Etone College (formerly Etone Community School and Technology College) is a secondary academy school in Nuneaton,

Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, and the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Av ...

, England. It was founded in 1910 as the Nuneaton High School for Girls. It is a mixed school of non-denominational religion.

History

Nuneaton School for Girls in first 10- years of opening

Nuneaton High School for Girls was founded in 1910 with the strong support of the Director of Education Bolton King. The founding head was (later Dame) Emmeline Mary Tanner who would go on to shape the 1944 Education Act. The school was the

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for girls passing the

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. However, after the abolition of the

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, the school became mixed sex and changed its name to 'Etone Community School'. In 2002, the school was granted

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status under the

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. In 2006, the school established a loose federation with another local school, Hartshill School to share resources and expertise. It also gained specialist

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and

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status in 2006 and 2007 respectively. On 1 January 2012 the school officially gained academy status In March 2015 the school came out 15 months of "

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" after achieving a rating of "good" by Ofsted, and now is seen as one of the best schools in the Nuneaton and

area. Etone College has four houses and they have different tie colours. Griffin house have a gold tie, Phoenix house have a red tie, Dragon house have a purple house and Centaur house have a blue tie.

Radio 1

In early 2007, the school was paid a visit by

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, as part of its ''Star Pupil'' feature. Presenter

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broadcast live from the school and introduced pop singers

Paolo Nutini Paolo Giovanni Nutini (born 9 January 1987) is a Scottish singer, songwriter and musician from Paisley. Nutini's debut album, '' These Streets'' (2006), peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart. Its follow-up, '' Sunny Side Up'' (2009), de ...

and

Jamelia ' Jamelia Niela Davis (born 11 January 1981) is an English singer, songwriter and television presenter. She has released three studio albums, each of which has reached the Top 40 in the UK, which collectively have spawned eight UK top-ten singl ...

performing live in the school's main hall.

Notable former pupils

Etone Community School

Etone College

* Saffiya Vorajee , Co-Director of The Azaylia Foundation opened in 2021.

Nuneaton High School for Girls

* Dame

Janet Gaymer Dame Janet Marion Gaymer, DBE, KC (Hon.) (born 11 July 1947) served from January 2006 to December 2010 as a Civil Service Commissioner and Commissioner for Public Appointments, regulating ministerial appointments to designated public bodies in ...

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for England, Wales and Northern ireland from 2006–10 *

Caroline Graham Caroline Graham (born 17 July 1931) is an English playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Early life and education Graham was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire to a working-class family, and attended Nuneaton High School for Girls where her Englis ...

, playwright, whose 1988

Inspector Barnaby Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Geoffrey "Tom" Barnaby (born 20 April 1943) is a fictional detective created by English writer Caroline Graham as the protagonist in her ''Chief Inspector Barnaby'' novel series and adapted into one of the mai ...

books became ITV's '' Midsomer Murders'' in 1997 * Prof

Rebecca Posner Rebecca Posner (née Reynolds; 17 August 1929 – 19 July 2018) was a British philologist, linguist and academic, who specialized in Romance languages. Having taught at Girton College, Cambridge, the University of Ghana, and the University of Yor ...

, Professor of the Romance Languages from 1978-96 at the University of Oxford ( St Hugh's College), President from 1996-2000 of the Philological Society

References

External links

Etone Website

Ofsted Report
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