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Established
  
1975

Chair of governors
  
Mr. Bill Mandeville

DfE URN
  
139961 Tables

Headteacher
  
Mr Steve Elliot

Number of students
  
1,482 (September 2009)

Type
  
Academy

DfE number
  
928/4014

Phone
  
+44 1933 222039

Founded
  
1975

Location
  
London Road Wellingborough Northamptonshire NN8 2DQ England

Address
  
London Rd, Wellingborough NN8 2DQ, UK

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Wrenn school year 13 leavers video 2016


'Wrenn Academy' is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England. It was established in 1975, and occupies the campus of the former Wellingborough Grammar School, founded in 1930, at which British television personality David Frost was a pupil.

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Wrenn Academy is a split-site school, with the two parts of its campus being a short walk apart. One part of the school is sited on the A5193 (former A509) in the south of the town, just west of the hospital (52.2963°N 0.6887°W / 52.2963; -0.6887 (Wrenn School, London Road site)). The other main site is situated on Doddington Road (52.2959°N 0.6948°W / 52.2959; -0.6948 (Wrenn School, Doddington Road site)), a few minutes from the London Road site. The Doddington Road site, which was formerly the boy's grammar school, houses years 9-11 along with the Art and Design Technology buildings, and in London Road the site of the former girl's grammar school is attended by years 7-8 and the school's sixth form. The school has a wide range of buildings ranging from 4 to 100 years old. The oldest buildings are those of the former grammar school, while the most modern addition being the music block, constructed in 2006.

A September 2009 OFSTED report rated the school with an overall Grade 3 (satisfactory), and a Grade 1 (Outstanding) for its sixth form).

Wrenn school leavers video 2011


Wrenn School

  • Ashleigh Butler, Entertainer and Britain's Got Talent 2012 winner along with Pudsey the Dog
  • Matthew May - Labour Party Candidate for South Northamptonshire 2010
  • Wellingborough Grammar School

  • Gerry Bermingham, Labour MP from 1983-2001 for St Helens South
  • Richard Bradshaw, Director from 1998-2007 of the Canadian Opera Company
  • Gordon Cook, tropical disease expert, medical historian, and President of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from 1993-5
  • Michael Cox (novelist)
  • Sir David Frost OBE
  • Sir Bruce Liddington
  • John Reid OBE, architect
  • Kenneth Spencer
  • Giovanni Di Stefano - infamous fraudster
  • Sir Terence Streeton KBE CMG, High Commissioner to Bangladesh from 1983-9
  • David Thacker, theatre director
  • Steve Tompkins, architect
  • Ernest Watkin, Professor of Mathematics from 1904-31 at the University of Southampton
  • Don White (footballer), rugby player and English national coach from 1969-71
  • Former teachers

  • Jeff Butterfield - England and Northampton rugby player
  • Bob Taylor - England rugby player
  • Robert Shaw (poet) - active in the fields of literature and jazz , was Second English Master 1960 - 1964.
  • References

    Wrenn School Wikipedia