Worcester Sixth Form College is a 16-19 Academy in

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, England. It is located in the south-east of the city and was founded on the site of the former Worcester Grammar School for Girls following reorganisation in 1983.

Admissions

The campus of the college is over in area and it shares playing fields and sports facilities extending a further . The college enrolled 1,569 students on daytime courses in 2008/09. As one of only two state schools offering sixth form education in Worcester, the school is specialised in mainstream education for students ages 16 – 19 most of whom were aged 16 to 18. The majority of students are full-time and follow National Curriculum GCE A-level courses. A February 2016

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inspection accorded the school a Grade 2 (Good). It is situated in Red Hill, next-door to Worcestershire County Hall and south of Worcester Woods Country Park. It is just over a mile north of junction 7 of the M5, accessed via the A44 and A4440.

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, a school for the blind, is nearby to the south. Worcester's running track at the Nunnery Wood Sports Complex is behind the college and

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. DEFRA have a large site south of the college.

History

Grammar school

As the City of Worcester Grammar School for Girls, it was situated on Sansome Walk in the centre of Worcester. This has now become flats. It started in 1908 as the Worcester Secondary School for Girls, which moved into new buildings on 2 November 1910, and moved again in 1929 to a site in Barbourne. It became the City of Worcester Grammar School for Girls in September 1945. In September 1962 it moved to the Spetchley Road site. Royal Grammar School Worcester was the analogous boys' school, and was partly maintained by Hereford and Worcester until 1983 when it became completely independent. Due to the boys' school becoming independent, the LEA proposed changes to its education policy (under a Conservative government) during 1982 to create a 'super' co-educational

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on the girls' school site to educate 125 boys and girls (potentially) from the whole of Hereford and Worcester. Sir

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had doubts about the scheme. The

closed in 1983.

Sixth form college

The sixth form college opened in September 1983 - instead of a 'super' 11-18 co-educational grammar school and six 11-16 comprehensives in Worcester, the sixth form college model was chosen with six comprehensives. In 1998, the LEA changed from Hereford & Worcester to Worcestershire.

Former teachers

* Labour MP for

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, poet * Mary Taylor Slow, physicist, first woman to take up the study of radio as a profession.

Alumni

* Jake Abbott, rugby player * Simon Archer, badminton player *

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Worcester Grammar School for Girls

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* Lindsey Hilsum,

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International Editor, daughter of important physicist Prof Cyril Hilsum (who invented LCD screen technology at the nearby Royal Radar Establishment in Malvern) *

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in 2005)

References

External links

Worcester Sixth Form College Website

Former school

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{{authority control Educational institutions established in 1962 Education in Worcester, England Sixth form colleges in Worcestershire Academies in Worcestershire