Burnham Grammar School (BGS) is a
co-educationalMixed-sex education , is the integrated education of males and females in the same institution. The opposite situation is described as single-sex education...
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in
BurnhamBurnham lies north of the River Thames, and sits on the border with Berkshire, between the towns of Maidenhead and Slough. It is served by Burnham railway station in the west of Slough on the main line between London and Reading, Berkshire. The M4 motorway passes through the south of the parish.The...
,
BuckinghamshireBuckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury and the largest town in ceremonial Buckinghamshire is Milton Keynes....
. It is a community school, which takes children from the age of 11 through to the age of 18. The school has approximately 815 pupils.
The school achieved a very high pass rate in the academic year 2007-2008 which was at 99% children achieving A*-C grades. This was the schools record year for its GCSE results and put the school in its highest position in the GCSE national rankings for best results at 31st place.
The school has an all weather full sized tiger-turf sports pitch which the Wycombe Wanderers first team occasionally train on.
In September 2004 the
Department for Education and Skills (DfES)The Department for Education and Skills was a United Kingdom government department between 2001 and 2007. It was responsible for the education system and children's services in England. On 28 June 2007 the department was split in two by Gordon Brown's government...
awarded the school
specialist schoolThe specialist schools programme is a UK government initiative which encourages secondary schools in England to specialise in certain areas of the curriculum to boost achievement. The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust is responsible for the delivery of the programme...
status as a
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The school currently has three specialisms: Science; Mathematics and Languages (as of April 2009).
The school made national press when it banned football at breaktimes and lunchtimes after a teacher was hit in the face with a ball.
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Burnham Grammar School (BGS) is a
co-educationalMixed-sex education , is the integrated education of males and females in the same institution. The opposite situation is described as single-sex education...
grammar schoolA grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally schools teaching classical languages but more recently academically-oriented types of secondary school.The original purpose of...
in
BurnhamBurnham lies north of the River Thames, and sits on the border with Berkshire, between the towns of Maidenhead and Slough. It is served by Burnham railway station in the west of Slough on the main line between London and Reading, Berkshire. The M4 motorway passes through the south of the parish.The...
,
BuckinghamshireBuckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury and the largest town in ceremonial Buckinghamshire is Milton Keynes....
. It is a community school, which takes children from the age of 11 through to the age of 18. The school has approximately 815 pupils.
The school achieved a very high pass rate in the academic year 2007-2008 which was at 99% children achieving A*-C grades. This was the schools record year for its GCSE results and put the school in its highest position in the GCSE national rankings for best results at 31st place.
The school has an all weather full sized tiger-turf sports pitch which the Wycombe Wanderers first team occasionally train on.
In September 2004 the
Department for Education and Skills (DfES)The Department for Education and Skills was a United Kingdom government department between 2001 and 2007. It was responsible for the education system and children's services in England. On 28 June 2007 the department was split in two by Gordon Brown's government...
awarded the school
specialist schoolThe specialist schools programme is a UK government initiative which encourages secondary schools in England to specialise in certain areas of the curriculum to boost achievement. The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust is responsible for the delivery of the programme...
status as a
Science CollegeScience Colleges were introduced in 2002 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enables secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, science and mathematics. Schools that successfully apply to the Specialist Schools Trust and become Science...
.
The school currently has three specialisms: Science; Mathematics and Languages (as of April 2009).
The school made national press when it banned football at breaktimes and lunchtimes after a teacher was hit in the face with a ball. The two-week ban was criticised as being "nanny state nonsense", but the school maintains that the ban was intended to get pupils to play more responsibly in future.
Students are split into 4 houses:
- Angelou - After Maya Angelou
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- Redgrave - After Steve Redgrave
Sir Steven Geoffrey Redgrave CBE is an English rower who won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000...
- Tenzing - After Tenzing Norgay
Tenzing Norgay, GM born Namgyal Wangdi and often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepali Indian Sherpa mountaineer who later settled in India. Among the most famous mountain climbers in history, he was one of the first two individuals to reach the summit of Mount Everest, which he accomplished...
- Curie - After Marie Curie
The current headteacher is Dr Andrew Gillespie who took over from Cathrine Long in January 2008.
For the last 7 years, Burnham Grammar School has been the location of "Lighthouse Burnham"
http://www.lighthouseburnham.org.uk/. Lighthouse is a holiday week for children run by Christians from many local churches.
Notable alumni
- Mike Ashley
Michael James Wallace Ashley is an English millionaire retail entrepreneur, in the sporting goods market...
, entrepreneur
- Jimmy Carr
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, comedian
- David Connolly
David James Connolly is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a striker. He was released by Sunderland in the summer of 2009 and became a free agent before going on a trial with Queens Park Rangers...
, professional footballer
- Ulrika Jonsson
Eva Ulrika Jonsson is a Swedish born television presenter, who became famous as the presenter of 'Gladiators' and as part of the show 'Shooting Stars' which returned for a new series in August 2009 on BBC 2.-Early life:...
, television presenter
- Tracey Ullman
Tracey Ullman is an award-winning British stage and television actor, comedian, singer, dancer, screenwriter and author with American citizenship....
, actress and comedienne
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