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Lady Manners School
Motto	Pour y Parvenir
Established	1636
Type	State rural comprehensive
Headteacher	Mr A Duncan Meikle
Founder	Grace, Lady Manners
Location	Shutts Lane Bakewell Derbyshire DE45 1JA England
LEA	Derbyshire
Ofsted number	112996
Students	1461
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	11 to 18
Website	http://www.ladymanners.net/
Coordinates: 53°12′22″N 1°41′01″W / 53.20601, -1.68362

Lady Manners School is an English secondary school situated in Bakewell, a market town in the Peak District National Park. A comprehensive school is a Secondary school and State school for children from the age of 11 to at least 16 that does not select children on the basis of academic Grace Lady Manners was an English Noblewoman who lived at Haddon Hall near Bakewell, Derbyshire. Bakewell is a small Market town in Derbyshire, England, deriving its name from 'Badeca's Well' History The area that is now Derbyshire was first visited probably briefly by humans 200000 years ago during the Aveley Interglacial as evidenced by a Middle England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland History The area that is now Derbyshire was first visited probably briefly by humans 200000 years ago during the Aveley Interglacial as evidenced by a Middle Mixed-sex education, (or just Mixed education) also known as Coeducation, is the integrated education to males and females at the same school facilities A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational Institution where the final stage of compulsory schooling known as Secondary education, takes Bakewell is a small Market town in Derbyshire, England, deriving its name from 'Badeca's Well' Market town or market right is a legal term originating in the Medieval period for a European settlement that has the right to hold Markets The Peak District is an upland area in central and northern England, lying mainly in northern Derbyshire, but also covering parts of Cheshire, Greater It was founded on 20th May 1636 by Grace, Lady Manners, who lived at Haddon Hall, the current home of Lord and Lady Edward Manners, and has also in the past been known as the Bakewell Grammar School. Grace Lady Manners was an English Noblewoman who lived at Haddon Hall near Bakewell, Derbyshire. Haddon Hall is an English Country house on the River Wye at Bakewell, Derbyshire, one of the seats of the Duke of Rutland, occupied It is now a member of the Peak 11 group of secondary schools in the Peak District.

According to the report of the 2005 inspection of the school by Robin Coulthard, which rates the school as "outstanding","Lady Manners provides its students with an excellent education. Standards are high and students achieve very well as a result of teaching that is very good in the main school and excellent in the sixth form" - 2005 OFSTED Report[1]

Contents 1 History 1.1 Beginnings 1.2 19th Century 1.3 A new start 1.4 The 20th Century 2 Traditions 3 Emblem and motto 4 New Buildings 5 The School Orchestra 6 Famous Alumni 7 References 8 External links and Sources

History

Lady Manners has a long history of providing education in the Peak District area. The Peak District is an upland area in central and northern England, lying mainly in northern Derbyshire, but also covering parts of Cheshire, Greater It began as a boys' school, but later changed to admit girls as well. Single-sex education ( SSE) is the practice of conducting Education where male and female students attend separate classes or in separate buildings It was a successful grammar school, but later changed to become a comprehensive school. A grammar school is one of several different types of School in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries A comprehensive school is a Secondary school and State school for children from the age of 11 to at least 16 that does not select children on the basis of academic Nevertheless, it retains much of the character of a grammar school.

Beginnings

In May 1636 Grace, Lady Manners bought some land at Elton which was to provide an annual income of £15 for "the mayntayninge of a Schoolemaister for ever to teach a free Schoole within the Townshippe of Bakewell, for the better instructinge of the male children of the Inhabitants of Bakewell and Great Rowsley aforesaid. Elton is a village in Derbyshire, England and in the Peak District. . . "

