Bridlington School is a

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and

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located on ''

Bessingby Bessingby is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies immediately south-east from the A614, approximately south-west from Bridlington. The village forms part of Bridlington civil parish. History Bessingby appears to be a s ...

Road'' ( A165), in

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in the

East Riding of Yorkshire The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Riding or East Yorkshire, is a ceremonial county and unitary authority area in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and west, South Yorkshire to t ...

, England.

History

Grammar school

The school was formed from Bridlington School (a grammar school founded on the site 20 September 1899, although founded in 1447 by King Henry VI) on Bessingby Road and Bridlington High School for Girls (founded in 1905) on St John's Street. The girls' school was opened on 26 September 1905 by

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; it cost £3,500. In November 1938, 13-year-old Tom Elliott of

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died at the school when a small splinter of bone in a playground accident punctured a main artery. The school had around 550 boys in the 1950s and 1960s with a boarding school. The girls' school also had a boarding house. The girls' school had around 550 girls.

Comprehensive

In 1975 the

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(one year after

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was formed with its base in Beverley) changed the school to a comprehensive. The high school site became Bridlington Lower School and the current site was the Upper School. Most of the lower school site has become a housing estate, although the main building, visible from Quay Road, has been preserved and converted into flats. When a comprehensive it still had its girls' and boys' boarding house until the 1990s. It no longer has a boarding house.

School motto

The school motto is “''Vitai Lampada Tradunt'',” taken from the Roman poet and philosopher

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' ''

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'' (On the Nature of the Universe – Book II, Line 79), and directly translates as "They Hand on the Torch of Life." The motto is shared with that of

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Combined Cadet Force

The school has a

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which celebrated its centenary in 2010. Before the CCF, the school had an

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. It has all three sections. The

is one of the Schools stronger attributes.

Awards

* The school was awarded

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status in 2002 * Sportsmark was awarded in 2007 by

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* The school was awarded

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in 2008 by

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Academic standards

Bridlington School emerged from

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on 1 March 2007. The most recent full

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inspection of the school in May 2013 concluded it was a "good" school. A short inspection on 5 June 2017 confirmed that the school had retained its "good" rating. The Sixth Form has recently joined with Headlands Sixth Form to form 'The Shores'.

Notable former pupils

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, actor * Ernie Cooper; Guinness Record holder for the longest Rugby Union penalty kick — 81-yard (74.06 m), while captaining the school against an Army team in a match played at the school in 1944. *

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; Labour MP from 1997–2010 for

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* Air Marshal Sir

Eric Dunn Air Marshal Sir Eric Clive Dunn, (27 November 1927 – 16 July 2008) was a senior Royal Air Force officer. Born in Winchester on 27 November 1927 to the son of Royal Air Force Wing Commander he was educated at Bridlington School, East Ridin ...

KBE CB BEM CEng

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, former Chief Engineer of the RAF in the mid-1980s *

Norman Feather Norman Feather FRS FRSE PRSE (16 November 1904 – 14 August 1978), was an English nuclear physicist. Feather and Egon Bretscher were working at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge in 1940, when they proposed that the 239 isotope of element ...

, FRS, nuclear physicist.

References

External links

Official site

Old Bridlingtonians Club

News items

School damage in August 2004
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