Ermysted's Grammar School
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Ermysteds Grammar School is a LEA
-funded selective boys' Grammar School
in Skipton
, North Yorkshire
, England, teaching over 800 pupils.
It is the seventh oldest state school in Britain and was founded by Peter Toller in the 15th century. The first official record of the school was seen in Peter Toller's will in 1492. Therefore the school records its establishment as the same year.
The motto of the school is 'Suivez La Raison'. Translation from the French is roughly 'follow the truth'. The school operates a house system with inter-house competition in sports, and an annual house quiz held around Christmas. The four houses, Toller (blue tie), Ermysted (yellow tie), Petyt (green tie) and Hartley (red/burgundy tie), are named after key figures in the school's history. Whilst it operated a boarding house Ermysted's boarders were members of School House (red tie) which was affiliated with Ermysted House for the purposes of inter-house competition.
The current headmaster is Mr. Graham Hamilton, his predecessor, Mr. Thomas Ashworth, retired at the end of the 2007/2008 school year.
The A-level results of 2006 officially placed it as the best school in Yorkshire
, ranking higher than fee paying schools, and amongst the top 25 nationally. The school repeated this success in the 2007 exams, placing amongst the top schools nationally again.
of St Nicholas in the parish church, the school takes this as its founding date.
1548 – Edward VI's government took over all chantry lands. William Ermysted re-founded the school with new lands and moved it to the bottom of Shortbank Road.
1707 & 1719 – Wills of Old Boys William and Sylvester Petyt were responsible for gifts to the school, and foundation of the Petyt Library and Petyt Trust.
1773 – Leeds and Liverpool Canal
reached Skipton, partly built on E.G.S. land.
1875 – Gargrave Road building begun for 50 day boys and 50 boarders.
1876–1907 – Mr E. T. Hartley, headmaster at the new school.
1882 – Pool & Old Gym (now I.C.T., music and R.S. rooms) begun.
1895 – Science block built (A.P.L. + quiet room).
1924 – First World War, memorial library set up by Old Boys' Society (now Governors' Board Room).
1929 – First award of Cook Cup for champion house (won by Hartley).
1933 – "New buildings" opened (rooms A-H, staff room and science laboratories).
1959 – Memorial Hall (to those lost in the Second World War).
1989 – School House closes its doors to boarders.
1992 – Quincentenary celebrations – visit by H.R.H. The Princess Royal
; pageant; new sports hall.
2002 – "The Great Gas Leak of 2002" – one of the school's typically decrepit gas taps causes the entire school to be evacuated onto the bottom fields
2003 – New English/CDT block. Opened by H.R.H. The Duke of Kent
.
2006 – Ermysted's gains specialist status in science and mathematics.
2007 – New refectory replaces the ageing canteen as the communal food hall. Built on the site of the 1927 'San'(atorium).
2008 – New gym installed in the sports hall.
2008 – Old gym and sixth form
common room
converted into two new ICT classrooms and two new religious studies classrooms.
2008 – School library merged with IT1 to extend library into the original 'Big School'.
2009 – Memorial Library refurnished and new Sixth Form Library created replacing old Boarders' Dining Room.
2010 – Construction of a new 'Food Technology' block.
development to the north of the site, as well as the 'English Block', which houses the school's CDT and English
departments in addition to one of its five ICT facilities.
Following recent increases in funding and money, resulting from the school's specialist status, most of the classrooms in the older buildings have been refurbished and brought up to modern standards; such as the introduction of electronic whiteboards to most classrooms and the recent carpeting of all rooms in the School House building. Local construction company Roger Tiffany Ltd. recently completed the construction of a new Food Technology building to the east of the site (between the English Block and the Refectory), that opened in September 2011, coinciding with the first curriculum cookery lessons for more than fifty years.
inspection, the school's results were 'very high' against the national average, especially upon entry, where year 7s (age 11/12) work to a level 'expected of pupils aged 14.' It has an 'outstanding' 6th form with a wide range of subjects. The school is 'very successful' at allowing pupils to reach high academic standards, and the quality of teaching is 'good.'
In the 2005 Ofsted inspection, the sixth form was described as “outstanding” and achieved Grade 1 Outstanding in every category of assessment.
