North Cestrian School, formerly North Cestrian Grammar School, is a free school in

Altrincham Altrincham ( , locally ) is a market town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, south of the River Mersey. It is southwest of Manchester city centre, southwest of Sale and east of Warrington. At the 2011 Census, it had a population ...

, Greater Manchester, England, for pupils aged between 11 and 16. North Cestrian is part of the Hamblin Educational Trust.

History

The school was opened in 1951 by Walter Hamblin, formerly headmaster of Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, with 26 pupils. In 2004, the library was named after him. The school was originally to be named North Cheshire Grammar School, but this was not permitted by the county education authorities as the school was not government-owned. Hamblin therefore replaced "Cheshire" with its Latinised form "Cestrian"; this maintained the same "NCGS" initials already in place on some school equipment. The school was originally an all-boys school but in September 2006 admitted its first girls into the sixth form. In 2008, it became fully

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Staff

In 2008, teacher David Bradley was awarded an MBA in the Queen's New Year Honours List for services to young people.

Notable former pupils

* Devante Cole: English footballer *

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: author and noted space historian * Ezekiel Fryers: English footballer *

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: musician with 10cc; their song "I Wanna Rule The World", from the 1976 '' How Dare You!'' album and co-written by Godley, prominently features the school motto *

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: Dutch footballer * Nicholas (Nicky) Slater: ice dancer *

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: weather presenter

References

External links

School website
{{Schools in Trafford Educational institutions established in 1951 Secondary schools in Trafford * 1951 establishments in England Altrincham Free schools in England