Tupton Hall School

Grammar School

Tupton Hall was founded as a Tupton Hall Grammar School in 1936 as a secondary school in the Clay Cross area on a site purchased by the Derbyshire Education Committee in 1929. In 1936, the school moved to its present site, formerly occupied by the mansion Tupton Hall. The original building was designed by G.H. Widdows, the county architect, and it was opened by Oliver Stanley, the Secretary of State for Education.

Comprehensive school

From 1967-9, many new buildings were constructed to prepare for the transformation to becoming a much larger comprehensive school (750 pupils at the grammar school became 1,800 at the new comprehensive). The new school opened in 1969. The remodelled school was well regarded as an architectural achievement using CLASP system which allowed standard components for school construction. Nicholas Pevsner described it as "one of the best uses of the CLASP system for school buildings in the country ... creating a village type atmosphere" Architects were George Grey & Partners in association with D.S.Davies (County Architect).

The school was severely run down by the new millennium and the new school opened in Easter 2003.

New school

The school is a specialist sports college and is one of the most modern school buildings in the county, being the tester school for the new school design permeating throughout Derbyshire and the East Midlands with many modern features, built under a PFI scheme.–

The school building is rented from Babcock & Brown who own the building and is managed by Rentokil Initial. For results at A Level and GCSE 95% of students attain grades above the national average, and the exam results for the school as a whole are also above the England average.

Recently, the school has been twinned with a school in Nigeria to further aid relations between Tupton and its twin village in Nigeria. It recently gained the full International Schools Award.

About Tupton Hall School

In the village of Old Tupton in North East Derbyshire, Tupton Hall is situated about four miles from Chesterfield, the nearest large town, despite the school being relatively close to the town, Chesterfield itself is not in the school's catchment area, which focuses on the town of Clay Cross and the villages of Wingerworth, Tupton and Ashover. Tupton Hall is a comprehensive school, so does not selectively admit pupils.

Uniform

The school uniform is defined as

Sixth formers do not wear uniform. Students are not allowed to wear caps, clothing cannot display inappropriate words or images and must not be too revealing.

From September 2012, a new dress code for lower school will be introduced. This will involve the inclusion of clip-on ties with colours corresponding to the student's house and v-necked navy sweatshirts to the uniform.

Sixth form

Tupton Hall has one of the largest sixth forms in the North East Derbyshire area, with nearly 400 students.The Sixth Form offers courses in diverse subjects including Philosophy, Law and Drama alongside the more traditional subjects, such as Mathematics, English and Science.

As a grammar school

As a comprehensive

Former teachers