The 2008 Ofsted inspection was on 22 October and the school was delighted to receive an "Outstanding" verdict overall. Seven out of eight areas were given an outstanding verdict. The report is now available to view on the Ofsted website
, Cross-Country
, Orienteering
, Cricket
and Football
tournaments with teams, and gains considerable success in events entered. The 1st XI Football are currently enjoying a fruitful campaign and won the county shield, and the 1st XV Rugby team won the Daily Mail Vase Final 2007, the national schools competition. Meanwhile the cross country team continues to dominate in the North of England perhaps due to the fact that once every year all students are required to participate in a school cross country race, which takes place in Aireville Park during the Autumn Term. In December Ermysted's "Inter Boys team finished runners-up in the National Final of the English Schools' Cross-Country Cup competition, held at St. Albans. This repeated the performance of 2005 Junior Boys team at Leeds. Occurring annually in the Summer term
is Sports Day, during which students compete at athletics in front of a huge crowd.
has toured Germany three times, most recently in 2010, under the tutelage of music teacher Simon Gregory and regularly performs in concerts at school as well as at other prestigious local venues. To date they have produced two CDs. Ermysted's also has a developing string group, providing ensemble experience to young pupils and a chance for the virtuosic older pupils in regular solos. The Junior Big Band is a stepping stone to the Senior Big Band and is primarily for pupils in Years 7–9. A significant proportion of boys receive musical tuition at school and there are now three practise rooms in addition to the main music room and the hall available for pupils and their amateur bands to rehearse. Recently, a covers band, fronted by head boy '07–'08 Christopher Greenwood, 'Topher G and The Smoochies' has taken both fundraisers and proms by storm.
The school has a notable record in ensembles at all levels. The two most recent leaders of the highly commended Harrogate Youth Jazz Orchestra have come from Ermysted's. It is always well represented in the other senior ensembles of Harrogate Music Centre and has provided the County ensembles with no fewer than a dozen members over the last few years. Two ex-Ermysted's pupils played for the National Youth Orchestra and National Youth Jazz Orchestra during their time at Ermysted's and have both gone to Chetham's to take their music further.
curriculum, and a weekly Drama Club meets.
School plays occur once every two years, in conjunction with Skipton Girls' High School
.
In addition to various pantomimes and subject-related (namely Latin and Modern Foreign Languages) drama activities, house plays by Years 7–9 occur annually in the Autumn term, with an independent adjudicator voting for the best play.
A group of pupils also take part in the annual English Schools' Shakespeare Festival. In 2007, an edited version of Julius Caesar
was performed at Bradford's
Priestley Theatre, and just before the Autumn half-term 2008 an abridged version of Hamlet
was performed at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
One of the first drama productions was "First Years" in 1990, a school-based comedy written and directed by David Gray-Clough, who was then Head of English at the school. Head of Music Simon Gregory was responsible for the music, and jokingly said he regretted working with Clough ever since, claims the latter of the two in the school's official annual publication, the Chronicles of Ermysted's.
, and reached the regional final of the ESU
Schools Debating Mace. In 2009–2010, Ermysted's Sixth-formers went a step further, participating in the European Youth Parliament Debating Forum National Final, having won the "Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Final" and winning the 'Great Shakespeare Debate' outright.
Local Education Authority
A local education authority is a local authority in England and Wales that has responsibility for education within its jurisdiction...
-funded selective boys' Grammar School
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...
in Skipton
Skipton
Skipton is a market town and civil parish within the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. It is located along the course of both the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and the River Aire, on the south side of the Yorkshire Dales, northwest of Bradford and west of York...
, North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan or shire county located in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, and a ceremonial county primarily in that region but partly in North East England. Created in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 it covers an area of , making it the largest...
, England, teaching over 800 pupils.
It is the seventh oldest state school in Britain and was founded by Peter Toller in the 15th century. The first official record of the school was seen in Peter Toller's will in 1492. Therefore the school records its establishment as the same year.
The motto of the school is 'Suivez La Raison'. Translation from the French is roughly 'follow the truth'. The school operates a house system with inter-house competition in sports, and an annual house quiz held around Christmas. The four houses, Toller (blue tie), Ermysted (yellow tie), Petyt (green tie) and Hartley (red/burgundy tie), are named after key figures in the school's history. Whilst it operated a boarding house Ermysted's boarders were members of School House (red tie) which was affiliated with Ermysted House for the purposes of inter-house competition.
The current headmaster is Mr. Graham Hamilton, his predecessor, Mr. Thomas Ashworth, retired at the end of the 2007/2008 school year.
