Netherthorpe School

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the sixth form

Netherthorpe School is a secondary school designated science college status that is based in the village of Staveley in Derbyshire.^[1]

The headmistress of the school at the present time is Mrs Headley Msc. Other notable members of staff include Mr Townsend, Ms Teather and Mr Senior. The schools pupils are divided into three houses after the founders, theses houses are Sitwell, Frecheville and DeRodes. Throughout the year, pupils compete in inter-house competitions to win the coveted 'Rose Bowl.'

The school has two school anthems- these are 'Forty Years On (song)' and 'Gaudeamus igitur' and both are sung in certain assemblies and at special school occasions. The school strongly believes in traditions and roots; the uniform today is based on the uniforms of the first pupils and there is an active Senior Debating Society that has run for over ninety years. The meetings of the society are held in the original listed part of the school, built in 1572 and affectionately known as 'the old school' by pupils. Netherthorpe School are the current holders of the Derbyshire debating trophy.

[edit] History

The school was founded in 1572^[2]

A quote from an 1857 directory:

Netherthorpe School.—Francis Rodes, by will, 29th of Elizabeth, left a yearly rent charge of £20 per annum, to be taken forth of his manor of Elmton; £8 thereof to the Grammar school, at Staveley Netherthorpe, £8 for two scholarships in St. John’s, Cambridge, and £4 for the relief of soldiers who should be sent to the wars out of Steveley, Barlborough, and Elmton. Robert Sitwell, by will, 41st Elizabeth, gave a messuage in Killamarsh, on trust, to pay £6 yearly to the schoolmaster. Lord James Cavendish, 1742, left a rent charge of £6, issuing out of closes at Hollingwood, for the maintenance of the schoolmaster. In addition to these, the Rev. Francis Gisborne gave £10, to be invested in stock. The income of the various benefactions amounts to £29 per annum. All the sons of parishioners are considered as entitled to classical instruction; but the master makes his own charge for other branches.^[3]