King Edward VI Grammar School (sometimes abbreviated to KEVIGS) is a

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located in

Louth, Lincolnshire Louth () is a market town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.OS Explorer map 283:Louth and Mablethorpe: (1:25 000): Louth serves as an important town for a large rural area of eastern Lincolnshire. Visitor ...

, England.

History

As early as the 8th century schooling was available at Louth,Louth, LIN
GENUKI. Retrieved on 19 March 2013. but the oldest reference to a school is in a passage by Simon De Luda, the town's schoolmaster, in 1276. The Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1548 placed the future of education in Louth at risk. Leading figures in the local community petitioned the King,

Edward VI Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death in 1553. He was crowned on 20 February 1547 at the age of nine. Edward was the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour and the first E ...

, to secure the school's future, and on 21 September 1551 the school was given a plot of land and money raised from three fairs by the king, which was administered by a Foundation which still exists today. In 1564,

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granted the manor of Louth and some additional property to support the school. Until 1964 King Edward's was a boys' school. In 1903 a girls' boarding school for 400 pupils was established nearby in Westgate House on Westgate, which became King Edward VI Girls' Grammar School. Both schools amalgamated in 1965 when administered by the Lindsey County Council Education Committee. Between 1968 and 1997, the school was for 14-18 year old pupils only, with the majority of entrants transferring from 3 local high schools. Although the school was selective for 14-16 year olds during this time, the school was called "King Edward VI School" (sometimes abbreviated to "KEVIS"). School male boarders lived at The Lodge on Edward Street until 1971, afterwards at The Sycamores on Westgate, and later at an old maternity hospital on Crowtree Lane next to the main school building. Girls boarded at Masson House and The Limes houses on Westgate. In 2007 the school made the news after agreeing to pay a former teacher £625,000 - the largest ever teacher compensation package - following a 3-year battle by teachers' union NASUWT, after he was permanently crippled by an electric shock caused by faulty wiring in a science lab. Previously a

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administered by

Lincolnshire County Council Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-we ...

, King Edward VI Grammar School converted to academy status in September 2015. However the school continues to coordinate with Lincolnshire County Council for admissions.

Admissions

Pupils pass the

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examination to attend the school, and many come from

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s surrounding it.

Notable former pupils

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* Sir

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, author and explorer, who attended from 1797 to 1800 * Rt Rev

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CMG CB *

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, Master from 1664–77 of

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, a mercenary and the first elected president of Virginia, famous for his supposed relations with Pocahontas, attended from 1592 to 1595 *

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, poet, who attended from 1816 to 1820 * Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Watson VC

Previous Headteachers

Herbert Branston Gray Herbert Branston Gray (21 April 1851 – 5 April 1929) was an English clergyman and schoolmaster. He was Headmaster and later Warden of Bradfield College and Chairman of the Headmasters' Conference for the year 1900. Born at Putney, Gray was the y ...

(1878–1880) *Mungo Travers Park (1880–1884) *William Walter Hopwood (1885–1900) *A.H. Worrell (1900–1911) *S.R. Unwin (1911–1917) *E.A. Gardiner (1917–1941) *Hedley Warr (1941–1958) *Donald Witney (1958–1981) *John Haden (1982–1992) *James Wheeldon (1992–2006?) *Claire Hewitt (2006?–2008) *James Lascelles (2009–Present)

References

External links

King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth
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