The Bemrose School

The Bemrose School
Motto Learning together, working together, achieving together
Established 1930
Type Trust School from 2009, previously mixed comprehensive (1975 to 2009), originally a boys grammar school from 1930 to 1975.
Location Uttoxeter New Road
Derby
Derbyshire
DE22 3HU
England
Houses Chatsworth, Haddon, Hardwick, Kedleston
Website www.bemrose.derby.sch.uk

The Bemrose School is a foundation trust all-through school situated on Uttoxeter New Road, Derby, England, with an age range of pupils from 3 – 19. Opened as a boys' grammar school in 1930, it became a co-educational comprehensive school in 1975. It then became an all-through school with the addition of a primary phase in 2014.

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. The new school was officially opened on 11 July 1930 by Sir Charles Trevelyan, President of the Board of Education.

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.

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). 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, named Bemrose Community School.

When Bemrose became a Foundation Trust school the school name was changed to The Bemrose School

In 2015, a new building was built and a Primary Phase was opened making Bemrose an all through school for ages 3-19.

Headteachers

Old Bemrosians

See also Old Bemrosians.

Boys' grammar school

Former teachers

Bibliography

Elmtree

In 2010 The Bemrose School opened Elmtree, a specialist autism unit, it is a separate unit to ERF opened some years ago.

References

  1. The Times, 29 October 1957; pg. 5; col G
  2. The Times, 22 October 1971; pg. 14; col D
  3. James Bolam at museum.tv, accessed 30 October 2013
  4. Sir Nigel Rudd profile at managementtoday.co.uk (accessed 30 October 2013)
  5. Pictures of Derby at picturesofderby.co.uk (accessed 30 October 2013)
  6. Steve Powell at therams.co.uk (accessed 22 June 2008)

Coordinates: 52°58′N 1°19′W / 52.967°N 1.317°W / 52.967; -1.317

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