The schoolmaster would "be appointed by the Lords of the Manor of Haddon, in the said Countie of Derby, being the heires or posteritie of the said Grace, Ladie Manners. A schoolmaster, or simply master, once referred to a male School Teacher. . . " and as with the Pursglove Grammar School in Tideswell, the deed stipulated that the schoolmaster was to remain unmarried, and "if the said Schoolemaister shall at any time afterward marry, or shall live disorderly or scandalously, that then the said Schoolemaister shall have noe benefitt by the said Annuitie or rente charge, but shall be displaced from the said Schoole". Additional to his annuity, the schoolmaster was permitted to take a registration fee of a shilling for each new boy. The shilling is a unit of Currency used in current and former Commonwealth countries and was continued to be used in countries that left the commonwealth Additionally the schoolmaster would have received a pay rise following Grace's death as her 1649 will allowed for the all the monies generated by the land at Elton to be used for school use (during her life she had kept 25% of the income). In Common law, a will or testament is a document by which a person (the Testator) regulates the rights of others over his or her Property The school is first referred to as a "Grammer Schoole" in her will. A grammar school is one of several different types of School in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries

The original school day ran from 7 to 11 a. m. and 1 to 5 p. m. "except Sundays and holidays".

19th Century

In 1806 the schoolmaster, Rev. M. Chapman handed over to the Rev. J. Browne who was appointed by the Duke of Rutland receiving an annual salary of £50 and, for a while, the school became known as "Mr. Earl of Rutland and Duke of Rutland are titles in the Peerage of England derived from Rutland, a traditional county A salary is a form of periodic payment from an Employer to an Employee, which may be specified in an Employment contract. Browne's".

Up until now, the school had shared accommodation with the older Chantry School, South Church Street, Bakewell. In 1826, the school moved around the corner to The Old Town Hall, King Street. The Old Town Hall had been built in 1709 and, as well as being Town Hall, and Buttermarket, the upper floor had been used for Court and Quarter Sessions. A court is a forum used by a power base to adjudicate disputes and dispense civil, labour administrative and criminal Justice under its The Courts of Quarter Sessions or Quarter Sessions were periodic courts held in each County and County borough in England and Wales until

In 1846 Rev. T. Hurst, a graduate of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and a curate at the Parish Church, took over as schoolmaster. Pembroke College is a college of the University of Cambridge, home to over six hundred students and fellows, and is the third oldest of the colleges

According to White's Directory of Derbyshire (1857)^[1] -

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Bakewell Grammar School, King street, established in 1637, (see Charities) is con­ducted by Mr Wm. Kay, L. C. P. , assisted by the undernamed resident masters. The school is now in a very flourishing state, numbering 67 pupils, of whom 30 are boarders, 25 daily, and 12 foundation pupils. Mr. Wm. Kay, L. C. P. , Head master. Mr. Ascough, second master. Mr. W. Mann, Third master. Herr J. B. Burke, German master. Mons. C. De St. Hubert, French and Drawing master. . . The New Market House is in King street, and the rooms above the basement are occupied by the Free Grammar school.

”

Under Charities, White's Directory adds "Lady Manners, in 1637, left a rent charge of £15 per annum, out of lands at Elton, to a schoolmaster, for the instruction of male children of the township of Bakewell and Great Rowsley. The master also receives a voluntary addition of £40 from the Duke of Rutland, making in the whole, £55 per annum; and according to the revised regulations and rules, 20 youths are admitted on the foundation, on the payment of 1s. for registration, and instructed in English generally, Latin, and Greek. at 5s. 3d. per quarter. Mr. Wm. Kay, L. C. P. , the master, has good accommoda­tion for boarders, at his own residence, Bridge street. "

In 1862 the school was briefly annexed to Mr. William Kay's private Grammar and Commercial Academy in Bridge Street but remained in the King Street premises. A School Inquiry Report of 1866 states that the Foundation had become "a mere appendage and advertisement to an inferior commercial boarding school kept by the headmaster". At this time "there were then thirty-two boarders, fourteen dayboys not on the Foundation, and seven who were". A boarding school is a School where some or all pupils not only study but also live during term time with their fellow students and possibly teachers A day school is - as opposed to a Boarding school - an Institution where Children are given educational instruction during the day and after which children

When Mr. Kay died in 1874, Archdeacon Balston, then Vicar of Bakewell, and a former Headmaster of Eton, recommended that the school should be closed, and in the absence of a suitable successor the monies from Lady Manners' Foundation should be allowed to accumulate. The school closed in 1874, and remained closed for 22 years. Lady Manners School ceased to exist.

