Prince William School is a secondary school and

sixth form In the education systems of England, Northern Ireland, Wales, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and some other Commonwealth countries, sixth form represents the final two years of secondary education, ages 16 to 18. Pupils typically prepare for A-l ...

located in

Oundle Oundle () is a market town on the left bank of the River Nene in North Northamptonshire, England, which had a population of 5,735 at the time of the 2011 census. It is north of London and south-west of Peterborough. The town is home to Ound ...

Northamptonshire Northamptonshire (; abbreviated Northants.) is a county in the East Midlands of England. In 2015, it had a population of 723,000. The county is administered by two unitary authorities: North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire. It is ...

. The school was built in 1971 and opened by

Prince William of Gloucester Prince William of Gloucester (William Henry Andrew Frederick; 18 December 1941 – 28 August 1972) was a grandson of King George V and paternal cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. At birth he was fourth in line to the throne; he was ninth in lin ...

whose family home,

Barnwell Manor Barnwell Manor is a Grade II listed country estate near the village of Barnwell, about south of Oundle, in Northamptonshire, England. The historic former home of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, as of 2017 it was occupied by Windsor House ...

, is a few miles away. Prince William was killed in an air crash soon after the school opened. Having opened as Oundle Upper School, it was decided to rename in honour of the Prince who had opened the school just months earlier. In 2012, the current Duke of Gloucester, Prince Richard, commemorated the 40th anniversary of the school when he revealed a plaque and toured the school with students and staff. In 2015, the school reopened as an academy. It is now part of the East Midlands Academy Trust. Following local transition to a two-tier school system in 2015 the school provides education from year 7 all the way through to sixth form. The school serves as the main secondary school for much of East Northamptonshire with children coming from various villages and schools, the biggest feeder schools being Thrapston Primary School and Oundle CofE Primary School. In July 2016, the longest serving teacher of Prince William School, Graham Snelling, retired from the school after 41 years. A 2017 Ofsted report rated the school as 'Requires Improvement'. In January 2020, Ofsted's report upgraded the school to a 'Good' rating.

Departments

Prince William School itself is broken into different specialized blocks: The Sutton

Maths Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

Department. The

Science Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...

Department The

Drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has b ...

Studio The

Humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...

Department The

Design A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product, or process. The verb ''to design' ...

Department There is an Applied Learning Centre built on the former tennis courts, which from 2017, became the new Sixth Form main working centre. The

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

Department The Languages Department From September 2015, the school provided updated modular blocks, teaching a variety of subjects including Maths, English, Business Studies and Religious Studies.

Notable former pupils

Himesh Patel Himesh Jitendra Patel (born 13 October 1990) is a British actor, musician, and singer. He is known for portraying Tamwar Masood on the BBC soap opera '' EastEnders'' from 2007 to 2016, for starring in the 2019 musical romantic comedy film '' Y ...

, actor who appeared in the British

soap opera A soap opera, or ''soap'' for short, is a typically long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored ...

'' EastEnders'' from 2007 to 2016 and stars in the 2019 film ''Yesterday'', directed by

Danny Boyle Daniel Francis Boyle (born 20 October 1956) is an English director and producer. He is known for his work on films including '' Shallow Grave'', '' Trainspotting'' and its sequel '' T2 Trainspotting'', '' The Beach'', ''28 Days Later'', '' S ...

, attended Prince William School.

References

External links

PWS WebsiteOundle St Peter'sOundle Primary School
{{authority control Secondary schools in North Northamptonshire Oundle Academies in North Northamptonshire 1971 establishments in England Educational institutions established in 1971