St James School is a

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day and

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located in

Grimsby Grimsby or Great Grimsby is a port town and the administrative centre of North East Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England. Grimsby adjoins the town of Cleethorpes directly to the south-east forming a conurbation. Grimsby is north-east of Linco ...

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, England. It comprises a Nursery School, Preparatory School, Senior School and Sixth Form. The school is associated with the

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Grimsby Minster, dedicated to

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History

Formerly known as St James Choir School, the school was founded on the premises of Grimsby's parish church, St James's (now known as Grimsby Minster). Canon James Peter Young, curate and later vicar at the church, was influenced by

Nathaniel Woodard Nathaniel Woodard (; 21 March 1811 – 25 April 1891) was a priest in the Church of England. He founded 11 schools for the middle classes in England whose aim was to provide education based on "sound principle and sound knowledge, firmly groun ...

's education philosophy and established the school in 1880 to educate the church's choirboys. Classes were initially held in the Church's "Aqua Rooms", which became unsuitable. In 1882 the school became St James's College, with the intention of continuing to educate the boys after they outgrew the choir. The original choir school moved to a new site before reuniting with the college in 1904. A pre-preparatory department was added in 1957 and a

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and boarding programme two years later. It became an associated

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in 1968 and was incorporated in 1985. Girls were first admitted in 1973 and accepted as boarders two years later. In 1975 "choir" was dropped from the school’s name, as it had now expanded to educate many other pupils, and choristers were a minority. Since 2014, the school has no longer educated the Minster's Choristers, who are now drawn from eleven different schools, and open to all.

Boarding

Boarding pupils at St. James are housed within Woodard House, a purpose built boarding facility opposite the main school campus. The boarding programme is available to pupils in Year 3 and above.

Notable Old Jacobeans

Walter Bertram Wood Lieutenant Walter Bertram Wood (25 October 1898 – 11 November 1917) was a British World War I flying ace credited with thirteen confirmed aerial victories. Early life and background Wood was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, the younger son o ...

(1898–1917), First World War flying ace“Scout who became a Great Airman” (obituary) in ''

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'', 17 November 1917, p. 2

References

External links

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History

Boarding

Notable Old Jacobeans

References

Further reading

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