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Grammar school A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented secondary school ...
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grammar school A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented secondary school ...
with academy status in
Cheltenham Cheltenham (), also known as Cheltenham Spa, is a spa town and borough on the edge of the Cotswolds in the county of Gloucestershire, England. Cheltenham became known as a health and holiday spa town resort, following the discovery of mineral s ...
, Gloucestershire, England. It caters for pupils aged 11 to 18. The school was founded with a fund bestowed to Corpus Christi College, Oxford by
Richard Pate Richard Pate or Pates (1516–1588) was an English landowner and Member of Parliament for Gloucester (UK Parliament constituency), Gloucester in the Parliament of 1559 and 1563–1567. His parliamentary career is detailed in the History of ...
in 1574. The school became
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in 1986, when Pate's Grammar School for Girls merged with Cheltenham Grammar School. Pate's has been awarded 'State Secondary School of the Year’ twice by ''
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'' in their Good Schools Guide in 2012 and 2020. In 2013, the school was given an Outstanding judgement by
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.


Academic achievements

At
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level in 2004, 100% of pupils entered earned five A* to C grades, and the school came twelfth in the
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table of performance in A-/ AS-Level. Again in 2005, 100% of pupils earned five A* to C grades at GCSE, and in 2006, 100% of pupils passed in at least seven subjects with grades A* to C. In 2008, more A* grades were achieved collectively than any other grade put together at GCSE level. The physics department was recognised as the best in the country in a survey published by ''
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'' in May 2006. In 2012 Pate's achieved the fourth best state secondary school results in the United Kingdom. It was also awarded with 'State Secondary School of the Year’. In 2019 the school was ranked as one of the top secondary state schools in the UK with 95.6% of grades at A*-B at A-level and 87.5% of grades at 9-7 at GCSE.


Sporting achievements

The senior rugby team was coached by ex-England scrum-half Peter Kingston until his retirement in 2009. In 2007 Pate's senior rugby teams completed a season unbeaten for the first time in 21 years. The Old Patesians club has grounds and a clubhouse in Leckhampton, which was built when their previous premises were demolished to make way for Cheltenham's tallest building, Eagle Tower.


Community

The school has a school council; the team of pupils and
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ers from across the school is intended to help the students enjoy their time at Pate's more beneficially and give them a voice in school affairs. The school competes in the
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competition held amongst schools nationwide. The school was also named as one of the four winners of the annual BBC School's Question Time competition in 2009. During the 1970s the school were winners of the BBC radio show Top of the Form. Pate's is also involved with charity work and has a Charity Committee appointed each year; in 2007–2008, over £16,000 was raised. The school is situated in a deprived area of Cheltenham and under the headmaster Richard Kemp deprived students were encouraged to apply. The current headmaster is Russel Ellicott, who took over from Shaun Fenton in September 2012.


Developments

The boys' school was established in 1586. The Gothic premises in the High Street were demolished in 1967 to make way for a concrete supermarket, at a time when many other historic buildings, which would now be listed and protected, were also lost. The school playing field existed quite remote from the school in Hesters Way, and a replacement school was built there, after the boundaries had been altered to make way for the Princess Elizabeth Way and Coronation Square council developments. The majority of pupils lived in more affluent areas on the opposite side of the town and needed to commute by public transport. The building was designed by architects who had won awards for New Hall College Cambridge, but its appearance was not popular, it incorporated various impractical features, and developed structural problems. It was demolished in the 1990s and replaced by an adjacent new building. During this period the school somehow lost its nomenclature with Richard Pate, and his name instead became associated with the girls' school at Pittville. The school raised funds in order to complete new fitness facilities. The £50,000 fitness suite was officially opened by
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in April 2010. In summer 2012, Pate's Grammar completed the construction of a new
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, costing £1.75 million. This also involved upgrading the school canteen to a
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system operated by sQuid. It was opened by
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on 5 October 2012. Plans have been announced for a new sixth form block to be built and completed summer 2019. In 2013, a new school block was opened named 'The George and Eve Tatam Block', after alumni who also sponsor higher level study at the Corpus Christi College of both Oxford and Cambridge. In spring 2019, a new sixth form block opened following a grant received in 2017. The three-storey building comprises study spaces and IT facilities on the lower two floors, whilst the upper floor houses the senior library. The building links directly to the George and Eve Tatum Block next to which it is constructed.


