Fulneck School

Motto	Opening the Door to your Child's Future
Established	1753
Type	Independent school non-selective
Religion	Moravian Church
School Principal	Mr T. Kernohan
Vice Principal	Mrs D. Newman
Chairman of Governors	Mr T. Smith
Location	Fulneck Pudsey West Yorkshire LS28 8DS England
Local authority	City of Leeds
Students	440
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	3–18
Colours	blue
Publication	The Fulneck Times, The Comenian, The Orgreave
Website	School site

Coordinates: 53°47′03″N 1°39′47″W / 53.78404°N 1.66311°W / 53.78404; -1.66311

Fulneck school is an independent boarding school, situated in the Fulneck Moravian Settlement, in Pudsey, West Yorkshire, England. It provides education for pupils between the ages of 3 and 18.

History[link]

In 1753 and 1755, The Boys' and Girls' Schools were opened by the Moravian Church.^[1] In 1994 the two schools became one. The Moravian Brethren and Sisters' communal houses are now, also, part of the school.

In 2008 the School reopened a building and renamed it the Robinson Building, which now serves as a learning centre for Maths, Geography, Art and Food Technology

When Fulneck first opened the pupils would sleep at the top of the church. Now the school has boarding facilities.

Notable former pupils[link]

• H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1908-16
• William Booth, Yorkshire and England cricketer
• Sir Leonard Hutton, Yorkshire and England cricketer
• James Montgomery, Poet
• Diana Rigg, Actress appearing in The Avengers
• Sir Robert Robinson, Nobel laureate in chemistry
• Frederic Shoberl (1775–1853), writer

References[link]

External links[link]

• Moravian Schools

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Coordinates: 53°49′50″N 1°30′38″W / 53.830640°N 1.510637°W / 53.830640; -1.510637

Roundhay School (also known as Roundhay School Technology and Language College) is a specialist Technology College and Language College in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

Admissions[link]

It has about 1,520 pupils and there are about 287 pupils in the sixth form. The current headmaster is Mr. Neil Clephan. The school grounds are based across 22 acres (89,000 m²), and are directly opposite Roundhay Park near the Roundhay Hall (Spire Leeds) BUPA hospital.

History[link]

Early history[link]

Roundhay School was established in 1903 as an all boys grammar school.

During World War I and World War II many of the Roundhay pupils above the age of 16 served with the Yorkshire Regiment.

In 1972, along with many other grammar schools in the country, Roundhay Grammar School for Boys on Old Park Road and Roundhay High School for Girls on Jackson Avenue merged to form a mixed comprehensive secondary school under the Circular 10/70 introduced by Margaret Thatcher. Roundhay, like all other high schools in the city, changed from an 11–18 to a 13–18 school with the creation of the tier of Middle Schools - which were themselves abolished later when Roundhay became an 11–18 school again.

Construction work[link]

In the period 2002–04 much of the old school was torn down and rebuilt under a £14 million Private Finance Initiative. The frontage of the building was left largely untouched, though the central section was replaced in favour of an upper-floor staff room that looks over the fields at the front of the school.

Specialist status[link]

It is a Technology and Language College, enabling new Year 7 pupils to learn two languages (from a choice of over seven). Also it has interactive whiteboards (SmartBoards) in every classroom.

Extra-curricular[link]

Roundhay School runs various extracurricular activities for pupils to engage in during the lunch period and after school. Sport is an important part of extracurricular life at Roundhay, and the school enjoys large playing fields and indoor sports halls to facilitate this. Main sports include football, rugby union, netball, cricket and hockey. The hockey in particular had been a great success with many students going on to play for successful teams after education The school also partakes in tennis, athletics or swimming competition. There is also trampolining class and a well used climbing wall.

All pupils at Roundhay School are offered free instrumental lessons. The school also runs a popular 'Battle of the Bands' competition on an annual basis, supported by several of the School's resident bands.

Drama is another popular activity. Each year there is a school production in which pupils of any age can take part. These productions are one of Roundhay's pillars of extracurricular achievement. In 2006 the Roundhay pupils did a successful production of Sister Act, this year a whole week of Multi Cultural activities replaced the school production, Multi Cultural week, spearheaded by the music department, involved a wider range of staff and students than the traditional production.

School trips[link]

Roundhay School runs a number of trips abroad on annual and 2 year cycles. These include art trips to New York, Germany, and Barcelona, and also languages trips to Spain, Germany and France annually. The school also runs a popular skiing trip to Canada with a new trip for 2010 to Austria. History trips take place every year to Skipton Castle, the Imperial War Museum and World War I battlefields. There was also an art trip to China in April 2009. This year the Geography department went to Iceland on an amazing trip taking in the thermal springs as well as the volcanoes.

Success[link]

Roundhay School receives consistently successful Ofsted reports, and external examination results are above the national average.^[1] In 2007, the school got the best A level results of all the state schools in the city of Leeds (also doing better than the independent boys school Leeds Grammar), and the second best in the district after St. Mary's Catholic High School, Menston. The best schools in Leeds are in the north of the city, close to the outer ring road. At GCSE, it performs less highly, being eighth in the LEA, four places higher than the neighbouring Allerton High School.

Standards in GCSE/GNVQ examinations at the end of Year 11 in 2003^[1]

heading	School results	National results
Percentage of pupils gaining 5 or more A*-C grades	0	0
Percentage of pupils gaining 5 or more A*-G grades	11	Percentage of pupils gaining 1 or more A*-G grades || 0 || 5.2|-	Average point score per pupil (best eightsubjects)	7.5	4.7

Notable alumni[link]

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Roundhay Grammar School for Boys[link]

• Arthur Louis Aaron VC DFM, English recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Mike Baxter, European & Commonwealth Games athlete
• Arthur Brown, psychedelic singer of the pop hit Fire
• Linal Haft actor
• Edouard Lapaglie, formerly of Radio Leeds
• Andrew Lees, Francis and Renee Hock Professor of Neurology since 1998 at the Institute of Neurology at UCL, and President from 2005-6 of the Movement Disorder Society
• Edward Lyons, former Labour MP from 1966-74 for Bradford East and Bradford West from 1974–83
• Adrian Metcalfe OBE, Silver medallist in the 1964 Tokyo 4x400m relay, and ITV sports commentator from 1966–87
• Harry Patterson, the real name of author Jack Higgins who wrote The Eagle Has Landed
• Geoffrey Richmond, Bradford City Football Club
• Michael Roll, pianist
• Philip Saffman, Theodore von Kármán Professor of Applied Mathematics and Aeronautics from 1995-2008 at the California Institute of Technology
• Brigadier Dennis Shuttleworth OBE, England Rugby Union, scrum half 1951-1953
• Jack Shepherd, actor
• Jon Trickett, Labour MP since 1996 for Hemsworth
• Arnold Ziff, businessman and philanthropist

Roundhay High School for Girls[link]

• Joyce Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton

The Roundhay School[link]

• Nick Gibb, Conservative MP for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• Rory Girvan, actor
• Richard Quest, CNN International presenter
• Elizabeth Truss, Conservative MP since 2010 for South West Norfolk

References[link]

The Yorkshire Regiment Journal, Edition 5, Autumn 2008

External links[link]

• Roundhay School website
• Roundhay School Ofsted Report 2004
• Roundhay School on Channel 4 news - YouTube video of Roundhay School pupils receiving their A-Level results
• DFES statistics for Roundhay School
• EduBase