Hutton Grammar School is a

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day school for boys, with a

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. It is located south west of

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, in Hutton, England. It provides education for boys from the age of 11 to 16, and in the

(since 1979) for both boys and girls. The school no longer offers boarding. The school is ranked 5th in the league tables in the North-West and 2nd place for AS-A2 results. It was also the '' Lancashire Rugby School of the Year'', for two years running, for 2007 and 2008. Hutton has also achieved Specialist Schools Status accreditation in Mathematics and

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History

The

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can trace its antecedents back to 1517, with the school building site being personally approved by Henry VIII in that year. In 1520, the school was granted permission, by William Walton, a former priest of Longton, to all

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in the area. It was William's personal investment, to provide for his family and give the local children a

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-school to attend. In 1545, when William Walton, the co-founder of the chantry had died, Henry VIII, near to death, ordered the dissolution of all chantries and the confiscation of their property. The desired building, in Hutton, was, at the time, even though confirmed by Henry VIII, 28 years before, would be

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if it was reported to be still standing. However, the man appointed to supervise the dissolution of the

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chantries was Sir Henry Farington, a former benefactor of St. Andrews Church in Longton. He falsely reported that he could find no

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in that part of the county, in order to save the demolition of various buildings in the

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. To avoid suspicion of using a

for a school, although the

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was given, they started to use a small cottage down School Lane, in Longton to educate the local children. In 1552, William's nephew Christopher Walton of Little Hoole, used a part of the original endowment to found the

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, down School Lane in Longton. According to the

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at the time, a priest must be in charge of a school, traveling inspectors could have closed it down they saw that a commoner was in charge. Therefore, in 1554, Ralph Garstang, priest of St. Andrews Church, was appointed as the

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of the school. For the next few centuries, from 1560 to 1746, it was known as ''Longton Free School''. It was not until 1747 that the roles of

and priest were finally disconnected, though many subsequent headmasters were also priests (vide infra). The school was then rebuilt, at Hutton on its present site, built on land that had been a part of William Walton's original

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. Henceforth, it became known as Hutton Grammar School (often the ''Free Grammar School'' according to many references) and, by 1891, it had become an all-boys school. In 1881 there were 22 boarders and 30 day boys, the 1901 census lists 35 boarders, the 1911 census lists 41 boarders. 165 boys were attending the school in 1922. In the 1950s and 1960s, there were 57 boarders in addition to the day boys. The boarding house closed in 1971 The original building, built around 1750 was extended in the late 19th Century. In the early 20th Century there were further extensions and additional buildings were added. In the 1920s a fine headmaster's house was built by Lt Col Reverend Charles P. Hines. A first floor was added to one extension in 1923, such was the demand for extra space. The indoor swimming pool was added by 1935. A large new block was opened in October 1931, consisting of a large assembly hall, 7 classrooms, laboratories and staff facilities, allowing pupil numbers to increase from 121 to 270 boys. This was extended in 1957 with the addition of a larger library, sixth form, chemistry laboratory and classrooms. This allowed 3 form entry and the number of pupils increased to 450, rising to over 500 by 1961. The original 18th Century school building had to be demolished and rebuilt in 1965. Some of the late 19th and early 20th-century buildings are still in use. The School had an established House System with, by 1957, Breakell-Moss House, Henry Hibbert House, Hines House (to which all boarders belonged), Penwortham House, Rawstorne House and Walton House. The Houses were particularly competitive in inter-house school sports. The House system ceased in 1972. Although now a comprehensive, the school to this day still retains its grammar school

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, enabling it to produce results which are amongst the highest in the area. Sports such as

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and

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play a serious role at Hutton, with Hutton sometimes defeating local independent schools such as

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, Kirkham Grammar School,

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and Stonyhurst College.

List of Headmasters

* 1805. Rev Richard Rowe died on 13 June 1805, while headmaster. * 1807. Rev Whitehead. * 1839 to 1851. Rev William Harrison. * 1851. Rev John Ketton, appointed May 1851. * 1861. Rev John Ketton. * 1871. Rev John Ketton. * 1878. Rev Benjamin Corke Huntly M.A. Appointed November 1878, died age 46, while headmaster, on 9 May 1890. * 1891. Rev Thomas Joseph Cunningham M.A. * 1901. Rev Thomas Joseph Cunningham M.A. * 1911. Rev Thomas Joseph Cunningham M.A. * 1920 to 1938. Lieutenant Colonel Reverend Charles P. Hines. * 1938 to 1951. Harold Henry Abbott, the poet. * 1951 to 1963. Charles William Lloyd. Left upon appointment as headmaster at

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. * 1963 (Autumn term). Alfred E Ashburner, acting headmaster. * 1964 to 1991. J Nelson. * 1997. Gavin Armstrong. * 2001. T.P. Bennett * 2005. D Pearson, appointed April 2005. * 2016. Mark Bradshaw, appointed April 2016. * 2023. Mrs

Recent Reports

The main school received an Ofsted report in May 2017 and achieved the grade of "good".

Curriculum

Main School

The main school features students from Years 7 to 11. It combines GCSEs through the following subjects:

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, English Literature, Mathematics,

Modern Language A modern language is any human language that is currently in use. The term is used in language education to distinguish between languages which are used for day-to-day communication (such as French and German) and dead classical languages such a ...

