Pudsey Grangefield School
| Motto | "Be Just and Fear Not" and "Striving for excellence...Daring to be different" |
|---|---|
| Headteacher | Ken Cornforth |
| Religious head | Mr Harris |
| Specialism | Maths & Computing |
| Location |
Mount Pleasant Road Pudsey West Yorkshire LS28 7ND England Coordinates: 53°47′56″N 1°39′46″W / 53.79884°N 1.66290°W |
| Local authority | City of Leeds |
| Ages | 11–19 |
| Website | www.pudseygrangefield.leeds.sch.uk |
Pudsey Grangefield School is a state secondary school in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was built in 1911 with construction starting in mid-1909. For around 60 Years it was called Pudsey Grammar School, since then it has been Pudsey Grangefield School. It was later given the status of a specialist college of Maths and Computing.
It serves around 1185 pupils from the surrounding area along with two other Pudsey schools, Crawshaw and Priesthorpe. The school also runs the Pudsey Consortium sixth form with these two schools.[citation needed]
The school's lifelong logo is the official coat of arms of Pudsey, bearing the slogan "Be Just and Fear Not". The logo is built into the face of the original Grammar School Building; this Grade II listed building at the front of the old site will be sold off as flats, with the rest of the site being demolished to allow construction of an open recreational area for the new building.[citation needed]
On 21 September 2009 the school was visited by the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott.[1] The school was also visited in 2010 by Labour leadership candidate and former Foreign Secretary David Miliband,[2] who described the new building as "a great monument to Labour government"[3]
Headteacher Ken Cornforth was promoted from Deputy Headteacher in 1996-67 on the retirement of long-serving Headteacher Margaret Cooke.
The school has its own TV program, "Friday World", broadcast every Friday breaktime at 10:40 am since 1987. The school also has its own radio station, which began in 1986 as "Radio Grangefield". Since 1997 it has broadcast for a few weeks each year on FM under a Restricted Service Licence, issued by Ofcom, originally under the name "Pudsey Grangefield FM", later abbreviated to PGFM.[citation needed]
Notable pupils
- Jerry Brotton, Chair of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London and presenter of the BBC series Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession
- Carolynne Good, finalist on Fame Academy
- Matthew Hoggard, England cricketer
References
- ↑ "Leeds school puts Prescott in the spotlight - Yorkshire Evening Post". www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
- ↑ pudseygrangefield.leeds.sch.uk
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