Spalding High School, Lincolnshire
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| Spalding High School | |
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| Address | |
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Stonegate , , PE11 2PJ England | |
| Coordinates | 52°46′59″N 0°08′35″W / 52.7831°N 0.1431°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Community grammar school |
| Motto | Lampada Vitae Tradimus Hand on the Lamp of Life |
| Established | 1920 |
| Local authority | Lincolnshire |
| Department for Education URN | 120642 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Chair | P Gorton |
| Head teacher | M K Anderson |
| Gender | Girls |
| Age | 11 to 18 |
| Enrolment | 972 |
| Website | http://www.spaldinghigh.lincs.sch.uk |
Spalding High School (SHS) is a grammar school for girls and a mixed sixth form located in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England.
Location and admissions
[edit]Spalding High School, situated on Stonegate, Spalding, halfway between the Welland (and B1173) and the Coronation Channel to the east. The rear of the school, to the east, backs onto Exeter Drain and both of the Gleed schools (boys' and girls') playing fields. The school also accepts some girls from Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Norfolk.
SHS admits pupils aged 11–18, all of whom are required to pass an 11+ exam. There are approximately 1,000 staff and students at the school. The headmistress is Michele Anderson.
History
[edit]The school opened in 1920, originally at Ayscoughfee Hall School, then moved to its current site in the late 1950s. There are a number of watercolours of the original site in the school's collection, as well as all full school photos (taken once every five years) dating back to the school's early days. The library keeps an archive of photos, programmes and other memorabilia.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the school's playing field was frequently used for national and regional schools' hockey competitions. It achieved sports college status in 2003.[1]
Houses
[edit]In a typical year group at SHS there are five forms of approximately 30 pupils. Each form is a member of a house. There are five houses, each named after famous women of historic importance:
- Curie - after Marie Curie (physicist)
- Johnson - after Amy Johnson (aviator)
- Nightingale - after Florence Nightingale (medicine)
- Pankhurst - after Emmeline Pankhurst (women's rights)
- Sharman - after Helen Sharman (astronaut)
Notable former pupils
[edit]- Emma Rayner (née Hill), born 1964, who married BBC East Midlands Today presenter Quentin Rayner (a twin) in June 1992 at St Mary's Church, Pinchbeck, with her honeymoon in the Cayman Islands,[2] daughter of Lutton and Pinchbeck vicar, Rev David Hill, she gained a degree in the History of Art from UEA in 1985, then studied radio journalism at Lancashire Polytechnic;[3][4][5] worked as a reporter for Radio Lincolnshire in the late 1980s[6][7] then Radio Nottingham, where she met her husband, and worked on the new East Midlands Today in 1991 as a reporter,[8][9] 6 O-levels in 1980,[10] English, French and Art A-levels in 1982; her sisters Zoe (Visual Arts UEA in 1992) and Candida left the school in 1988 and 1990[11][12]
- Christine Russell (1956–63) - Labour MP 1997-2010 for City of Chester, who unseated Gyles Brandreth in 1997.[citation needed]
- Laela Pakpour-Tabrizi (1993-2000), trustee of British Library. [13]
Notable former teachers
[edit]- Jenny Randerson, Baroness Randerson (1972-4 history) - Life peer, former education spokesperson for LibDems in the Welsh Assembly.
See also
[edit]- Spalding Grammar School - a school for boys, but accepts girls into the sixth form.
References
[edit]- ^ Sports college
- ^ Lincolnshire Free Press Tuesday 9 June 1992, page 22
- ^ Spalding Guardian Friday 28 June 1985, page 29
- ^ Lincolnshire Free Press Tuesday 28 July 1987, page 16
- ^ Lincolnshire Free Press Tuesday 21 September 1982, page 9
- ^ Spalding Guardian Friday 8 January 1988, page 8
- ^ Spalding Guardian Friday 25 November 1988, page 25
- ^ Lincolnshire Free Press Thursday 27 December 1990, page 12
- ^ Lincolnshire Free Press Tuesday 24 December 1991, page 24
- ^ Lincolnshire Free Press Tuesday 26 August 1980, page 5
- ^ Lincolnshire Free Press Tuesday 24 August 1982, page 2
- ^ Spalding Guardian Friday 25 September 1992, page 15
- ^ "Laela Tabrizi". The British Library. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
