There was a lad that I sort of knew from Irish dancing called Eamonn. Chorlton High School is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England. This article is about the boys' school only. Sports offered include Association football, athletics, badminton, basketball, cricket, fencing, hockey, gymnastics, Rugby football and tennis. Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services. Jeff Wootton, Guitarist for Gorillaz and Liam Gallagher. Scorton Grammar School is a former grammar school that was located in Scorton village, in Richmondshire, North Yorkshire, England. [20], The school has a variety of choirs, orchestras, quartets and bands which regularly perform in concert. According to Jonathan Betts, it was "considered one of the top schools for boys intended for the Navy". [24], Derek Calrow, an Old Clavian, a Governor and Chair of the Schools' Development Committee, serves as the Patron of the Henry Dunster Society.[24]. Comments have been closed on this article. Bury Grammar School is an independent grammar school in Bury, Greater Manchester, England, that has existed since c.1570. Membership of different houses is indicated by a circular badge which bears the house colour. History [ edit] The school opened as Heys Road School for Boys in 1936 and was used for treating wounded soldiers during the Second World War. It is not used as the official school song today.) Rebecca, now 21, has gone on to play a host of schoolgirls during her acting career including, most famously, Debbie Gallagher in Shameless. Grammar Schools. Please submit your content below, which will be sent to a community manager and turned into a story for the website or content for an email newsletter, A Tribute To John Edwards by David Benger, The Old Clavians' Golfing Society 70th Annual General Meeting, Janina Cebertowicz (Retired Teacher, 1983-2012), Factors to consider when choosing a Senior School, Future Foods Movement - Youth Advisory Board, Appointment of Bury Grammar School's Director of Development. Man City and possibly Manchester United to discover next opponents. "I was five, and I got left at the table and told to stay there until Id finished or I wasnt allowed out to play. The Headmistress since 2015 has been Jo Anderson. I loved reading and those days I got through four or five books. We had a lovely teacher called Mrs Rabbit, who did lots of art work with us. There are extant copies of a school magazine dating back as far as 1881. Marcus Holness, professional footballer for Rochdale A.F.C. We have over 65,000 old school photographs from over 7,000 uk schools - search for your old school photo here. Naomi Lewis (born 1971) actress appeared as Elsa Feldman in Yorkshire TV's "Emmerdale" when it was still a farm. Foster Blackburne MA(Oxon), who was also Archdeacon of Manchester and Chairman of Governors of Bury G S. [8] Archdeacon Blackburn was credited with producing the lyrics for a school song. ", "It's better to be lucky than good, says new Morrisons chairman Andy Higginson", "The Palace hotel in Manchester appoints", "Collins, Philip James, (born 16 May 1967), Associate Editor, Prospect, since 2015; Founder and Writer-in-Chief, The Draft, since 2018; Contributing Editor, New Statesman, since 2020", "Edward's rapid rise earns trip to Buckingham Palace". in the junior school. Attention: You are using an outdated browser, device or you do not have the latest version of . Data returned from the Piano 'meterActive/meterExpired' callback event. 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Co-founder of the law firm, Lane-Smith & Shindler; president of the Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners Worldside in 2007, Chef; writer of "Roast Chicken and Other Stories", British journalist, academic, banker and speechwriter to Prime Minister, This page was last edited on 27 February 2023, at 20:06. Top stories . Simon Hopkinson, chef and writer of "Roast Chicken and Other Stories". Cadets in the CCF are given the option to take part in the annual Ten Tors Challenge on Dartmoor. The school was based in a townhouse in Bolton Street (since demolished), on a site opposite the Castle Leisure Centre. Stockport. The boys were soon joined by the girls of the Bury Girls' High School, newly re-founded as Bury Grammar School for Girls. He became the curate of Bury Parish Church, and then the fourth headmaster of the school. [31], PE and games lessons are part of every boy's timetable, but there is a range of opportunities for extra curricular sport in the school. Funds were eventually raised, however, which allowed the school to remain open, although boarding was no longer offered. Join us Login. [36], The school has a long tradition of musical and dramatic performance, with performances of Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer noted in The Clavian of 1912 [37] whilst a "little musical programme