Established 1940 Headmaster Sir Richard Mace (MA) Phone +44 161 480 0329 Gender Mixed-sex education | Closed 2014 DfE URN 106145 Founded 1940 | |
Type Other Independent School Location Beech AvenueStockportGreater ManchesterSK3 8HB England Similar Stockport Grammar School, Hulme Hall Grammar School, Cheadle Hulme School, Bramhall High School, Werneth School | ||
Hillcrest grammar school ski trip march 2013
Hillcrest Grammar School in Cale Green, Stockport, Greater Manchester was an independent day school with around 200 pupils aged 3 to 16. The school was founded as a boys' preparatory school in 1940 in Bramhall. It became co-educational in the 1950s and also started to take pupils up to age 16 and added Grammar to its title. The school moved in 1983 to the former "Stockport High School for Girls" building built in 1910 in the Cale Green district of Stockport, close to Davenport railway station. The old part of the building is locally listed. A sports hall with four badminton courts was built in 1994 and a new pre-preparatory department in 2003. A new Preparatory Building with facilities for the Nursery was opened by Olympic Swimmer Michael Rock in October 2009. The school closed in July 2014 due to financial issues that began in 2007.
Contents
- Hillcrest grammar school ski trip march 2013
- Notable former pupils and history
- Uniform crest and motto
- References
Hillcrest was accredited by the Independent Schools Council. The school was owned and operated by a registered charity "Hillcrest Grammar School (Bramhall Educational Trust Limited)", which is also a limited company.
Notable former pupils and history
Past pupils include TV presenter Yvette Fielding, known especially as the youngest presenter of Blue Peter, former professional footballer Nicky Summerbee, Anabel Kutay, dancer and finalist on BBC's "So you think you can Dance", David Cunnelly, two time gold medalist for ice skating, his brother Matthew Cunnelly, producer of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Robert Garside the first person to run around the world.
Hillcrest occupied the site of the former Stockport High School for Girls. Stockport High was founded in 1894. It merged with Fylde Lodge High School in 1974, to form Priestnall School (at the time, a single sex comprehensive school with a sixth form). Priestnall occupies the old Fylde Lodge site. The Stockport High School site has been used by Hillcrest since 1983. Stockport High School for Girls was the inspiration for Dame Joan Bakewell's novel "All the Nice Girls".
Uniform crest and motto
Hillcrest pupils, both boys and girls, wore a black blazer with a red braid around the edge and a black tie, crest embedded with gold and red stripes. The school crest consisted of a flaming torch with the motto "Ad Lucem".