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A girls' grammar school established in a town with an older boys' grammar school would often be named a "high school". Under the Education (Administrative Provisions) Act 1907 all grant-aided secondary schools were required to provide at least 25 percent of their places as free scholarships for students from public elementary schools. Grammar ...
Each series follows around 30 teenage students who have recently completed their GCSEs as they are taken back to a 1950s/1960s style British boarding school.The show sets out to analyse whether the standards that were integral to the school life of the time could help to produce better exam results, when compared to the current GCSE results and to compare certain contemporary educational ...
The Hyde Grammar School netball team, 1949, wearing gymslips (Manchester, England). Navy woolen pinafore dress with velvet yoke, worn by students of Dunfermline College of Physical Education c. 1910–1920. A gymslip is a sleeveless tunic with a pleated skirt most commonly seen as part of a school uniform for girls.
The old grammar school buildings in Weelsby Avenue, Grimsby, were opened in 1953 [citation needed] as Wintringham Grammar School to replace a former school on Eleanor Street, Grimsby. [2] The school was first divided into a boys' and girls' grammar school (they are both now demolished) on a combined site, with around 750 boys and a similar ...
The schools included Barrow Boys Grammar School which opened in 1930 and Barrow Girls Grammar School in 1932. 186 students from Barrow Boys Grammar School died during combat in World War I and II and are commemorated on plaques in Furness Academy. [1] Alumni of the grammar schools are known as 'Old Barrovians' The boys had a school song:
The Hanson Grammar School was designed by Charles Henry Hargreaves and opened on Byron Street, near Barkerend Road, in 1897. The boys' and girls' schools were next door to each other. In 1967 the girls' school had moved to a new building on Sutton Avenue. In the early 1970s, although retaining the name of a grammar school, the intake was ...
By 1953, there were 410 at the school, with 56 in the sixth form. The 'Daily Mirror' and 'Daily Herald' visited the school in 1953 to look at the cramped buildings. The Minister of Education announced that four classrooms would be built on the boys grammar school playing fields, for the girls' school. But a new school could not be built until 1958.
The Luker site, at one end of Buckingham Road was formerly Newbury County Girls' Grammar School. The Wormestall site, at the opposite end of Buckingham Road, was formerly St Bartholomew's Boys' Grammar School - the two grammar schools had merged in 1975 to form a large comprehensive, spread over both sites.