Bournemouth School
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Bournemouth School is a boys' grammar school
and sixth-form college
occupying a site in Charminster, Bournemouth
, Dorset
, England
and teaching children from years 7 to 13 (ages 11 to 18). It is just off the B3063 (Charminster Road), in East Way. It is opposite Queen's Park Infants School.
.
s, and they effectively became bilateral school
s. This idea was pioneered by the Chief Education Officer of the County Borough of Bournemouth from 1956–72, Walter Smedley (who died aged 98 in June 2006) who was a former technical college lecturer, and allowed easier movement between the 'grammar streams' in these schools and the grammar schools. The system was nationally recognised, as it allowed greater flexibility, as is possible in comprehensive school
s, but allowed academic standards to be maintained - people's ability was still recognised. Movement was down as well as up. The system was well supported by parents. The rate of pupils staying on at school in the sixth form was 50% higher than the national average in the 1960s. Selection to the grammar schools from 1965 was not assessed by a single exam, but continuously. In the late 1960s, Bournemouth's schools were producing GCE results 250% better than comprehensives in London's ILEA
.
However in 1969, Edward Short, Baron Glenamara
, the Labour education secretary, condemned Bournemouth's education system. Once Mr Smedley left in 1972, the bilateral schools later became comprehensives. The last school of this type was Oakmead College of Technology
. Entrance exams for the grammar schools were also reintroduced. Bournemouth LEA still gets very good exam results, especially at A level. Dorset County Council took over from 1974-97.
In 2011, Bournemouth School ceased to hold its "selective grammar school" status, as it became an academy. The school kept its original name as well as its uniform and entrance examination through the change, however the school is now directly funded and overseen by the government rather than a local education authority.
and co-operates in running some sixth-form courses, which in many cases have mixed-gender classes.
It has close links with the neighbouring St Francis of Assisi Church.
Bournemouth School has been a member of the South West Academic Trust (SWAT) since its formation. It is partnered with seven other schools as well as Exeter University in order to provide extra-curricular activities in conjunction with other schools across the south west. The eight schools in the SWAT are: Bournemouth School, Bournemouth School for Girls
, Colyton Grammar School
, Poole Grammar School
, Torquay Boys Grammar School, Torquay Girls Grammar School, Churston Ferrers Grammar School
and South Wilts Grammar School.
', named after famous Englishmen:Elgar
, Darwin
, Newton
, Scott
and Turner
. Until September 1993, there were six: Avon, Forest, Hambledon, Portchester, Romsey and Twynham. All forms are delineated by house affiliation and as such pupils from year 7 to year 13 (upper sixth form
) remain in the same form, and although their 'form tutor' and 'form room' usually change every year, it is possible for their house to remain the same for the entirety of the school. The Housemasters are, Mrs Looker (Elgar), Mr Pritchard (Darwin), Mr Robjohns (Newton), Mr Hughes (Scott) and Mrs Teenan (Turner). The houses compete in school competitions ranging from sports to educational competitions. Currently Elgar hold the title of "House Champions", having replaced Scott who have won the Championship for the four years in a row.
. Languages offered to both pupils, and communities at large, include French
, German
, Spanish
, Italian
, Portuguese
, Japanese
, Mandarin Chinese and Arabic
.
To allow pupils to extend their language skills there is a student exchange programme. The language college has two computer suites, interactive whiteboards and extra staff. The school also provides services for primary schools in the area, teaching languages to their pupils.
There is a sub-committee in the council dedicated to the sixth form. This is chaired by one of the other deputy school captains (Sam Brown), and only deals with topics related to the sixth form and therefore only councillors from the sixth form attend the sub-committee meetings.
, a rarity for a state-funded school. The CCF has over 200 members (split into the three sections of Royal Navy, Army and RAF), the largest it has been for many years, from both Bournemouth School for Girls
and Bournemouth School. The CCF is run by technology teacher Major McAulay, along with senior cadets from the 6th form.
The CCF is open to pupils in year 9 (age 13) upwards with an annual recruitment usually in late November.
There is also a Band section that rehearses every week, also run by sixth form cadets, with each member choosing which uniform they wish to wear according to the section they want to be affiliated with.
