[Thomas Adams School is a Shropshire Council

Shropshire Council

Shropshire Council is a unitary authority in Shropshire, United Kingdom.It replaced the former two-tier local government structure in the non-metropolitan county of Shropshire on 1 April 2009, which involved its immediate predecessor, Shropshire County Council, and five non-metropolitan districts -...

 maintained secondary school in Wem

Wem

Wem is a small market town in Shropshire, England. It is the administrative centre for the northern area committee of Shropshire Council, which has its headquarters at Edinburgh House in the centre of Wem. Wem railway station is on the Shrewsbury to Crewe railway line...

. The school takes pupils from ages 11-18 and currently has just over 1300 on roll. Unusually for a state school there is a boarding unit. The school has the Schools for Health Award and in 2002 obtained Media Arts College status. . Wem Grammar School was merged with Thomas Adams School.

The school is rated by Ofsted

Ofsted

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 to be outstanding. The school has a strong connection with the Drapers Company, an ancient London guild who nominate two governors to sit on the school's governing body. The Drapers Company is well known for its educational connections and charitable contributions, it helps support a number of schools and universities which have historical links with the Company.

The School was founded in 1650 by Sir Thomas Adams, the Lord Mayor of London

Lord Mayor of London

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 in 1645, who was described by the diarist Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys

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 as a "comely old alderman". He was a Sheriff of London, Master of the Company of Drapers and an MP

MP

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. He was a staunch royalist, who was imprisoned in the Tower of London

Tower of London

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 for his royalist sympathies but was was later sent by Parliament to the Hague

The Hague

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 in 1660 to wait upon King Charles II who was about to be restored to the throne. He also paid for the bible to translater into Persian.