Great Yarmouth High School

Great Yarmouth VA High School
Motto Rex et Nostra Jura
Established 1551
Type Voluntary aided Comprehensive
Religion C of E
Headteacher John Robson
Deputy Headteacher Carole Galloway
Chair of the Governors John Catton
Location Salisbury Road
Great Yarmouth
Norfolk
NR30 4LS
England
Coordinates: 52°37′12″N 1°44′12″E / 52.62007°N 1.7366°E / 52.62007; 1.7366
Local authority Norfolk
DfE URN 121219 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Staff 102
Students 997 pupils
Gender Co-educational
Ages 11–16
Colours Red and black
Publication High Standard
Website www.greatyarmouth.norfolk.sch.uk

Great Yarmouth VA High School is a coeducational comprehensive school on Salisbury Road in the town of Great Yarmouth in the English county of Norfolk. It educates about 1,000 11 to 16-year-old pupils, the age of entry having decreased from twelve to eleven in 2008. The school does not have a sixth form. The nearest post-16 centres are East Norfolk Sixth Form College and Great Yarmouth College.

History

The former Great Yarmouth Grammar School, which was founded in 1551, became the comprehensive Great Yarmouth High School in September 1982. In 1998 the school was awarded Technology College Specialist Status and in 1999 was designated V.A (Christian non-denominational) reflecting the terms of its Foundation. It is under the jurisdiction of Norfolk LEA.[1]

In November 2008 the Technology Specialist College status ended as the school became a Humanities Specialist College. This followed an extremely successful Ofsted report the preceding May which decreed that the school was good with outstanding features.

The 21 June 2008 Ofsted report found that Great Yarmouth High School "needs to improve immediately".

The 11 August 2009 Ofsted report found Great Yarmouth High School to be a "poor provider for special needs care".

On 23 July 2010 Ofsted found Great Yarmouth High School to be of "Low Standard Education".

On 28 May 2011 Ofsted found Great Yarmouth High School to be an "adequate School".

Both the school and the town share the same shield. The school colours are black and red.

Notable former pupils

Great Yarmouth Grammar School

References

  1. "Education jobs online". Eteach.com. Retrieved 2011-01-25.
  2. "Professor Kenneth Fielding - Obituaries, News". London: The Independent. 2005-06-06. Retrieved 2011-01-25.
  3. Parry, Jann. "MacMillan, Sir Kenneth (1929–1992)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, January 2008, retrieved 22 November 2014 (subscription or UK public library membership required)

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