Marling School
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| Motto | Abeunt studia in mores (Studies form character) |
| Established | 1887 |
| Type | foundation grammar |
| Headteacher | Roger Lock |
| Founder | Sir Samuel Marling |
| Specialism | Engineering |
| Location | Cainscross Road Stroud Gloucestershire GL5 4HE  England |
| LEA | Gloucestershire |
| Ofsted number | 115752 |
| Students | 874 |
| Gender | Boys |
| Ages | 11 to 18 |
| Website | Marling School |
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Marling School is a grammar school for boys located in Stroud, Gloucestershire in England, next to its sister school, Stroud High School. It is on the Cainscross Road, the main route out of Stroud towards the M5.[1]
The school won the Schools Achievement Award for 2002.[2]
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[edit] History
Marling School is the oldest secondary school in Stroud, having been founded in 1887 by Sir Samuel Marling, a local cloth manufacturer and former Liberal Member of Parliament, along with Sir Francis Hyett and Mr S S Dickinson.
In 1882, Sir Samuel Marling offered £10,000 towards the building of the school [3], and the school also inherited a number of endowments from the Red Coat School which was founded in 1642 by Thomas Webb, the St Chloe School founded at Amberley by Nathaniel Cambridge in 1699, and the educational charities established in the 17th and 18th centuries by William Johns and Robert Aldridge.
The new school opened to fee-paying pupils in 1889 and in 1909 the school became a public secondary school. Its endowments, along with those of the Stroud School of Science and Art and the Stroud High school for girls, were placed under the administration of a body called the Stroud Educational Foundation[4].
In 1965 the school was amalgamated with the Stroud Technical School for Boys which had been founded on a neighbouring site in 1910. The Technical School buildings now form much of the Lower School portion of the Marling campus.[5]
The original buildings were built shortly after the school's foundation, and both the long and short corridors were formerly temorary army field hospitals and as such became classified as listed buildings.[6] The short corridor has, however, now been demolished to make way for a new classroom block.
[edit] Facilities
Marling School is currently undergoing extensive modernising and building work. The new sixth form block is now operational and servicing the students of the combined Downfield Sixth Form centre. There is a new Design and Technology block following a fire that destroyed the former block in 2002. The cause of this fire is still unknown, but presumed to be an electrical fault. The block incorporates teaching rooms for Food technology, Graphical Products, Resistant materials and Electronics. Other new facilities include the Sports Hall (otherwise affectionately known as the "Green Goddess" by some staff and students), and shares a relatively new Music block with Stroud High School, which has very good facilities including a Recording Studio and Music Technology Classroom, used by GCSE and sixth form students.
Other than this, the rest of the buildings are rather run down. Some of the buildings are old, and require replacing. The long corridor was built during World War II to house evacuees. It is built out of wood framed asbestos sheets. Also, the temporary classrooms are in need of replacing. A scheme is currently in place to replace these old buildings for new classrooms.
Building work is now finished on a new 20 classroom, 2 storey block, in the place of the old short corridor. [7]
There are also plans to sell the East Campus (Previously known as the Lower School and containing the English and Modern Foreign Language rooms) after the building works and move all of the students to the West Campus (Previously known as the Upper School). This is being met with some opposition by parents, teachers and students. Currently the East Campus buildings are being used by the Art department.
[edit] Notable alumni
Notable alumni include:
- Peter Hennessy, historian, political journalist and Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary College, University of London
- Jack Lee, the film director and brother of Laurie Lee
- Peter Barnes, dramatist
- Sir Michael R Angus, businessman and former Chairman of Unilever.
- Mark Chappell, BBC sitcom writer
- Tim McInnerny, actor and star of Blackadder
- William Moseley, actor, most famous for his role as Peter Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
- Michael Ball, former Bishop of Truro and co-founder of the Community of the Glorious Ascension taught at the school in the 1960s and 1970s
[edit] Gallery
 The Short Corridor. Now demolished for the new 20 class room block. |
 The Marling School West Campus sign. |
 The new Food technology room. |
 The Marling Crest. |
[edit] References
- ^ "Marling School Track", School Track. URL last accessed on 2006-05-04.
- ^ "Candidates for Information", Schools Portal. URL last accessed on 2006-05-04.
- ^ Digital Stroud : Marling School
- ^ Stroud - Education | British History Online
- ^ Downfield Sixth Form Continued
- ^ "Stroud Education", British History Online. URL accessed on 2006-05-04.
- ^ "Ofsted Report for Marling School", Ofsted Government Agency. URL last accessed on 2006-05-04.
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