Gresham's School (NR25 6EA)
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Gresham's School,
Cromer Road, Holt, Norfolk, England, NR25 6EA.
Telephone: 01263 714500
Fax: 01263 712028
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[edit] Overview
Gresham's strives to ensure students receive a first class, rounded education together with the extracurricular stimulation and opportunity to allow each pupil to achieve his or her full potential. Its long history combines with modern facilities, a committed staff and a caring ethos to create an environment in which each student is provided with the means to excel.
[edit] Information
Gresham's follows a well-rounded and diverse curriculum, offering both A levels and the International Baccalaureate Diploma along with enthusiastic and innovative teaching. Students can choose from a range of subject options and are encouraged to get involved with a strong extracurricular and sporting programme, allowing each child to develop his or her strengths.
A level subjects include: Art, Biology, Business Studies, Chemistry, Classical Civilisations, Computing, Design Technology, Economics, Electronics, English Literature, French, Geography, German, History, Japanese, Latin, Maths, Further Maths, Music, Physics, Religious Studies, Spanish and Theatre Studies.
[edit] History
Gresham's was founded in 1555 by Sir John Gresham, who had been Lord Mayor of London in 1547-1548. Upon his death, the School was placed in the care of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers, one of the 'Great Twelve' livery companies of the City of London. Strong links with the City of London remain to the present day.
For three hundred and fifty years, the School was based in the former manor house of Holt in the town's market place, until it relocated to a new campus on the edge of Holt in the early twentieth century. Under the direction of Headmaster George Howson, Gresham's embraced a forward looking ethos, with a progressive and modern curriculum emphasising the sciences and sport at a time when classical thought largely predominated.
The School still has a contemporary outlook today, with the construction of first rate facilities such as the Auden Theatre and the adoption of new programmes such as the International Baccalaureate. Its modern outlook combines with a supportive environment and a committed staff to encourage each child to excel and offers a unique educational experience.
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[edit] Famous Old Greshamians
Some forty Old Greshamians have biographies in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004), and more than one hundred and fifty are the subjects of articles on the English Wikipedia.
The more notable OGs include the following:
- General Sir Terence Airey - soldier, GOC Hong Kong
- Wystan Hugh Auden - poet
- Benjamin Britten, Lord Britten of Aldeburgh - composer
- Sir Lennox Berkeley - composer
- Joe Baker-Cresswell - aide-de-camp to King George VI
- Glyn Barnett - rifleman, Commonwealth Games gold medallist 2006
- Tom Bourdillon - mountaineer
- General Sir Robert Bray - Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe
- Gawain Briars - British No. 1 squash player
- Peter Brook - theatre director
- Erskine Childers - President of the Republic of Ireland
- Sir Christopher Cockerell - engineer and inventor
- Major-General Joseph Crowdy - Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps
- Michael Cummings - cartoonist
- Donald Cunnell - World War I fighter pilot
- Sir Philip Dowson - architect and President of the Royal Academy
- Sir James Dyson - inventor and entrepreneur
- Natasha Firman - Formula Woman racing champion
- Ralph Firman - Formula One racing driver
- Stephen Frears - film director
- Sir Cecil Graves - Director-General of the BBC
- Sienna Guillory - actress
- David Hand - Archbishop of Papua New Guinea
- Alastair Hetherington - journalist, editor of The Guardian
- Sir Christopher Heydon - writer on astrology who took part in Essex's capture of Cádiz (1596)
- Harry Hodson - economist
- Sir Christopher Howes - chief executive of the Crown Estate
- 2nd Lord Lindsay of Birker - political scientist
- Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin - Nobel Prize for Medicine, President of the Royal Society
- Julian Jarrold - television and film director
- Michael Kitson - art historian
- Richard Leman - Olympic gold medallist
- Donald Maclean - diplomat and spy
- Andy Mulligan - captain of the British Lions Rugby XV
- 11th Earl of Northesk - parliamentarian and Olympic medallist
- Lord Reith - first Director-General of the BBC
- Sir James Maude Richards - architectural writer
- Robert Medley RA - artist
- Ben Nicholson OM - artist
- Lady Flora McDonnell - children's author
- Sebastian Shaw - actor
- Lord Simon of Glaisdale - Conservative politician and law lord
- Sir Stephen Spender - poet
- Sir Edward Blanshard Stamp - Lord Justice of Appeal
- 11th Lord Strabolgi - Labour politician
- Sir Gerald Thesiger - High Court Judge
- Sir Philip Toosey - Bridge on the River Kwai commander
- Sir John Tusa - Director of BBC World Service
- Tom Wintringham - soldier, military historian, and communist
- Sir Percy Wyn-Harris - mountaineer and colonial governor
[edit] Links & Resources
- Gresham's School listing on Independentschools.com
- Gresham's School online - official school site
- Gresham’s School, 2004 - ISI Inspection Report
- Gresham's School article Gresham's at Wikipedia
- Gresham's Headmasters List of Headmasters of Gresham's at Wikipedia
