Retford Oaks High School
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Retford Oaks High School is a comprehensive school in the market town of Retford
, Nottinghamshire
, England, situated in the (mainly former) coal-mining
district of Bassetlaw
.
, effectively operating as a sixth form college
, has produced A level results above the England average.
Neighbouring Lincolnshire
(Gainsborough
– fourteen minutes on the train) still has the grammar school
system, and attracts a few applicants from east Nottinghamshire, potentially distorting Retford's schools' results.
The collaboration with the other schools is enabling Retford Oaks to move rapidly towards its target of "outstanding" by 2014.
. The Grammar School magazine was called The Retfordian. The school motto was Ex Pulvere Palma. In later years the school’s senior houses were Edward, Foljambe, Gough, and Overend. The junior houses were Bescoby, Darrell, Laycock, and Mason (all named after school benefactors).
The school usually traced its original foundation back to Thomas Gunthorpe of Babworth in 1519 although there are references to a still earlier school in the town. It was refounded around 1551 during the reign of King Edward VI. It subsequently had a chequered history, twice coming close to collapse during the 19th century. The school accepted boarders from at least the 17th century onwards, but the last boarders left in 1938. During the Second World War a number of boys from the Great Yarmouth Grammar School were evacuated to Retford (from 1940–44).
Headmasters of King Edward VI Grammar School
?1551 Rev. Christopher Say, LL.B., Jesus College, Cambridge
1588 Rev. George Turvyn, MA, MA, Trinity College, Cambridge
?1605 Rev Thomas Cooper, MA, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
1628 Rev.Nicholas Dickons, MA, Pembroke College, Cambridge
1638 Thomas Stacey, MA, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
1642 Rev. Thomas Dand, MA, Trinity College, Cambridge
1669 Robert Pinchbeck
1670 Henry Boawre, MA, St John’s College, Cambridge
1702 Rev. Thomas Moore, St John’s College, Cambridge
1708 Rev. Henry Stevenson
1748 Rev. Seth Ellis Stevenson, MA, Peterhouse, Cambridge
A diary kept by Seth Ellis Stevenson between 1752-55 survives in Wigan Archives. Another diary from 1760-77 is in Nottingham University Library.
1793 Rev. William Tyre, MA, Pembroke College, Oxford
1801 Rev. William Mould, MA, Peterhouse, Cambridge
1838 Rev. William Henry Trentham, MA, St John’s College, Cambridge
Trentham resigned and died in 1842. From 1842-47 no headmaster was appointed, although the usher, James Holderness, continued to teach a few pupils
1847 Rev. John Henry Brown, MA, Trinity College, Cambridge (later
headmaster of Brewood Grammar School
, Staffordshire)
Following Brown's departure, no headmaster was appointed between 1850-57. Henry Clarke Michinson, the usher and sole remaining teacher, was acting headmaster, but his alleged harshness in corporal punishment led to various complaints and to an eventual court case.
1857 Rev. Jonathan Page Clayton, MA, Caius College, Cambridge
1866 Rev. Edward Swinden Sanderson, MA, Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge
1870 Rev. Frederick Richard Pentreath, MA, DD, Worcester College, Oxford
1873 Rev. Alfred John Church
, MA, Lincoln College, Oxford
1880 Rev. Oliver Carter Cockrem, MA, LLD, Trinity College, Dublin
1886 Rev. Thomas Gough, BSc, FGS, London University
Gough was formerly headmaster of Elmfield College
, York. Historian A D Grounds commented that "he may with justice be called the school's second founder".
1919 Charles Roland Skrimshire, MA, Merton College, Oxford
1926 Charles William Pilkington-Rogers, MA, BSc., Queens’ College, Cambridge
1950 John Charles Havelock Gover, MA, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
c1972 Tom Savage
c1978 Michael Allen
After amalgamating with the Sir Frederick Milner Secondary School in 1979, the new establishment was know simply as the King Edward VI School until the eventual second merger into the Oaks School.
Earlier there was also the Retford County High School for Girls on Pelham Road – a Girls' grammar school.
