Bemrose School
Bemrose School
| Motto |
Non fallunt futura merentem
(The future does not fail the deserving)
Non nobis sed aliis
(Not for us but for others) |
| Established |
1902 |
| Closed |
1989 |
| Type |
grammar school, later comprehensive |
| Location |
Derby
Derbyshire
England |
| Houses |
Burke, Drake, Gainsborough, Nelson, Newton, Sidney, Wellington |
Bemrose School (founded in 1930), was a grammar school for boys in Derby, England, until 1975, when it became a comprehensive. It became comprehensive in 1989. There were a few difficult years as the school worked to establish itself as an all ability school for Derby. It became a Foundation School and then a Foundation Trust school, partnered with Littleover Community School, in 2009. Now known as 'The Bemrose School', there have been eight years of steady improvement - the percentage of students attaining 5 good GCSEs has risen from single figures (at the lowest ebb) to 64% in 2011. The school is expected to rise further in the coming years.
History
A new school called the Derby Municipal Secondary School for Boys was founded in Abbey Street, Derby, and opened on 12 September 1902. In December 1923, a new site for the school was acquired in Uttoxeter Road, Derby, and for some years was used for games. New school buildings designed by the architect Alexander Macpherson were built on the new site in 1928-1930 at a cost of £71,746, and when the school moved into them in 1930 it was renamed Bemrose School, in honour of the services to education of the Bemrose family of Derby, and in particular of Dr Henry Howe Bemrose.[1] The new school was officially opened on 11 July 1930 by Sir Charles Trevelyan, President of the Board of Education.[2]
A memorial to the sixty-eight old boys of the former Derby Municipal Secondary School who died in the First World War was moved to the new school's main corridor where it remains to this day.[3]
The school was originally divided into seven houses, each with its own colour and motto: Burke (Nil nisi bene), Drake (Semper audacter), Gainsborough (Vis unita fortior), Nelson, Newton (Consilio et animis), Sidney (Animo et fide), and Wellington (Pactum serva).[4]. In present times, the houses remain but there are now just four named after stately homes in Derbyshire - Chatsworth, Hardwick, Haddon, Kedleston.
The school became a grammar school, until in 1975 it was merged with Rykneld Boys' Secondary Modern School to make a new comprehensive school, when girls were first admitted.
Headmasters
- 1930-1940s: Mr W. A. Macfarlane MA (Oxon.) (previously head of the Derby Municipal Secondary School for Boys, 1923-1930)[5]
- 1952-1957: Mr Eric G. Bennett MA (Cantab.) [6][7]
- 1957-1971: Dr Raymond Chapman PhD (Innsbruck),[8][9] previously head master of Firth Park Grammar School, Sheffield[10]
- 1971-1980s: Mr W. M. Wearne MA,[11][12] previously head master of the Anglo-Colombian School, Bogota[13]
These headmasters were followed by Mr R Hobson, Mr R Kenny, Mr J Chartres, Mr R Feist and the current headteacher, Ms J Ward - the first woman to hold the position at Bemrose.
Notable Old Bemrosians
- See also Old Bemrosians.
- Brian Lux (born 1933), dentist and novelist[14]
- Colin Mortlock (born 1936), climber, writer and lecturer[15]
- James Bolam (born 1938) actor[16]
- Ian Blanchard (born 1941), Professor of Medieval Economic History, University of Edinburgh[17]
- Christopher Jensen-Butler (1945-2006), Professor of Economics at the University of St Andrews[18]
- Sir Nigel Rudd (born 1947), industrialist[19][20]
- Stephen Marley (born 1946), novelist
- Joe Andrew (academic) (born 1948), Professor of Russian Literature at Keele University
- Steve Powell, Derby County F.C. midfielder 1971-1985[21]
- Garry Robison (born 1958), Commandant-General of the Royal Marines since 2006 [22]
- Anton Rippon, (born 1944)Sports Journalist and Author "A Derby Boy"
- Michael Knowles, Actor "Dad's Army", "It Ain't Half Hot, Mum",scriptwriter "Dad's Army" (Radio series)
Bibliography
- Grimshaw, Frank, It Was Different in My Day (2002)
- Baker, Thompson and Sarfras, The History of Bemrose School 1930-2005 (2009)
References
Archived version of Bemrose.org site, which lapsed around 1 Jan 2008
- ^ Opening Day at bemrose.org (accessed 23 Nov 2009): Alderman Henry Howe Bemrose MA ScD JP was Chairman of the school's governing body, the son of Sir Henry Howe Bemrose MP and the father of Sir Max Bemrose MP.
- ^ History at bemrose.org (accessed 22 June 2008)
- ^ The World War I Memorial at bemrose.org (accessed 22 June 2008)
- ^ Bemrose home page at bemrose.org (accessed 22 June 2008)
- ^ Bemrose School Staff, 1933 at bemrose.org, accessed 29 July 2008
- ^ Bemrose Head leaving at bemrose.org, accessed 29 July 2008
- ^ Appointed headmaster of Bemrose School at bemrose.org, accessed 29 July 2008
- ^ Code Breaker's Years of Silence at bemrose.org, accessed 29 July 2008
- ^ Learning from the master in Derby Evening Telegraph dated 2 May 1995
- ^ The Times, October 29, 1957; pg. 5; col G
- ^ Wells, Martin, Attitude of teachers a bright hope at bemrose.org, accessed 29 July 2008
- ^ Farewell Booklet 1982 at bemrose.org, accessed 29 July 2008
- ^ The Times, Oct 22, 1971; pg. 14; col D
- ^ Brian Lux at academi.org (accessed 22 June 2008)
- ^ Colin Mortlock at cicerone.co.uk (accessed 22 June 2008)
- ^ James Bolam at museum.tv, accessed 18 July 2008
- ^ Special Minute : Professor Ian Stewart William Blanchard BSc (Econ) PhD at ianblanchard.com (accessed 22 June 2008)
- ^ Christopher Jensen-Butler at st-andrews.ac.uk (accessed 22 June 2008)
- ^ Sir Nigel Rudd profile at managementtoday.co.uk (accessed 22 June 2008)
- ^ Pictures of Derby at picturesofderby.co.uk (accessed 22 June 2008)
- ^ Steve Powell at therams.co.uk (accessed 22 June 2008)
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