Wrenn School

Wrenn Academy

Established	1975
Type	Academy
Headteacher	Mr Steve Elliot
Chair of governors	Mr. Bill Mandeville
Location	London Road Wellingborough Northamptonshire NN8 2DQ England
DfE number	928/4014
DfE URN	139961 Tables
Ofsted	Reports Pre-academy reports
Students	1482 (September 2009)
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	11–19
Colours	Black & Red
Former name	Wellingborough Grammar School
Website	Wrenn Academy

'Wrenn Academy' is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England. It was established in 1975,^[1] and occupies the campus of the former Wellingborough Grammar School, founded in 1930,^[1] at which British television personality David Frost was a pupil.^[1]

Wrenn Academy is a split-site school, with the two parts of its campus being a short walk apart. One part of the school is sited on the A5193 (former A509) in the south of the town, just west of the hospital (52°17′47″N 0°41′19″W / 52.2963°N 0.6887°W / 52.2963; -0.6887 (Wrenn School, London Road site)Coordinates: 52°17′47″N 0°41′19″W / 52.2963°N 0.6887°W / 52.2963; -0.6887 (Wrenn School, London Road site)). The other main site is situated on Doddington Road (52°17′45″N 0°41′41″W / 52.2959°N 0.6948°W / 52.2959; -0.6948), a few minutes from the London Road site. The Doddington Road site, which was formerly the boy's grammar school, houses years 9-11 along with the Art and Design Technology buildings, and in London Road the site of the former girl's grammar school is attended by years 7-8 and the school's sixth form. The school has a wide range of buildings ranging from 4 to 100 years old.^[2] The oldest buildings are those of the former grammar school, while the most modern addition being the music block, constructed in 2006.

A September 2009 OFSTED report rated the school with an overall Grade 3 (satisfactory), and a Grade 1 (Outstanding) for its sixth form).^[3]

Notable former pupils

Matthew May - Labour Party Candidate for South Northamptonshire 2010
Ashleigh Butler, Entertainer and Britain's Got Talent 2012 winner along with Pudsey the Dog

Gerry Bermingham, Labour MP from 1983-2001 for St Helens South
Richard Bradshaw, Director from 1998-2007 of the Canadian Opera Company
Gordon Cook, tropical disease expert, medical historian, and President of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from 1993-5
Michael Cox (novelist)
Sir David Frost OBE
Sir Bruce Liddington ^[4]
John Reid OBE, architect
Kenneth Spencer^[5]
Giovanni Di Stefano - infamous fraudster
Sir Terence Streeton KBE CMG, High Commissioner to Bangladesh from 1983-9
David Thacker, theatre director
Steve Tompkins, architect
Ernest Watkin, Professor of Mathematics from 1904-31 at the University of Southampton
Don White (footballer), rugby player and English national coach from 1969-71

Jeff Butterfield - England and Northampton rugby player
Bob Taylor - England rugby player^[6]
Robert Shaw (poet) - active in the fields of literature and jazz , was Second English Master 1960 - 1964.

1 2 3 Tall, David, and Graham Tall (2006). Memories of Wellingborough Grammar School, with a foreword by Sir David Frost. Retrieved 12 June 2010.
↑ School website
↑ Ofsted report 2009. Retrieved 12 June 2010.
↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/nov/07/bruce-liddington-eact-academies-salary Bruce Liddington
↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1497019/Kenneth-Spencer.html Kenneth Spencer
↑ Tall, T. and Tall, G. (2006). Memories of Wellingborough Grammar School 1930 - 1975 Clock Tower Publications ISBN 0-9548689-1-9 page 125

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Borough of Wellingborough

Settlements	Bozeat Earls Barton Easton Maudit Ecton Finedon Great Doddington Great Harrowden Grendon Hardwick Irchester Isham Little Harrowden Little Irchester Mears Ashby Orlingbury Strixton Sywell Wilby Wellingborough (Redhill Grange) Wollaston

Places of interest	Chester House Farm Harrowden Hall Irchester Country Park The Castle Theatre Wellingborough Museum

Constituencies	East Midlands (EU Parliament) Wellingborough

Sport	Wellingborough Golf Club Wellingborough Rugby AFC Rushden & Diamonds Irchester United Wellingborough Whitworth Wellingborough Town

Transport	A45 road A509 road East Midlands Trains First Northampton Stagecoach in Northants Sywell Aerodrome Wellingborough railway station

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