Poole Grammar School
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Poole Grammar School is a selective, all boys grammar school in Poole
, on the south coast of England
.
and computing
school and is sponsored by the Specialist Schools Trust to engage the local and international community with its work.
The school has in attendance around 900 male students from the surrounding area aged 12 to 18. To gain acceptance to the school, students must sit and pass four exams testing mathematics
, English writing
, verbal
, and non-verbal reasoning.
Excellence in the fields of sport or arts is not grounds for special admission, however many of its pupils compete at county, national and international level, or go on to study at film schools, conservatories and art houses.
It is situated in the north of Poole, on the A349.
and Canford Heath
on the A349 (Gravel Hill) on 11 October, 1966. It was originally situated in Seldown, in the centre of Poole, where it was founded in 1904.
was opened. At first, both schools took boys and girls, but this was changed by Poole Council who sent boys at Parkstone to Poole and girls at Poole to Parkstone. This started the separation of boys and girls which is still in effect today. The two grammar schools have very close links as they are only approximately 1000 metres apart. They share certain activities such as Science clubs and school discos.
and nine
) are expected to wear a green blazer with the option of a jumper, grey or black trousers and a white or grey shirt. The upper school students (years ten
and eleven
) have the option of wearing green jumper without a blazer.
Once entering the sixth form
, students may wear their own clothes, though these must still include a shirt and tie, smart trousers and either brown or black shoes.
For sport, the boys are required to wear a white t-shirt, the school's green rugby shirt, black shorts and bottle green football socks. When attending science classes the boys are expected to be dressed in a long white lab coat.
. Prefect candidates are voted for by the council of teachers and must have an outstanding academic, sporting and behavioural history. The head prefect is the head boy
and has two deputies. The prefects have their own lounge which only they are allowed to enter and may decorate as they see fit.
The prefects do not have to wear a special uniform, however they are given a blue version of the school's tie which they are encouraged to wear. Prefects attend parents evenings and represent the school on many routine occasions.
Year eleven prefects, known as "main school leaders" were introduced in 2009. Candidates are elected by the head of year eleven. Main school leaders are awarded a blue enamel badge which identifies them.
since the school was founded. The school owns large playing fields adjacent to the main buildings. They are used as football
and rugby
pitches, with two overlapping cricket fields and as a running track during the summer. Pupils also play sports on the school playground. The two large gyms provide changing facilities, a climbing wall
, indoor volleyball
courts and a weights and fitness training room. The school boasts 4 astroturf tennis
courts installed in 2008 with a further 2 concrete courts on the playground used during the summer term.
The students partake in many sports throughout the year from football to tennis
. During the winter term, students participate in rugby during their games lessons. During the spring term the students play football. In the summer term students play a variety of games including cricket
, tennis and softball
. Most of these sports contain an inter-form tournament towards the end of the term. Pupils competing in cross country running
train on Canford Heath
during lunch hour. An entire class or even year group may also be taken for a run on the heath as part of regular school training.
, boys learn the basics of word processing
, spreadsheet
software, web design
and simple programming. In year nine
they take a GCSE ICT Short Course which incorporates the skills learnt the previous year.
In years ten and eleven all boys take the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) courses in Word and Excel so that they all have a professional computing qualification. Boys who performed especially well in year nine GCSE may do AS Level ICT in years ten and eleven, in addition to the MOS courses. In years 12 and 13 (sixth form), computing is offered as an A Level and if those who took AS Level ICT early want to, they can complete the A Level during year twelve.
As well as computing, students in years 12 and 13 have the chance to take the Cisco CCNA course. This is taught after school in the autumn and spring terms, by staff members that have previously taken the course, and completed it to a high enough standard to teach the modules. Around 12 students each year opt to take the course.
. The school puts on a play once a year in conjunction with Parkstone Grammar School
and opens its art studios once a term for viewings.
from their first year and choose between German
and Spanish
from their second year. The school has had success in teaching modern languages with work and cultural exchanges to the continent. A higher than average percentage of pupils leave Poole Grammar to study languages at university level.
Alongside these core languages students also have the opportunity to take other classical
and modern language
s in their spare time under the supervision of a teacher. Latin
, Classical Greek, Italian
, Modern Hebrew
and Japanese
have also been studied at the school. The school uses language labs, video and music technology and art to enhance the students' learning experience.
, the Old Town of Poole
and Wimborne Minster
. The history department has recently been refreshed with younger teachers due to the retirement of older academics, who had served at the school for many years.
The Religion and Philosophy department has been home to a variety of teachers including Thomas Clough Daffern
.