A new start

The Charity Commissioners decided that a new building could be built "to be used as a grammar school by day, earning through its examinations grants from the Science and Art Department, and as a centre for technical classes in the evenings". The Charity Commission for England and Wales (Welsh Comisiwn Elusennau Cymru a Lloegr) is the Non-ministerial government department that regulates registered The new school backed onto Bath Gardens and was opened on 22 September 1896. The school now admitted girls as well as boys - a pre-condition of the County Council's grant of £600 towards the building costs. History The area that is now Derbyshire was first visited probably briefly by humans 200000 years ago during the Aveley Interglacial as evidenced by a Middle This was the first time an endowed School of this type had become co-educational. Mixed-sex education, (or just Mixed education) also known as Coeducation, is the integrated education to males and females at the same school facilities

The school opened with fifty pupils on roll, all between the ages of eight and eighteen. The first Headmaster was Charles J. Mansford, B. A. (London). Subjects taught were Religious Knowledge, English, Classics, Mathematics, Science, French and Drawing. In Secular usage religious education is the Teaching of a particular Religion (although in England the term religious instruction would refer English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States "Classical literature" redirects here For literature in Classical languages outside the Graeco-Roman sphere see Ancient literature. Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning " Knowledge " or "knowing" is the effort to discover, and increase human understanding French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people Drawing is a Visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium Boys did Woodwork, girls did Domestic Science. Woodworking is the process of building making or carving something using Wood. Family and consumer sciences is an academic discipline that combines aspects of social and natural science The Bakewell Show Ground was used for games. Fees were £2 per head, but this meant the school operated at a loss and so the County Council agreed to fund 12 scholarships. A scholarship is an award of access to an institution or a financial aid award for an individual student scholar for the purpose of furthering their Education

The school was one of the first to establish a more modern curriculum. An article in Review of Reviews (1898) says "Within the school there is a School of Science, affiliated with South Kensington, about one half of the scholars being so classed. Girls are taught exactly the same science, for instance, as boys, and at the same time, in the same room. So far the science taught embraces Practical and Theoretical Chemistry, with Practical and Theoretical Physics". ^[2]

The 20th Century

In 1900 two boarding houses were set up, at Dagnall for boys, and in The Avenue for girls, and in 1909 the Old Bath House (now Haig House) was bought as extra premises for Fifth and Sixth Form, and Staff.

In 1919 four acres of land who bought in Shutts Lane for use as a playing field. The acre is a unit of Area in a number of different systems including the imperial and U This remains part of the school playing field today.

The Foundation Stone of new school buildings, on the present School site in Shutts Lane, was laid by the Duke of Rutland on 20th May 1936, on the 300th anniversary of the founding of the School by Grace, Lady Manners in 1636. An anniversary (from the Latin anniversarius, from the words for year and to turn meaning (returning yearly known in English since c. The new buildings were opened on 24 February 1938.

During World War II Lady Manners School shared their building with Manchester Grammar School who had been evacuated. The Manchester Grammar School ( MGS) is an independent boys' school (ages 9-18 in Fallowfield, Manchester, England. Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II were designed to save the population of urban or military areas from German aerial bombing On a two week rotation, Lady Manners pupils went to school in the morning (including Saturday), and Manchester Grammar pupils in the afternoon. The following week, this was reversed.

In 1972 Grace, Lady Manners Grammar School became a secondary comprehensive, admitting all pupils within its catchment for secondary education. A comprehensive school is a Secondary school and State school for children from the age of 11 to at least 16 that does not select children on the basis of academic In Human geography: a catchment area is the area and population from which a city or individual service attracts visitors or customers

