An engineering specialism within a grammar school
| News |
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| 2011/2012 Calendar 19.07.10 |
| Sports Day 2010 Results 16.07.10 |
| Lower School Production Report 16.07.10 |
| School Calendar 2010/2011 15.07.10 |
| 4th Year Work Experience 2011 15.07.10 |
| Junior Prizegiving Speech 2010 15.07.10 |
| Jack Laugher Success 13.07.10 |
| Race for Life 2010 06.07.10 |
| School Officers 2010-2011 30.04.10 |
| Uniform and Regulations 28.04.10 |
| Girls Uniform List 23.04.10 |
| Boys Uniform List 23.04.10 |
| School Academic Term and Holiday dates 2010/11 09.11.09 |
| Holidays 2009/2010 06.01.09 |
| Letters |
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| 4th Year Work experience 2011 extra information 15.07.10 |
| 4th Year Work Experience Letter July 2010 15.07.10 |
| Girls Uniform 2010 12.07.10 |
| End of Summer Term Arrangements 09.07.10 |
| KIRKLAND ROWELL PARENTAL QUESTIONNAIRE 30.06.10 |
| French Trip 2010 Medical Information 18.06.10 |
| French Exchange 2010 18.06.10 |
| CASHLESS CATERING 14.06.10 |
| APPEAL FOR DONATIONS TO TAKE TO HOSEA KUTAKO SCHOOL IN NAMIBIA 07.06.10 |
| Summer Newsletter from the Headmaster 26.05.10 |
| Welcome to new Year 7 students 18.03.10 |
| INTERNET SAFETY 05.03.10 |
| Fifth Form Results Day August 2010 25.01.10 |
| Calendar |
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| Sixth Form visit to Oxford University returns 01.07.10 |
| Sixth Form visit to Cambridge University returns 02.07.10 |
| Sixth Form visit to Newcastle University Open Day 02.07.10 |
| Junior School Production dress rehearsal 03.07.10 |
| Junior School Production dress rehearsal 04.07.10 |
| Open evening First Year Intake 2011, 6.30pm 05.07.10 |
| Rounders, U13 & U12 IXs (H) v Queen Marys, Baldersby 05.07.10 |
| Junior School Production 06.07.10 |
| Lower Sixth Form Biology trip to Malham 06.07.10 |
| Rounders, U15 & U14 IXs (A) v Queen Marys, Baldersby 06.07.10 |
| Tennis, U13 & U12 VIs (A) v Queen Marys, Baldersby 06.07.10 |
| Sports Day 07.07.10 |
| Junior School Production 07.07.10 |
| Junior School Production 08.07.10 |
| Lower Sixth Form work experience begins 12.07.10 |
| Lower School Prizegiving, 2.00pm 14.07.10 |
| Staff Training Day 15.07.10 |
| Fourth Form Enterprise Day 16.07.10 |
| Musicality Trip to London departs 16.07.10 |
| Lower Sixth Form work experience ends 16.07.10 |
| World Challenge Namibia departs 18.07.10 |
| Musicality Trip to London returns 18.07.10 |
| School Sponsored Walk 20.07.10 |
| Commemoration Service, Ripon Cathedral 11.00am 21.07.10 |
| School closes 12.30pm 21.07.10 |
| Second Form French trip departs 27.07.10 |
General Information
A short history of Ripon Grammar School
There has been a grammar school in Ripon since Anglo-Saxon times, when a school was attached to the Collegiate Church of St Wilfrid. The first recorded reference to the school dates from the Middle Ages and thereafter the history is well-documented. The current foundation dates from 1555 when Queen Mary and King Philip signed its charter. The school was required to provide a free education for the boys of Ripon, although the master also took in paying boarders. By the nineteenth century the school had outgrown its town centre buildings and so moved to its current location, to the west of Ripon.
The Marquess of Ripon provided the land with the main school building. Since then the buildings have gradually been extended, a process that still continues today. In the late nineteenth century the school was taken under local authority control and in the 1960s amalgamated with Ripon Girls’ High School. Notable former pupils include the theologian Bishop Beilby Porteus and the historian Bishop W. Stubbs. More recent pupils include the dress designer Bruce Oldfield, TV presenter Richard Hammond and journalist Katharine Viner.