) was on Pennington Walk, with around 500 boys, in the east of the town. This became part of the King Edward VI School, a voluntary controlled school
, and was used as the sixth form site prior to the new Post-16 centre being opened in 2007. The former site will become residential properties. Sir Frederick Milner was the Conservative MP from 1890–1906 for Bassetlaw
.
The former Retford Oaks School was on a site towards Ordsall near the former leisure centre, which was the former Ordsall Hall School
on Ordsall Road (now the Post-16 Centre). This merged with the King Edward VI School in 2003 forming the current school.
(two in Worksop
and one in Tuxford
, Bircotes
and The Elizabethan High School
in Retford), the school underwent an extensive rebuilding programme under PFI
funding. It was not possible to develop the King Edward VI School site as a Post-16 Centre (even though the county council wanted to), because the county council did not own the property so an entirely new site was built on Babworth Road. This site is for ages 11–16. On the former Ordsall Hall site, a new leisure centre was built (nextdoor) in January 2008 and a separate Post-16 (sixth form) Centre was built in September 2007, when the 11–16 site opened as well. Worksop has also had a new sixth form (and leisure centre) built under the same PFI contract.
Retford
Retford is a market town in Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands of England, located 31 miles from the city of Nottingham, and 23 miles west of Lincoln, in the district of Bassetlaw. The town is situated in a valley with the River Idle and the Chesterfield Canal running through the centre of the...
, Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire is a county in the East Midlands of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west...
, England, situated in the (mainly former) coal-mining
UK Coal
UK Coal plc is the largest coal mining business in the United Kingdom. The Company is based in Harworth, in Nottinghamshire. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a former constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.-History:...
district of Bassetlaw
Bassetlaw
Bassetlaw is the northernmost district of Nottinghamshire, England, with a population according to the 2001 UK census of 107,713. The borough is predominantly rural, with two towns: Worksop, site of the borough offices, and Retford...
.
Admissions
The school admission policy follows that of the LEA and there are a number of avaliable places in all years at the school. Anyone wishing to join the school should contact the school office for an appointment.Academic performance
The school has improved from a poor starting point since opening in 2003. The number of students achieving 5 or more A* to C grades at GCSE has risen from 20% in 2006 to 49% in 2011. The opening of the separate sixth form centre with The Elizabethan High SchoolThe Elizabethan High School
The Elizabethan High School, alongside Retford Oaks High School and St Giles Special School, is one of three secondary schools in the Nottinghamshire market town of Retford...
, effectively operating as a sixth form college
Sixth form college
A sixth form college is an educational institution in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Belize, Hong Kong or Malta where students aged 16 to 18 typically study for advanced school-level qualifications, such as A-levels, or school-level qualifications such as GCSEs. In Singapore and India, this is...
, has produced A level results above the England average.
Neighbouring Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...
(Gainsborough
Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
Gainsborough is a town 15 miles north-west of Lincoln on the River Trent within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. At one time it served as an important port with trade downstream to Hull, and was the most inland in England, being more than 55 miles from the North...
– fourteen minutes on the train) still has the 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...
system, and attracts a few applicants from east Nottinghamshire, potentially distorting Retford's schools' results.
Ofsted
Retford Oaks has maintained a grading of "satisfactory" in its recent inspections although with several areas classed as good.History
The school was established in 2003 with the amalgamation of two of the schools in Retford. His HRH Duke of Kent formally opened the school in October 2008. In September 2009 the school was designated as a specialist sports college with its second subject being Mathematics. In September 2011 the school officailly became academy as part of the Diverse Academies Learning Partnership - a collaboration of three academies, Tuxford Academy, National C of E academy and Retford Oaks.The collaboration with the other schools is enabling Retford Oaks to move rapidly towards its target of "outstanding" by 2014.
Older schools: King Edward VI Grammar School (with list of headmasters) and the Girls' High School
The King Edward VI School was on London Road. It was previously known as the King Edward VI Grammar School and the oldest part of the school buildings (opened in August 1857) was designed by Decimus BurtonDecimus Burton
Decimus Burton was a prolific English architect and garden designer, He is particularly associated with projects in the classical style in London parks, including buildings at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and London Zoo, and with the layout and architecture of the seaside towns of Fleetwood and...