Activities that cadets are able to take part in include gliding, flying, shooting, Ten Tors walk, national exchanges and camps including a Central Camp in the summer term. The RAF section also enter the Ground Training Competition
every year; this year they were ranked as the third best section in the south-west and best mixed-sex section in the south-west.
Cadets can also go on many camps and courses provided by the Royal Navy for little expense. These are well received with a large number of cadets taking the opportunity to get away for a week and gain useful qualifications
The school also has an armoury, containing between 20 and 30 rifles for the cadets to use. Most are SA80 L98A2 rifles (Cadet GP Variant), but a handful are Lee Enfield Rifles. All are bolt-action, and are used to train cadets how to load, cock, clean, etc. a rifle. These are fired on the school's on-site firing range, located in a bunker in the copse behind the main building. Ex-cadets are invited to join the COMPO mailing list.
from 1940 until 1989 by when it too had moved to another site. The old school building was then demolished and the houses built and named Fenwick Court, after Bournemouth School's first headmaster.
A new library and sixth form block was built in 1966, housing a lecture theatre, language laboratory, library and smaller rooms for sixth forms classes. It is now home to the business studies department.
In the early 1990s, the science department of the school was expanded with two new rooms at the northern end of the main school building (Rooms 41 and 42). These rooms were built over the previously single-storey north-eastern wing of the main building and are suspended by steel beams over the original building. At the initial point of building, the suspended floor was notorious for rocking in the wind and even today, the flooring is noisy. The narrow northern stairway that originally served the drama room and Biology Room 40 was pushed into service as a through corridor for the rest of the first floor (via the suspended corridor) and as such carries far more footfall than it was ever designed to. This causes congestion at lesson moving times.
The school has been expanded in recent years, including a new Technology
& Art block featuring CAD and CNC machinery and the Sir David English Sports Centre, the legacy of former headmaster Alan Petrie. A new maths block was opened in February, 2007, and is now used for maths and religious studies.
Room 82 has been converted into a food technology room, food tech is taught by Mrs. Palmer and is part of the Design & Technology rota.
team, the Bournemouth Raiders
.
Grammar school
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching classical languages but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school.The original purpose of mediaeval...
and sixth-form college
Sixth form
In the education systems of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and of Commonwealth West Indian countries such as Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Jamaica and Malta, the sixth form is the final two years of secondary education, where students, usually sixteen to eighteen years of age,...
occupying a site in Charminster, Bournemouth
Bournemouth
Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. According to the 2001 Census the town has a population of 163,444, making it the largest settlement in Dorset. It is also the largest settlement between Southampton and Plymouth...
, Dorset
Dorset
Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
and teaching children from years 7 to 13 (ages 11 to 18). It is just off the B3063 (Charminster Road), in East Way. It is opposite Queen's Park Infants School.
History
It is a misconception that the school is called "Bournemouth School for Boys". Since its foundation in 1901, it has always been known as "Bournemouth School". The formation of the girls' grammar school later on meant that this school had to be called Bournemouth School for GirlsBournemouth School for Girls
Bournemouth School for Girls is a grammar school located in Bournemouth, Dorset, exclusively for girls.It is a girls grammar school and sixth form college, teaching girls aged 11-18.-Academics:...
.
Bournemouth's education system
From the mid-1950s, 'grammar streams' were introduced into all Bournemouth secondary modern schoolSecondary modern school
A secondary modern school is a type of secondary school that existed in most of the United Kingdom from 1944 until the early 1970s, under the Tripartite System, and was designed for the majority of pupils - those who do not achieve scores in the top 25% of the eleven plus examination...
s, and they effectively became bilateral school
Partially selective school (England)
In England, a partially selective school is one of a few dozen state-funded secondary schools that select a proportion of their intake by ability or aptitude, permitted as a continuation of arrangements that existed prior to 1997....
s. This idea was pioneered by the Chief Education Officer of the County Borough of Bournemouth from 1956–72, Walter Smedley (who died aged 98 in June 2006) who was a former technical college lecturer, and allowed easier movement between the 'grammar streams' in these schools and the grammar schools. The system was nationally recognised, as it allowed greater flexibility, as is possible in comprehensive school
Comprehensive school
A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of a selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to the United...
s, but allowed academic standards to be maintained - people's ability was still recognised. Movement was down as well as up. The system was well supported by parents. The rate of pupils staying on at school in the sixth form was 50% higher than the national average in the 1960s. Selection to the grammar schools from 1965 was not assessed by a single exam, but continuously. In the late 1960s, Bournemouth's schools were producing GCE results 250% better than comprehensives in London's ILEA
Inner London Education Authority
The Inner London Education Authority was the education authority for the 12 inner London boroughs from 1965 until its abolition in 1990.-History:...
