"Wisbech Grammar School, registered charity no. 1087799". Charity Commission for England and Wales.
Wisbech Grammar School is an 11–18 mixed, Church of England, private day school and sixth form in Wisbech, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.[1] Founded by the Guild of the Holy Trinity in 1379, it is one of the oldest schools in the country.[6]
Chartered by Edward VI in 1549 as a grammar school for boys, for much of its history it offered a largely classical curriculum of Greek, Latin and arithmetic under the governance of the Wisbech Corporation. The school has moved premises several times since its foundation, being based in St Peter's Church, the old guildhall in Hill Street and on South Brink before merging with the Wisbech High School for Girls in 1970 at the present site on North Brink.[7]
For much of the 20th century, it was a non-fee paying voluntary-aided school, but following LEA plans to remove this status and merge the Grammar School with two nearby secondary modern schools, the governors decided to become fully independent in 1983.[8] Now a fee-paying day school, pupils aged 4 to 18 attend from the three counties of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Lincolnshire.[1] Following the closure of the nearby St Audrey's Convent School, a significant feeder for the senior school, a new junior and infant preparatory school was opened in 1997, now known as Magdalene House.[9]
Entry to the senior school at age 11 is based on a competitive examination. Pupils are also admitted at later stages, including sixth form.[10] Pupils generally take nine General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examinations in Year Eleven (aged 15–16), and they have a choice of three, four or five A-levels in the sixth form.[11] The majority of students go on to higher education following the completion of their A-levels at the end of Year Thirteen (aged 17–18).
WisbechGrammarSchool is an 11–18 mixed, Church of England, private day school and sixth form in Wisbech, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. Founded...
corporation. In the same year Wm. Bellman gave a plot of land for the WisbechGrammarSchool schoolhouse. In 1333–4 the kiln in the town was producing 120,000...
who started the One Drinks company. Goose is a former pupil of WisbechGrammarSchool, and a graduate of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. Early...
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headmaster of WisbechGrammarSchool, and his wife Anne née Ward (died 1799). He was baptised on 26 May 1760 at St Peter and St Paul's Church, Wisbech. His siblings...
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public schools Charterhouse and Stowe School with under 2% of pupils on roll to Batley GrammarSchool and the newly independent WisbechGrammarSchool (one...
driver), Formula 1 driver, born in Kings Lynn, and educated at Wisbechgrammarschool. Dave Bussey, former BBC Radio 2 and current BBC Radio Lincolnshire...
King's Lynn, Norfolk, England. He was educated at WisbechGrammarSchool, a private school in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. He is eligible to play for Scotland...
schools became direct grant grammarschools. The Act also imposed higher standards on school facilities, and offered the remaining voluntary schools a...
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and WisbechGrammarSchool, founded in 970 and 1379 respectively, they are two of the oldest schools in the country. Some of the secondary schools act...
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Malta between 1988 and 1991. Born in Wisbech, where his father was a cobbler, he attended WisbechGrammarSchool, where he attained the Holmes Scholarship...
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right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Cambridgeshire. He was born in Wisbech. Having represented the team during the 2002 Minor Counties Championship...
her education at London University, she worked as a teacher at WisbechGrammarSchool. Since the early 1960s Jacqueline Diffring lived and worked in France...
Wisbech Castle was a stone to motte-and-bailey castle built to fortify Wisbech (historically in the Isle of Ely and now also in the Fenland District of...
schoolmaster. He served as Master of WisbechGrammarSchool and later as the first head master of King's College School, London. The son of another John Major...
alumna of the primary school Silfield School and WisbechGrammarSchool, the Sylvia Young Theatre School and Redroofs Theatre School. Zara began her career...
and also as the local school from early days; following the English Reformation, the school was renamed WisbechGrammarSchool and re-established there...
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