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A bluecoat school was founded in Walsall towards the end of the 17th century, to provide children of poor families with an education free of charge. The school had (and still has) strong connections to St Matthews Church in Walsall, [2] where private contributors and collections funded the school in the early days.
Pelsall Comprehensive School was a secondary school located in Pelsall, an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall in the West Midlands of England.. It opened in September 1963 as Pelsall Secondary Modern (serving pupils aged 11 upwards), becoming a 13–18 comprehensive school in September 1972 under a local reorganisation of education by Aldridge-Brownhills council, which would be ...
The Story of Sister Dora of Walsall Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (1952). Millicent Price in her book refers to a biography of Sister Dora written by one Margaret Lonsdale and published during the 1880s "It ran into 39 editions and was included in the Tauchnitz library" but provides little detail and refers to "bitter" criticism of ...
Hinsley's father worked in the coal department of the Walsall Co-Op. [1] His mother Emma Hinsley (née Adey) was a school caretaker and they lived in Birchills, in the parish of St Andrew's, Walsall. Harry was educated at Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall and, in 1937, won a scholarship to read history at St. John's College, Cambridge. [2]
It was built by the governors of Walsall Grammar School, for the use of the school and the public, and the minister was the headmaster of the school. The building was sold by the school in 1874 to the townspeople, and it was assigned a parish the following year, from the parishes of St Matthew and St Peter. [4] [5] The church was rebuilt in 1892.
There is also one secondary school; Joseph Leckie Academy. Delves has the West Entrance of the University of Wolverhampton 's Walsall Campus. It is located directly adjacent to Whitehall Junior School.
The transfer age was reduced to 11 in September 1986 under Walsall's reorganisation of education in the former Aldridge-Brownhills area but falling pupil numbers led to its closure in July 1994. [31] The old Pelsall Comprehensive buildings are now home to Rushall JMI School, Education Walsall offices, and a teacher training centre.
In 2009 the school was judged Good. [9] After becoming an academy, the school was again judged Good in 2013. [10] then in 2017 the school was judged as Requires Improvement due to crumbling buildings known as the South and West blocks one of which the South Block has recently been demolished and replaced by the brand new KWB2 block. And finally ...