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The school competed in the radio series Top of the Form in Heat 2 for England on Monday 8 October 1956 at 7.30pm on the Light Programme. The recording took place on 1 October. It lost against a grammar school team from the West Midlands. [1] The team appeared on the front page of the Nottingham Evening Post on 21 September 1956.
BBC school broadcasts on television started in September 1957 - four Nottingham schools received the broadcasts from 24 September 1957 to 9 December 1957. WG Jackson, Nottingham Director of Education, said some people say that the vicarious experience of pictures on television is not good for the pupil, but that remains to be seen .
West Nottingham Academy is an independent co-ed school serves both boarding and day students in grades 9-12. It was founded in 1744 by the Presbyterian preacher Samuel Finley , who later became President of The College of New Jersey , which is now Princeton University.
In 1960 there were plans to rebuild the school as a £195,547 three-form technical grammar school. [11] Many parents protested, in 1973 and 1974, about the planned closure planned for 1975. Nottingham's schools now are the second-lowest at GCSE in England. [12] [13] [14]
In 1976, Brunts Grammar School was closed and a new comprehensive school opened on the site, using the grammar school's buildings. The school had left the site by 1999, [12] transferring to a new home on a greenfield site nearby at The Park. The Samuel Brunts Statue was formerly on the front of the old Black Boy Hotel in Nottingham Market Place ...
The true origins of the school, in a convoluted and chequered history, start with the Mundella Grammar School, on Colygate Road in the Meadows, which opened in 1899. The school's name came from Anthony John Mundella , a Liberal MP for Sheffield , and Sheffield Brightside .
Bluecoat Beechdale Academy (formerly Hadden Park High School, and prior to 2001 Glaisdale Comprehensive [3]) is an 11–16 mixed secondary school with academy status in Bilborough, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England. [4] It is part of the Archway Learning Trust. There was a £11m refurbishment by Inspired Spaces. [5]
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented selective secondary school. The original purpose of medieval grammar schools was the teaching of Latin.