. The Grammar School magazine was called The Retfordian. The school motto was Ex Pulvere Palma. In later years the school’s senior houses were Edward, Foljambe, Gough, and Overend. The junior houses were Bescoby, Darrell, Laycock, and Mason (all named after school benefactors).
The school usually traced its original foundation back to Thomas Gunthorpe of Babworth in 1519 although there are references to a still earlier school in the town. It was refounded around 1551 during the reign of King Edward VI. It subsequently had a chequered history, twice coming close to collapse during the 19th century. The school accepted boarders from at least the 17th century onwards, but the last boarders left in 1938. During the Second World War a number of boys from the Great Yarmouth Grammar School were evacuated to Retford (from 1940–44).
Headmasters of King Edward VI Grammar School
?1551 Rev. Christopher Say, LL.B., Jesus College, Cambridge
1588 Rev. George Turvyn, MA, MA, Trinity College, Cambridge
?1605 Rev Thomas Cooper, MA, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
1628 Rev.Nicholas Dickons, MA, Pembroke College, Cambridge
1638 Thomas Stacey, MA, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
1642 Rev. Thomas Dand, MA, Trinity College, Cambridge
1669 Robert Pinchbeck
1670 Henry Boawre, MA, St John’s College, Cambridge
1702 Rev. Thomas Moore, St John’s College, Cambridge
1708 Rev. Henry Stevenson
1748 Rev. Seth Ellis Stevenson, MA, Peterhouse, Cambridge
A diary kept by Seth Ellis Stevenson between 1752-55 survives in Wigan Archives. Another diary from 1760-77 is in Nottingham University Library.
1793 Rev. William Tyre, MA, Pembroke College, Oxford
1801 Rev. William Mould, MA, Peterhouse, Cambridge
1838 Rev. William Henry Trentham, MA, St John’s College, Cambridge
Trentham resigned and died in 1842. From 1842-47 no headmaster was appointed, although the usher, James Holderness, continued to teach a few pupils
1847 Rev. John Henry Brown, MA, Trinity College, Cambridge (later
headmaster of Brewood Grammar School
Brewood Grammar School
Brewood Grammar School was a boys' school in the village of Brewood in South Staffordshire, England.Founded in the mid 15th century by the Bishop of Lichfield as a chantry school it was closed by the 1547 Act of Dissolution of Chantries...
, Staffordshire)
Following Brown's departure, no headmaster was appointed between 1850-57. Henry Clarke Michinson, the usher and sole remaining teacher, was acting headmaster, but his alleged harshness in corporal punishment led to various complaints and to an eventual court case.
1857 Rev. Jonathan Page Clayton, MA, Caius College, Cambridge
1866 Rev. Edward Swinden Sanderson, MA, Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge
1870 Rev. Frederick Richard Pentreath, MA, DD, Worcester College, Oxford
1873 Rev. Alfred John Church
Alfred John Church
Alfred John Church was an English classical scholar.Church was born in London and was educated at King's College London, and Lincoln College, Oxford. He took holy orders and was an assistant-master at Merchant Taylors' School from 1857-70...
, MA, Lincoln College, Oxford
1880 Rev. Oliver Carter Cockrem, MA, LLD, Trinity College, Dublin
1886 Rev. Thomas Gough, BSc, FGS, London University
Gough was formerly headmaster of Elmfield College
Elmfield College
Elmfield College, York , originally called "Connexional College" or "Jubilee College" in honour of the Primitive Methodist Silver Jubilee in 1860, was a Primitive Methodist college on the outskirts of Heworth, York, England, near Monk Stray.-Primitive Methodism in York:The college was a national...
, York. Historian A D Grounds commented that "he may with justice be called the school's second founder".
1919 Charles Roland Skrimshire, MA, Merton College, Oxford
1926 Charles William Pilkington-Rogers, MA, BSc., Queens’ College, Cambridge
1950 John Charles Havelock Gover, MA, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
c1972 Tom Savage
c1978 Michael Allen
After amalgamating with the Sir Frederick Milner Secondary School in 1979, the new establishment was know simply as the King Edward VI School until the eventual second merger into the Oaks School.
