Plume School is a secondary school with academy status located in the town of

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. The school is split over two separate campuses. Mill Road houses years 7 and 8, Fambridge Road years 9, 10 and 11 and Fambridge Road Campus is home to the sixth form.

History

The Plume School was formed in 1970 as a new comprehensive to educate the children previously at Maldon Grammar School, then in Fambridge Road, and Maldon County Secondary School, in Mill Road, a

secondary modern A secondary modern school is a type of secondary school that existed throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland from 1944 until the 1970s under the Tripartite System. Schools of this type continue in Northern Ireland, where they are usuall ...

. The Plume School's first term began in September 1970. The Maldon Grammar School had been founded in 1608 by Ralph Breeder, a haberdasher and

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who was an

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of the town's corporation. He left £300 in his will "for the maintenance of a schoolmaster to teach a grammar school within the town". The new school created in 1970 bears the name of

Thomas Plume Thomas Plume (1630 – 20 November 1704) was an English churchman and philanthropist, and founder of a library in Maldon, Essex which still exists. The Plume School in Maldon is named after him. Family life The Plume family settled in the county ...

who, on his death in 1704, bequeathed his library of 7,000 books to the town of Maldon, now housed at the Thomas Plume Library, and money for a schoolmaster and librarian to look after the collection. A history of the schools states that "The Plume School in its modern form was established as a comprehensive in 1970 and merged with the Maldon County Secondary School located at the current site."

Performance

Plume School is rated "good" in all four Ofsted categories (achievement of pupils, quality of teaching, behaviour and safety of pupils and leadership and management) of its most recent inspection.

Notable former pupils

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, actor ('' Bad Education'', '' After Life'')

References

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Thomas Plume's LibraryPlume School
Secondary schools in Essex Academies in Essex Maldon, Essex Educational institutions established in 1970 1970 establishments in England {{Essex-school-stub

History

Performance

Notable former pupils

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