| Motto | Nil Mortalibus Ardui Est (Means Nothing Is Impossible For Humankind) |
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| Established | 1709[2][3] |
| Type | Comprehensive |
| Head | Mrs. Janice Addison[1] |
| Chair | Mick Ulyatt[4] |
| Founder | Samuel Brunts[5] |
| Specialism | Performing Arts College |
| Location | The Park Mansfield, Nottinghamshire NG18 2AT England |
| Local authority | Nottinghamshire |
| Students | 1620[4] |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Colours | Green and gold |
| Sixth form | 288[4] |
| Website | www.brunts.notts.sch.uk |
The Brunts School is a large comprehensive school in north east Mansfield, Nottinghamshire in England.[4] The school is designated as a Performing Arts College. It has previously been a Grammar School and a Technical School and traces its foundation back to a bequest by Samuel Brunts in 1709. Its past students include 2008 double Olympic Gold medallist Rebecca Adlington.[6]
The Brunts School will become The Brunts Academy with effect from the 1st January 2012.
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The Brunts School can trace its history back to an elementary school that was founded in 1687 and had endowments equal to 100 pounds per year. In 1709,[5] Samuel Brunts left a bequest in order that local children could learn an honest trade. The bequest and the school resulted in 40 boys and girls learning reading, writing and arithmetic by 1831 with the girls particularly studying needlework. It was not until 60 years later that the school and the bequest were combined. By 1891, Samuel Brunts' bequest was worth £3,800 so the new school was named Brunts Technical School.[2]
In 1830 Brunts Charity owned buildings and land in East Bridgford, Nottingham's marketplace and at Claypool in Lincolnshire. It was the richest of all the charitable foundations in Mansfield in 1832 when it was paying out £4 a year to 220 different claimants.[5]
In 1891 a new building was built.[7] In 1976 Brunts Grammar School became a comprehensive.
The school's intake is taken from a number of schools known as the 'family of schools'. The list includes King Edward School, Sutton Road School, St Peter's (C of E) School, High Oakham School and Newgate Primary School.
The school uniform includes distinctive green blazers for both boys and girls. The school colours are green and gold,.[8] whilst the school emblem is a rearing griffin within a shield with "Nil mortalibus ardui est" emblazened upon it.
This former grammar school is distinguished by having its own school song, composed by former (music) teachers H S Rosen and A D Sanders in 1944. "Old Samuel Brunts was a Yeoman staunch in the days of good Queen Anne. He'd a heart as big as his periwig and he loved his fellow man. As he strolled one day down Toothill lane, with his red-heeled shoes and his gold topped cane, he took a pinch of choice rapis, and I know what I'll do with my lands said he. My lands I'll leave to my good trustees, to feed the poor and to bring them ease, to school young lads and to give them aid and apprentice them to a useful trade. Oh its fine to be a Yeoman free who shoots and rides and hunts but few you'll find with a soul more kind than stout old Samuel Brunts. But the lands he left in Victoria's day produced full twentyfold. And his trusts sat late in deep debate how best to use their gold. When a kindly old ghost who was standing near, whispered a word in the chairman's ear, build and endow me a school said he, that will show the world what a school can be. That a ghost should choose to air his views all natures laws affronts but none can doubt as the school turned out the wisdom of Samuel Brunts. So the school was built and on every side his family crest is seen. How blazon bold is the Griffin gold that flaunts on its field of green. And if one day you should chance to meet, a peri-wigged ghost on Leeming street. Give him a smile and a wave of the hand, he will see your badge and he'll understand. And so we'll say until that far off day when time all memory blunts, no school on earth shall match the worth than the school of Samuel Brunts."
In 2002, there were nearly 1500 pupils in the school of whom fewer than 1300 were at age 16 or below. The school achieved 57% A-C passes with only 5% achieving no passes at all. This was 5% better than the county and 10% above the national average.[9]
Overall the school is characterised by a high proportion of white pupils compared with the national average and nearly all students have English as their first language. Attainment is "broadly average" and at the inspection of the school by Her Majesty's Inspectorate in 2009, the school was assessed as "satisfactory" with higher marks for its pastoral care.[4]
In 2003 Brunts was awarded the Artsmark Gold Award and in 2006 the Healthy Schools Gold Standard and the Full International School Award.[4]
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