.
However in 1969, Edward Short, Baron Glenamara
Edward Short, Baron Glenamara
Edward Watson Short, Baron Glenamara, CH PC is a former Labour Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne Central, England. He was a minister during the Labour Governments of Harold Wilson...
, the Labour education secretary, condemned Bournemouth's education system. Once Mr Smedley left in 1972, the bilateral schools later became comprehensives. The last school of this type was Oakmead College of Technology
Oakmead College of Technology
Oakmead College of Technology is a mixed secondary school located in the northern outskirts of Bournemouth in southern England. There are approximately 1300 students between the ages of 11 and 18, a sixth form of about 150 students, and a nursery.- Oakmead :Oakmead College is divided into blocks A...
. Entrance exams for the grammar schools were also reintroduced. Bournemouth LEA still gets very good exam results, especially at A level. Dorset County Council took over from 1974-97.
In 2011, Bournemouth School ceased to hold its "selective grammar school" status, as it became an academy. The school kept its original name as well as its uniform and entrance examination through the change, however the school is now directly funded and overseen by the government rather than a local education authority.
Affiliations
The school shares playing fields with Bournemouth School for GirlsBournemouth School for Girls
Bournemouth School for Girls is a grammar school located in Bournemouth, Dorset, exclusively for girls.It is a girls grammar school and sixth form college, teaching girls aged 11-18.-Academics:...
and co-operates in running some sixth-form courses, which in many cases have mixed-gender classes.
It has close links with the neighbouring St Francis of Assisi Church.
Bournemouth School has been a member of the South West Academic Trust (SWAT) since its formation. It is partnered with seven other schools as well as Exeter University in order to provide extra-curricular activities in conjunction with other schools across the south west. The eight schools in the SWAT are: Bournemouth School, Bournemouth School for Girls
Bournemouth School for Girls
Bournemouth School for Girls is a grammar school located in Bournemouth, Dorset, exclusively for girls.It is a girls grammar school and sixth form college, teaching girls aged 11-18.-Academics:...
, Colyton Grammar School
Colyton Grammar School
Colyton Grammar School is a co-educational grammar school located in the village of Colyford in East Devon and teaches students from years 7 to 13 ....
, Poole Grammar School
Poole Grammar School
Poole Grammar School is a selective, all boys grammar school in Poole, on the south coast of England.-Admissions:...
, Torquay Boys Grammar School, Torquay Girls Grammar School, Churston Ferrers Grammar School
Churston Ferrers Grammar School
Churston Ferrers Grammar School is a selective coeducational Grammar School with Academy status, situated in the village of Galmpton in Torbay, South Devon...
and South Wilts Grammar School.
Houses
Bournemouth School has five 'housesHouse system
The house system is a traditional feature of British schools, and schools in the Commonwealth. Historically, it was associated with established public schools, where a 'house' refers to a boarding house or dormitory of a boarding school...
', named after famous Englishmen:Elgar
Edward Elgar
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...
, Darwin
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...
, Newton
Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton PRS was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, who has been "considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived."...
, Scott
Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13...
and Turner
J. M. W. Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner RA was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting...
. Until September 1993, there were six: Avon, Forest, Hambledon, Portchester, Romsey and Twynham. All forms are delineated by house affiliation and as such pupils from year 7 to year 13 (upper sixth form
Sixth form
In the education systems of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and of Commonwealth West Indian countries such as Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Jamaica and Malta, the sixth form is the final two years of secondary education, where students, usually sixteen to eighteen years of age,...