). Large scale building work to extend the front of the main entrance and add extra classrooms began in summer 2009. Other small room adjustments will be made around the school to help group subject lessons into rooms closer to each other. The new extensions will provide more space for the music, drama, design and technology and drama departments. The library will be relocated within the school so that it is more easily accessible and can be extended. The location of the new buildings was chosen to prevent the reduction in the size of the school's playing fields. Although a new food technology block has been built in where the athletics area used to be around the back of the school. A new tarmac playground has also been built within this area as well as new set of jumping pits.
Poole
Poole is a large coastal town and seaport in the county of Dorset, on the south coast of England. The town is east of Dorchester, and Bournemouth adjoins Poole to the east. The Borough of Poole was made a unitary authority in 1997, gaining administrative independence from Dorset County Council...
, on the south coast of 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...
.
Admissions
The school is a mathematicsMathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
and computing
Computing
Computing is usually defined as the activity of using and improving computer hardware and software. It is the computer-specific part of information technology...
school and is sponsored by the Specialist Schools Trust to engage the local and international community with its work.
The school has in attendance around 900 male students from the surrounding area aged 12 to 18. To gain acceptance to the school, students must sit and pass four exams testing mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, English writing
Writing
Writing is the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols . It is distinguished from illustration, such as cave drawing and painting, and non-symbolic preservation of language via non-textual media, such as magnetic tape audio.Writing most likely...
, verbal
Verbal reasoning
Verbal reasoning is understanding and reasoning using concepts framed in words. It aims at evaluating ability to think constructively, rather than at simple fluency or vocabulary recognition.-Verbal reasoning intelligence tests:...
, and non-verbal reasoning.
Excellence in the fields of sport or arts is not grounds for special admission, however many of its pupils compete at county, national and international level, or go on to study at film schools, conservatories and art houses.
It is situated in the north of Poole, on the A349.
History
The school moved to its current site between BroadstoneBroadstone, Dorset
Broadstone is a town and suburb of Poole in Dorset, England. It is located from Hamworthy railway station and from Bournemouth International Airport. The town has a population of 10,256 according to the 2001 Census....
and Canford Heath
Canford Heath
Canford Heath is a suburb and area of heathland in Poole, Dorset with a population of just under 14,500.-Geography:Canford Heath has also given its name to a housing development built on the heathland during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s...
on the A349 (Gravel Hill) on 11 October, 1966. It was originally situated in Seldown, in the centre of Poole, where it was founded in 1904.
Former teachers
- A. J. ButcherA. J. ButcherAndrew James Butcher is the English author of the futuristic teen spy series, Spy High. A.J., who taught English at both Poole Grammar School and Parkstone Grammar School, in Poole, Dorset, and currently teaches at Talbot Heath School in Bournemouth, Dorset took a sabbatical from his teaching...
, author - Thomas Clough DaffernThomas Clough DaffernDr. Thomas Clough Daffern , is a Welsh educator, author and peace advocate.After graduation from the University of London, he taught at UAL and Oxford University. He has since its foundation been the director of The International Institute Of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy, and is also known...
- Kenneth DownieKenneth DownieKenneth Downie is a composer of brass band music.He was born in Glasgow and educated at Greenock High School, the Royal Manchester College of Music and Durham University...
, brass band music performer - Very Rev Alfred JowettAlfred JowettThe Very Rev Alfred Jowett was Dean of Manchester in the last third of the 20th Century.Born on 29 May 1914, educated at High Storrs and St Catharine's College, Cambridge and ordained in 1945, he began his career at St John the Evangelist, Goole...
Parkstone Grammar
Originally Poole Grammar was the only grammar school in Poole. This quickly filled up so Parkstone Grammar SchoolParkstone Grammar School
Parkstone Grammar School is a selective, all girls state-school in Poole, on the southern coast of England.-Admissions:...
was opened. At first, both schools took boys and girls, but this was changed by Poole Council who sent boys at Parkstone to Poole and girls at Poole to Parkstone. This started the separation of boys and girls which is still in effect today. The two grammar schools have very close links as they are only approximately 1000 metres apart. They share certain activities such as Science clubs and school discos.
Uniform
Poole Grammar has differing uniform policies in the lower and upper school. Lower school students (years eightYear Eight
Year Eight is an educational year group in schools in many countries including England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand. It is usually the eighth year of compulsory education and incorporates students aged between twelve and thirteen.-Australia:...
and nine
Year Nine
Year Nine is an educational year group in schools in many countries including England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. It is usually the ninth year of compulsory education and incorporates students aged between thirteen and fourteen....