was put together" for a "Kay House Social" in July of the same year. It depicts a swan holding a key in its beak, under which is the motto in Latin : sanctas clavis fores aperit (English: The key opens sacred doors). Jay testifies that he both helped dig the hole in Leakin Park and helped bury the body. Bury Grammar School, Tenterden Street, Bury, Lancashire, BL9 0HN, Kindergarten/Preschool & Nursery Admissions, Terms & Conditions and Holiday Club Pupil Code of Conduct, Heather Townsend, Ne Sellars (Class of 2009), Taryn Marella, Ne Mitchell (Class of 1994), The Bury Grammar Schools Trustee Limited (company number 06612259) as trustee of Bury Grammar SchoolCharity (registered charity number 526622), Registered Office: Farraday House, Bridge Road, Bury, BL9 0HG. Chaplain of Ladysmith during the siege; served in the Boer War and WWI; mentioned in despatches six times, including at, Pioneer of modern dyes, chairman and director of, Former Permanent Secretary, Home Office and Northern Ireland Office, Eminent Professor of Theoretical Physics; of, Children's rights lawyer; chairman of the. [10] (The playing fields were a bone of contention from the first. [7], A school was being built; half of it was already complete and filled with boys; the rest was waiting for us - the Girls' School. Bury Grammar School (Girls) is an independent girls' day school in Bury, Greater Manchester, England, which was founded in 1884. Alumni News. Coun Karneys family moved from Dublin to Manchester when he was nine years old.He adds: I had the strongest Dublin accent. There were 23 girls in attendance and lessons (Latin, French, science, mathematics, English, music, needlework and games) were taught from 9.00am to 1.00pm, with a half hour break each day. The archives show that the number of girls in school rose from 23 in 1884 to 401 in 1940. She plays Coronation Streets blonde bombshell Eva Price, but heres the actress, right, about to nervously set off on her first day at school in Walkden, in 1987. There are specialist classrooms for science, art, DT, and food and textiles technology, as well as a music suite with music technology room, and several ICT suites throughout the campus. For his higher educa tion he became a student in Mercer University at Macon in 1882 and 1883. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? [46]. Read more about this topic: Bury Grammar School, a notable prince that was called King John;And he ruled England with main and with might,For he did great wrong, and maintained little right.Unknown. The Bury Grammar Schools Trustee Limited (company number 06612259) as trustee of Bury Grammar School Charity (registered charity number 526622) Registered Office: Farraday House, Bridge Road, Bury, BL9 0HG. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE HAVE PROBLEMS WITH THE PANORA LINKS -THE LINK NOW GOES THROUGH TO THE MANCHESTER ARCHIVES - JUST PUT YOUR SCHOOL NAME IN THE ANY TEXT . Nicola Shindler, Chief Executive of Red Productions Company Ltd. Michael Edelson, (nicknamed the "Shellmeister") businessman and Director of Manchester United Football Club. There is an active alumni group run by the Schools' Development Association and membership of the Bury Grammar Schools' Alumni Group on LinkedIn is open to Old Boys and Old Girls who are LinkedIn members. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's School Days (1857), a semi . There were five houses, into which girls were placed depending on where they lived. Bury Grammar School is situated in the heart of Bury, Lancashire and is widely recognised as one of the top independent schools in the North West of England. [18] Facilities include a sports hall, recently redeveloped to include a fitness centre in additional to the traditional gym. Although few documents survive to explain how Dunster thought of himself, he did use a phrase in one letter, ego enim Lancastrensis sum, suggesting that he was a modest, hard-working, Lancashire lad, proud of his northern English origins and of his noted Lancashire accent. [39] The CCF has a corps of drums. [44]. (The hall is named after a former Rector of Bury, Ven. The Old Boys' Society (London Branch) organises an annual dinner in London for Home Counties-based Old Boys. BGS Alumni Community is Bury Grammar School's dynamic online network.It gives you access to a global community of BGS professionals and friends, enhancing both your professional and social connections.You can be assured that as a private platform you will only be connecting with BGS alumni,former staff, parents and current BGS staff. . In 1900, the school was taken over by the governors of the Grammar School and was renamed Bury Grammar School for Girls. Since 2017, when Bury Grammar School (Boys) and Bury Grammar School (Girls) amalgamated, Jo Anderson has been the first Principal (education) of Bury Grammar School. Gone would be the cramped conditions of the old town house where the girls had to traipse all the way upstairs in order to change their outdoor boots for indoor shoes and whose only claim to fame was a gravel tennis court and instead there would be spacious classrooms, an art room, a laboratory and, in the none too distant future there would be a glorious central hall. 