The A-level results of 2006 officially placed it as the best school in Yorkshire
Yorkshire
Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...
, ranking higher than fee paying schools, and amongst the top 25 nationally. The school repeated this success in the 2007 exams, placing amongst the top schools nationally again.
Brief history
1492 – Peter Toller's will confirmed that he had already founded a school in his chantryChantry
Chantry is the English term for a fund established to pay for a priest to celebrate sung Masses for a specified purpose, generally for the soul of the deceased donor. Chantries were endowed with lands given by donors, the income from which maintained the chantry priest...
of St Nicholas in the parish church, the school takes this as its founding date.
1548 – Edward VI's government took over all chantry lands. William Ermysted re-founded the school with new lands and moved it to the bottom of Shortbank Road.
1707 & 1719 – Wills of Old Boys William and Sylvester Petyt were responsible for gifts to the school, and foundation of the Petyt Library and Petyt Trust.
1773 – Leeds and Liverpool Canal
Leeds and Liverpool Canal
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a canal in Northern England, linking the cities of Leeds and Liverpool. Over a distance of , it crosses the Pennines, and includes 91 locks on the main line...
reached Skipton, partly built on E.G.S. land.
1875 – Gargrave Road building begun for 50 day boys and 50 boarders.
1876–1907 – Mr E. T. Hartley, headmaster at the new school.
1882 – Pool & Old Gym (now I.C.T., music and R.S. rooms) begun.
1895 – Science block built (A.P.L. + quiet room).
1924 – First World War, memorial library set up by Old Boys' Society (now Governors' Board Room).
1929 – First award of Cook Cup for champion house (won by Hartley).
1933 – "New buildings" opened (rooms A-H, staff room and science laboratories).
1959 – Memorial Hall (to those lost in the Second World War).
1989 – School House closes its doors to boarders.
1992 – Quincentenary celebrations – visit by H.R.H. The Princess Royal
Anne, Princess Royal
Princess Anne, Princess Royal , is the only daughter of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh...
; pageant; new sports hall.
2002 – "The Great Gas Leak of 2002" – one of the school's typically decrepit gas taps causes the entire school to be evacuated onto the bottom fields
2003 – New English/CDT block. Opened by H.R.H. The Duke of Kent
Duke of Kent
Duke of Kent is a title which has been created various times in the peerages of Great Britain and the United Kingdom, most recently as a royal dukedom for the fourth son of George V.-Pre-history:...
.
2006 – Ermysted's gains specialist status in science and mathematics.
2007 – New refectory replaces the ageing canteen as the communal food hall. Built on the site of the 1927 'San'(atorium).
2008 – New gym installed in the sports hall.
2008 – Old gym and 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,...
common room
Common room
The phrase common room is used especially in British and Canadian English to describe a type of shared lounge, most often found in dormitories, at universities, colleges, military bases, hospitals, rest homes, hostels, and even minimum-security prisons. It is generally connected to several...
converted into two new ICT classrooms and two new religious studies classrooms.
2008 – School library merged with IT1 to extend library into the original 'Big School'.
2009 – Memorial Library refurnished and new Sixth Form Library created replacing old Boarders' Dining Room.
2010 – Construction of a new 'Food Technology' block.
Buildings
The school is now situated between Gargrave Road and Grassington Road, although the sixteenth century school house can still be seen on Shortbank Road. The majority of buildings originate from the 19th and early 20th centuries, although many newer buildings now exist. These include the sports hall, opened in 1992 to commemorate the school's 500th anniversary and the £7 million RefectoryRefectory
A refectory is a dining room, especially in monasteries, boarding schools and academic institutions. One of the places the term is most often used today is in graduate seminaries...
development to the north of the site, as well as the 'English Block', which houses the school's CDT and English
English studies
English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language , English linguistics English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S.,...
departments in addition to one of its five ICT facilities.
Following recent increases in funding and money, resulting from the school's specialist status, most of the classrooms in the older buildings have been refurbished and brought up to modern standards; such as the introduction of electronic whiteboards to most classrooms and the recent carpeting of all rooms in the School House building. Local construction company Roger Tiffany Ltd. recently completed the construction of a new Food Technology building to the east of the site (between the English Block and the Refectory), that opened in September 2011, coinciding with the first curriculum cookery lessons for more than fifty years.
