Queen Mary's Grammar School (QMGS) is a boy-selected grammar school with an academy status located on Sutton Road, Walsall, England, about a mile from the city center and one of the oldest schools in the country this. The sixth form is coeducational.
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Reception
Entrance to the school is with an entrance exam taken at the age of 10/11. Since September 2016, 150 students enter the school in September each year, gradually increasing from 96 in September 2012. The school has grown from 718 in 2011 to 1,011 in 2018, as a consequence of this ongoing expansion.
There is a separate recognition into the Sixth Form based on academic performance on the GCSE. By 2018, there are 361 students who are members of the Sixth Form. At this stage of the school, girls are also accepted.
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History
Foundation
The company was founded in 1554 by George and Nicolas Hawe, two prominent townspeople, with Queen Mary I as patron of his royal and philanthropist. There are currently about sixty pupils, all boys, and Classical teaching almost exclusively.
New site
It has grown significantly since it was founded and moved three times. Originally housed in an old town hall near St. Matthew Parish church, he moved to Park Street in 1811, to new buildings on Lichfield Street in 1850 (a site now used by Queen Mary's High School for Girls) and finally to a goal-building school on Mayfield's site in 1965.
Academic performance
Queen Mary's performed very well on exams across the board, with consistent success in sixth form. In recent years, the school has become a Language Language specialist. Additional funds from this have, among other things, facilitated the construction of new wings of school buildings. The school has recently finished working in a new sports hall to support the current gym and swimming facilities. The Scientific Block is also updated, with a new Biology lab under construction. The new sixth form block has been built and opened by the end of September 2012. The school is rated by Ofsted 'Extraordinary'.
Tradition
The school badge is based on the Heraldic Queen Mary badge and reflects its origin, formed from the rising half Tudor (the symbol of Henry VIII) impaled with a stack of arrows (the symbol of the Katharine of Aragon). The badge was slightly modified during the 2006/2007 school year. The full red rose is transformed into an accurate red and white Tudor rose, which is usually indicated by the red and white outer red roses. Yet the Tudor school ride, based on early school records, has white and red inner outer roses, which the College of Arms receives are equally valid. Despite the update, there are still some subtle differences between the current badge and the Queen Mary.
Activity
A number of extracurricular activities are available to students, including dramas and dramas, sports teams, quiz teams, many subjects related to the subject, and Gabet contingent of Cadet Force (Army and RAF). School has a close relationship with her sister school, Queen Mary High School. Students regularly collaborate to play the stage and two schools participate in German exchanges each year with schools in the town of Biedenkopf.
Many trips are made throughout the year, many of them international. Students, in recent years have the opportunity to travel to places such as France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy, New Zealand, China, Morocco, Iceland and Alabama, USA.
In sports, Under 18 and Under 16 school hockey teams both won the Staffordshire Cup for their respective age groups in the same season.
QMGS also hosted the national finals of the Junior School Challenge quiz on June 24, 2007, with teams from schools winning the Final Plates. In 2008, the school hosted and reached the national final, losing in the final. In 2012, they held a semi-final against Hereford Cathedral School, losing only by one question (610-600).
School is the only school in the country that has won Junior Junior High School Junior High School Competition twice, doing so in subsequent years. The competition draws more than 1000 schools every year.
The school has a plaque at St George's Church, Ypres, in honor of the former schoolboy who died at Ypres Salient and Somme, during the First World War. The plaque was paid by QM club, and officially inaugurated during the 9th Battle of the War. QMGS is the last school allowed to have a plaque.
Every year, Year 7 and senior prefects visit Westminster Abbey, London to commemorate their founders on the closest Friday 6th of July.
Horizon Project
Project Horizon is a school space program, established in 2012, which runs its annual mission. Founded by Mr. Adam Coghlan, has now been taken over by Mr. Mario Sepede. A small load carrying a camera and tracking hardware is lifted by a high-altitude balloon filled with helium gas into the stratosphere until the balloon erupts, allowing the charge to descend back to the ground. Movie footage and still images of the loaded journey are recorded throughout the flight, capturing the Earth's landscape from the stratosphere.
The project has received national media attention, including appearances on the BBC and ITV. Tim Peake, the ESA astronaut, has tweeted his support for the Project.
Former student
The late John Anderson, former Second Master, received MBE for service to CCF. Former history teacher and former Labor council member for Pelsall, the late Tom Perrett, was awarded the MBE in January 2007. Dave Pomeroy, a former mathematics teacher, received the OBE from the Queen. The late PE Master George ('Sam') Crudace was awarded the Royal Medal of England.
Former leading students include:
- David Brown, English cricketer
- Colin Charvis, Rugby Union player - British and Irish Lions and Wales Captain
- Dr. Vernon Coleman, author, author, medical doctor, and activist
- Anthony Culverwell, DJ World Triple Champion, and first DJ to appear on BBC Prom
- David Ennals, Baron Ennals, Labor MP from 1974-83 to Norwich North, and from 1964-70 to Dover
- Prof. Martin Ennals, Ariel F. Sallows Professor of Human Rights in 1991 at the University of Saskatchewan, Secretary General of 1968-80 Amnesty International, and younger brother of David
- Michael Fitzgerald, Roman Catholic archbishop, former Papal Nuncio to Egypt
- Martin Fowler, software developer and author
- Prof. F. J. C. Hearnshaw, Professor of Media History from 1912-34 at King's College London
- Mr. Gary Hickinbottom, High Court Judge Prof. Dr. Sir Harry Hinsley OBE, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University from 1981-3, Master of St John's College, Cambridge from 1979-1989, Professor of International Relations History from 1969-83, and worked at Bletchley Park
- Jeffrey Holland, actor (Jeffrey Parkes)
- David Howarth, Legal teacher, Clare College, Cambridge, Lib Dem MP from 2005-10 to Cambridge; Professor of Law and Public Policy, Cambridge University
- Rustie Lee, television personality, television chef, actress, singer and former politician
- Rupert Moon, Rugby Union international for Wales
- Sir Henry Newbolt, the imperialist poet ("Stand, stand and play game"); author of the Newbolt Report on teaching English in school (1921)
- Sir Harmar Nicholls, 1st Baronet, Conservative MP from 1950-74 from Peterborough
- David Nicholson, Conservative MP from 1987-1997 to Taunton
- Andrew Peach BBC Radio announcer, breakfast host Berkshire Radio show
- Terry Pitt, MEP Worker from 1984-6 to Midlands West, Head of the Labor Research Department from 1965-74
- Sir Edwin Thomas Smith, an Australian politician
- John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England, 1697-1700, committee member who drafted the Bill of Rights
- Bryan Stanley, union leader and member of the National Executive Committee of Workers
- Frank Windsor, (Frank W Higgins) actor - Z-Cars, Softly Softly, etc.
- John Twells, aka Xela, electronic music artist
Dennis Bayley Life Member. Association of Chemical Professions in Ontario 'Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Mining and Manufacturing
References
External links
- QMGS portal
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