) remain in the same form, and although their 'form tutor' and 'form room' usually change every year, it is possible for their house to remain the same for the entirety of the school. The Housemasters are, Mrs Looker (Elgar), Mr Pritchard (Darwin), Mr Robjohns (Newton), Mr Hughes (Scott) and Mrs Teenan (Turner). The houses compete in school competitions ranging from sports to educational competitions. Currently Elgar hold the title of "House Champions", having replaced Scott who have won the Championship for the four years in a row.
Prefects
Students can first apply to be a prefect at the end of year 10. House masters normally choose five of the applicants from each form to become house prefects. Students remain house prefects until they can apply to become a full school prefect or a senior prefect at the end of year 12. The senior prefect team has a rigorous application process consisting of an interview with the headmaster, a pupil vote and a teacher vote. The current school captain is Robie Choudhury.Language College
Since the late 1990s, Bournemouth School has been designated a specialist Language CollegeLanguage College
Language Colleges were introduced in 1995 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enables secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, modern foreign languages...
. Languages offered to both pupils, and communities at large, include French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
, Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
, Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
, Mandarin Chinese and Arabic
Arabic language
Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...
.
To allow pupils to extend their language skills there is a student exchange programme. The language college has two computer suites, interactive whiteboards and extra staff. The school also provides services for primary schools in the area, teaching languages to their pupils.
School Council
Students can voice their own opinion on how their school is run through the medium of a school council. The council is run and chaired by one of the deputy school captains (Benjamin Clayton) with one council member from each form of the school. All students are free to stand for school council elections and, once the particular person has been chosen, he will then attend various meetings, discussions and conferences where he will represent his particular group of the pupils at the school.There is a sub-committee in the council dedicated to the sixth form. This is chaired by one of the other deputy school captains (Sam Brown), and only deals with topics related to the sixth form and therefore only councillors from the sixth form attend the sub-committee meetings.
CCF
The school also has an active Combined Cadet ForceCombined Cadet Force
The Combined Cadet Force is a Ministry of Defence sponsored youth organisation in the United Kingdom. Its aim is to "provide a disciplined organisation in a school so that pupils may develop powers of leadership by means of training to promote the qualities of responsibility, self reliance,...
, a rarity for a state-funded school. The CCF has over 200 members (split into the three sections of Royal Navy, Army and RAF), the largest it has been for many years, from both Bournemouth School for Girls
Bournemouth School for Girls
Bournemouth School for Girls is a grammar school located in Bournemouth, Dorset, exclusively for girls.It is a girls grammar school and sixth form college, teaching girls aged 11-18.-Academics:...
and Bournemouth School. The CCF is run by technology teacher Major McAulay, along with senior cadets from the 6th form.
The CCF is open to pupils in year 9 (age 13) upwards with an annual recruitment usually in late November.
There is also a Band section that rehearses every week, also run by sixth form cadets, with each member choosing which uniform they wish to wear according to the section they want to be affiliated with.
Activities that cadets are able to take part in include gliding, flying, shooting, Ten Tors walk, national exchanges and camps including a Central Camp in the summer term. The RAF section also enter the Ground Training Competition
Ground Training Competition
The Ground Training Competition, or The Air Squadron Trophy Competition as it is has recently been renamed, was created in 1998 as a way for CCF sections to contest the Air Squadron Trophy.-The Regional & National Stages:...
every year; this year they were ranked as the third best section in the south-west and best mixed-sex section in the south-west.
Cadets can also go on many camps and courses provided by the Royal Navy for little expense. These are well received with a large number of cadets taking the opportunity to get away for a week and gain useful qualifications
The school also has an armoury, containing between 20 and 30 rifles for the cadets to use. Most are SA80 L98A2 rifles (Cadet GP Variant), but a handful are Lee Enfield Rifles. All are bolt-action, and are used to train cadets how to load, cock, clean, etc. a rifle. These are fired on the school's on-site firing range, located in a bunker in the copse behind the main building. Ex-cadets are invited to join the COMPO mailing list.
History
The school was founded in 1901 by Dr E Fenwick, and moved to its present site in 1939. The old site was used by Portchester SchoolPortchester School
Portchester School, or Portchester Sports College, is a specialist sports secondary school in Bournemouth, England, for boys aged 11–16. The school was located on Portchester Road but was knocked down and moved to a new site in Harewood Avenue...
from 1940 until 1989 by when it too had moved to another site. The old school building was then demolished and the houses built and named Fenwick Court, after Bournemouth School's first headmaster.
