Lady Lumley's School

Lady Lumley's School
Lady Lumley's School
Address
	Swainsea Lane; Pickering, North Yorkshire, YO18 8NG; England
Coordinates	54°15′06″N 0°47′02″W / 54.2516°N 0.7839°W
Information
Type	Academy
Motto	Deo, Regi, Patriae (For God, King, Country)
Founder	Lady Lumley
Local authority	North Yorkshire
Trust	Coast and Vale Learning Trust
Department for Education URN	148602 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Head teacher	Clair Foden
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11 to 18
Enrolment	1,253 pupils
Website	https://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.