Former headmasters and headmistresses


Pate's Grammar School

* 2012–Present: Russel Ellicott * 2006–2012: Shaun Fenton * 2000–2006: Richard Kemp * 1986–1999: David J. Barnes


Cheltenham Grammar School

* 1983–1986: P.J. Bamford * 1971–1983: Bernard Wilkinson * 1952–1971: Arthur E. Bell * 1937–1952: Geoffrey Heawood * 1918–1937: R.R. Dobson * 1882–1906: John Style (husband of Mary Watson) * 1868–1882:
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* 1859–1868: Henry Hayman * 1852–1859: Edward Rupert Humphreys


Pate's Grammar School for Girls

* 1982–1986: J. Whiting (Acting Head) * 1971–1982: Mary M. Moon * 1970-1971: Jean O Huddlestone (Acting Head) * 1952–1970: Margaret E. Lambrick * 1946–1952:
Margaret Miles Dame Margaret Miles, DBE (11 July 1911 – 26 April 1994) was a British educationist. She served as Headmistress of Pate's Grammar School, Cheltenham between 1946 and 1952. Then, going on to be Headmistress of Mayfield School, Putney between 19 ...
* 1934–1946: Muriel Jennings * 1911–1934: Anita N. Miles * 1905–1911: Helen Headley


Notable former pupils


Pate's Grammar School

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, editor since 2014 of the '' Morning Star'' *
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and former leader of the
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*
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, professional footballer *
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, novelist


Cheltenham Grammar School


Music

*
Gustav Holst Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for his orchestral suite ''The Planets'', he composed many other works across a range ...
, composer *
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, musician and founder of
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* Philip Lane, composer


Sport

*
Gilbert Jessop Gilbert Laird Jessop (19 May 1874 – 11 May 1955) was an English cricket player, often reckoned to have been the fastest run-scorer cricket has ever known. He was Wisden Cricketer of the Year for 1898. Career Jessop was born in Cheltenham, ...
, cricketer * Robert Lanchbury ,
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cricketer * Alfred Payne, cricketer


Engineers

* Benjamin Baker, engineer of the
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*
Frederick Handley Page Sir Frederick Handley Page, CBE, FRAeS (15 November 1885 – 21 April 1962) was an English industrialist who was a pioneer in the aircraft industry and became known as the father of the heavy bomber. His company Handley Page Limited was ...
, founder of the aircraft company
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* Gordon Lewis, aeronautical engineer, and designer of the Olympus and
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engines with
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* Bob Parkinson, rocket engineer with
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, worked on
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Academia

* William Henry Corfield, revolutionised hygiene and household sanitation in Victorian England. *
Rowland Biffen Sir Rowland Harry Biffen FRS (28 May 1874, in Cheltenham – 12 July 1949) was a British botanist, mycologist, geneticist and a professor of agricultural botany at the University of Cambridge who worked on breeding wheat varieties. He was a ...
, developed disease resistant wheat strains *
H. J. Round Captain Henry Joseph Round (2 June 1881 – 17 August 1966) was an English engineer and one of the early pioneers of radio. He was the first to report observation of electroluminescence from a solid state diode, leading to the discovery of the l ...
, scientist, played an important part in the discovery of
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s *
Martin Hume Johnson Martin Hume Johnson (born 1944) is emeritus professor of Reproductive Sciences in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience (PDN) at the University of Cambridge. Education Johnson was educated at Cheltenham Grammar School fo ...
, Professor of Reproductive Sciences from 1992-2012 at the University of Cambridge ( Christ's College) *
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, theoretical physicist, Professor of Physics
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and brother of
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. * Anthony Howe, professor of modern history since 2003 at
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*
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, philosopher


Politics

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, Labour MP from 2000-2019 for West Bromwich West. *
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, Liberal MP from 1885–1906 for South Caernarfonshire, Eifion


Film & TV

*
John Ringham John Henry Ringham (10 February 1928 – 20 October 2008) was a British actor who appeared on both television and stage. Among his roles was that of Norman Warrender in the 1980s sitcom ''Just Good Friends''. Early life Ringham was born in Che ...
, character actor * Rex Tucker, TV director *
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, TV reporter, husband of
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Authors

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, poet *
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, writer


Other

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, British Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient *
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, founder of the
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*
Edgar Vaughan Sir (George) Edgar Vaughan (24 February 1907 – 25 January 1994) was a British diplomat. Vaughan was educated at Cheltenham Grammar School and then at Jesus College, Oxford, where he obtained first-class degrees in Modern History (1928) an ...
, ambassador from 1960 to 1963 to
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,
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from 1935 to 1937 *
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, Flag Officer Sea Training since 2015


Pate's Grammar School for Girls

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, soprano *
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*
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* Anne Warner, professor of developmental biology at UCL, and director from 1999-2006 of UCL's Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology


See also

* Old Patesians RFC


References


External links


Pate's Grammar School
official site
Pate's Grammar School OED (Outdoor Education Department)
official OED site
Pate's Grammar School CCF (Combined Cadet Force)
official CCF site {{Authority control * Schools in Cheltenham Grammar schools in Gloucestershire Educational institutions established in the 1570s 1574 establishments in England Academies in Gloucestershire