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 School Musicals put on (since merger)
6 Former Pupils
7 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, 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] School Musicals put on (since merger)

Les Miserables
- Producer: Rosie Withers; Musical Director: John Pennington;
- Principles
  Jean Valjean - Phil Raymond
  Javert - Jonathan Gunson
  Marius - Richard Leigh
  Fantine - Caroline Gaunt
  Enjolras - Alex Bradbrook
  Eponine - Becky Hoyle
  Cosette - Sarah Lenney
  Thénardier - Henry Cox
  Mme Thénardier - Abby Hesketh
  Gavroche - Richie Withers
  Coufeyrac - Nicholas Withers
  - Students & Chorus
    Nick Withers, Alex Cooper, Peter Mackay, Waleed Arshad, Michael Karling, Hannah Delamore, Jennie Luke, Jess Pratt and many others.
Godspell - which was taken to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Grease
Sound of Music
The Mikado

[edit] Former Pupils

Notable former pupils include comedian 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 and Blair Martin.