A new library and sixth form block was built in 1966, housing a lecture theatre, language laboratory, library and smaller rooms for sixth forms classes. It is now home to the business studies department.
In the early 1990s, the science department of the school was expanded with two new rooms at the northern end of the main school building (Rooms 41 and 42). These rooms were built over the previously single-storey north-eastern wing of the main building and are suspended by steel beams over the original building. At the initial point of building, the suspended floor was notorious for rocking in the wind and even today, the flooring is noisy. The narrow northern stairway that originally served the drama room and Biology Room 40 was pushed into service as a through corridor for the rest of the first floor (via the suspended corridor) and as such carries far more footfall than it was ever designed to. This causes congestion at lesson moving times.
The school has been expanded in recent years, including a new Technology
Design Technology
Design and Technology is a school subject offered at all levels of primary and secondary school. In some countries such as England it is a part of the National Curriculum. It is offered in many countries around the world such as Brunei, Bermuda, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Jordan...
& Art block featuring CAD and CNC machinery and the Sir David English Sports Centre, the legacy of former headmaster Alan Petrie. A new maths block was opened in February, 2007, and is now used for maths and religious studies.
Room 82 has been converted into a food technology room, food tech is taught by Mrs. Palmer and is part of the Design & Technology rota.
Sport
From 1988 to 2006 the school had an American footballAmerican football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
team, the Bournemouth Raiders
Bournemouth Raiders
The Bournemouth Raiders was an American Football club based in Bournemouth, England. The club folded in May 2006.-Early days:The club was created in 1988 at Bournemouth School for Boys through a group of gridiron football enthusiasts...
.
Notable alumni
- Mark Austin, television newsreader and presenter
- Mark Baker, founder of TV company mast media and creator of ObliviousObliviousOblivious is a comedy game show that aired within the United States of America on TNN/Spike TV at various points between 2002 and 2004.It was also aired on Challenge in the UK, Ireland and The Comedy Channel in Australia and still airs on Real TV in South Korea and on TV2 Zebra in Norway. It no...
, The Big Call, The Yes/No Game Show and Judgemental. Producer of the Big BreakfastThe Big BreakfastThe Big Breakfast was a British light entertainment television show shown on Channel 4 and S4C each weekday morning from 28 September 1992 until 29 March 2002 during which period 2,482 shows were produced. The Big Breakfast was produced by Planet 24, the production company co-owned by former...
and Big Brother - Christian BaleChristian BaleChristian Charles Philip Bale is an English actor. Best known for his roles in American films, Bale has starred in both big budget Hollywood films and the smaller projects from independent producers and art houses....
, Academy Award winning actor - Prof George Bell, theoretical physicist, Professor of Mathematics from 1965-88 at Chelsea College, and researcher in statistical mechanicsStatistical mechanicsStatistical mechanics or statistical thermodynamicsThe terms statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics are used interchangeably...
- Rt Rev Derek Bond, Bishop of BradwellBishop of BradwellThe Bishop of Bradwell is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Chelmsford, in the Province of Canterbury, England...
from 1976–93 - Prof Peter Brandon, Professor of Quantity and Building Surveying since 1985 at the University of SalfordUniversity of SalfordThe University of Salford is a campus university based in Salford, Greater Manchester, England with approximately 20,000 registered students. The main campus is about west of Manchester city centre, on the A6, opposite the former home of the physicist, James Prescott Joule and the Working Class...
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Francis Butcher CBE AFC - Prof Peter Campbell, Professor of Politics at the University of ReadingUniversity of ReadingThe University of Reading is a university in the English town of Reading, Berkshire. The University was established in 1892 as University College, Reading and received its Royal Charter in 1926. It is based on several campuses in, and around, the town of Reading.The University has a long tradition...
from 1964–91 - Anthony CantorAnthony CantorAnthony John James Cantor is a British diplomat. He started his career in the Diplomatic Service for the British Government in 1966 as a Desk Officer in Finance Department. He then served in Burma, Japan, Ghana, Vietnam, Germany and Paraguay, where he was the British Ambassador from 2001 to 2005....
