Mary Hare Grammar School

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name = Mary Hare Grammar School


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established = 1916
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type = community special school
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head_label = Chief Executive
head = Dr Ivan Tucker
r_head_label = Principal
r_head = Mr. Shaw
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founder = Mary Adelaide Hare
(3/11/1865 - 5/11/1945)
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specialist = Sensory and physical (SEN)
street = Arlington Manor
Snelsmore Common
city = Newbury
county = Berkshire
country = England
postcode = RG14 3BQ
LEA = West Berkshire
ofsted = 110180
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enrollment = 237
gender = Co-educational
lower_age = 4
upper_age = 19
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website = http://www.maryhare.org.uk/
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Mary Hare Grammar School is a residential co-educational community special school for deaf pupils in Newbury, Berkshire, England. It consists of around 230 pupils from year 7 (age 11) to year 13 (age 19). It was established in 1916 as "Dene Hollow School for the Deaf" in Burgess Hill. It was renamed after Mary Adelaide Hare, the school founder on 1 January 1946, after her death on 5th November 1945.

The school bought Arlington Manor and surrounding estates in 1947, and moved from its old site in Burgess Hill to the refurbished premises in 1949. Several building projects have since followed, expanding the school to its current size, including a classroom block, school hall, boarding house for boys, staff flats (now boarding house for year 7 pupils), swimming pool, science block, sixth form campus, arts and design centre, and the latest building Arlington Arts Centre which includes a theatre seating 250, music therapy centre, and recording studio. [ [http://www.maryharehistory.org.uk/timeline.html Mary Hare History - Timeline ] ]

The school teaches a variety of subjects at GCSE and A level, and guarantees a good solid education for deaf children, many of whom go onto university and other further education. The communication policy is oral, that is, sign language is not used in class.

The school itself is now a small part of a company by the name of "Mary Hare Limited", consisting of "Mary Hare Secondary" and "Mary Hare Sixth Form". Other divisions are "Mary Hare Primary" (formerly Mill Hall School, Cuckfield, West Sussex), "Arlington Labs" (earmould manufacturers), "Mary Hare Training Services" (post graduate courses in deaf education, audiology, and hearing aid dispensing), "Mary Hare Foundation" (fund raising), "Arlington Arts Centre" (theatre, music, conferences), and "Mary Hare Hearing Centres" (hearing aid shops).

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* [http://www.maryharehistory.org.uk/ http://www.maryharehistory.org.uk/]