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Grove School, Market Drayton
Grove School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Market Drayton, Shropshire, England, for pupils aged between 11 and 18.
Grove School is Market Drayton's only secondary school. The school has facilities including large sports and playing fields and a sixth form college that has recently been transformed into a Year 7 area to help the new enrollers to adapt to Secondary School life before heading to the main building in Year 8, while the sixth formers are in a different part of the site.
The school formed from Market Drayton Grammar School.
From 1968 to 1973 the headteacher was Arthur Behenna. He sacked the 42 year old head of drama, Raymond Gregory, from his £2,200 job, for not teaching the expected syllabus, as the drama teacher wanted a more 'modern' syllabus, with 'free expression'; 200 children subsequently went on a banner-waving protest throughout the town, to reinstate the drama teacher, but the teacher was not reinstated. The dispute lasted until May 1971. At the time, Shropshire County Council were more interested in how the school's results had plummeted over five years since becoming a comprehensive.
Mr Behenna grew up in Mevagissey, and attended St Austell County Grammar School, taking a Geography degree at Worcester College, Oxford, and had served in the RAF Air Sea Rescue Service (Royal Air Force Marine Branch) in the Second World War, then taught from 1959 at Melbourn Village College, where he became headteacher. He became headteacher of Lincoln School, a boys' grammar school, in 1973. He left Lincoln Christ's Hospital School in 1985.
In December 2018, the school converted to an academy as part of the Marches Academy Trust. Mitchell Allsopp was appointed as headteacher in January 2024.
Grove School, Market Drayton
Grove School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Market Drayton, Shropshire, England, for pupils aged between 11 and 18.
Grove School is Market Drayton's only secondary school. The school has facilities including large sports and playing fields and a sixth form college that has recently been transformed into a Year 7 area to help the new enrollers to adapt to Secondary School life before heading to the main building in Year 8, while the sixth formers are in a different part of the site.
The school formed from Market Drayton Grammar School.
From 1968 to 1973 the headteacher was Arthur Behenna. He sacked the 42 year old head of drama, Raymond Gregory, from his £2,200 job, for not teaching the expected syllabus, as the drama teacher wanted a more 'modern' syllabus, with 'free expression'; 200 children subsequently went on a banner-waving protest throughout the town, to reinstate the drama teacher, but the teacher was not reinstated. The dispute lasted until May 1971. At the time, Shropshire County Council were more interested in how the school's results had plummeted over five years since becoming a comprehensive.
Mr Behenna grew up in Mevagissey, and attended St Austell County Grammar School, taking a Geography degree at Worcester College, Oxford, and had served in the RAF Air Sea Rescue Service (Royal Air Force Marine Branch) in the Second World War, then taught from 1959 at Melbourn Village College, where he became headteacher. He became headteacher of Lincoln School, a boys' grammar school, in 1973. He left Lincoln Christ's Hospital School in 1985.
In December 2018, the school converted to an academy as part of the Marches Academy Trust. Mitchell Allsopp was appointed as headteacher in January 2024.