The John of Gaunt School
| The John of Gaunt School | |
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.jpg) The entrance to The John of Gaunt School | |
| Address | |
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Wingfield Road , , BA14 9EH | |
| Coordinates | 51°18′56″N 02°13′10″W / 51.31556°N 2.21944°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Academy |
| Department for Education URN | 138020 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Headteacher | Matthew Woodville |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Age | 11 to 18 |
| Enrolment | 1,262 |
| Houses | Newton, Franklin, Hawking, Greenfield |
| Colour(s) | Yellow, Red, Green, Blue |
| Website | johnofgauntschool |
The John of Gaunt School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Trowbridge in the English county of Wiltshire.[1] The school is named after John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, as the school is built upon land that he once owned.
History
Grammar schools
The school's predecessors were Trowbridge Girls' High School and Trowbridge Boys' High School, both single-sex grammar schools. These formed a co-educational grammar school, the Combined High Schools, on 14 April 1969.
Comprehensive
In 1974 the school became a coeducational comprehensive school and was renamed The John of Gaunt School. Previously a community school administered by Wiltshire Council, The John of Gaunt School converted to academy status on 1 April 2012. However, the school continues to coordinate with Wiltshire Council for admissions.
The John of Gaunt School offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, as well as some vocational courses offered in conjunction with Wiltshire College.[2] Students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A-levels and further BTECs.[3]
Notable former pupils
- Nick Blackwell, boxer
- Rob Chapman, musician and guitar company owner
- Keri Davies, radio producer and playwright
- Jordan Daykin, entrepreneur
- Tom Gale, Olympic high jumper
- Gemma Hunt, CBBC and CBeebies presenter
- Chris Stokes, footballer
Trowbridge Boys' High School
- John Atyeo (1932–1993), prolific goal-scorer for Bristol City who also scored for England[4]
- Prof Harry Coles, former Professor of Photonics of Molecular Materials at the University of Cambridge,[5] and Professor from 1991 to 2002 at the University of Southampton's Liquid Crystal Institute, recipient of a medal from the British Liquid Crystal Society
- Sir William Richard Joseph Cook FRS, mathematician, who largely led the British hydrogen bomb programme in the 1950s
- Kenneth Harris CBE, former chief interviewer for The Observer newspaper
- Tony Lane FRS, nuclear physicist[6]
- John Henry Pyle Pafford, librarian and editor
- James Rodway (1848–1926), botanist and historian of Guyana
- Alan Smith, Bishop of St Albans since 2009, and Member of the House of Lords
Trowbridge Girls' High School
- Janet Anderson (briefly), Labour MP from 1992 to 2010 for Rossendale and Darwen
- Maureen Duffy, author
- Prof Joan M. Hussey, Professor of History from 1950 to 1974 at the University of London
- Deborah Meaden, businesswoman and television personality on Dragons' Den
- Bel Mooney, journalist and broadcaster
- Marjorie Reeves CBE, historian
References
- ^ "The John of Gaunt School | A Community Academy". johnofgauntschool.org. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
- ^ "About Our Curriculum | The John of Gaunt School". johnofgauntschool.org. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
- ^ "Sixth Form | The John of Gaunt School". johnofgauntschool.org. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
- ^ "Atyeo was the hero next door". The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald. 2 December 2005. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Harry Coles
- ^ Tony Lane
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