Ofsted inspections
In the 2000 OfstedOfsted
The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills is the non-ministerial government department of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools In England ....
inspection, the school's results were 'very high' against the national average, especially upon entry, where year 7s (age 11/12) work to a level 'expected of pupils aged 14.' It has an 'outstanding' 6th form with a wide range of subjects. The school is 'very successful' at allowing pupils to reach high academic standards, and the quality of teaching is 'good.'
In the 2005 Ofsted inspection, the sixth form was described as “outstanding” and achieved Grade 1 Outstanding in every category of assessment.
The 2008 Ofsted inspection was on 22 October and the school was delighted to receive an "Outstanding" verdict overall. Seven out of eight areas were given an outstanding verdict. The report is now available to view on the Ofsted website
Events
The school has two principal annual events. Founders' Day, in December, when a service is held in Skipton Parish Church to commemorate its founders and benefactors attracts many Old Boys both to the service and following dinner. Speech Day in July is the annual prize-giving and summation of the school year. The active Parents' Association organises many social and fund-raising events such as a biennial Spring Ball, wine tasting and big band nights.Sport
Sport is a major part of Ermysted's life. The school competes in Rugby UnionRugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
, Cross-Country
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
, Orienteering
Orienteering
Orienteering is a family of sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain, and normally moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specially prepared orienteering map, which they...
, Cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
and Football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
tournaments with teams, and gains considerable success in events entered. The 1st XI Football are currently enjoying a fruitful campaign and won the county shield, and the 1st XV Rugby team won the Daily Mail Vase Final 2007, the national schools competition. Meanwhile the cross country team continues to dominate in the North of England perhaps due to the fact that once every year all students are required to participate in a school cross country race, which takes place in Aireville Park during the Autumn Term. In December Ermysted's "Inter Boys team finished runners-up in the National Final of the English Schools' Cross-Country Cup competition, held at St. Albans. This repeated the performance of 2005 Junior Boys team at Leeds. Occurring annually in the Summer term
Summer term
Summer term is the name of the summer academic term at many British schools and universities and elsewhere in the world.In the UK, 'Summer term' runs from the Easter holiday until the end of the academic year in June or July, and thus corresponds to the Easter term at Cambridge University, and...
is Sports Day, during which students compete at athletics in front of a huge crowd.
Music
The school's Big BandBig band
A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with jazz and the Swing Era typically consisting of rhythm, brass, and woodwind instruments totaling approximately twelve to twenty-five musicians...
has toured Germany three times, most recently in 2010, under the tutelage of music teacher Simon Gregory and regularly performs in concerts at school as well as at other prestigious local venues. To date they have produced two CDs. Ermysted's also has a developing string group, providing ensemble experience to young pupils and a chance for the virtuosic older pupils in regular solos. The Junior Big Band is a stepping stone to the Senior Big Band and is primarily for pupils in Years 7–9. A significant proportion of boys receive musical tuition at school and there are now three practise rooms in addition to the main music room and the hall available for pupils and their amateur bands to rehearse. Recently, a covers band, fronted by head boy '07–'08 Christopher Greenwood, 'Topher G and The Smoochies' has taken both fundraisers and proms by storm.
The school has a notable record in ensembles at all levels. The two most recent leaders of the highly commended Harrogate Youth Jazz Orchestra have come from Ermysted's. It is always well represented in the other senior ensembles of Harrogate Music Centre and has provided the County ensembles with no fewer than a dozen members over the last few years. Two ex-Ermysted's pupils played for the National Youth Orchestra and National Youth Jazz Orchestra during their time at Ermysted's and have both gone to Chetham's to take their music further.
Drama
Although Drama is not taught as a subject in its own right, it forms an integral part of the EnglishEnglish language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
curriculum, and a weekly Drama Club meets.
School plays occur once every two years, in conjunction with Skipton Girls' High School
Skipton Girls' High School
Skipton Girls' High School, founded in 1886 by the Petyt Trust, is an all girls selective grammar school situated in Skipton, North Yorkshire, England. The school recently became a foundation school. Around 800 girls aged 11 to 18 are educated at the school, of which 190 are in the sixth form. The...
.
In addition to various pantomimes and subject-related (namely Latin and Modern Foreign Languages) drama activities, house plays by Years 7–9 occur annually in the Autumn term, with an independent adjudicator voting for the best play.
