King Edward VII and Queen Mary School

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King Edward VII and Queen Mary School is an HMC public school in Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire, England.

KEQMS Badge

The Lytham Schools Foundation was established in 1719 after a flood disaster in the town. In 1908, one hundred and eighty-nine years after the Foundation's initial formation, King Edward VII School was opened to provide an education for local boys. The opening of the girls' Queen Mary School followed in 1930.

1 Facilities
2 Motto
3 Amalgamation
4 Houses
5 Former Pupils
6 Links

[edit] Facilities

The school boasts extensive sports grounds, including a new synthetic hockey pitch, top of the range computing facilities, modern language laboratories, modern library and a sea view; has a reputation of excellence in sports and a thriving history of drama productions and has links with schools in the Czech Republic, France and Germany, with which exchange trips are frequently held.

[edit] Motto

The school's motto is 'Sublimis Ab Unda', which is Latin for 'Raised From The Waves', in reference to the fact the school was funded by the aforementioned flood disaster.

KEQMS Main Building

[edit] Amalgamation

Due to New Labour's abolition of Assisted Places in 1997, the two single-sex schools were forced to merge. Now fully co-educational and housed in and around the old King Edward VII building, it consists of a Kindergarten, Infant, Junior and Senior School, plus a Sixth Form. The Queen Mary site has been sold in order to raise money for the continuing development of the new school.

[edit] Houses

The senior school has had 2 house systems, before the amalgamtion it was:

Argonauts
Adventurers
Lancastrians
St Johns
Templars

And post amalgamation it changed to:

Ashton
Lowther
Talbot
Clifton

[edit] Former Pupils

Notable old pupils include comedienne Jenny Eclair; actress Holly Newman' author Mary Brown; Chairman of Cadbury Schweppes and this year's President of the Confederation of British Industry, John Sunderland; Leeds Tykes centre Lee Blackett; lead singer of Jethro Tull, Ian Anderson; Equerry to Her Majesty the Queen, Simon Brailsford.