Traditions

Pupils wear a traditional uniform, which includes shirt, tie and blazer, the latter two of which bear the school's emblem - a male peacock with feathers spread (the peacock was the symbol of the Duke of Rutland, an aristocrat who traditionally had great influence in the Bakewell area). Earl of Rutland and Duke of Rutland are titles in the Peerage of England derived from Rutland, a traditional county Bakewell is a small Market town in Derbyshire, England, deriving its name from 'Badeca's Well' Other traditions which hark back to the school's days as a grammar include the appointment each year of a Head Boy and Head Girl, plus prefects and senior prefects, from among the sixth form pupils, and an annual commemoration service (known as "commem" among students and teachers at the school), held in honour of its founder Grace, Lady Manners. The sixth form, in the English, Welsh and Northern Irish education systems Commonwealth West Indian countries such as Barbados, Belize The school also places its greatest sporting emphasis on rugby union, and the first team has had success in Britain and on international tours. Overview See also Playing rugby union A rugby union match lasts for 80 minutes (plus stoppage time with a short

Emblem and motto

The school's peacock emblem is the crest above the arms of the Manners family. The word crest is often mistakenly applied to a Coat of arms. A coat of arms or armorial bearings (often just arms for short in European tradition is a design belonging to a particular person (or group of people The motto, 'Pour y parvenir', is also derived from the Manners family and its translations include "To attain", "Strive to Attain" and "Just do it". A motto (from the Italian word motto, meaning witticism sentence is a phrase meant to formally describe the general motivation or intention of a social group ^[3]

New Buildings

The school has been repeatedly extended in recent years, from the Cavendish library (named for the family surname of the Dukes of Devonshire, the influential aristocratic family of the nearby Chatsworth estate) in the 1990s to a new sixth form centre and sports facilities opened in 2005. Duke of Devonshire is a title in the Peerage of England held by members of the aristocratic Cavendish family This latest extension was funded partly by the sale of the school's boarding house, Castle Hill, which until its sale provided catered accommodation for school pupils.

The School Orchestra

In July 2004 the Lady Manners School Orchestra reached the national finals of the National Festival of Music for Youth and performed in the Royal Festival Hall, London. An orchestra is an instrumental ensemble, usually fairly large with string brass woodwind sections and possibly a percussion section as well Royal Festival Hall is a concert dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London, England. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom.

In July 2005 the orchestra, conducted by Robert Steadman, was awarded "outstanding performance" at the National Festival Music for Youth Finals at Symphony Hall, Birmingham and in November 2005 they were invited to play at the Schools' Prom at the Royal Albert Hall where the 70+ strong orchestra performed a suite from John Williams' score from Jurassic Park and Elgar's Pomp & Circumstance March No. 1 (Land of Hope and Glory') with a 5,000 strong audience singing along and indoor fireworks. Robert Steadman (born April 1 1965) is a British Composer of classical music who mostly works in a Post-minimalist style Symphony Hall is a 2262 seat concert venue located inside the International Convention Centre (ICC in Birmingham, England. The Royal Albert Hall is an Arts venue situated in the Knightsbridge area of the City of Westminster, London, England, best known In Music, a suite is an ordered set of Instrumental or Orchestral pieces normally performed in a Concert John Towner Williams (born February 8 1932) is an American Composer, conductor and Pianist. Sheet music is a hand-written or printed form of Musical notation; like its analogs -- books pamphlets etc Jurassic Park is a 1993 Science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the novel of the same name by Michael The Pomp and Circumstance Marches (full title "Pomp and Circumstance Military Marches" Op Usage as the national anthem of England See also National anthem of England Land of Hope and Glory has long been traditionally sung amidst much flag-waving Brooklyn Book Festival crowd by David Shankbonejpg|thumb|An audience at the Brooklyn Book Festival in New York City. A firework is classified as a low explosive pyrotechnic device used primarily for aesthetic and entertainment purposes

In July 2007 the school's Senior String Orchestra, also conducted by Robert Steadman, was awarded "oustanding performance" at the National Festival of Music for Youth at Symphony Hall, Birmingham performing a programme of Edward Elgar, Robert Steadman and Edvard Grieg. Robert Steadman (born April 1 1965) is a British Composer of classical music who mostly works in a Post-minimalist style Symphony Hall is a 2262 seat concert venue located inside the International Convention Centre (ICC in Birmingham, England.

Famous Alumni

• Thomas Denman (1733-1815) - physician
• