Sir John Leman High School
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| Motto | Achievement For All & Also: Disce aut Discede (Roughly Learn or Go) |
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| Established | 1631 |
| Type | Academy |
| Headteacher | Mr J. Rowe |
| Deputy Headteachers | Mr M. Taylor & Mr M.Wilson |
| Specialism | Technology College |
| Location | Ringsfield Road Beccles Suffolk NR34 9PG England |
| Local authority | Suffolk |
| DfE URN | 137055 |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 1300 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 13–18 |
| Houses | Heracles (Hercules), Zeus, Athena and Poseidon |
| Colours | Blue & Black |
| Publication | The Dolphin |
| Website | Sir John Leman High School |
Coordinates: 52°27′02″N 1°33′30″E / 52.450423°N 1.558253°E
Sir John Leman High School is a coeducational 13-18 secondary school with academy status serving part of the Waveney region in north Suffolk, England. The school is located on the western edge of the town of Beccles and serves the surrounding area, including Worlingham. Students from Norfolk villages such as Gillingham also sometimes attend the school. The school has approximately 1300 students, including a sixth form of around 260 students and is a Technology College.[1]
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[edit] History
Sir John Leman High School was established in 1631, and it has been on its present site for around 90 years. The old school has been converted into the Beccles museum. The school was established when Sir John Leman left money after his death to educate 44 pupils from Beccles, two from Ringsfield and two from Gillingham. In 1914 it became the County mixed grammar school on its present site in Ringsfield Road. In 1971 the school became a comprehensive high school and grew in size. In recent years building work has gone on to expand the school.
[edit] Ofsted Reports
In the Ofsted inspection report dated February 2006 it was rated as a 'good' school with a 'good' sixth form. Its most recent Ofsted inspection was in February 2009, where it was rated once again as a generally 'good' school, although with some features which were judged 'satisfactory' and there was also a lack of ethnic groups in the school. The sixth form provision was judged as achieved an overall effectiveness of 'satisfactory', although post-16 curriculum provision was judged 'good'.
The school's most recent inspection report again graded it as 'good' overall in October 2011.[1]
[edit] Future
Sir John Leman currently takes only Year 9, 10, 11 and their sixth form, though due to the closure of middle schools it is expected to take Years 7 and 8 students in September 2012.
[edit] Notable Alumni
Sir Stanley Rous, the 6th President of FIFA and secretary of the Football Association attended Sir John Leman school in the period before World War I.[2][3] Dorothy Hodgkin, who won the Nobel prize in Chemistry entered the school in 1921 before studying chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford.[4] Eminent gasteroenterologist Sir Francis Avery Jones attended the school at the same time.[5] Chris Martin (footballer born 1988), striker for Norwich City also attended the school.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Sir John leman High School, Ofsted, 2011-11-07. Retrieved 2011-12-17.
- ^ Pawson.A (2004) ‘Rous, Sir Stanley Ford (1895–1986)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press (online). Retrieved 2011-04-20.
- ^ ‘ROUS, Sir Stanley (Ford)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 (online). Retrieved 2011-04-20.
- ^ Dodson.G (2002) 'Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, O.M. 12 May 1910--29 July 1994', Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society vol 48, pp179–219. Retrieved 2011-04-20.
- ^ Doll.R (1998) Obituary: Sir Francis Avery Jones, The Independent, 1998-05-13. Retrieved 2011-04-20.
