Lady Lumley's School

Community school in Pickering, North Yorkshire, England

54°15′06″N 0°47′02″W / 54.2516°N 0.7839°W / 54.2516; -0.7839InformationTypeAcademyMottoDeo, Regi, Patriae (For God, King, Country)FounderLady LumleyLocal authorityNorth YorkshireTrustCoast and Vale Learning TrustDepartment for Education URN148602 TablesOfstedReportsHead teacherClair FodenGenderCoeducationalAge11 to 18Enrolment1,253 pupilsWebsitehttps://www.ladylumleys.coastandvale.academy/

Lady Lumley's School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Pickering, North Yorkshire, England.^[1] It was founded in Thornton-le-Dale in 1670.^[2]

It was endowed by deed of Frances, Viscountess Lumley, an ancestor of the Earl of Scarborough, in 1657, and the buildings completed in about 1680.^[3]^[4]

It has school links worldwide, particularly within Tanzania, Morocco, China and France.^[5]^{[failed verification]}

The school has been awarded Sportsmark 2008, an iNET qualification, Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, a British Schools Orienteering award and was classified as a Healthy School.^{[citation needed]}

In 2019, the Ofsted Inspection Report rated Lady Lumley's school as inadequate.^[6]

School history

The current co-educational school was originally two single-sex grammar schools, one in Thornton-le-Dale and one on Middleton Road in Pickering, both called Lady Lumley's Grammar School.^[7] They were amalgamated in 1904/05, on the Pickering site.^[7]^[8]^[9] In 1864, the school at Thornton had 26 pupils, all boys.^[8]

During the Second World War, pupils from Middlesbrough High School for Girls were evacuated to Pickering, and shared the school with the Lady Lumley's pupils.^[10]

In the 1940s, pupils carried out an archaeological excavation of the nearby mediaeval hospital of St Nicholas.^[11]

In the first half of the twentieth century, the then headmaster of the school, F Austin Hyde, was an expert on the dialect of the area.^[12]

Previously a community school administered by North Yorkshire County Council, in May 2021 Lady Lumley's School converted to academy status. It is now sponsored by the Coast and Vale Learning Trust.^[13]

Notable former pupils

Richard Buck, athlete^{[citation needed]}
Duncan Dowson, Professor of Mechanical Engineering^[14]
John Healey, Labour Party MP for Wentworth and Dearne (1997–present)^{[citation needed]}
Craig and Chris Short, footballers^[15]

References

^ "Home". Scalby Learning Trust.
^ "Thornton le Dale", Welcome to Scarborough, Visitoruk.com. Retrieved 17 December 2011
^ "A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2". British History Online.
^ "Lady Lumley's Ryedale bequest". BBC York and North Yorkshire. 27 November 2009. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
^ "See Green - Ooops". www.seegreen.uk.
^ https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/50151893 ["Lady Lumley's School"], Ofsted Report 2019. Pdf download required.
^ ^a ^b Victoria County History: A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2. Victoria County History. 1923. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
^ ^a ^b Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1868). Reports from Commissioners. Ordered to be printed. pp. 582–. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
^ Gordon Clitheroe (15 September 2009). Pickering Through Time. Amberley Publishing Limited. pp. 60–. ISBN 978-1-4456-3029-8. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
^ Webster, Doreen (16 October 2005). "Evacuee to WAAF". WW2 People's War. BBC. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
^ Historic England. "St Nicholas' medieval hospital 550m East of Brick Yard Farm (1020763)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
^ Kilner, James (4 April 2006). "Hear the voice of the people". Gazette and Herald. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
^ "Our Schools". Scalby Learning Trust.
^ Taylor, Christopher M (15 April 2020). "In Memoriam: Professor Duncan Dowson (1928–2020)". Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part J: Journal of Engineering Tribology. 234 (6): 986–988. doi:10.1177/1350650120917261. S2CID 218616793.
^ "Seadogs must beat the fear factor". Gazette and Herald. 21 January 2004. Retrieved 12 February 2021.