Earlier there was also the Retford County High School for Girls on Pelham Road – a Girls' grammar school.
Previous schools up to 2003
Before 1979, the former Sir Frederick Milner Secondary School (an all male 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...
) was on Pennington Walk, with around 500 boys, in the east of the town. This became part of the King Edward VI School, a voluntary controlled school
Voluntary controlled school
A voluntary controlled school is a state-funded school in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in which a foundation or trust has some formal influence in the running of the school...
, and was used as the sixth form site prior to the new Post-16 centre being opened in 2007. The former site will become residential properties. Sir Frederick Milner was the Conservative MP from 1890–1906 for Bassetlaw
Bassetlaw (UK Parliament constituency)
Bassetlaw is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.-Boundaries:...
.
The former Retford Oaks School was on a site towards Ordsall near the former leisure centre, which was the former Ordsall Hall School
Ordsall Hall School
Ordsall Hall Comprehensive School was a comprehensive school situated on Ordsall Road in the market town of East Retford in the district of Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire.-History:...
on Ordsall Road (now the Post-16 Centre). This merged with the King Edward VI School in 2003 forming the current school.
Regeneration
Similar to five other schools in BassetlawBassetlaw
Bassetlaw is the northernmost district of Nottinghamshire, England, with a population according to the 2001 UK census of 107,713. The borough is predominantly rural, with two towns: Worksop, site of the borough offices, and Retford...
(two in Worksop
Worksop
Worksop is the largest town in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England on the River Ryton at the northern edge of Sherwood Forest. It is about east-south-east of the City of Sheffield and its population is estimated to be 39,800...
and one in Tuxford
Tuxford
-Geography:Tuxford is a village and a civil parish on the southern edge of the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England. It may also be considered a small town as it was historically a market town. Nearby larger towns are Retford and Newark-on-Trent. From Harvest Cottage, near the ECML, the...
, Bircotes
Bircotes
Bircotes is a mining town in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, on the border with the metropolitan borough of Doncaster . It is located at , and forms the civil parish of Harworth and Bircotes with its neighbour Harworth. The parish has a population of around 8,000 people. The nearest...
and The Elizabethan High School
The Elizabethan High School
The Elizabethan High School, alongside Retford Oaks High School and St Giles Special School, is one of three secondary schools in the Nottinghamshire market town of Retford...
in Retford), the school underwent an extensive rebuilding programme under PFI
Private Finance Initiative
The private finance initiative is a way of creating "public–private partnerships" by funding public infrastructure projects with private capital...
funding. It was not possible to develop the King Edward VI School site as a Post-16 Centre (even though the county council wanted to), because the county council did not own the property so an entirely new site was built on Babworth Road. This site is for ages 11–16. On the former Ordsall Hall site, a new leisure centre was built (nextdoor) in January 2008 and a separate Post-16 (sixth form) Centre was built in September 2007, when the 11–16 site opened as well. Worksop has also had a new sixth form (and leisure centre) built under the same PFI contract.
King Edward VI Grammar School
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Contact
- Tel: 01777 861618
- Email: office@retfordoaks-ac.org.uk
- Web: www.retfordoaks-ac.org.uk
See also
- The Elizabethan High SchoolThe Elizabethan High SchoolThe Elizabethan High School, alongside Retford Oaks High School and St Giles Special School, is one of three secondary schools in the Nottinghamshire market town of Retford...
– the other Retford comprehensive on Hallcroft Road. - Retford Post 16 Centre – Post 16 centre run in partnership with The Elizabethan High SchoolThe Elizabethan High SchoolThe Elizabethan High School, alongside Retford Oaks High School and St Giles Special School, is one of three secondary schools in the Nottinghamshire market town of Retford...
External links
- Retford Oaks High School
- PE Dept
- Bassetlaw PFI
- History of Retford Grammar School
- Old Retfordian
- Post 16 Centre
- EduBase