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The school became John Whitgift Academy in September 2011. There are around 945 pupils. It serves the areas of Great Coates, The Willows and Wybers Wood, although it has an intake from across Grimsby now that it has its own transport. The school has been described as "based in a large area of a former council estate...
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Pages in category "Schools in Grimsby" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... John Whitgift Academy; O. Oasis Academy Wintringham;
Former pupils of Whitgift School are known in some circles as "Old Whitgiftians". The abbreviation OW is used. Note: those educated at the Trinity School of John Whitgift are known as Old Mid-Whitgiftians, or OMW.
Whitgift, East Riding of Yorkshire, a small village near the confluence of the River Ouse and the River Trent, England; John Whitgift, an English archbishop, who founded or gave his name to: the Whitgift Foundation; the Whitgift Almshouses; Whitgift School, an independent school in Croydon; Trinity School of John Whitgift, an independent school ...
Whitgift School was founded in 1596 by the Archbishop of Canterbury John Whitgift and opened in 1600 [4] as part of the Whitgift Foundation which had the aim of building a hospital and school in Croydon for the "poor, needy and impotent people" from the parishes of Croydon and Lambeth. [5]
Whitgift Street near Lambeth Palace (the official London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury) is named after him. Whitgift Close in Laceby in Lincolnshire, where he was Rector of St Margaret's church from 1572 to 1577, is also named for him. A comprehensive school in his home town of Grimsby, John Whitgift Academy, is named after him. [14]
English: Old Palace School Wikidata has entry Old Palace of John Whitgift School (Q7084691) with data related to this item. This is a photo of listed building number 1079296 .