Pudsey Grammar School

Pudsey Grangefield School
Address
Mount Pleasant Road Pudsey , West Yorkshire , LS28 7ND England
Information
Motto	"Be Just and Fear Not" and "Striving for excellence...Daring to be different"
Local authority	City of Leeds
Specialist	Maths & Computing
Head teacher	K Cornforth
Religious head	Mr Harris
Age	11 to 19
Website	http://www.pudseygrangefield.leeds.sch.uk/

Pudsey Grangefield School is a state secondary school in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was built in 1911 with construction starting in mid-1909. For around 60 Years it was called Pudsey Grammar School, since then it has been Pudsey Grangefield School. It was later given the status of a specialist college of Maths and Computing.

It serves around 1185 pupils from the surrounding area along with two other Pudsey schools, Crawshaw and Priesthorpe. The school also runs the Pudsey Consortium sixth form with these two schools.

The school has its own TV program, "Friday World", broadcast every Friday breaktime at 10:40 am. It has been shown every Friday since 1987. The school also has its own radio station, which began in 1986 as "Radio Grangefield". Since 1997 it has broadcast for a few weeks each year on FM under a Restricted Service Licence, issued by Ofcom, originally under the name "Pudsey Grangefield FM", later abbreviated to PGFM.

The school's lifelong logo is the official coat of arms of Pudsey, bearing the slogan "Be Just and Fear Not". The logo can be seen built into the front of the original Grammar School Building as well as on the school uniform. As of 2010, on the recommendation of Headteacher Ken Cornforth, the school logo is to be replaced with a new one bearing the motto: "Pudsey Grangefield school; we never close."

On 1 September 2008 the headteacher was given the keys to the new building and the teachers were allowed to prepare for the new school year, beginning on 3 September. The original, Grade II Listed Grammar School building at the front of the old site will be sold off as flats, with the rest of the old site being demolished in order to allow construction of a vast open recreational area for the new building.

The longest serving teacher is Les Barnes of the Media department and the original creator of Friday World and PG-FM. He had been with the school for over 30 years when he left at Christmas, 2008.

On 21 September 2009 the school was visited by the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott. The school was also visited in 2010 by Labour leadership candidate and former Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who described the new building as "a great monument to Labour government"

Headteacher Ken Cornforth was promoted from Deputy Headteacher in 1996/7 on the retirement of long-serving Headteacher Margaret Cooke.

Notable pupils

• Jerry Brotton, Chair of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London and presenter of the BBC series Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession
• Carolynne Good, finalist on Fame Academy
• Matthew Hoggard, England cricketer