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Two schools (Chatham House Grammar School and Clarendon House Grammar School) merged in 2013. [6] This list does not include former direct grant grammar schools which elected to remain independent, often retaining the title grammar school. For such schools see the list of direct grant grammar schools.
For many years it was known as Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School (QEGS) for Boys, after the Queen had issued Letters Patent authorising a Free Grammar School in Mansfield. Originally situated in buildings at Church Side, close to St Peter's Church in Mansfield town centre, construction of the present buildings started in 1875 with the school ...
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 .
Carlton le Willows Grammar School was officially opened on 30 June 1956 with a speech from educationalist Sir John Wolfenden. [17] [8] The modern school contends it was the first post-war grammar school founded in Nottinghamshire and speculates it may have been the first in England altogether. [8]
Ashbourne Free Grammar School. Free grammar schools were schools which usually operated under the jurisdiction of the church in pre-modern England.Education had long been associated with religious institutions since a cathedral grammar school was established at Canterbury under the authority of St Augustine's church and King Ethelbert at the end of the 6th century. [1]
Previously a community school administered by Nottingham City Council, Top Valley School converted to academy status on 1 September 2012 and was renamed Park Vale Academy. The school is sponsored by Central College Nottingham; [4] It continued to coordinate with Nottingham City Council for admissions. [5] [6]
To raise money for the 2011 Year 11 prom, students organised the academy's first music festival–The Big Friday Night–which was held on 6 May from 6:30 pm. Singers and bands from the school performed on a portable stage on the school field. As a result of its success, the event returned on 30 March 2012.
Fernwood, similar to many secondary schools in Nottingham, does not have a sixth form. Trinity is the only 11–18 school in Nottingham to get above-average results at A-level, except the independent (fee-paying) Nottingham High School and Nottingham High School for Girls. Many schools in Nottingham have recently become academies.