Pudsey Grammar School is a
secondary school with a
sixth form
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in
Pudsey
Pudsey is a market town in the City of Leeds Borough in West Yorkshire, England. It is located midway between Bradford city centre and Leeds city centre. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, it has a population of 22,408.
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West Yorkshire
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, England. It serves over 1300 pupils from the town and surrounding area. The school has a large Sixth Form of over 260 students offering 20 A level courses and 6 Applied General courses.
History
It was first established in 1905 under the name Pudsey and District Secondary School, meeting in Pudsey Town Hall until the school's first purpose-built building opened on Richardshaw Lane in 1911, with construction having started in mid-1909. The name changed to Pudsey Grammar School in 1944 and was known by this name until 1980 at which point the name changed to Pudsey Grangefield School. It was later given the status of a
specialist college of
Maths and Computing. In September 2021 the school changed its name back to Pudsey Grammar School.
The school's logo is the coat of arms of Pudsey, bearing the slogan "Be Just and Fear Not". The logo is built into the face of the original Grammar School Building; this Grade II
listed building
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at the front of the old site has been converted into flats, and the rest of the site was demolished to make an open recreational area for the new building.
The school has only had six Headteachers since 1911. On 21 September 2009, the school was visited by the
Deputy Prime Minister
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,
John Prescott
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. The school was also visited in 2010 by
Labour
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leadership candidate and former
Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who described the new building as "a great monument to Labour government".
Behaviour Hub
In April 2022 Pudsey Grammar School was named as part of the expansion of the Department for Education's national Behaviour Hubs programme as one of only 18 Lead Secondary schools nationally. This is in recognition of the school's 'exemplary behaviour culture'.
Notable former pupils
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Jerry Brotton, Chair of Renaissance Studies at
Queen Mary, University of London
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