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Revision as of 12:40, 10 December 2007
Calday Grange Grammar School | |
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Type | selective boys grammar school, mixed sixth form |
Motto | Nisi Dominus Frustra |
Established | 1636 |
Founder | William Glegg |
Headmaster | Andrew Hall |
Grades | Age 11-19 including Sixth Form |
Enrolment | 1500 |
Campus | 30 acres |
Colour(s) | Navy Blue, White, Maroon |
Affiliations | Grammar school |
Website | http://www.calday.wirral.sch.uk |
Calday Grange Grammar School (abbreviated to CGGS; also known as Calday,Calday Grange) is a grammar school, founded in 1636 which is situated on Caldy Hill above the town of West Kirby on the Wirral. It is one of the oldest schools on Wirral. The school takes boys (and girls for the sixth form). It is a Foundation School, designated Technology College, and as of 2006 is also a designated Language College.
Geography
The school is situated in a residential area of Wirral close to the Dee Estuary. The pupils largely come from the Deeside areas of Wirral. In recent years, however, an increasing number are opting to join from the rest of Wirral and from Cheshire. The main site at the top of Caldy Hill is occupied by the school buildings. A mile down the hill, towards Chester, Calday has playing fields, with 3 functional rugby pitches, a cricket square, and an artificial hockey field (sand based AstroTurf). Altogether the land occupies 30 acres. The school is surrounded by suburban housing development and the woods of Thurstaston and Caldy.
Achievements
The school has a high achievement in both sport and academic results:
- In the 2003/2004 season, the year Nine hockey team won both the Wirral final and the North West of England regional final. They continued to the national finals, where they unfortunately lost both matches, and only scoring one goal. Scored by Graeme Larkin. [1]
- The school has recently produced a number of famous plays and musicals, including Les Miserables and West Side Story. In November 2006, a production of The Who's Tommy was performed and in March 2007, William Shakespeare's Richard III was performed.
- Calday has won the past 8 of the last 10 regional annual United Nations quizzes. In 2005, the School "A" team defeated local rivals Park High, 44-40, taking the title for the third year in a row.
- Calday also won the Gold in the UK Schools Quiz Championship in 2005, having achieved Silver in 2004.
- Calday won the cricket Year 8 Cheshire Cup in 2005 beating Sale Grammar School by 10 wickets.
- The school also has strong links with schools in Russia, China, and Germany, and takes part in regular student exchange programs.
- The Merseyside regional Mock trials were won by Calday in 2005.
- School teams excel at table tennis, rugby, and hockey.
- Students have gone on co-educational trips, to Westminster, CERN, etc.
- Winning the UK robotics and coming third in the world beating Germany 12-1
- The Royal Air Force section of the school's Combined Cadet force contingent have been declared drill champions in the Ground Training Competition once in recent years.
- The Army section of the schools Combined Cadet Force (CCF) recently won the last ever "Cheshire Cup" an inter-ccf comptetition, against local CCF's.
- On 26th April 2007, Calday U14s defeated St. Ambrose School at Wilmslow Rugby Club, to win the U14s Cheshire Knockout Cup.
- Around 6-10 pupils annually get offers for university placements at Oxford and Cambridge.
Buildings
The buildings/blocks are named after past headmasters or the subject taught there. The current buildings are:
- The Art building (A) [Including Michael Cross Drama Studio] - Art and Drama
- The Business Centre (B) - Business Studies/Economics, Law, Philosophy
- The Canteen Extension (C) - Music
- The Dodd building (D) - Technology, ICT
- The E Block (E) - Careers, Counselling, Wirral Able Child Centre
- The Glasspool building (G) - English, Mathematics, Psychology
- The Hawkins building (H) - Modern Foreign Languages, Latin
- The Walker building (W) - Sciences, Geography, History, RE
- The Nigel Briers Building (W) - Study Area, English, History, Government and Politics
Each building has a letter code consisting of the first letter of its name, with the exception of the Briers building, which, for this purpose, is considered an extension of the Walker building. These letters are used to designate room names, for example, the second room (2) on the first floor (1) of the Hawkins building (H) is known as H12.
Houses
The school has three Houses named after past benefactors and headmasters. Members of each house are identified by different coloured stripes on the school tie, or in the case of the 6th form, the colour of their lapel pin or 6th form tie.
- Bennett - Named after Thomas Bennett, House colour blue
- Glegg - Named after William Glegg, House colour red
- Hollowell - Named after Rev. William Hollowell, House colour green
Up until quite recently [citation needed] there was a fourth house, named after Sir Alfred Paton, with gold as its house colour. Although Paton House is no more, Sir Alfred's memory is preserved in the naming of Paton Fields, bequeathed by him to the school in 1928.
Famous alumni
- Most Rev. William Bennett Bond (1815-1906), Archbishop of Montreal
- John Bowe - actor, notably as Duggie Ferguson in Coronation Street between 1999 and 2002 and as Colonel Feyador in the James Bond film The Living Daylights, (1987).
- Steve Bower - Setanta presenter and commentator
- Daniel Craig - actor, notably James Bond in Casino Royale, (2006) and 'XXXX' in Layer Cake, (2004). His Calday attendance was brief; having joined the Sixth Form to do his A-levels, he quit in 1984 after two weeks, aged 16, when he moved to London to pursue acting.
- Will Foster - Member of pop band The Tears
- Cyril Edward Gourley - Victoria Cross recipient
- Raymond Towers Holmes (1914-2005), Battle of Britain RAF pilot, famous for stopping a German bomber from attacking Buckingham Palace by crashing his Hurricane fighter into it during WWII
- Paul Humphreys - of the group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
- Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy - "Woodbine Willy"; First World War poet - taught at Calday 1905-1907.
- Craig Lindfield - football player at Liverpool F.C.
- Andy McCluskey - of the group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
- David Raven - football player at Carlisle United
- Bill Steer - guitarist in the band Napalm Death from 1987-1989, more well known as a member of grind-pioneers Carcass
- Ray Stubbs - TV presenter on BBC and contestant on the 2007 series of Comic Relief Does Fame Academy.
- Sir David Weatherall - Oxford physician and editor of the Oxford Textbook of Medicine
Headmasters
Years | Calday Grange Grammar School |
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1886-1891 | Charles T. Blanshard |
1891-1920 | Rev W. Hollowell |
1920-1945 | Reginald Thomas Booth Glasspool |
1945-1953 | R. Eldred. Witt |
1953-1964 | Eric William Hawkins |
1965-1978 | Rev Kenneth Saxon Watkinson Walker |
1978 | Peter Dodd (acting) |
1979-1986 | Peter Dodd [2] |
1986-2002 | Nigel Briers |
2002- present | Andrew John Hall |
Further reading
- M. J. Protheroe M.A. (Oxon.) - A History of Calday Grange Grammar School, West Kirby, 1636-1976 (1976)
References
- ^ http://www.englandhockey.co.uk/competitions.asp?section=000100010008&competition=00010006000300010001&id=226
- ^ Peter Dodd had been deputy headmaster since 1971, he became acting headmaster when Rev Walker retired and was not appointed permanent headmaster until 1979 (The Caldean, December 1979)