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Selby High School

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Established
  
1908

Principal
  
Paul Eckersley

DfE URN
  
121702 Tables

Founded
  
1908

Type
  
Community school

DfE number
  
815/4225

Phone
  
+44 1757 703327

Number of students
  
1,100

Selby High School

Location
  
Leeds Road Selby North Yorkshire YO8 4HT England

Address
  
Leeds Rd, Selby YO8 4HT, UK

Motto
  
In Arduis Fidelis; "Faithful in adversity"

Local authority
  
North Yorkshire County Council

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Selby High School is a co-educational secondary school in North Yorkshire, England. Its main catchment area is the town of Selby and villages from the Selby District, including Thorpe Willoughby, Hambleton, Monk Fryston, Cawood and Wistow.

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History

Selby High School links back to Selby Grammar School, founded in 1908 as an all-girls school as Selby High School. In 1967 this changed to the Selby Grammar School grammar school and became coeducational, and in 1979, a mixed comprehensive school. The comprehensive was renamed Selby High School.

Buildings

In 2003 Selby High School began fundraising towards securing specialist school status – the school was awarded specialist status in Performing and Visual Arts in 2005. Following this the school built a dance studio, a 200-seat theatre stand and an all-weather pitch. In January 2013 the school added an ICT suite with new computers.

House system

In 2005 the school introduced a new house system with pupils from all year groups equally distributed into forms. The houses are named after significant Yorkshire people: Lesley Garrett (Garrett); David Hockney (Hockney); James Mason (Mason); and Michael Palin (Palin).

Notable former pupils

See also: Category:People educated at Selby High School
  • Nigel Adams – MP for Selby and Ainsty (attended the school 1978-84)
  • Gareth Ellis – rugby league England international who currently plays for Hull F.C.
  • Matthew Warchus – theatre and film director (attended the school 1978-84)

    • Selby Grammar School

  • Dianne Bevan (nee Roe), Chief Operating Officer from 2007-12 of the National Assembly for Wales
  • Sir John Arthur Townsley – Executive Principal, Gorse Academies Trust (attended the school 1976-1982)
  • Geoff Wilkinson, music producer of Us3

    • Selby Girls' High School

  • Prof Judy Armitage FRS, Professor of Biochemistry since 1996 at the University of Oxford (Merton College)

    • Former teachers

  • Mary Blake, Headmistress from 1975-83 of Manchester High School for Girls (head teacher of the girls' high school from 1960-68, and the grammar school from 1968-75) and the first President of the Secondary Heads Association in 1978
  • Joan Firth CB, Chair of Bradford Health Authority from 1998-2000 (Head of Science from 1960-62 at the girls' high school)
  • Brian Sherratt, Head of Religious Studies at the grammar school from 1967-70

    • References

    Selby High School Wikipedia
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