Sir William Ramsay School
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Sir William Ramsay School is a co-educational secondary school in Hazlemere
, Buckinghamshire
. It is takes children from the age of 11 through to the age of 18 with a total of approximately 1,000 pupils attending. The school shares a common catchment area with the nearby Holmer Green Senior School
. The head teacher is Gaynor Comber.
winning scientist Sir William Ramsay, who lived in Hazlemere until his death in 1916.
It was awarded specialist school
status as a Visual Arts College
by the Department for Education and Skills in September 2000.
In 2007, the school opened a multi-million pound performing arts centre. The first performance given by students was of the musical Grease
.
In August 2011 the school became an Academy.
On the morning of 27 January 2007, two men entered the school, and were regarded as suspicious. Students were held in classrooms and the school was placed on lockdown while a police helicopter and canine team searched the surrounding area. Two men were later arrested.
Hazlemere
Hazlemere is a suburb of High Wycombe and a civil parish within Wycombe district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is to the north east of the town along the A404 in the direction of Amersham....
, Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....
. It is takes children from the age of 11 through to the age of 18 with a total of approximately 1,000 pupils attending. The school shares a common catchment area with the nearby Holmer Green Senior School
Holmer Green Senior School
Holmer Green Senior School is a mixed secondary modern or 'upper school' in Holmer Green, Buckinghamshire. It is a community school, which takes children from the age of 11 through to the age of 18. The school has approximately 860 pupils...
. The head teacher is Gaynor Comber.
History
The school was founded in 1976, and named after Nobel PrizeNobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
winning scientist Sir William Ramsay, who lived in Hazlemere until his death in 1916.
It was awarded specialist school
Specialist school
The specialist schools programme was a UK government initiative which encouraged secondary schools in England to specialise in certain areas of the curriculum to boost achievement. The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust was responsible for the delivery of the programme...
status as a Visual Arts College
Arts College
Arts Colleges were introduced in 1997 as part of the now defunct Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enabled secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, the performing, visual and/or media arts...
by the Department for Education and Skills in September 2000.
In 2007, the school opened a multi-million pound performing arts centre. The first performance given by students was of the musical Grease
Grease (musical)
Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical is named for the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School , follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of love,...
.
In August 2011 the school became an Academy.
Controversies
On 9 January 2004, a fifteen year old student stabbed a fellow pupil after she intervened when he threatened his ex-girlfriend with a seven inch steak knife.On the morning of 27 January 2007, two men entered the school, and were regarded as suspicious. Students were held in classrooms and the school was placed on lockdown while a police helicopter and canine team searched the surrounding area. Two men were later arrested.
Famous students
- Tony Coburn, actor who plays a young Lucius Malfoy in scenes cut from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood PrinceHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a 2009 fantasy film directed by David Yates and based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. It is the sixth instalment in the Harry Potter film series, written by Steve Kloves and produced by David Heyman and David Barron...
. - Adam Paul HarveyAdam Paul Harvey-Early life:Harvey was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, the son of Andrea and Gordon Harvey, an engineer. He attended Sir William Ramsay School in Hazlemere, High Wycombe and in 1998 enrolled at JPA School of Drama and Dance, after which he began auditioning.-Career:His first professional...
, actor who played Tom Brake in Night and DayNight and Day (TV series)Night and Day was a British soap opera which was produced by Granada Television for LWT and ran on ITV from 2001 to 2003.Its theme-song, "Always & Forever", was sung by Kylie Minogue.-Synopsis:...
, Ralph Henshaw in BedtimeBedtime (TV series)Bedtime was a British comedy-drama written and directed by Andy Hamilton and broadcast by the BBC. It ran for three series for a total of fifteen episodes between August 2001 and December 2003. The first two series had six episodes each and the third series had three episodes...
and Nathan Boothe in Where the Heart IsWhere the Heart Is (1997 TV series)Where the Heart Is is a British television drama series set in the fictional town Skelthwaite.First shown in 1997, it was created by Ashley Pharoah and Vicky Featherstone...
.