, Sciences and

Religion Religion is usually defined as a social- cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, ...

, with additional subjects, including History,

Geography Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, an ...

, Economics, Art,

Design A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product, or process. The verb ''to design' ...

, Music and

Theatre Arts Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

Sixth Form

The school's Sixth form allows students to take a number of the following subjects: English Language & Literature, English Literature, French,

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Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Can ...

Biology Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary i ...

, Chemistry,

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Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...

, Business Studies,

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, Religious Studies,

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, Mathematics,

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, General Studies,

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and Dance. The Sixth Form is a key part of the school and is a quasi-autonomous body within Hutton Grammar School.

Sports

The school offers more than 15 sports. The main sports at the school are

in the winter term and

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in the summer term. Former England rugby captain Steve Borthwick attended the school, as did fellow England international Tony Swift, and leading coach Brian Ashton taught at the school at the start of his coaching career. Other sports offered include:

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Aussie rules Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players p ...

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

cross country running Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open cou ...

, dance, football, Gaelic football,

gymnastics Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, s ...

, handball,

hockey Hockey is a term used to denote a family of various types of both summer and winter team sports which originated on either an outdoor field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium. While these sports vary in specific rules, numbers o ...

swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

, and

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...

Facilities

Under headmasters Tom Bennett and David Pearson the school was considerably redeveloped, with facilities such as a new

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nasium and I.T and Mathematics suites installed in 2004. The

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now has recording studios and technology suites. In September 2005, new

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facilities were opened. Following the opening of the new maths suites in the Autumn of 2005, the buildings were used for housing of the resistant materials and art until the end of the academic year of 2006, while the departments were being refurbished. The old buildings were demolished in the months of July and August 2006 and then in July 2006, the new music and drama suites were opened. Following a large interest in the

, due to outstanding results, the Sixth Form was relocated to a new building in September 2010.

Extracurricular activities

Hutton has many internal and external

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, one of these being the ''Old Huttonians Association'' which is open to all previous attendees of the school. The association organises dinners and

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on a semi regular basis. There is also a

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which meets at the school. ''Old Huttonian Lodge'' no. 7614 is part of the ''Leyland Group of Lodges and Chapters'' and meets 5 times a year. A member of the ''Federation of School Lodges'', it draws membership from current and past teachers, past pupils and their close relatives. The debating society won the national 'Debating Matters' competition at the

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, having never previously entered. The 2015 Hutton debating team won the Lancashire regional heat, which sent them through to the North West & North Wales regional final, which they went on to win. Hutton eventually lost out in the group stages of the national finals in June 2015. However, a year later, the 2016 cohort reached the final of the national finals, finishing runners up. It was the first time Hutton had reached the national finals in consecutive years. The Hutton Grammar Economics Society is open to all present and past students of the school. The school had its own radio station, ''Hutt on Air'', which first broadcast on 9 July 2010 and was broadcast to the students (and sixth form) via the school computers and internal AVOID systems.

Notable former pupils

* Steve Borthwick, Former England Rugby Union Captain, former Head Coach of Leicester Tigers and now Head Coach of England national rugby union men's team. * Brian Cookson OBE, former President of the

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and

British Cycling British Cycling (formerly the British Cycling Federation) is the main national governing body for cycle sport in Great Britain. It administers most competitive cycling in Great Britain, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. It represents Bri ...

* Peter Elleray,

Formula One Formula One (also known as Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The World Drivers' Championship, ...

and

24 Hours of Le Mans The 24 Hours of Le Mans (french: link=no, 24 Heures du Mans) is an endurance-focused sports car race held annually near the town of Le Mans, France. It is the world's oldest active endurance racing event. Unlike fixed-distance races whose ...

Racing car designer. * Edward Gardner, former Royal Navy Commander, survivor of two ship sinkings, barrister and later, a politician *

Nigel Jemson Nigel Bradley Jemson (born 10 August 1969) is an English footballer, who represented his country at under-21 level and was the player-manager of Ilkeston Town until May 2008. He finished his career at Rainworth Miners Welfare in the Norther ...

, former Premier League footballer *

Graham Mather Graham Christopher Spencer Mather CBE (born 23 October 1954, Preston) is a British former Member of the European Parliament (MEP). Mather was educated at Hutton Grammar School and New College, Oxford. While there, he became an officer in the O ...

represented Hampshire North and Oxford in the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999 * Richard G. Mitchell Composer known for writing and producing movie and TV scores *

Nazia Mogra Nazia Mogra is a British children's TV presenter and senior television journalist for BBC's '' Newsround'' and ''North West Tonight'', on BBC One and BBC Sport. Life Nazia grew up in Preston and attended Hutton Grammar School and Edge Hill Uni ...

, Children's TV presenter and senior television journalist * Jonathan Myles-Lea, painter *

Howard Stableford Howard Stableford is a British television and radio presenter. Background Stableford was born 12 April 1959 in Poynton, Cheshire and grew up in Preston, Lancashire. He attended Hutton Grammar School. He read for a Geography degree at Durham Univ ...

, former presenter of the BBC's Tomorrow's World and Newsround * Tony Swift, Former England Rugby international * David Williams, Chief Executive of the United Kingdom Space Agency since 2010 (formerly the British Nationals Space Centre)

References

External links

Hutton Grammar School website

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