Bourne Grammar School

Infobox UK school
name = Bourne Grammar School


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latitude = 52.76246
longitude = -0.37334
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motto = "Vigila et Ora"
("Watch and pray")
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established = 1921
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religion = Christian
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head_label = Headmaster
head = Mr Jonathan P Maddox, MA (Oxon)
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specialist = Arts College
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street = South Road
city = Bourne
county = Lincolnshire
country = England
postcode = PE10 9JE
LEA = Lincolnshire
ofsted = 120661
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enrollment = 956
gender = Coeducational
lower_age = 11
upper_age = 18
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website = http://www.bourne-grammar.lincs.sch.uk/
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Bourne Grammar School is a co-educational selective state secondary school in Bourne, Lincolnshire. The school has been awarded Arts College Status. It is situated on South Road (A15). The school badge, derived from the Bourne Town Council (formerly Bourne UDC) Coat of Arms, is a shield with broad bands surmounted by three identical balls symmetrically placed, and it shares the town motto "Vigila et Ora", meaning "Watch and Pray" (The reference is Christ's injunction to His disciples in St. Matthew's Gospel ch 26, v 41).

The school opened in July 1921 as the Harrington and Trollope Secondary School, named after Robert Harrington and William Trollope, local philanthropists whose bequests are administered by Bourne United Charities. In 1947, following the Education Act 1944, this was changed to the current name. There is a house system within the school starting with v through to z.

ee also

*Education in England
*Grammar schools in the United Kingdom
*House system
*List of schools in the East Midlands
*Office for Standards in Education
*Robert Manning College

External links

* [http://www.bourne-grammar.lincs.sch.uk Bourne Grammar School]
* [http://homepages.which.net/~rex/bourne/bournegrammar.htm History of the school]
* [http://boar.org.uk/abiwxo2OGrammarS1.htm The Old Grammar School]