, Ambassador to Armenia from 2006-8, and to ParaguayParaguayParaguay , officially the Republic of Paraguay , is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. Paraguay lies on both banks of the Paraguay River, which runs through the center of the...
from 2001-5 - Prof John Clarke OBE, Professor of Geography at the University of Durham from 1968–90
- Stephen ClarkeStephen Clarke (writer)Stephen Clarke is a British author who lives and works in Paris and has declared and explained his love to France: "I love France because here you are working for a living and not vice versa". " His novel A Year in the Merde established him as a writer of fiction, featuring a first person narrator...
, writer - Michael Clayton, Editor of Horse & HoundHorse & HoundHorse & Hound is the oldest equestrian magazine in the United Kingdom. It is a weekly magazine with the first edition published in 1884. It is also known by the nickname 'Nag & Dog'. The magazine contains horse industry news, reports from equestrian events, veterinary advice about caring for...
from 1973–96, presenter of the Today programmeToday programmeToday is BBC Radio 4's long-running early morning news and current affairs programme, now broadcast from 6.00 am to 9.00 am Monday to Friday, and 7.00 am to 9.00 am on Saturdays. It is also the most popular programme on Radio 4 and one of the BBC's most popular programmes across its radio networks...
from 1973-5 - Leonard ColebrookLeonard ColebrookLeonard Colebrook FRS was an English physician and Bacteriologistwho in 1935 showed Prontosil was effective against haemolytic streptococcus in childbirthand hence a cure for puerperal fever...
, bacteriologist - Doug Collins (journalist)Doug Collins (journalist)Doug Collins was a British-born Canadian journalist. He was also a figure of Canada's far-right and a Holocaust denier.-Military service:At the start of World War II he joined the British Army...
- Dr Frank Cross, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of OxfordUniversity of OxfordThe University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
from 1944–68 - Dennis Curry, geologist, President from 1963-5 of the Geologists' AssociationGeologists' AssociationThe Geologists' Association is a British association concerned with the study of geology.The GA was founded in 1858. It is a charitable organization for all geologists and earth scientists, whether of professional or amateur status....
, grandson of Henry Curry (founder of CurrysCurrysCurrys is an electrical retailer in the United Kingdom and Ireland and is owned by Dixons Retail plc. It specialises in selling home electronics and household appliances, with 295 superstores and 73 high street stores...
), and Chairman of his family's electrical company from 1968 until July 1984, prior to the firm's takeover - Andy Davidson (game designer), invented the Worms (1995 video game)Worms (1995 video game)Worms is an artillery video game developed by Team17 and released in . It is the first game in the Worms series of video games and was initially only available for the Amiga. Later it was ported to other platforms....
in 1993 - Prof Robert Dingle, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of St AndrewsUniversity of St AndrewsThe University of St Andrews, informally referred to as "St Andrews", is the oldest university in Scotland and the third oldest in the English-speaking world after Oxford and Cambridge. The university is situated in the town of St Andrews, Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. It was founded between...
from 1960–87 - Geoffrey Drain CBE, General-Secretary of NALGONational Association of Local Government OfficersThe National and Local Government Officers Association was a British trade union representing mostly local government "white collar" workers. It was formed in 1905 as the National Association of Local Government Officers, and changed its full name in 1952 while retaining its widely-used acronym,...
from 1973–83 - Paul Elliott, theatrical producer
- Sir David English, journalist and Editor of the Daily MailDaily MailThe Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982...
from 1971–92 - Dr Ian Field CBE, Secretary General of the World Medical AssociationWorld Medical AssociationThe World Medical Association is an international and independent confederation of free professional Medical Associations, therefore representing physicians worldwide...
from 1994-7 - Sir Brian FollettBrian FollettProfessor Sir Brian Keith Follett FRS chaired the UK government's Training and Development Agency for Schools from 2003-9. The TDA is responsible for recruiting to the teaching profession Professor Sir Brian Keith Follett FRS (born 22 February 1939) chaired the UK government's Training and...
