Lady_Lumley's_School

Lady Lumley's School

Lady Lumley's School

Community school in Pickering, North Yorkshire, England

Lady Lumley's School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Pickering, North Yorkshire, England.[1] It was founded in Thornton-le-Dale in 1670.[2]

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It was endowed by deed of Frances, Viscountess Lumley, an ancestor of the Earl of Scarborough, in 1657, and the buildings completed in about 1680.[3][4]

It has school links worldwide, particularly within Tanzania, Morocco, China and France.[5]

The school has been awarded Sportsmark 2008, an iNET qualification, Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, a British Schools Orienteering award and was classified as a Healthy School.[citation needed] In 2010 Ofsted Inspection Report rated Lady Lumley's School as overall grade 2 (good).[6]

School history

The current co-educational school was originally two single-sex grammar schools, one in Thornton-le-Dale and one on Middleton Road in Pickering, both called Lady Lumley's Grammar School.[7] They were amalgamated in 1904/05, on the Pickering site.[7][8][9] In 1864, the school at Thornton had 26 pupils, all boys.[8]

During the Second World War, pupils from Middlesbrough High School for Girls were evacuated to Pickering, and shared the school with the Lady Lumley's pupils.[10]

In the 1940s, pupils carried out an archaeological excavation of the nearby mediaeval hospital of St Nicholas.[11]

In the first half of the twentieth century, the then headmaster of the school, F Austin Hyde, was an expert on the dialect of the area.[12]

Previously a community school administered by North Yorkshire County Council, in May 2021 Lady Lumley's School converted to academy status. It is now sponsored by the Coast and Vale Learning Trust.[13]

Notable former pupils

References

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    "A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2". British History Online.
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    Victoria County History: A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2. Victoria County History. 1923. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
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    Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1868). Reports from Commissioners. Ordered to be printed. pp. 582–. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
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    Gordon Clitheroe (15 September 2009). Pickering Through Time. Amberley Publishing Limited. pp. 60–. ISBN 978-1-4456-3029-8. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
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    Historic England. "St Nicholas' medieval hospital 550m East of Brick Yard Farm (1020763)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
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    Kilner, James (4 April 2006). "Hear the voice of the people". Gazette and Herald. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
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    "Our Schools". Scalby Learning Trust.
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    Taylor, Christopher M (15 April 2020). "In Memoriam: Professor Duncan Dowson (1928–2020)". Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part J: Journal of Engineering Tribology. 234 (6): 986–988. doi:10.1177/1350650120917261. S2CID 218616793.
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    "Seadogs must beat the fear factor". Gazette and Herald. 21 January 2004. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
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