The Norton Knatchbull School is a
secondary schoolSecondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of compulsory schooling, known as secondary education, takes place. It follows on from elementary or primary education....
for boys located in
AshfordAshford is a town in the borough of Ashford in Kent, England. In 2005 it was voted the fourth best place to live in the United Kingdom. It lies on the River Great Stour, M20 motorway, South Eastern Main Line and High Speed 1 railways. Its agricultural market is one of the most important in the...
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KentKent , originally Cantia, is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the River Thames estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent...
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. Girls are accepted into the Sixth Form. As of 2008, the school serves more than one thousand students aged 11 to 18.
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The Norton Knatchbull School is a
secondary schoolSecondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of compulsory schooling, known as secondary education, takes place. It follows on from elementary or primary education....
for boys located in
AshfordAshford is a town in the borough of Ashford in Kent, England. In 2005 it was voted the fourth best place to live in the United Kingdom. It lies on the River Great Stour, M20 motorway, South Eastern Main Line and High Speed 1 railways. Its agricultural market is one of the most important in the...
,
KentKent , originally Cantia, is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the River Thames estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent...
,
EnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. Girls are accepted into the Sixth Form. As of 2008, the school serves more than one thousand students aged 11 to 18.
History
The Norton Knatchbull Grammar School for Boys was founded in the early seventeenth century (probably around 1630) by Sir Norton Knatchbull. The school was later known as Ashford Grammar School. The school hit the press in 2006 when drugs were found on the staircase and the police searched the school.
Notable alumni
- Daniel Pearce
Daniel Pearce from Ashford, Kent is a British singer who was a finalist on the reality TV show Popstars: The Rivals. He won a place in the boy band formed from the five male finalists of the contest including Pearce and named One True Voice. In 2002 and 2003, the band had two top ten singles,...
, former bandmate of One true Voice.
- Ronald Back CBE, former Corporate Director of British Telecom
BT Group plc is the privatised former state telecommunications operator in the United Kingdom. It is the dominant fixed line telecommunications and broadband Internet provider in the UK, and also operates in more than 170 countries around the world...
- Michael Birchenough, Chief Inspector of ILEA
The Inner London Education Authority was the education authority for the 12 inner London boroughs from 1965 until its abolition in 1990....
from 1973-83
- Sir Ronald Cooke
Professor Sir Ronald Urwick Cooke, FRGS is a Professor of geography and geomorphology who was Vice-Chancellor of the University of York from 1993 to 2002...
, Vice-Chancellor of the University of YorkThe University of York , is an academic institution located in the city of York, England. Established in 1963, the campus university has expanded to more than thirty departments and centres, covering a wide range of subjects...
from 1993-2002, and President of the Royal Geographical SocietyThe Royal Geographical Society is a British learned society founded in 1830 with the name Geographical Society of London for the advancement of geographical sciences, under the patronage of King William IV...
from 2000-3
- David Crawford CMG, Ambassador to Bahrain (briefly) in 1981, and Ambassador to Qatar from 1974-8
- Roger Dean, artist
- Prof John Elliott, Professor of Education at the University of East Anglia
The University of East Anglia is a public research university in Norwich, England. It was established in 1963, and is a founder-member of the 1994 Group of research-intensive universities. The University was ranked 20th in the The Times Good University Guide 2008, and joint first for student...
from 1987-2002
- Bob Holness
Robert Wentworth John Holness is an English actor and presenter.Shortly after his birth in South Africa, he moved to Ashford, Kent, in the UK with his parents...
, actor
- Robert Kirby-Harris, Chief Executive of the Institute of Physics
The Institute of Physics is a scientific charity devoted to increasing the practice, understanding and application of physics,and is the UK and Ireland's main professional body for physicists...
2005-
- Prof Leonard Marsh OBE, Principal of Bishop Grosseteste College, Lincoln from 1974-96, and Chairman of the National Association for Primary Education from 1981-3
- Roderick Nye, Director of Populus
Populus is a market research company in the United Kingdom. Populus co-founded the British Polling Council in 2004 and regularly publishes opinion polls on voting intention and as well as other political issues....
, an opinion poll company.
- Prof Geoffrey Petts, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Westminster
The University of Westminster is a university in London, formed in 1992 as a result of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992. Its antecedent institution, the Royal Polytechnic Institution, dated back to 1838.- Overview :The University of Westminster's headquarters is situated on Regent Street...
since 2007
- Vice-Adm Anthony Revell CB, Surgeon General
The Surgeon-General is the senior medical officer of the British Armed Forces; the post is held by the senior of the three individual service medical directors....
of the Ministry of DefenceThe Ministry of Defence is the United Kingdom government department responsible for implementation of government defence policy and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces....
from 1994-7
- Stephen Timms OBE, Chief Operating Officer of the Engineering and Technology Board
The Engineering and Technology Board was founded on 14 February 2001. It is an independent organisation that promotes the essential role of engineers, technicians and engineering and technology in society...
2006-
- Bertram Weston OBE CMG, former Commander-in-Chief of Saint Helena
Saint Helena , named after St Helena of Constantinople, is an island of volcanic origin in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha which also includes Ascension Island and the islands of Tristan da Cunha.The island...
See also
- Highworth Grammar School for Girls
- Spelthorne College
Spelthorne College was a sixth form college in Ashford, Surrey, England, positioned on the High Street. It was originally founded as Ashford County Grammar School, for 11-18 year olds, in 1911 in what was then the county of Middlesex. In the 1970s, with Middlesex ceasing to exist as a county, it...
(former Ashford County Grammar School in MiddlesexMiddlesex is one of the historic counties of England and the second smallest by area. The low-lying county contained the wealthy and politically independent City of London on its southern boundary and was dominated by it from a very early time...
)
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