Loreto Grammar School
Loreto Grammar School (Catholic grammar school) | |
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Roman Catholic | |
Established | 1909 |
Department for Education URN | 138464 Tables |
Ofsted | Reports |
Headteacher | Jane Beever |
Gender | Girls |
Age | 11 to 18 |
Enrolment | 1053 |
Colour(s) | Navy, Burgundy, Cream and White |
Website | http://www.loretogrammar.co.uk/ |
Loreto Grammar School is located in
The school's values are justice, truth, sincerity, freedom, joy, and more recently excellence and internationality.[2]
At the school there are 1050 students and 100 staff members. Loreto is also part of a bigger, worldwide community which was founded by Mary Ward and this consists of over 120 schools and 70,000 students.[3]
The 266 students of the school's sixth form are expected to support the ethos and values of the school and show the ability to follow an academic AS/A2 level course or the International Baccalaureate course.
The school was described in its 2005 Ofsted report as "outstanding with an outstanding sixth form".[4] In its next report in 2008 Ofsted remarked "This is an outstandingly effective school. It has improved substantially since the last inspection and has demonstrated excellent capacity to develop further".[5]
History
Independent school
The school was called Loreto Convent Grammar School, Bowdon, in the 1950s; the school was not a direct grant grammar school, but an independent catholic school, not a state school. Girls would attend from as far away as Warrington and Alderley Edge in the 1950s.[6] It was a Cheshire school, playing netball against teams such as Northwich County Grammar School for Girls.
Sport was emphasised, and competitions would take place against Wirral schools, then likewise in Cheshire.[7] A similar type of school today would be Alderley Edge School for Girls, a catholic girls school, or the former Culcheth Hall School.
New buildings were built in the early 1970s, costing around £250,000. The school included a prep school section. In the late 1970s Stockport council sent catholic assisted places to the school.[8] The school was called Loreto Convent Grammar School in the early 1990s. Local councils bought catholic places at the school.
State school
In around 1997 the school became a grant-maintained state school.
Notable former pupils
- Suzanne Charlton, former BBC weather presenter, daughter of Sir Bobby Charlton
- Jade Clarke, England netball captain 2020, also plays for Surrey Storm netball club
- Lucette Henderson (born c.1972) played the main character, a 16-year female fan, in the music video of Everyday Is Like Sunday by Morrissey, directed by Tim Broad, where she was picked up in a car driven by 55-year-old Billie Whitelaw with passenger 35-year-old Cheryl Murray; the video was an apparent parody of Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris[9][10][11]
- Antonia Quirke, film critic, TV and radio presenter
- Anna Scaife, professor of radio astronomy at the University of Manchester, winner of the 2018 Jackson-Gwilt Medal
- Colette Stevenson (born Royton), Brookside and Coronation Street actress, married the Canadian actors Ray Jewers and Maurice Dean Wint[12][13]
- Nina Warhurst, BBC Breakfast presenter
See also
- Loreto Convent High School, a catholic direct grant grammar school until the late 1970s, became Loreto College, Manchester, a sixth form college
References
- ^ "HEAD OF CLASSICS: Information for candidates" (PDF). January 2016.
- ^ "Ethos & Values - Loreto Grammar School". www.loretogrammar.co.uk. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
- ^ "Welcome from the Headteacher - Loreto Grammar School". www.loretogrammar.co.uk. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
- ^ "Loreto Grammar School for Girls inspection report" (PDF). Ofsted. 9 December 2005. Retrieved 18 July 2007.
- ^ "Loreto Grammar School for Girls inspection report". Ofsted. 11 November 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 November 2011. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
- ^ Manchester Evening News Friday 12 October 1956, page 1
- ^ Winsford Chronicle Saturday 30 September 1961, page 3
- ^ Wilmslow Advertiser Thursday 14 December 1978, page 22
- ^ IMDb
- ^ IMDb Lucette Henderson
- ^ Manchester Evening News Saturday 2 January 1988, page 25
- ^ Manchester Evening News Thursday 23 January 1992, page 29
- ^ IMDb Colette Stevenson