The Official Website of the Wotton-under-Edge Town Council
May 18, 2012
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The Official Website of the Wotton-under-Edge Town Council May 18, 2012 |
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The first phase of extension to the new KLB school buildings began in 1972, and in August 1973 the Secondary School in temporary huts off the Chipping closed and Katherine Lady Berkeley's School reopened as a comprehensive school for 830 pupils at the start of the Autumn term, 1973. In 1984, the School celebrated its 600th anniversary and was honoured by a visit from H.R.H. The Princess Royal. In 1992 the school became Grant Maintained and in 1996 it achieved Language College designation. In 1999 it became Voluntary Aided and has the reputation of being amongst the best comprehensive schools in the country. Pupils currently have the opportunity to learn Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Italian Latin, French, German and Spanish as well as all the other National Curriculum subjects.
Primary education in the town also has a historic past, its old Blue Coat School having been founded as a charity school in 1693 although the old Blue Coat School building opposite the parish church dates from 1715. The British School was founded for Nonconformist children in 1843 and is now housed in new buildings beside Wortley Road. The Blue Coat School moved into the recently vacated Secondary Modern temporary huts in 1974 to combine with the National School founded in 1836 as the Blue Coat Church of England Primary School. In spring 2000, the school moved into a new building on the other side of Symn Lane. There is pre-school provision at both primary schools. Katharine Lady Berkeley's School, Headteacher, Mr A.P.Harris, BSc, BA. The Blue Coat Church of England VA School, Headteacher, Mr P.W.Williams, MA. The British School, Headteacher, Mr Paul Hiatt, BSc.
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lthough the Education Act of 1870 made schooling compulsory throughout the country, Wotton-under-Edge had established schools long before that date. A free grammar school is known to have existed in 1291, but it is not known if this early school had an unbroken existence until 1384, when Katharine Lady Berkeley endowed a free grammar school and provided for the building of a new school house. It counts Dr. Edward Jenner, the discoverer of vaccination, among its former pupils.
