Queen Elizabeth's School, Wimborne Minster
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Queen Elizabeth's School (also known as QE) is a co-educational voluntary controlled Church of England
secondary school
in Wimborne Minster
, Dorset
, England.
(ages 13-19) and specialist sports college
situated just outside the west of Wimborne Minster
in Dorset
on the B3082. The school offers a large amount of courses including sports, sciences, mathematics, humanities, English, business, art, performing arts, languages and technological studies. At present, there are 1,400 pupils, including more than 350 in the sixth form
.
in 1497.
The school was based at Pamphill
where's the grammar was in the centre of Wimborne Minster.
In 1998 the school welcomed HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
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...
secondary school
Secondary school
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...
in 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...
, Dorset
Dorset
Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...
, England.
Admissions
It is an upper schoolUpper school
Upper Schools tend to be schools within secondary education. Outside England, the term normally refers to a section of a larger school. There is some variation in the use of the term in England.-State Maintained Schools:...
(ages 13-19) and specialist sports college
Sports College
Sports Colleges were introduced in 1997 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enables secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, PE, sports and dance. Schools that successfully apply to the Specialist Schools Trust and become Sports...
situated just outside the west of 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...
in Dorset
Dorset
Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...
on the B3082. The school offers a large amount of courses including sports, sciences, mathematics, humanities, English, business, art, performing arts, languages and technological studies. At present, there are 1,400 pupils, including more than 350 in 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,...
.
History
The school has very close links with the Minster and was founded by the will of Lady Margaret Beaufort, the mother of Henry VIIHenry VII of England
Henry VII was King of England and Lord of Ireland from his seizing the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death on 21 April 1509, as the first monarch of the House of Tudor....
in 1497.
Grammar school
After her death the school became Wimborne Grammar School. Although the grammar school buildings still remain they have now been converted to flats.Comprehensive
The school was established on its current site in 1972 after the merging of Wimborne Grammar School and the County Modern School.The school was based at Pamphill
Pamphill
Pamphill is a village in south-east Dorset, England, just outside Wimborne Minster, four miles north of Poole. The village has a population of 704 .-St Stephen's:...
where's the grammar was in the centre of Wimborne Minster.
In 1998 the school welcomed HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
New buildings
In February 2006 it was announced that QE School would be completely rebuilt under the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) One School Pathfinder programme. In June 2006 the funding for the rebuild was increased to £55 million. The building were planned to be completed by September 2009, but because of a problem with the contract, this delayed the building of the new school. The school finally opened to students on the 1st November 2011, and is just in the final stages of landscaping the grounds. The old school will be knocked down slowly over the next year and buried in a mound to create more outside space.Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School
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