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Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Ashbourne

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Established
  
1585

Head of Academy
  
Mr Scott Garrity

DfE number
  
830/4500

Founded
  
1585

Gender
  
Mixed-sex education

Type
  
Academy

Chair of Governors
  
Mr Max Jeffery

Phone
  
+44 1335 343685

Motto
  
En bon espoyr

Location
  
The Green Road Ashbourne Derbyshire DE6 1EP England

Address
  
The Green Rd, Ashbourne DE6 1EP, UK

Similar
  
The Ecclesbo School, Anthony Gell School, John Port School, Lady Manners School, Thomas Alleynes High Sch

Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School (QEGS) is an academy school for 11- to 18-year-olds in the town of Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England. In the academic year 2009–10, there were 1396 pupils on roll.

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Both the main school and 6th form are often within the top 25 in league tables, and in October 2008, Ofsted marked the school as "good" or "outstanding" in all sections. In 2009 the school celebrated 100 years at the Green Road site.

History

The school was founded in 1585 by a group of men including Sir Thomas Cokayne (or Cockayne), High Sheriff of Derbyshire, and Thomas Carter of the Middle Temple, London. Sir Thomas Cokayne granted £4 a year out of his lands towards the maintenance of the school. He is often credited as the founder of the school; this is due to his Lordship of the Town of Ashbourne and the fact the school took his family's coat of arms. The original building still exists today.

The school relocated to its current site on The Green Road in 1909. In 1973 QEGS took over the Ashbourne County Secondary School on Old Derby Road, but they both remained as two separate sites. QEGS was awarded technology specialist status in 2005, and a new technology block was built with the funding received. On 1 August 2011 it converted to Academy Status and became an Independent State School but still serves the same catchment area and has the same admissions procedures.

Current buildings

  • 'Old building': is the oldest part of the school, and is used for teaching maths and ICT. It also holds some smaller classrooms for SEN teaching.
  • 'Science corridor': runs adjacent to the old building. Chemistry and physics are taught here. It is connected to the main building by a corridor with the library off it. The drama studio and gym are also connected to the science corridor.
  • 'West wing': holds the main SEN classroom and a Sixth form chemistry lab.
  • 'East wing': contains a computer room, and several offices.
  • 'Teaching block' or 'New building': the largest building of the school. Subjects taught here include modern foreign languages, geography, history, biology, English, religious studies, PSHE and art.
  • 'Halls block': contains the canteen, main hall, sports hall, and the music department.
  • 'Old technology block': several technology workshops, as well as food technology areas.
  • 'New technology block': built in 2005, this contains up-to-date technology classrooms and workshop.

    • Sixth form centre

    There are two buildings at the sixth form centre, where sixth form studies are taught, such as psychology, sociology and economics. An extension to the sixth form centre has now been added which is now open to staff and pupils, including a new information technology suite.

    Notable former pupils

  • Gordon Bourne (1921–29) Obstetrician and author
  • William Charles Langdon Brown CBE (1931–), Banker
  • Captain Sir Robert Beaufin Irving OBE (1877–1954)
  • Raymond Spencer Millard, (1920–97), Civil Engineer
  • William Kenneth Ward, (1918–95), Under-Secretary, Department of Trade
  • Neil Cooper, (1973–), drummer for Therapy?, teaches drumming at QEGS.
  • Andrew Lewer MBE MEP (1971-) Derbyshire County Council Leader (2009–13) and MEP for the East Midlands since 2014.

    • References

    Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Ashbourne Wikipedia
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