Ramsey Grammar School

Ramsey Grammar School
Coeducational
Age	11 to 18
Website	Ramsey Grammar School
10km 6miles Ramsey Grammar School

Ramsey Grammar School is a

It has 4 buildings, the East building, West building, the PE and games building, and South building, the West and South buildings being connected by a two-level corridor. While the South building was being built, a North building, formerly Auldyn Infants School, was temporarily employed to house pupils that were previously in the South wing of the West building. The South building being opened on 24 October 2007,[2] the North building was demolished, making way for the new junior school for Ramsey, Scoill Ree Gorree.^{[citation needed]}

The South building which cost £6.5 million opened in September 2007. It houses the Special Needs, Design, and Technology departments. There is an open-plan Art studio, Drama studios, a suite of new English rooms, and space for Economics, Business, Politics, Rural and Agricultural Science complete with a

Requisitioned by the Air Ministry the school became the Operations Room for the fighter station at RAF Andreas when the station became operational in 1941.^[4] During that time information concerning all enemy aircraft flying in the area of the Irish Sea was processed by the Operations Room with aircraft being plotted on a large map, it then being the duty of the Operations Controller to task such fighters as was necessary to intercept.

With the resulting strategic shift of the Luftwaffe following the German Invasion of Russia (Operation Barbarossa) RAF Andreas became a training station and the Operations Room, in turn, became redundant.^[4]

However, with the multitude of RAF Stations situated around the Irish Sea area, considerable difficulty began to be experienced concerning the controlling of the various aircraft which were undertaking the training of numerous

During the peak period of operations, the Station was responsible for the safety of training aircraft from ten separate stations, and it was not uncommon for the Controller and his duty watch of Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAFs) and airmen to be responsible for the safety of over 200 aircraft flying at the same time, each carrying an average crew of five.^[4]

The system of control was highly technical; the Operations Room being divided into three parts:^[4]

• Signals Interception Room. This was staffed by WAAFs who would listen out for all signals passed between aircraft for which the Station was responsible.
• Navigation Room. This is where the positions of the aircraft were mapped out using the bearing which had been intercepted by the
  wireless operators
  .
• Operations Room. This is where the information gathered would be plotted on the large plotting table.

The TFCC was stood down and disbanded following the cessation of hostilities in 1945.

Notable former pupils

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• Allan Bell, politician
• Alan Crowe, politician
• Beckii Cruel, singer and entertainer
• Conor Cummins, motorcycle racer
• G.A.M. Isherwood
  , rugby player
• Thomas Kneen, Clerk of the Rolls
• David Knight, world champion enduro motocycle rider
• Constance Radcliffe, historian and recipient of the Reih Bleeaney Vanannan
• Norman Radcliffe, politician
• Percy Radcliffe, politician
• Eddie Teare, politician
• Andrew Williamson, deputy deemster

References

External links

• Ramsey Grammar School website
• History of Ramsey Grammar School 1971, L E Williamson