Northgate High School, Ipswich

For schools of the same name, see Northgate High School (disambiguation).

Northgate High School
Type	Community school
Headteacher	David Hutton
Location	Sidegate Lane West Ipswich Suffolk IP4 3DL England Coordinates: 52°04′19″N 1°10′51″E / 52.07191°N 1.18075°E / 52.07191; 1.18075
Local authority	Suffolk
DfE number	935/4090
DfE URN	124840 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Students	1704
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	11–18
Colours
Website	www.northgate.suffolk.sch.uk

Northgate High School (previously comprising Northgate Grammar School for Boys and Northgate Grammar School for Girls) is a secondary school situated in north Ipswich, Suffolk, England. It is a co-educational comprehensive school, for ages 11–16, and 16-18 in the sixth form Department. It has approximately 1700 children on roll.^[1]

Admissions

Currently, the Headteacher is David Hutton, who was appointed in October 2009, taking over from former long-serving Headteacher Neil Watts, who retired at the end of the 2008/9 academic year. Mr Hutton had served previously as Deputy Head at the school.

The school also makes use of the Council-run Northgate Sports Centre, which has an Olympic standard running track.^[2]

History

It was previously two schools: Northgate Grammar School for Boys and Northgate Grammar School for Girls. Earlier, it was Ipswich Municipal Secondary School.

Language College

Awarded Language College status in 1999, this was the first Language College designated in Suffolk. This development led to outreach work taking place in both the school's main feeder schools and across other schools in the county.^[3]

Academic performance

In its most recent Ofsted inspection in May 2012, the school was graded as "Good" overall, with a number of individual outstanding grades.^[4] GCSE results are consistently above the national and regional averages, and at A-Level it gets results similar to a grammar school: the fifth best in Suffolk in 2008. In 2013, the school was placed in the top 100 state schools in England.^[5]

Notable former pupils - Northgate Grammar School (both parts)

James Easter. International speedway Team Manager of ENGLAND:Australia:USA. (1984-2000)
Graham Addicott, TV Producer-Director, IRN Foreign Correspondent, ITV Presenter/Reporter and founder of First Freedom Productions
Rear-Adm Paul Bass CB, Flag Officer Portsmouth and Port Admiral Portsmouth 1979-1981
Michael Blackburn, Chief Executive of the Halifax Building Society from 1993-8, Chief Executive of the Leeds Permanent Building Society from 1987–93, and President of the Chartered Institute of Bankers from 1998-9
Malcolm Brabant, BBC Foreign Correspondent
Helen Boaden Director of BBC News
Stuart Boardley, footballer
David Brighty CMG CVO, Ambassador to Cuba from 1989–91, Czech and Slovak Republic from 1991-4, and to Spain (and Andorra) from 1994-8
Adrian Brown, International orchestra conductor
Bernard Buckham, Daily Mirror journalist
Terry Burrows, author/musician
David Edwards, Theatre Directorship
Sir Cyril English, Director-General of the City and Guilds of London Institute from 1968–76
David Gauke, Conservative Member of Parliament
Dr Edward Glazier CB, Director of the Royal Radar Establishment from 1967-2
Prof Malcolm Guthrie, Professor of Bantu Languages at the University of London from 1951–70
Garry Hart, Baron Hart of Chilton, Chancellor of the University of Greenwich since 2008
Birkin Haward, architect (designer of West Ham station - with his wife, Joanna van Heyningen)
Sir Edmund Hirst CBE, Forbes Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh from 1947–68, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1959–64 and President of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 1956-8. He was the first person to synthesise Vitamin C in 1933.
Luke Hyam, Championship footballer
Stuart Jarrold, Anglia TV Correspondent
Nik Kershaw, singer and songwriiter
Jane Lapotaire, actress
Geoffrey Lucas, General Secretary of The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference since 2000
Vice Adm Alan Massey CBE, Second Sea Lord since 2008, and Commander of HMS Illustrious from 2001-2, and HMS Ark Royal from 2002-3
Peter Mornard, Wimbledon referee
Sir Trevor Nunn CBE, legendary film and theatre director and married to the actress Imogen Stubbs
Dame Winifred E. Prentice, President of the Royal College of Nursing from 1972-6
Nigel Roome, Professor at Schulich School of Business 1993-6, University of Tilburg, 1996-9, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 1999-2006, Free University Brussels 2006-2011, Vlerick Business School 2010-13. Academic chair the European Academy of Business and Society 2006-.
Peter Sharman CBE, Chief General Manager from 1975-84 for the Norwich Union Insurance Group
Cecil Studd, England international hockey player
Liam Trotter, Championship footballer
Donald Woods, Iveagh Professor of Chemical Microbiology at the University of Oxford from 1955–64

References

↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/education/06/school_tables/secondary_schools/html/935_4090.stm
↑ Retrieved 24 July 2009.
↑ Ofsted survey inspection programme – modern languages: letter to headteacher 19 May 2009. Retrieved 21 July 2009
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↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/secondary-tables-2012/the-top-100-comprehensive-schools-at-alevel-6294992.html

External links

News items

Girl with pink hair in February 2002

Schools in Suffolk

Secondary	Alde Valley Academy Beccles Free School The Benjamin Britten High School Bungay High School Castle Manor Academy Claydon High School Copleston High School County Upper School Debenham High School East Bergholt High School East Point Academy Farlingaye High School Felixstowe Academy Hadleigh High School Hartismere School Holbrook Academy Ipswich Academy Kesgrave High School King Edward VI School (Bury St Edmunds) Mildenhall College Academy Newmarket Academy Northgate High School Ormiston Denes Academy Ormiston Endeavour Academy Ormiston Sudbury Academy Pakefield School St Benedict's Roman Catholic Upper School Samuel Ward Academy Sir John Leman High School Stradbroke High School Stoke High School Stour Valley Community School Stowmarket High School Stowupland High School Suffolk New Academy Thomas Gainsborough School Thomas Mills High School Thurston Community College Westbourne Academy

Independent	Culford School Felixstowe International College Finborough School Focus School Framlingham College Ipswich High School Ipswich School Moreton Hall School Old Buckenham Hall School Royal Hospital School Saint Felix School St Joseph's College, Ipswich Stoke College Summerhill School Woodbridge School

Special	Ashley School The Bridge School Centre Academy East Anglia

Sixth form & FE colleges	Lowestoft College Lowestoft Sixth Form College Otley College of Agriculture and Horticulture Suffolk New College Suffolk One West Suffolk College

Defunct	Amberfield School Felixstowe College Hillcroft Preparatory School Kesgrave Hall School Palgrave Academy RNTE Shotley Sudbury Grammar School Woolverstone Hall School

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