Misplaced Pages

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 193.62.43.202 (talk) at 13:00, 19 May 2011. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Great Yarmouth VA High School is an English coeducational comprehensive school on Salisbury Road in the town of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk.

Admissions

It accepts around 1000 students aged from 11 to 16, following an expansive extension program throughout 2008 which saw the graduation age to high school decreasing from 12 (year 8) to 11 (year 7). Significant oversubscription has resulted in enrollment exceeding the intended 1000 for September 2008. The school does not have a sixth form; the nearest sixth forms are East Norfolk Sixth Form College and Great Yarmouth College.

History

The former Great Yarmouth Grammar School, which was founded in 1551, became the comprehensive Great Yarmouth High School in September 1981. In 1998 the school was awarded Technology College Specialist Status and in 1999 was designated V.A (Christian non-denominational) reflecting the terms of its Foundation. It is under the jurisdiction of Norfolk LEA.

In November 2008 the Technology Specialist College status ended as the school became a Humanities Specialist College; this followed an extremely successful Ofsted report the preceding May which decreed that the school was good with outstanding features.

Both the school and the town share the same shield. The school colours are black and red.

The High Standard is the school newspaper which is produced two times a year, around May and November.

Academic performance

It gets GCSE results at the England average. Sixth form places are provided elsewhere at the East Norfolk Sixth Form College.

Alumni

Great Yarmouth Grammar School

• Commodore Sir Arthur Baxter DSC
• Rt Rev David Edward Bentley, Bishop of Gloucester from 1993-2003
• Air Vice-Marshal John Bowring CB CBE, Station Commander of RAF Aldergrove from 1968-70
• Basil Collins CBE, Group Chief Executive of Cadbury-Schweppes from 1980-3, and Chairman of the Nabisco Brands Ltd from 1984-9
• Rev Arnold Culley, organist of Durham Cathedral from 1907-32
• Sir Peter Eade, physician
• Prof Kenneth Fielding, Saintsbury Professor of English Literature from 1966-84 at the University of Edinburgh
• Sir Arthur Hawkins, Chairman of the Central Electricity Generating Board from 1972-77
• John Hender CBE, Chief Executive of West Midlands Metropolitan County Council from 1973-86
• Naomi Lewis, poet, essayist and literary critic
• John McDonnell, Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington
• Sir Kenneth MacMillan, choreographer
• Jack Pateman CBE, avionics engineer for Elliott Brothers, now called BAE Systems Avionics, and a patent holder of fly-by-wire systems
• Malcolm Sayer, car designer
• Prof Robert Steel CBE, Vice-Chancellor from 1979-81 of Swansea University, President in 1968 of the Institute of British Geographers (merged with the Royal Geographical Society in 1995)
• Sir William Utting CBE, Chief Inspector of the Social Services Inspectorate from 1985-91 and President of the Mental Health Foundation since 1999

References

1. "Education jobs online". Eteach.com. Retrieved 2011-01-25.
2. "Professor Kenneth Fielding - Obituaries, News". The Independent. Retrieved 2011-01-25.

External links

• Great Yarmouth VA High School Profile

News items

• Tunisian teacher claims discrimination in 2005

• Humanities Colleges in England
• Comprehensive schools in Norfolk
• Educational institutions established in the 1550s