Grosvenor Grammar School

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**Grosvenor Grammar**

Address	Cameronian Drive Belfast BT5 6AX
Phone	(+ 44 28) 9070 2777
Headmaster	J A Lockett, BA, MEd, CTC
School type	Voluntary Grammar
School Board	BELB
Location	Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Enrollment	1082 students
School colour(s)	Green, Blue
Motto	Veritas Liberabit

Grosvenor Grammar School is a coeducational voluntary grammar school in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

The school was founded in 1945 and was originally located on the Grosvenor Road in west Belfast. The school relocated to its current site in east Belfast in 1958. In rugby the school has won the Ulster Schools Cup once (in 1983). Lately they have become stronger in football, winning the 2006 Belfast & District league as well as the Northern Ireland Schools Cup, despite traditionally (especially during the tenure of former headmaster Kenneth Reid) being more focused on rugby.

DUP politician Sammy Wilson is a former economics teacher at the school.

The school library contains approximately 9,500 books and a selection of videos, audiotapes and DVDs. The main library has six online computers as well as a state-of-the-art borrowing system. In addition, the adjacent ILC has twenty online computers. Pupil librarians are encouraged to play an important part in the successful running of the library through their work in shelving, tidying and issuing.

1 Awards
2 Alumni
3 References
4 External links
5 See Also

[edit] Awards

Miss Anabel Samperiz-Corvinos from Grosvenor Grammar School was awarded the 2006 Guardian Teaching Award for Teacher of the Year in a Secondary School in Northern Ireland at a ceremony on 15 June 2006 at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast.

[edit] Alumni

Footballer George Best attended the school while it was located on the Grosvenor Road. However as the school concentrated on rugby at the time rather than football, he moved to Lisnasharragh High School. Another reason Best gave for the move was that his school uniform identified him as a Protestant in the mainly Catholic west Belfast.
George Gorman
Richard Orr
Robert McCartney