, Chairman of the Training and Development Agency for Schools since 2003, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of WarwickUniversity of WarwickThe University of Warwick is a public research university located in Coventry, United Kingdom...
from 1993–2001 - Sir Paul Fox CBE, television executive, and President of the Royal Television SocietyRoyal Television SocietyThe Royal Television Society is a British-based educational charity for the discussion, and analysis of television in all its forms, past, present and future. It is the oldest television society in the world...
from 1985–92 - Norman Goodchild CBE, Chief Constable of West Midlands ConstabularyWest Midlands ConstabularyThe West Midlands Constabulary was a police force in the West Midlands of England.It was created on April 1, 1966 under the Police Act 1964, with the re-organisation of the Black Country area as the five contiguous county boroughs of Dudley, Walsall, Warley, West Bromwich and Wolverhampton...
from 1966-7, and Wolverhampton Borough Police from 1944–66 - Charles GrayCharles Gray (actor)Charles Gray was an English actor who was well-known for roles including the arch-villain Blofeld in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, Sherlock Holmes' brother Mycroft Holmes in the Granada television series, and as The Criminologist in the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show in...
, actor - Sir James GriggP. J. GriggSir Percy James Grigg PC , better known as Sir P. J. Grigg was a British civil servant who was surprisingly moved from being the Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the War Office to become Secretary of State for War, the political head of the same department during the Second World...
, MP for Cardiff EastCardiff East (UK Parliament constituency)Cardiff East was a parliamentary constituency in Cardiff which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until it was abolished for the 1950 general election.- Members of Parliament :...
from 1942-5 - Prof Frank HahnFrank HahnFrank Horace Hahn is a British economist whose work has focused on general equilibrium theory, monetary theory, Keynesian economics and monetarism...
, Professor of Economics at the University of CambridgeUniversity of CambridgeThe University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
from 1972–92, and President of the Econometric SocietyEconometric SocietyThe Econometric Society is an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation with statistics and mathematics. It was founded on December 29, 1930 at the Stalton Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio....
from 1968-9 and of the Royal Economic SocietyRoyal Economic SocietyThe Royal Economic Society is incorporated by a Royal Charter dated 2 December 1902. It is one of the oldest economic associations in the world. Currently it has over 3,300 individual members, of whom 60% live outside the United Kingdom...
from 1986-9 - Tim HaywardTim HaywardTim Hayward is a British journalist. He was educated at Bournemouth School and Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design, where he graduated in photography. He now lives in Cambridge with his wife, Alison Wright, and daughter.- Career :Hayward is mainly known as a writer on food for British...
, journalist - Benny HillBenny HillBenny Hill was an English comedian and actor, notable for his long-running television programme The Benny Hill Show.-Early life:...
, comedian, actor and singer (who despite never being an actual pupil of Bournemouth School, was evacuated to the school in the second world war from Southampton) - Alex JamesAlex James (musician)Professionally known as Alex James is an English musician, songwriter, journalist and cheesemaker. He is best known as the bass player and occasional vocalist of band Blur...
, musician from the band Blur - Gordon Johnson, Chief Executive of Lancashire County Council from 1998–2000
- Prof Roy Knight, Professor of French from 1950-74 at Swansea University
- Steve Lewis, Chief Executive since August 2008 of Majestic WineMajestic WineMajestic Wine plc is the United Kingdom's largest retailer of wine by the mixed case. -History:Majestic Vintners was founded by Sheldon Graner in 1980...
- Sir Michael Lickiss, Chairman of VisitBritainVisitBritainVisitBritain is the name used by the British Tourist Authority, the tourist board of Great Britain incorporated under the Development of Tourism Act 1969....
from 2003-5 - Gareth MaloneGareth MaloneGareth Malone is a British choirmaster and broadcaster, self-described as an "animateur, presenter and populariser of choral singing"...
, musician - Dick MooreDick MooreRichard Henry Moore was an English first class cricketer who played with Hampshire. He holds the record for the highest score by a Hampshire cricketer in a first class match...
, cricketer - Douglas OliverDouglas OliverDouglas Dunlop Oliver was a poet, novelist, editor, and educator. The author of more than a dozen works, Oliver came into poetry not as an academic but through a career in journalism, notably in Cambridge, Paris, and Coventry, before attending the University of Essex in the 1970s. He received a...
