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Foundation school in Penzance, Cornwall, England

Humphry Davy School


Address

Coombe Road Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 2TG England
Coordinates	50°07′27″N 5°32′27″W / 50.1242°N 5.54089°W / 50.1242; -5.54089
Information
Type	Foundation school
Motto	Raising Aspirations \| Achieving Excellence
Local authority	Cornwall Council
Specialist	Music
Department for Education URN	112067 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Chair of Governors	K. Uren
Headteacher	W. Marshall
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11 to 16
Enrolment	687
Houses	Kemeneth, Sowena, Aweni, Tevi, Medra, Longya
Colour(s)	Purple, Green, Blue, Orange, Yellow, Silver
Website	http://www.humphry-davy.cornwall.sch.uk

Humphry Davy School is a comprehensive school in Penzance, Cornwall, England. The school teaches 11 to 16-year-olds.

History

The oldest part of the main school building was completed in 1909. It was originally called the Penzance County School and opened with an enrolment of 130 boys on 24 January 1910. It later became known as the Humphry Davy Grammar School for Boys.

It shared a canteen with the Penzance Girls Grammar School (PGGS), further up the hill, and, in the late 1970s, a joint upper sixth form block was added on the playing fields to the North East of the school, South West of PGGS. In 1980 it merged with PGGS and Lescudjack schools, becoming a co-educational comprehensive school, with the name Humphry Davy School.

Much of the original building has been preserved and, in the summer of 2013, the school received funding worth over £300,000 to replace the sash windows with handmade modern versions.

In 2005 the school gained specialist status, as a Music College.

Notable former pupils

Helen Glover (rower), Olympic gold medal and World Champion rower
Sam Palladio, Actor and musician

Humphry Davy Grammar School for Boys

Francis Foster Barham, religious writer known as the 'Alist'
Sir David Collins, educational administrator
Michael Grandage, theatre director, Tony Award winner
Alexander Halliday, British geochemist
Quinton Quayle, Ambassador to Thailand since 2007, and to Romania from 2002 to 2006
Rick Rescorla, whose bravery during the 9/11 attack saved hundreds of lives at the cost of his own
Jack Richards, Surrey and England cricketer

References

Batten, Ben; James, Lawrence, Three Score Years and Ten - A History of The Penzance County School and The Humphry Davy Grammar School 1910-1980
"100 years of Humphry Davy School", BBC Cornwall, 22 January 2010
"Penzance (County) Girls’ Grammar School", West Penwith Resources, retrieved 06 April 2021
"Olympic gold rower Helen Glover's 'phenomenal talent'". BBC News. August 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
"Category:Sam Palladio - Wikimedia Commons". commons.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 24 May 2022.

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