Todmorden High School is a comprehensive school in the town of

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, Calderdale

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, England.

Admissions

Todmorden High School and Visual Arts College is located in the West Yorkshire town of Todmorden. It is a comprehensive school for 11- to 16-year-olds. Typically pupils at Todmorden High School transfer to the school from one of its seven feeder schools at the age of 11 or 12. The school has approximately 820 pupils, and has 55 teaching staff members and 80 non-teaching staff members. Upon entry, pupils are placed into mixed ability tutor groups and typically remain in those groups for five years. Form tutors usually stay with their form until graduation.

Curriculum

The school teaches the full range of

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subjects at Key Stage 3 and a range of options at Key Stage 4. A

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support system within each faculty helps pupils with learning difficulties. The school offers extra-curricular activities.

Notable alumni

Todmorden Grammar School

* Sir

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OM - nuclear physicist -

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winner in 1951, President of the

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from 1960 to 1962 *

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- musician, saxophonist and keyboardist for the English band

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* John Kettley - weather forecaster *

Robert Shackleton Robert Shackleton CBE (25 November 1919 – 9 September 1986) was an English French language philologist and librarian. Shackleton was born in Todmorden, now in West Yorkshire. He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, and taught French ...

CBE, French language

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Grenville Turner Grenville Turner (born 1 November 1936, in Todmorden) is a research professor at the University of Manchester. He is one of the pioneers of cosmochemistry. Education * Todmorden Grammar School * St. John's College, Cambridge (MA) * Balliol ...

- nuclear physicist and Professor of Isotope Geochemistry at the

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from 1988 to 2002 * Prof Sir

Geoffrey Wilkinson Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson FRS (14 July 1921 – 26 September 1996) was a Nobel laureate English chemist who pioneered inorganic chemistry and homogeneous transition metal catalysis. Education and early life Wilkinson was born at Springside, Todm ...

- chemist, the Sir

Edward Frankland Sir Edward Frankland, (18 January 18259 August 1899) was an English chemist. He was one of the originators of organometallic chemistry and introduced the concept of combining power or valence. An expert in water quality and analysis, he was ...

Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the

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from 1956 to 1988, winner of the

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in 1973

References

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