Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Alford
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Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Alford (QEGS) is a selective, co-educational
, foundation status
Grammar School
and Sixth Form College
in Alford
, Lincolnshire
, England
.
and most recently as a training academy. The school currently has 542 students on roll.
The headteacher is Miss A. Francis, the First Deputy Headteacher is, from September 2008, Miss B. Allen and the Second Deputy Headteacher is Mr J.Lyon.
The school was first established in 1566 with the donation of £50 from an Alford merchant. In 1576 a charter was granted by Queen Elizabeth I for the Education, Instruction and bringing up of children and Youth for ever to continue. In 1959, a new block was added to the school in preparation of girls being admitted. The school attained grant-maintained
status in 1989, and in 1999 moved to Foundation
status.
The school recently (2004) achieved business and enterprise status. This gave the school the funds to build a new ICT
and Business/Maths suite. This new suite is complete with interactive whiteboard
s, projectors, 48 computers and video conferencing facilities. The new suite was completed in 2006 after a six month over run on the building project. The new suite adds another ICT room to the school's existing three. Additionally, in February 2007 the Schools Intranet was upgraded with the pupils being able to access their own computerised documents (H: drive) and the shared documents (I: drive) from home. The school was judged 'Outstanding' in the Ofsted inspection of March 2007.
QEGS offer their pupils an array of subjects. The availability of the subjects varies with some age limits applying to such lessons as Sociology and Psychology for example which are offered only in Sixth Form.
Coeducation
Mixed-sex education, also known as coeducation or co-education, is the integrated education of male and female persons in the same institution. It is the opposite of single-sex education...
, foundation status
Foundation school
In England and Wales, a foundation school is a state-funded school in which the governing body has greater freedom in the running of the school than in community schools....
Grammar School
Grammar 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...
and Sixth Form College
Sixth form college
A sixth form college is an educational institution in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Belize, Hong Kong or Malta where students aged 16 to 18 typically study for advanced school-level qualifications, such as A-levels, or school-level qualifications such as GCSEs. In Singapore and India, this is...
in Alford
Alford, Lincolnshire
- Notable residents :* Captain John Smith who lived in nearby Willoughby* Anne Hutchinson, pioneer settler and religious reformer in the United States* Thomas Paine, who was an excise officer in the town....
, Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...
, 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 has obtained specialist status as a Business and Enterprise collegeBusiness 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 most recently as a training academy. The school currently has 542 students on roll.
The headteacher is Miss A. Francis, the First Deputy Headteacher is, from September 2008, Miss B. Allen and the Second Deputy Headteacher is Mr J.Lyon.
History
The school motto is Cor Unum Via Una which translates as "One heart and goal are we," and is also the title of the school song.The school was first established in 1566 with the donation of £50 from an Alford merchant. In 1576 a charter was granted by Queen Elizabeth I for the Education, Instruction and bringing up of children and Youth for ever to continue. In 1959, a new block was added to the school in preparation of girls being admitted. The school attained grant-maintained
Grant-maintained school
Grant-maintained schools were state schools in England and Wales between 1988 and 1998 that had opted out of local government control, being funded directly by a grant from central government...
status in 1989, and in 1999 moved to Foundation
Foundation school
In England and Wales, a foundation school is a state-funded school in which the governing body has greater freedom in the running of the school than in community schools....
status.
The school recently (2004) achieved business and enterprise status. This gave the school the funds to build a new ICT
Information and communication technologies
Information and communications technology or information and communication technology, usually abbreviated as ICT, is often used as an extended synonym for information technology , but is usually a more general term that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of...
and Business/Maths suite. This new suite is complete with interactive whiteboard
Whiteboard
A whiteboard is a name for any glossy, usually white surface for nonpermanent markings. Whiteboards are analogous to chalkboards, allowing rapid marking and erasing of markings on their surface...
s, projectors, 48 computers and video conferencing facilities. The new suite was completed in 2006 after a six month over run on the building project. The new suite adds another ICT room to the school's existing three. Additionally, in February 2007 the Schools Intranet was upgraded with the pupils being able to access their own computerised documents (H: drive) and the shared documents (I: drive) from home. The school was judged 'Outstanding' in the Ofsted inspection of March 2007.
Academic performance
The school frequently achieves a high pass rate at Year 11; in most years 97% or more pupils gain 5 or more C's or above at GCSE, in 2007 the percentage of pupils gaining A* - C reached 100%.QEGS offer their pupils an array of subjects. The availability of the subjects varies with some age limits applying to such lessons as Sociology and Psychology for example which are offered only in Sixth Form.
Notable former pupils
- Glenn KirkhamGlenn KirkhamGlenn Charles W. Kirkham is an English field hockey player.-Early life:He was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Alford...
, hockey player - Gary Watts, short film director; also on Youngminds and Right-Here's National Advisory Panels for young people's mental health
- John Scampion 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...
, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Lifeline Project and Chairman of the Determinations Panel of the Pensions Regulator - Air MarshalAir MarshalAir marshal is a three-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force...
Sir John SuttonJohn Sutton (RAF officer)Air Marshal Sir John Matthias Dobson Sutton KCB is a former Royal Air Force officer who became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at RAF Support Command.-RAF career:...
KCBOrder of the BathThe Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...
, Lieutenant Governor of JerseyLieutenant Governor of JerseyThe Lieutenant Governor of Jersey is the representative of the British monarch in the Bailiwick of Jersey, a Crown dependency of the British Crown....
1990-5