths and Computing CollegeHumberston Maths and Computing College is a secondary school based in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England.-Admissions:It does not have a sixth form. It is situated on in the west of Humberston...
, nearby to the south, and in North East Lincolnshire - List of schools in North East Lincolnshire