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In addition, all boys have PPE, Swimming and Games on their timetable. [41] There is a range of societies available to the Clavian of today including the ever-present chess club, photography club and debating society. The houses were named after Herbert, Lord Kitchener (Bury), Sir Robert Peel (Walmersley), George, Lord Byron (Rochdale), Robert, Lord Clive (Prestwich) and Samuel Crompton (Ainsworth and Bolton). In World War II, the girls were found knitting for the troops and the Merchant Navy, making of camouflage nets, offering financial and material help to refugees and those in bombed areas. [11]. Leading the tributes, Jamie Search, chairman of governors, described Mr Marshall as an outstanding leader who has been tragically taken from us far too early. [4], There is evidence that a grammar school attached to Bury Parish Church existed as early as 1570[5] but the school was certainly well-established by 1634 with Henry Dunster as its fourth recorded headmaster. The Governors of Bury Grammar School are committed to broadening access to our School by offering to eligible parents/guardians means-tested financial support towards school fees. Apartments have functional designs with dressing rooms and en-suite bathrooms. There is a single board of governors for the boys' and girls' schools. Both are considered to have been created by Rev'd Henry Crewe Boutflower, headmaster 182358. Manchester Councils best-known representative loved school so much, he wrote to the Prime Minister asking for school holidays to be made shorter. The two schools, whilst remaining separate entities, shared the same building until the erection of a more modern facility for the boys across Bridge Road in the 1960s. Services for younger pupils are held simultaneously in the boys' school hall, the boys' preparatory school and the Roger Kay Hall (in the girls' school). Today, the school has a full spectrum of musical groups including a brass ensemble, senior and junior choirs, a concert band, an orchestra and a percussion group. Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}533527.4N 21813.8W / 53.590944N 2.303833W / 53.590944; -2.303833, Bury Grammar School (Girls) is a private girls' day school in Bury, Greater Manchester, England, which was founded in 1884. Notable alumni. He also later became Rector of Fittleton in Wiltshire and was a prebendary of Salisbury until his death. Pupils sit the IGCSE mathematics, English language and English literature examinations, administered by Edexcel. Former pupils of Bury Grammar School are known as "Old Clavians"; former pupils of Bury Grammar School for Girls are "Old Claviennes". Appointment of Bury Grammar School's Director of Development. Pupils sit the IGCSE mathematics, English language and English literature examinations, administered by Edexcel. Three houses were created in 1905 by Rev'd W H Howlett to re-introduce some of the camaraderie of a boarding school into the academic and sporting life of what was, by this time, a day school. Hulme; named after the Manchester lawyer and landowners, William Hulme and his Hulme Trust which helped to fund the new building. Simon Naylor (Morris, Class of 2002) . Bury Grammar School, Tenterden Street, Bury, Lancashire, BL9 0HN, Kindergarten/Preschool & Nursery Admissions, Terms & Conditions and Holiday Club Pupil Code of Conduct, The Bury Grammar Schools Trustee Limited (company number 06612259) as trustee of Bury Grammar SchoolCharity (registered charity number 526622), Registered Office: Farraday House, Bridge Road, Bury, BL9 0HG. A page for alumni to meet up, add photos, reminisce & share memories - and maybe organise reunions! I dont know whats funnier, my shoes or Bernies hair! [3] The boys' school, for example, held morning prayers first each day. The imminent completion of a joint sixth form centre will mean that some 'A' level subjects can be taught jointly across the two schools. There are also letters referring to support for the Church Army, the Minesweepers' Fund, the Red Cross Comforts Section and various refugee organisations. It merged with Hope Park Girls' School, also in Prestwich, in 1979, becoming Prestwich High School. Is it an ostrich, swan, snake, or do you think it is a mythical bird? The school has a voluntary Combined Cadet Force with Navy, Army and RAF sections. One writer noted in an early edition of "The Clavian" that the young folks of Bury refused to recognize our right to the ground.[11]. 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