Tupton Hall School

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name = Tupton Hall School


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Tupton Hall School is one of the largest secondary schools in the North East Derbyshire district with a large body of students and one of the largest sixth forms in the county.

History of 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 Tupton Hall. The original building was designed by G.H. Widdows, the county architect, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=edzSoQBSbwQC&pg=RA1-PA346&dq=Tupton+Hall+School&as_brr=3&ei=L6TWSJrJH4OQjgH4jennDg&sig=ACfU3U1Z_b4bdSfGlN1D7Aq59ybyYdRjXQ Derbyshire] , Nicholas Pevsner] and it was opened by Oliver Stanley.

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 ... in the country ... creating a village type atmosphere".

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

New school

The [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/298306 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. [cite web | url=http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/Images/Budget%20Book%202003-2004_tcm2-120921.pdf | title=Budget 2003–2004 | publisher=Derbyshire County Council | page=p.18 | accessdate=2008-07-13 ] –

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, although the exam results for the school as a whole are slightly under 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.

About Tupton Hall School

In the village of Old Tupton in North East Derbyshire, Tupton Hall is situated about four miles from the centre of 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 more on the villages to the south of Chesterfield, such as Wingerworth, Grassmoor, Clay Cross, North Wingfield and Ashover. Tupton Hall is a comprehensive school, so does not selectively admit pupils.

Uniform

The school uniform is defined as
* The School Sweatshirt (previously with logos in house colours (Gladwin Red, Cavendish Green, Hunloke Light Blue and Turbett, Purple), now all logos are gold)
* Black trousers
* Black shoes
* White collared shirt or Polo shirtSixth formers do not wear uniform and there is no dress code for them, although students are not allowed to wear caps and clothes must not be too revealing (For girls)

The school also runs projects such as Sports Leaders Award, as well as the Foreign Language Leaders Award ( [http://www.bst.org.uk/Home/Default.aspx FLLA] ), where the selected students complete a course in teaching a modern foreign language, either French, Spanish or German, to younger students in local schools.

Plays at Tupton Hall

There are regular plays going on at the school, and the school also has an orchestra each year involved in the plays.

ixth Form

Tupton Hall has one of the most populated sixth forms in the North East Derbyshire area, with over 250 students, the Sixth Form offers courses in many diverse subjects, such as Philosophy, alongside the more traditional subjects, such as Mathematics, English and Science.

Alumni

As a grammar school

* Dennis Skinner, local MP for Bolsover [cite book | url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=x4L4aQM4IVMC&pg=PA153&dq=%22tupton+hall%22&lr=&sig=ACfU3U3rJG6KZKV14UpYdtg5lojtqObAGg | title=Almanac of British Politics | page=p.153 | edition=7th edition | author=Robert Waller; Byron Criddle | year=2002 | publisher=Routledge | isbn=978-0-415-26834-9 | oclc=49238454 ]
* Sir Geoffrey Allen, chemist
* Emmanuel Cooper, potter [cite book | url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=oMNPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22tupton+hall%22&dq=%22tupton+hall%22&lr=&pgis=1 | title=Who's who in Art: Biographies of Leading Men and Women in the World of Art | page=p.116 | year=2000 | publisher=Art Trade Press | locationHavant, England | isbn=978-0-900083-18-1 | oclc=44865001]

As a comprehensive

* Mike McCarthy, Sky News & former Look North presenter/reporter.

References

External links

* [http://www.school-portal.co.uk/GroupHomepage.asp?GroupID=21477 Tupton Hall School website.]