A group of pupils also take part in the annual English Schools' Shakespeare Festival. In 2007, an edited version of Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar (play)
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, also known simply as Julius Caesar, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It portrays the 44 BC conspiracy against...
was performed at Bradford's
Bradford
Bradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897...
Priestley Theatre, and just before the Autumn half-term 2008 an abridged version of Hamlet
Hamlet
The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
was performed at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
One of the first drama productions was "First Years" in 1990, a school-based comedy written and directed by David Gray-Clough, who was then Head of English at the school. Head of Music Simon Gregory was responsible for the music, and jokingly said he regretted working with Clough ever since, claims the latter of the two in the school's official annual publication, the Chronicles of Ermysted's.
Debating
The school has a long history of competitive debating, and after a hiatus of some years, a debating club was set up in late 2006. The school puts forward teams in many events, with some success: in 2007, Ermysted's pupils were placed third out of 24 schools in the 'Great Shakespeare Debate' in Stratford-upon-AvonStratford-upon-Avon
Stratford-upon-Avon is a market town and civil parish in south Warwickshire, England. It lies on the River Avon, south east of Birmingham and south west of Warwick. It is the largest and most populous town of the District of Stratford-on-Avon, which uses the term "on" to indicate that it covers...
, and reached the regional final of the ESU
Esu
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Schools Debating Mace. In 2009–2010, Ermysted's Sixth-formers went a step further, participating in the European Youth Parliament Debating Forum National Final, having won the "Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Final" and winning the 'Great Shakespeare Debate' outright.
School publications
The Chronicles of Ermysted's is the official annual school publication, containing details of any notable school events, student visits, results, destinations, school activities and, more recently, what the student would like included. The latest publications of the Chronicles was entirely written, designed and edited by Sixth Formers for the first time.Notable former pupils
- Simon BeaufoySimon BeaufoySimon Beaufoy is a British screenwriter. Born in Keighley, he was educated at Malsis School in Cross Hills, Ermysted's Grammar School and Sedbergh School, he read English at St Peter's College, Oxford and graduated from The Arts Institute at Bournemouth...
, Writer of OscarAcademy AwardsAn Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
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(for which he received both a BAFTA and an OscarAcademy AwardsAn Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
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in 1970 - Dr Andrew Stephen Wilson, Astronomer
- Colonel Geoffrey Anderton, OBE (1902 - 1981)
- Edward Arthur Carr, CMG, Commissioner of Nigeria (1903 - 1966)
- William Harbutt DawsonWilliam Harbutt DawsonWilliam Harbutt Dawson was a British author who wrote numerous books around the turn of the Twentieth Century. Dawson was educated at Berlin University, and most of his works deal with Germany and various aspects of German social and political culture. However, he also wrote on General John...
, Author (1860 - 1948) - Rev. Eric William Heaton, Pro Vice Chancellor Oxford University (1920 - 1996)
- Norman Leach, CMG, (1912 - 1996)
- Prof. Robin Marshall, Physicist
- Reginald Grange Brundrit, Artist (1883 - 1960)
- Prof. William Siegfried Dawson, Pscychiatrist (1891 - 1975)
- Prof. Geoffrey Ayrton Drain, CBE (1981 - 1993)
- Henry Harold Greenwood, Surgeon (1873 - 1962)
- Prof. John Desmond HargreavesJohn D. HargreavesJohn D. Hargreaves was the Burnett-Fletcher Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen. He is noted for his work on the history of Africa; its colonisation and de-colonistation...
, Historian - Prof. Edgar Hartley Kettle, Pathologist (1882 - 1936)
- Chris Mason, European Correspondent for the BBC
- Blake MorrisonBlake MorrisonPhilip Blake Morrison is a British poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. His greatest success came with the publication of his memoirs And When Did You Last See Your Father? which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. He has also written a...
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author of the Sergeant Cluff series between 1960 and 1978. - Paul ZenonPaul ZenonPaul Zenon is an English magician and comedian, known for television shows across many genres; in particular his 'Street Magic' specials featuring him performing stunts and tricks in pubs and on the streets....
, comedian and magician - Andrew HodgsonAndrew HodgsonAndrew "Andy" Hodgson is a professional rugby league and rugby union footballer who at club level has played rugby league for Bradford Bulls, and Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, playing at , or , i.e. number 1, or, 2 or 5, and at club level has played rugby union for Wharfedale R.U.F.C., playing at...
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, former Man City player and present Barnsley FC Assistant Manager