, poet - Prof Ralph Pickford, Professor of Psychology at the University of GlasgowUniversity of GlasgowThe University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...
from 1955–73 - Prof Miles ReidMiles ReidMiles Reid is a mathematician who works in algebraic geometry.He studied mathematics at Cambridge University, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1973 under the supervision of Peter Swinnerton-Dyer and Pierre Deligne. He was a research fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge from 1973 to 1978...
, mathematician - Prof Phil Richardson, clinical psychologist at the Tavistock ClinicTavistock ClinicThe in London was founded in 1920 by Dr. Hugh Crichton-Miller, a psychiatrist who developed psychological treatments for shell-shocked soldiers during and after the First World War. The clinic's first patient was, however, a child. Its clinical services were always, therefore, for both children...
, and Professor of Clinical Psychology from 1998-2007 at the University of EssexUniversity of EssexThe University of Essex is a British campus university whose original and largest campus is near the town of Colchester, England. Established in 1963 and receiving its Royal Charter in 1965... - Michael Roberts (writer)Michael Roberts (writer)Michael Roberts , originally named William Edward Roberts, was an English poet, writer, critic and broadcaster, who made his living as a teacher.-Life:...
- Rt Rev Gordon Roe, Bishop of HuntingdonBishop of HuntingdonThe Bishop of Huntingdon is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Ely, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after Huntingdon, the historic county town of Huntingdonshire, England....
from 1980–97 - Prof Frank Smith, Goldsmid Professor of Applied Mathematics at University College LondonUniversity College LondonUniversity College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
since 1984, and Director since 2007 of the London Technology and Construction Court (TCC) - Prof Richard Smith, Professor of Econometric Theory and Economic Statistics since 2006 at the University of CambridgeUniversity of CambridgeThe University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
- Andy Stevens, founder of uniquedigital and owner of London pubs The Albion and The Old Bear
- Sir Mike TomlinsonMike TomlinsonSir Michael John Tomlinson CBE is the chair of the Working Group for 14–19 Reform which has been commissioned by the British Government to look into reform of the syllabus and qualifications structure for 14–19 year-olds in the English education system.-Early life:He passed the eleven plus...
CBE, Chief Inspector of Schools from 2000-2 - Matt Tong, musician
- John WettonJohn WettonJohn Kenneth Wetton is an English bassist, guitarist, keyboardist, singer and songwriter. He was born in Willington, Derbyshire, and grew up in Bournemouth. He has been a professional musician since the late 1960s...
, musician - Raymond Williams CBE, Director of the Metropolitan Police Laboratory from 1968–87, President of the Forensic Science SocietyForensic Science SocietyThe Forensic Science Society is an international professional society based in the UK. It was founded in 1959 and is one of the oldest and largest forensic associations in the world...
from 1983-5, and Joint Editor of Forensic Science International from 1978–97 - Tom WiseTom WiseTom Wise was an Independent Member of the European Parliament for the East of England. A former police officer, he was elected in 2004 as a member of the United Kingdom Independence Party but later had the whip withdrawn when allegations of misuse of parliamentary expenses surfaced in The Sunday...
, former UKIPUnited Kingdom Independence PartyThe United Kingdom Independence Party is a eurosceptic and right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. Whilst its primary goal is the UK's withdrawal from the European Union, the party has expanded beyond its single-issue image to develop a more comprehensive party platform.UKIP...
MEPMember of the European ParliamentA Member of the European Parliament is a person who has been elected to the European Parliament. The name of MEPs differ in different languages, with terms such as europarliamentarian or eurodeputy being common in Romance language-speaking areas.When the European Parliament was first established,...
for the East of EnglandEast of England (European Parliament constituency)East of England is a constituency of the European Parliament. It currently elects 7 MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.- Boundaries :...
from 2004-9 - Mike WooldridgeMike Wooldridge (Broadcaster)Mike Wooldridge OBE is a world affairs correspondent for the BBC News. Mike spent his youth at Bournemouth School before joining BBC News in April 1970 as a sub-editor. He became a news reporter in 1978 and in 1982 he became the East Africa correspondent. In 1989 he moved to Johannesburg to become...
, BBCBBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
world affairs correspondent
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