Cirencester Grammar School

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Cirencester Grammar School

Cirencester Grammar School (CGS) was a school in Cirencester

Cirencester

Cirencester is a market town in Gloucestershire, England, 93 miles west northwest of London. Cirencester lies on the River Churn, a tributary of the River Thames, and is the largest town in Cotswold ....
, Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire is a Counties of England in South West England England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....
, England

England

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The school was founded in 1461 and had a history of over 500 years, finally closing in July 1966 as part of a government reorganisation in education. In September 1966 it became part of Cirencester School (combining with the Deer Park Secondary Modern School) and took no new First Form, who went directly to Deer Park School.

Eventually the old Cirencester Grammar School forms all moved to the Deer Park.

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Cirencester Grammar School (CGS) was a school in Cirencester

Cirencester

Gloucestershire

England

Grammar school

A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries....
site still exists and is now a Junior School, remaining much as it was in 1966.

One of its famous pupils was Edward Jenner

Edward Jenner

Edward Jenner, Fellow of the Royal Society, was an English scientist who studied his natural surroundings in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England....
who invented inoculation

Inoculation

Inoculation is the placement of something to where it will grow or reproduce, and is most commonly used in respect of the introduction of a serum, vaccine, or antigenic substance into the body of a human or animal, especially to produce or boost immunity to a specific disease; but also can be used to refer to the communication of a disease to...
to control infectious disease

Infectious disease

An infectious disease is a clinically evident disease resulting from the presence of pathogenic microbial agents, including pathogenic viruses, pathogenic bacteria, Mycosis, protozoa, multicellular parasites, and aberrant proteins known as prions....
s. Another famous pupil was the cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games team sport that originated in southern England. The earliest definite reference is dated 1598, and it is now played in more than 100 countries....
er, Wally Hammond

Wally Hammond

Walter Reginald "Wally" Hammond was an England cricketer, who played for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club and England cricket team, primarily as a batsman, in a career that straddled the Second World War....
, whose centenary was celebrated at a reunion in Cirencester in 2003.

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

Peter Maxwell Davies

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Order of the British Empire , is an English composer and Conductor and is currently Master of the Queen's Music....
was music master at the school from 1959 to 1962, and it was here that he started his life-long association with writing works for non-specialist children to perform. He wrote many works for the school's orchestra and choir, including O Magnum Mysterium

O Magnum Mysterium

O Magnum Mysterium is a Gregorian chant#Melodic types from the Matins of Christmas. A number of composers have reworked the chant into a contemporaneous setting; the settings by William Byrd, Tom?s Luis de Victoria, Giovanni Gabrieli, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Francois Poulenc, John Harbison, Sinigaglio, and Morten Lauridsen are...
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