) are expected to wear a green blazer with the option of a jumper, grey or black trousers and a white or grey shirt. The upper school students (years ten
Year Ten
Year Ten is an educational year group in schools in many countries including Bangladesh, England, India, Wales, Northern Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. It is usually the tenth year of compulsory education and incorporates students aged between fourteen and sixteen.-Bangladesh:In schools in...
and eleven
Year Eleven
Year Eleven is an educational year group in schools in many countries including England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. It is usually the eleventh year of compulsory education and incorporates students aged between fifteen and seventeen....
) have the option of wearing green jumper without a blazer.
Once entering 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,...
, students may wear their own clothes, though these must still include a shirt and tie, smart trousers and either brown or black shoes.
For sport, the boys are required to wear a white t-shirt, the school's green rugby shirt, black shorts and bottle green football socks. When attending science classes the boys are expected to be dressed in a long white lab coat.
The prefect system
Once in the upper sixth form, boys may nominate themselves to become a prefectPrefect
Prefect is a magisterial title of varying definition....
. Prefect candidates are voted for by the council of teachers and must have an outstanding academic, sporting and behavioural history. The head prefect is the head boy
Head boy
Head Boy and Head Girl are terms commonly used in the British education system, and in private schools throughout the Commonwealth.-United Kingdom:...
and has two deputies. The prefects have their own lounge which only they are allowed to enter and may decorate as they see fit.
The prefects do not have to wear a special uniform, however they are given a blue version of the school's tie which they are encouraged to wear. Prefects attend parents evenings and represent the school on many routine occasions.
Year eleven prefects, known as "main school leaders" were introduced in 2009. Candidates are elected by the head of year eleven. Main school leaders are awarded a blue enamel badge which identifies them.
Sports
Sport is a major part of life at Poole Grammar, which has only had four heads of sport and physical educationPhysical education
Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
since the school was founded. The school owns large playing fields adjacent to the main buildings. They are used as football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
and rugby
Rugby football
Rugby football is a style of football named after Rugby School in the United Kingdom. It is seen most prominently in two current sports, rugby league and rugby union.-History:...
pitches, with two overlapping cricket fields and as a running track during the summer. Pupils also play sports on the school playground. The two large gyms provide changing facilities, a climbing wall
Climbing wall
A climbing wall is an artificially constructed wall with grips for hands and feet, usually used for indoor climbing, but sometimes located outdoors as well. Some are brick or wooden constructions, but on most modern walls, the material most often used is a thick multiplex board with holes drilled...
, indoor volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
courts and a weights and fitness training room. The school boasts 4 astroturf tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
courts installed in 2008 with a further 2 concrete courts on the playground used during the summer term.
The students partake in many sports throughout the year from football to tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
. During the winter term, students participate in rugby during their games lessons. During the spring term the students play football. In the summer term students play a variety of games including cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
, tennis and softball
Softball
Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
. Most of these sports contain an inter-form tournament towards the end of the term. Pupils competing in cross country running
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
train on Canford Heath
Canford Heath
Canford Heath is a suburb and area of heathland in Poole, Dorset with a population of just under 14,500.-Geography:Canford Heath has also given its name to a housing development built on the heathland during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s...
during lunch hour. An entire class or even year group may also be taken for a run on the heath as part of regular school training.
Information communication technology and computing
In year eightYear Eight
Year Eight is an educational year group in schools in many countries including England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand. It is usually the eighth year of compulsory education and incorporates students aged between twelve and thirteen.-Australia:...
, boys learn the basics of word processing
Word processing
Word processing is the creation of documents using a word processor. It can also refer to advanced shorthand techniques, sometimes used in specialized contexts with a specially modified typewriter.-External links:...
, spreadsheet
Spreadsheet
A spreadsheet is a computer application that simulates a paper accounting worksheet. It displays multiple cells usually in a two-dimensional matrix or grid consisting of rows and columns. Each cell contains alphanumeric text, numeric values or formulas...
software, web design
Web design
Web design is the process of planning and creating a website. Text, images, digital media and interactive elements are used by web designers to produce the page seen on the web browser...
and simple programming. In year nine
Year Nine
Year Nine is an educational year group in schools in many countries including England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. It is usually the ninth year of compulsory education and incorporates students aged between thirteen and fourteen....
they take a GCSE ICT Short Course which incorporates the skills learnt the previous year.
