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Queen Elizabeth's High School
Queen Elizabeth's High School is a co-educational grammar school in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England. The school, established in 1983, but with a timeline to 1589, is an amalgamation of the previous Gainsborough High School and Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School.
Although the details are unclear, Gainsborough appears[to whom?] to have had a small grammar school from the 15th century provided by the local clergy. Claims have been made that several of the Pilgrim Fathers received their early education in the school and among its alumni was John Robinson and John Smyth; there is no known historical evidence to support this claim, which was based on the mistaken assumption that there were no other grammar schools in the area. Lessons were first held in a room above the porch of the original All Saints church.[citation needed]
In 1589 Queen Elizabeth I granted a charter to Sir Robert Somerscale to establish Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for boys, with the express purpose of providing an education in the classics and divinity for the sons of the emerging middle class in the town. In 1828, the Chartist poet Thomas Cooper sought to set up a rival grammar school, but failed, and saw his school absorbed by Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School.[citation needed]
From 1795 until 1940 Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School was located on Cox's Hill, at what is now the Hickman Hill Hotel. An equivalent grammar school for girls, Gainsborough High School, was founded in 1920. In 1940 both schools moved to the present Morton Terrace site, on which the local technical college was also based. Under the Tripartite System they became fully state grammar schools, having been fee-paying before then. The schools merged to form Queen Elizabeth's High School in 1982. Before amalgamation Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School had 4 houses: Cox (red), Elliott (white), Hickman (Blue) and Marshall (green).
On 7 December 2012, the school was host to the BBC Radio 4 show Any Questions?, which was held in the Upper School Hall.
In 2013, following a lack of funding which affected most Grammar Schools, a £2 million grant from the Local Authority and a £500,000 grant from central government was given in order to expand and renovate the school. This enabled the construction of a new sports hall, a two-storey teaching block and the refurbishment of College House.
On 7 March 2014 the Sixth Form Centre was relocated to the 1872-built College House building, as the previous centre had become crowded
By 1986 10% of admissions came from Nottinghamshire; the wrong side of the River Trent. By 1988, seven in the first form were from Scunthorpe, described as a 'brain drain'. Scunthorpe's comprehensive schools were not popular. Scunthorpe parents also chose the secondary school in Epworth, Lincolnshire.
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Queen Elizabeth's High School
Queen Elizabeth's High School is a co-educational grammar school in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England. The school, established in 1983, but with a timeline to 1589, is an amalgamation of the previous Gainsborough High School and Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School.
Although the details are unclear, Gainsborough appears[to whom?] to have had a small grammar school from the 15th century provided by the local clergy. Claims have been made that several of the Pilgrim Fathers received their early education in the school and among its alumni was John Robinson and John Smyth; there is no known historical evidence to support this claim, which was based on the mistaken assumption that there were no other grammar schools in the area. Lessons were first held in a room above the porch of the original All Saints church.[citation needed]
In 1589 Queen Elizabeth I granted a charter to Sir Robert Somerscale to establish Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for boys, with the express purpose of providing an education in the classics and divinity for the sons of the emerging middle class in the town. In 1828, the Chartist poet Thomas Cooper sought to set up a rival grammar school, but failed, and saw his school absorbed by Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School.[citation needed]
From 1795 until 1940 Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School was located on Cox's Hill, at what is now the Hickman Hill Hotel. An equivalent grammar school for girls, Gainsborough High School, was founded in 1920. In 1940 both schools moved to the present Morton Terrace site, on which the local technical college was also based. Under the Tripartite System they became fully state grammar schools, having been fee-paying before then. The schools merged to form Queen Elizabeth's High School in 1982. Before amalgamation Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School had 4 houses: Cox (red), Elliott (white), Hickman (Blue) and Marshall (green).
On 7 December 2012, the school was host to the BBC Radio 4 show Any Questions?, which was held in the Upper School Hall.
In 2013, following a lack of funding which affected most Grammar Schools, a £2 million grant from the Local Authority and a £500,000 grant from central government was given in order to expand and renovate the school. This enabled the construction of a new sports hall, a two-storey teaching block and the refurbishment of College House.
On 7 March 2014 the Sixth Form Centre was relocated to the 1872-built College House building, as the previous centre had become crowded
By 1986 10% of admissions came from Nottinghamshire; the wrong side of the River Trent. By 1988, seven in the first form were from Scunthorpe, described as a 'brain drain'. Scunthorpe's comprehensive schools were not popular. Scunthorpe parents also chose the secondary school in Epworth, Lincolnshire.