Pudsey Grammar School

Pudsey Grammar School
Address
Mount Pleasant Road Pudsey , West Yorkshire , LS28 7ND England
Coordinates	53.79884°N 1.66290°W / 53.79884; -1.66290
Information
Type	Foundation School
Motto	"Be Just and Fear Not"
Established	1905[1]
Local authority	City of Leeds
Trust	21st Century Learning Partnership
Specialist	Mathematics and computing
Department for Education URN	108079 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Chair	David Webster
Headteacher	Mark McKelvie
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11 to 18
Website	http://www.pudseygrammar.co.uk/

Pudsey Grammar School is a secondary school with a sixth form in Pudsey, West Yorkshire, England. It serves over 1300 pupils from the town and surrounding area. The school has a large Sixth Form of over 260 students offering 20 A level courses and 6 Applied General courses.[2]

History

It was first established in 1905 under the name Pudsey and District Secondary School, meeting in Pudsey Town Hall until the school's first purpose-built building opened on Richardshaw Lane in 1911, with construction having started in mid-1909. The name changed to Pudsey Grammar School in 1944 and was known by this name until 1980 at which point the name changed to Pudsey Grangefield School. It was later given the status of a specialist college of Maths and Computing. In September 2021 the school changed its name back to Pudsey Grammar School.[3]

The school's logo is the coat of arms of Pudsey, bearing the slogan "Be Just and Fear Not". The logo is built into the face of the original Grammar School Building; this Grade II listed building at the front of the old site has been converted into flats, and the rest of the site was demolished to make an open recreational area for the new building.^[citation needed]

The school has only had six Headteachers since 1911.[4] On 21 September 2009, the school was visited by the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott.[5] The school was also visited in 2010 by Labour leadership candidate and former Foreign Secretary David Miliband,[6]^[failed verification] who described the new building as "a great monument to Labour government".[7]

Behaviour Hub

In April 2022 Pudsey Grammar School was named as part of the expansion of the Department for Education's national Behaviour Hubs programme as one of only 18 Lead Secondary schools nationally.[8] This is in recognition of the school's 'exemplary behaviour culture'.[9]

Notable former pupils

• Jerry Brotton, Chair of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London and presenter of the BBC series Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession
• Carolynne Good, finalist on Fame Academy
• Matthew Hoggard, England cricketer
• Adrian Riley, artist and designer
• Nile Wilson, Olympic gymnastics bronze medallist on the horizontal bar in Summer 2016

Pudsey Grammar School

• Sir Len Hutton, opening batsman for England and Yorkshire
• Peter Ransley, screenwriter
• David Shutt, Baron Shutt of Greetland OBE
• Dudley Williams FRS, Professor of Biological Chemistry from 1996 to 2006 at the University of Cambridge;[10] his work led to effectiveness of the antibiotic vancomycin

References

1. "Pudsey Grangefield School, Richardshaw Lane, Pudsey". Leodis. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
2. "Home". Pudsey Grammar School. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
3. "Pudsey Grangefield plans to change name back to 'Grammar School'". West Leeds Dispatch. 11 February 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
4. "Our History". Pudsey Grammar School. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
5. "Leeds school puts Prescott in the spotlight". Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
6. pudseygrangefield.leeds.sch.uk Archived 20 July 2012 at archive.today
7. twitter.com
8. "DfE Behaviour Hubs scheme doubles in size". Tes Magazine. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
9. "DfE unveils dozens of new behaviour hub schools and trusts". schoolsweek.co.uk. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
10. "Prof Dudley Williams". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 9 April 2023.