Wymondham College is a co-educational secondary school with an academic status at Wymondham, Norfolk, England. Former grammar school, it is one of 36 state boarding schools in the UK and the largest of its kind in the country, with up to 700 places up. Although children do not pay for their education in the same way as in independent schools, they are still required to pay the cost of living at school (£ 10,000) while the students attend free school days. It has specialized in technology (math, science, ICT & Design Technology) and in modern language. It is one of the highest performing public schools in England and Wales. By 2015 it is the best-performing public school in East Anglia. By 2016, DfE recognizes that the College is in the top 100 national schools on each of the three key measures, achievements, EBACC graduation rates and an increase in Value added. The college was awarded the status of a world class school in November 2015.
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History
Former Military Hospital
The school was built at the site of the Second World Station War Hospital, USAAF 231, and when the school first opened in 1951, 40 Nissen hospital lodges were used as classrooms and dormitories. It was founded by Lincoln Ralphs, chief of education officers of the Norfolk County Council. Brick-built accommodation began to appear in the late 1950s, but Nissen's huts remained in use, mainly for classrooms and storage, until the late 1990s. The only Nissen cottage left now is the University chapel. The memorial park has been created on the site of the former USAAF mortuary, which for many years used as a technical drawing school class.
Grammar schools
In 1951 there were two separate schools, Grammar and Technical, each with a separate head. They joined in the mid-1950s after an uncomfortable co-existence. The school is a boarding school grammar school. It is intended for academically gifted children in remote rural areas without grammar schools in their area that they can attend, as well as those with overseas parents or who regularly move around the country. It gives priority, if possible, to children from families where parents have separated, so it may be in financial trouble. Admission is done by examination and report of principal.
In January 1958, an 881 Anglo Saxon (Edward the Elder) coin was found in the school when the sewer was dug.
In the mid-1970s, the school had 700 boarding students and 750 days (from former grammar schools). In 1978 this was 1,000 student days as well as 700 people boarding. Margaret Thatcher visited the school in the early 1970s.
The school remained exclusively 'up' until the early 1970s, when the school was combined with the Grammar School, which had been held in Wymondham on a temporary basis for nearly ten years.
Schools in the 1970s have been in disrepair with outdated water supply and drainage systems, and have unreliable heating systems (built by USAF in 1944) in winter and lack of insulation. Although this problem still produces exceptional academic results. It was offered Ã, Â £ 250,000 in 1978 by the Labor government to address the situation, provided that the school became a comprehensive school. The money never came, partly because soon after Labor lost the 1979 election.
Comprehensive
Grammar school status is missing with the emergence of comprehensive education. In the early 1990s became a nursery school.
This facility is used for an external summer school. In August 1998, seven children from London on a course run by a special needs charity were taken to Norfolk and Norwich Hospitals after being stung by a swarm of non-native Median wasps. On March 9, 1990, the Duke of Edinburgh visited the school.
Academy
In 2010 the school became a academy as part of the 2010 Academy Act. In 2016 the school set up a new multi-academy trust school, Sapientia Education Trust. The Trust grew in size to 11 schools in December 2017.
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Premises
Block accommodation (in the order of construction) is:
- Peel Hall: after Alderman Sam Peel - former chairman of the Norfolk Education Committee.
- Lincoln Hall: after Abraham Lincoln, to honor the soldiers who were hospitalized there before going to school. Opened by US Secretary of State, Acheson.
- Fry Hall: after Elizabeth Fry.
- Kett Hall: after Robert Kett.
- Cavell Hall: after Edith Cavell.
- New Hall: The last modern house to be built.
- Lincoln Ralphs Sixth Form Center; After Sir Lincoln Ralphs, former Chief of the Education Office for Norfolk and founder of the College.
Grouping Houses into Halls varies from time to time.
Recent major developments include AstroTurf football field with spotlights, nine new classrooms, two new science labs (connecting old part of science block with newer section) and filling into the roof of the Peel dormitory for additional dormitories. New dining room extension including admin block and new staff room. Peel Hall has increased capacity with staff and admin departures to new buildings.
Another major development recently was the new International Center built to replace the old Language Block which was the morgue in World War II. The old Language Block will then become the new administrative center. The International Center houses the Bloc of Modern Foreign Languages ​​and the British Office of the European Parliament Model. It was completed in June 2011.
House system
The House System was first established in 1953, with the names of North, South, East and West homes. As the college expanded and the brick-built accommodation began to be used in the early 1960s, the system was revised and Houses were named after the cathedral cities and towns:
- Men: York, Gloucester, Canterbury, Norwich, Durham, Salisbury
- Girls: Wells, Westminster, Worcester, Winchester (with Wakefield and Washington added later)
When Mixed Houses were introduced in the early 1970s, the names of the House cathedrals were canceled and the Houses adopted the names of Halls himself. Lincoln and Peel Halls were converted into a Sixth Format apartment in 1978, Peel Hall which was later converted into boarding house for the Sevens Year in 1995.
The home system is as follows:
- Year Seven: Peeled
- Year 8 to Eleven: Fry, Cavell, Kett or New
- Twelve to Thirts: Lincoln
In the academic year 2010-2011, Peel began maintaining a few 7-year-old students to become the 'main school house'. Under the new system, the houses appear so:
- Years Seven through Eleven: Cavell, Kett, Fry, New or Peel
- The Year of the Twelve to the Thirteen: Lincoln
Old Leading Wymondhamian
- Stephen Byers, Labor MP for North Tyneside from 1992 to 2010, former Chief Financial Secretary, State Minister of Commerce and Industry, and Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and Territories in the Cabinet
- Colin Self, artist (1952-1959)
- Trudy Stevenson, Ambassador of Zimbabwe to Senegal (1955-1962)
- Peter Rogers CBE, Chief Executive since 2003 from Babcock International Group plc (1959-1966)
- Patsy Calton Lib Dem for MP for Cheadle from 2001-2005 (1960-1967)
- Mark Brayne, BBC foreign correspondent and psychotherapist
- Nicholas Crane, explorer and writer (1965-1972)
- Norman Lamb, Member of the Liberal Democratic Parliament from 2001 to North Norfolk, State Minister for Care and Support (1969-76)
- Justin Edrich, cricketer (1972-1977)
- Mike Gascoyne, Technical Director of Lotus F1 Racing (1974-1981)
- Flag Strong, actors in Our Friends in the North , and narrators Who You Think You (2006-2012)
- Adam Rayner, actor at Mistresses (1998)
- Will Evans, rugby union player for Leicester Tigers (2016-present) Wymondham Grammar School
- Sir Frederick William Wilson, Member of the Liberal Parliament from 1895-1906 to Mid Norfolk (1855-62)
- Trustee March 7, 1978, page 13
- Trustee July 27, 1982, page 11
- Official site
- The Old Wymondhamian Association
- My Wymondham College Remembered
- EduBase
- Wymondham College apologizes for a breach of student data by January 2014
- Paralympian received the Wymondham College award in October 2012
- The head made a case for the pesantren in May 2009
- The teacher claimed discrimination in April 2005
- The principal was critical of an 'easier' A-level in August 2008
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