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People educated at Manchester Grammar School in the city of Manchester — former pupils are known as Old Mancunians Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alumni of Manchester Grammar School . The main article for this category is List of Old Mancunians .
The Manchester Grammar School (MGS) is a highly selective private day school for boys aged 7-18 in Manchester, England, which was founded in 1515 by Hugh Oldham ...
Alan Garner (born 1934) Children's author after whom the school's Junior Library is named. He was the first member of his family to go to a secondary school and received a full scholarship. Whilst there he was a keen sprinter; Paul Harrison Founder of the World Pantheist Movement. Award-winning author of six books on environment and world ...
The most famous example of a direct-grant grammar was Manchester Grammar School, whose headmaster, Lord James of Rusholme, was one of the most outspoken advocates of the Tripartite System. [18] Grammar school pupils were given the best opportunities of any schoolchildren in the state system. [19]
This is a list of some of the endowed schools in England and Wales existing in the early part of the 19th century.It is based on the antiquarian Nicholas Carlisle's survey of "Endowed Grammar Schools" published in 1818 [1] with descriptions of 475 schools [2] but the comments are referenced also to the work of the Endowed Schools Commission half a century later.
His approach bore fruit; in the mid-1950s Manchester Grammar School was attaining up to 45 scholarships every year at Oxford and Cambridge. However, in the short term his efforts were doomed to failure; Manchester was forced to become a fee-charging school. In 1962 James moved to the University of York, named as Vice-Chancellor. He was involved ...
LEAs considered grammar areas are shown filled, while circles indicate isolated grammar schools or clusters of neighbouring schools. This is a list of the current 163 state-funded fully selective schools ( grammar schools ) in England, as enumerated by Statutory Instrument .
There are around 2,400 private schools in England. [1] Many are represented by the Independent Schools Council (ISC), while around 300 independent senior schools are represented by the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), although both bodies also represent schools outside England and the United Kingdom.