Wrenn School
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The Wrenn School is a specialist science secondary school in Wellingborough
, Northamptonshire
, England
, that was established in 1975. It occupies the campus of the former Wellingborough Grammar School, founded in 1930, at which British television personality Sir David Frost was a pupil.
Wrenn School is a split-site school, with the two parts of its campus being a short walk apart. One part of the school is sited on the A5193 (former A509
) in the south of the town, just west of the hospital The other main site is situated on Doddington Road a few minutes from the London Road site. The Doddington Road site, which was formerly the boy's grammar school, houses years 9-11 along with the Art and Design Technology buildings, and in London Road the site of the former girl's grammar school is attended by years 7-8 and the school's sixth form. The school has a wide range of buildings ranging from 4 to 100 years old. The oldest buildings are those of the former grammar school, while the most modern addition being the music block, constructed in 2006.
A September 2009 OFSTED
report rated the school with an overall Grade 3 (satisfactory), and a Grade 1 (Outstanding) for its sixth form).
Wellingborough
Wellingborough is a market town and borough in Northamptonshire, England, situated some from the county town of Northampton. The town is situated on the north side of the River Nene, most of the older town is sited on the flanks of the hills above the river's current flood plain...
, Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire is a landlocked county in the English East Midlands, with a population of 629,676 as at the 2001 census. It has boundaries with the ceremonial counties of Warwickshire to the west, Leicestershire and Rutland to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshire to the south-east,...
, England
England
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, that was established in 1975. It occupies the campus of the former Wellingborough Grammar School, founded in 1930, at which British television personality Sir David Frost was a pupil.
Wrenn School is a split-site school, with the two parts of its campus being a short walk apart. One part of the school is sited on the A5193 (former A509
A509 road
The A509 is a short A-class road for north-south journeys in south central England, forming the route from Kettering in Northamptonshire to the M1 and A5 in Milton Keynes....
) in the south of the town, just west of the hospital The other main site is situated on Doddington Road a few minutes from the London Road site. The Doddington Road site, which was formerly the boy's grammar school, houses years 9-11 along with the Art and Design Technology buildings, and in London Road the site of the former girl's grammar school is attended by years 7-8 and the school's sixth form. The school has a wide range of buildings ranging from 4 to 100 years old. The oldest buildings are those of the former grammar school, while the most modern addition being the music block, constructed in 2006.
A September 2009 OFSTED
Ofsted
The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills is the non-ministerial government department of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools In England ....
report rated the school with an overall Grade 3 (satisfactory), and a Grade 1 (Outstanding) for its sixth form).
Wellingborough Grammar School
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External links
- Memories of Wellingborough Grammar School (web site).
- Memories of Wellingborough Grammar School (book website)
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