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Boys on the squash court at Manchester Grammar School, 2009 Boys participating in sports in front of The Pavilion building, 2010. The school was among the first in the UK to adopt the International Mathematics GCSE. [37] Soon afterwards, MGS also adopted the three Sciences and today it offers the IGCSE in most subjects.
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 .
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 ...
1927: A London schoolteacher instructs his students not to view the sun with the naked eye but to use instead two dense photographic negatives sandwiched together to protect their eyes.
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The eclipse offered an opportunity to teach a lesson that mixed astronomy and biology with other scientific fields the students had already learned: gravity, inertia and phases of the moon ...
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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 ...