- Northgate High School (Ipswich)
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For schools of the same name, see Northgate High School (disambiguation).
Northgate High School Type Comprehensive Headteacher David Hutton Specialisms Languages, Science Location Sidegate Lane West
Ipswich
Suffolk
IP4 3DL
EnglandLocal authority Suffolk DfE URN 124840 Ofsted Reports Students 1704 Gender Coeducational Ages 11–18 Website northgate.suffolk.sch.uk Coordinates: 52°04′19″N 1°10′51″E / 52.07191°N 1.18075°E
Northgate High School is a high school situated in Ipswich, Suffolk. It is a co-educational comprehensive school, for ages 11–16, and 16-18 in the Sixth Form Department. It has approximately 1600 children on roll.[1]
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Currently[update], the Headteacher is David Hutton, who was appointed in October 2009, taking over from former long-serving Headteacher Neil Watts, who retired at the end of the 2008/9 academic year. Mr Hutton had served previously as Deputy Head at the school.
The school has dual Language College and Science College specialist status, and has specially equipped centres for both subjects following the school's extensive re-development programme throughout the 90s. The school also makes use of the Council-run Northgate Sports Centre, which has an Olympic standard running track.[2].
History
It was previously two schools: Northgate Grammar School for Boys and Northgate Grammar School for Girls. Previous to that it was Ipswich Municipal Secondary School.
Language College
Awarded Language College status in 1999, this was the first Language College designated in Suffolk. This development has led to outreach work taking place in both the school's main feeder schools and across other schools in the county. [3].
Academic performance
In its most recent Ofsted inspection in February 2008, the school was graded as "Outstanding" overall, with a number of individual outstanding grades[4]. GCSE results are consistently above the national and regional averages, and at A-Level it gets results similar to a grammar school: the fifth best in Suffolk in 2008.
Notable alumni
- Stuart Boardley, footballer
- David Gauke, Conservative Member of Parliament
- Nik Kershaw, singer-songwriter, popular in the 1980s
- Liam Trotter, footballer
- Luke Hyam, footballer
Northgate Grammar School (both parts)
- Rear-Adm Paul Bass CB,
- Michael Blackburn, Chief Executive of the Halifax Building Society from 1993-8, Chief Executive of the Leeds Permanent Building Society from 1987-93, and President of the Chartered Institute of Bankers from 1998-9
- Helen Boaden (briefly), Director of BBC News
- David Brighty CMG CVO, Ambassador to Cuba from 1989-91, Czech and Slovak Republic from 1991-4, and to Spain (and Andorra) from 1994-8
- Bernard Buckham, Daily Mirror journalist
- Terry Burrows, author
- Sir Cyril English, Director-General of the City and Guilds of London Institute from 1968-76
- Dr Edward Glazier CB, Director of the Royal Radar Establishment from 1967-2
- Prof Malcolm Guthrie, Professor of Bantu Languages at the University of London from 1951-70
- Garry Hart, Baron Hart of Chilton, Chancellor of the University of Greenwich since 2008
- Birkin Haward, architect who designed West Ham station with his wife, Joanna van Heyningen
- Sir Edmund Hirst CBE, Forbes Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh from 1947-68, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1959-64 and President of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 1956-8. He was the first person to synthesise Vitamin C in 1933.
- Jane Lapotaire, actress
- Geoffrey Lucas, General Secretary of The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference since 2000
- Vice Adm Alan Massey CBE, Second Sea Lord since 2008, and Commander of HMS Illustrious from 2001-2, and HMS Ark Royal from 2002-3
- Sir Trevor Nunn CBE, legendary film and theatre director and married to the actress Imogen Stubbs
- Dame Winifred E. Prentice, President of the Royal College of Nursing from 1972-6
- Peter Sharman CBE, Chief General Manager from 1975-84 for the Norwich Union Insurance Group
- Donald Woods, Iveagh Professor of Chemical Microbiology at the University of Oxford from 1955-64
References
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/education/06/school_tables/secondary_schools/html/935_4090.stm
- ^ [1] Retrieved 2009-07-24.
- ^ Ofsted survey inspection programme – modern languages: letter to headteacher 2009-05-19. Retrieved 2009-07-21
- ^ Ofsted Inspection Report 2009-03-04. Retrieved 2009-07-21.
External links
News items
Categories:- Comprehensive schools in Suffolk
- Language Colleges in England
- Science Colleges in Suffolk
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