In years ten and eleven all boys take the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) courses in Word and Excel so that they all have a professional computing qualification. Boys who performed especially well in year nine GCSE may do AS Level ICT in years ten and eleven, in addition to the MOS courses. In years 12 and 13 (sixth form), computing is offered as an A Level and if those who took AS Level ICT early want to, they can complete the A Level during year twelve.
As well as computing, students in years 12 and 13 have the chance to take the Cisco CCNA course. This is taught after school in the autumn and spring terms, by staff members that have previously taken the course, and completed it to a high enough standard to teach the modules. Around 12 students each year opt to take the course.
Music, art and drama
Art and drama are taught in a separate wing of the school with two large art studios, three practice rooms and a fully functioning theatreTheatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
. The school puts on a play once a year in conjunction with Parkstone Grammar School
Parkstone Grammar School
Parkstone Grammar School is a selective, all girls state-school in Poole, on the southern coast of England.-Admissions:...
and opens its art studios once a term for viewings.
Languages
All students learn FrenchFrench language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
from their first year and choose between German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
and Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
from their second year. The school has had success in teaching modern languages with work and cultural exchanges to the continent. A higher than average percentage of pupils leave Poole Grammar to study languages at university level.
Alongside these core languages students also have the opportunity to take other classical
Classical language
A classical language is a language with a literature that is classical. According to UC Berkeley linguist George L. Hart, it should be ancient, it should be an independent tradition that arose mostly on its own, not as an offshoot of another tradition, and it must have a large and extremely rich...
and modern language
Modern language
A modern language is any human language that is currently in use. The term is used in language education to distinguish between languages which are used for day-to-day communication and dead classical languages such as Latin, Attic Greek, Sanskrit, and Classical Chinese, which are studied for...
s in their spare time under the supervision of a teacher. Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
, Classical Greek, Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
, Modern Hebrew
Modern Hebrew
Modern Hebrew , also known as Israeli Hebrew or Modern Israeli Hebrew, is the language spoken in Israel and in some Jewish communities worldwide, from the early 20th century to the present....
and Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
have also been studied at the school. The school uses language labs, video and music technology and art to enhance the students' learning experience.
Humanities
Students must study geography and history from their first year until their second. Poole Grammar has geography and geology departments housed in a modern extension to the school. School trips include the Jurassic CoastJurassic Coast
The Jurassic Coast is a World Heritage Site on the English Channel coast of southern England. The site stretches from Orcombe Point near Exmouth in East Devon to Old Harry Rocks near Swanage in East Dorset, a distance of ....
, the Old Town of Poole
Poole
Poole is a large coastal town and seaport in the county of Dorset, on the south coast of England. The town is east of Dorchester, and Bournemouth adjoins Poole to the east. The Borough of Poole was made a unitary authority in 1997, gaining administrative independence from Dorset County Council...
and Wimborne Minster
Wimborne Minster
Wimborne Minster is a market town in the East Dorset district of Dorset in South West England, and the name of the Church of England church in that town...
. The history department has recently been refreshed with younger teachers due to the retirement of older academics, who had served at the school for many years.
Religion and philosophy
Through years eight and nine, all pupils learn religion and philosophy and in years ten and eleven they take a GCSE in religious studies.The Religion and Philosophy department has been home to a variety of teachers including Thomas Clough Daffern
Thomas Clough Daffern
Dr. Thomas Clough Daffern , is a Welsh educator, author and peace advocate.After graduation from the University of London, he taught at UAL and Oxford University. He has since its foundation been the director of The International Institute Of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy, and is also known...
.
Year seven entry
From September 2013, the school will be accepting new pupils from the age of 11 (year sevenYear Seven
Year Seven is an educational year group in schools in many countries including England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand. It is usually the seventh year of compulsory education and incorporates students aged between eleven and thirteen.-Australia:...
). Large scale building work to extend the front of the main entrance and add extra classrooms began in summer 2009. Other small room adjustments will be made around the school to help group subject lessons into rooms closer to each other. The new extensions will provide more space for the music, drama, design and technology and drama departments. The library will be relocated within the school so that it is more easily accessible and can be extended. The location of the new buildings was chosen to prevent the reduction in the size of the school's playing fields. Although a new food technology block has been built in where the athletics area used to be around the back of the school. A new tarmac playground has also been built within this area as well as new set of jumping pits.
Academic performance
It gets excellent A level results, the best for any type of school in Poole, and slightly better than Parkstone.Notable former pupils
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s when at IBM's San Jose Research Laboratory in California, which was largely initially ignored by IBM - Terry Coleman, journalist
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, writer and actor.