Ripon Grammar School

Ripon Grammar School

Infobox UK school
name = Ripon Grammar School


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latitude = 54.139
longitude = -1.5395
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motto = "Giorne ymb lare y diowatdomas" (Old English: Eager to learn and seek after righteousness)
motto_pl =
established = 1555
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closed =
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type = Grammar
religion =
president =
head_label = Headmaster
head = Mr Martin Pearman
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r_head =
chair_label = Chairman of Governors
chair = Mr R Marsden
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specialist = Engineering
street = Clotherholme Road
city = Ripon
county = North Yorkshire
country = England flagicon|England
postcode = HG4 2DG
LEA = North Yorkshire
ofsted = 121694
staff =
enrollment = 813
gender = Mixed
lower_age = 11
upper_age = 18
houses =
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publication =
free_label_1 = Sixth form
free_1 = 200
free_label_2 = Email
Telephone
Fax
free_2 = admin@ripongrammar.co.uk
01765 602647
01765 606388
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free_3 =
website = http://www.ripongrammar.co.uk/
website_name = www.ripongrammar.co.uk

Ripon Grammar School is a co-educational, selective, state secondary grammar school and specialist engineering college located in Ripon, North Yorkshire, England.

The school motto is the Old English phrase "Giorne ymb lare y diowatdomas" ("Eager to learn and seek after righteousness"). [ [http://www.ripongrammar.co.uk/ Ripon Grammar School] ] [ [http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/reports/121/121694.pdf Ripon Grammar School] OFSTED report]

History

The school was originally founded in Saxon times, it was re-founded in 1555 during the reign of Queen Mary. The school became coeducational in the 1960s. Although most pupils are day-pupils from the surrounding area and Ripon itself, there are an attached boys' and a separate girls' boarding houses.

Ripon was the first school catchment area in England in which parents voted to keep a selective school in 2000. [cite news |last= |first= |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3906667.stm|title=Grammar schools reject changes
publisher=BBC|date=2004-07-14|accessdate=2007-01-13]

During 2005, Ripon Grammar celebrated the 450th anniversary of its re-founding in 1555. During this year, extensive fund-raising occurred, which is now being spent on many new projects to improve the school's facilities. One of the most ambitious being the building of a new classroom block, and another being the refurbishment of at least four science labs. In January 2006 the school was awarded specialist engineering status, which will help fund the improvement of facilities in the science and technology departments.

In May 2006 the school's librarian, Anne-Marie Tarter, was awarded the School Librarian of the Year Award by the School Library Association. [ [http://www.sla.org.uk/slya School Library Association] .]

In 2008 construction started on a new sports hall and 6th Form block.

Headmasters

*1890: Rev. William Yorke Fausset [Bertie, David M., "Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000", p. 254: "FAUSSET, William Yorke, M.A. b. 1859... Became headmaster of Ripon Grammar School, Yorks. in 1890"]

Current staff

enior staff

Mr Martin Pearman; Headmaster
Miss Marita Murray; Deputy Headmistress
Mr Noel McGrann; Deputy Headmaster
Mr K Auger


Mrs Christine Wise; Head of Sixth Form
Mr Nick Andrew; Deputy Head of Sixth Form

Mr Andrew Illingworth; Head of Upper School
Mrs Wright; Deputy Head of Upper School

Mr Terry Fell; Head of Lower School
Miss Donna Boultby; Deputy Head of Lower School

Old Riponians

Former pupils are known as Old Riponians. Notable old Riponians include:
* David George Kendall, statistician
* Beilby Porteus, Georgian Bishop of Chester and London
* Matthew Hutton (Archbishop of Canterbury)
* William Stubbs the Victorian Bishop of Oxford
* Bruce Oldfield, fashion designer
* David Curry, local Member of Parliament (head boy in 1962)
* Richard Hammond, television presenter
* Paul Hullah, writer
* Andrew Williams, a previous Mayor of Ripon [ [http://www.stowefamilylaw.co.uk/WhoWeAre/AndrewWilliams.aspx| Andrew williams] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.ripongrammar.co.uk Ripon Grammar School website]
* [http://www.oldriponians.org.uk Old Riponians' website]


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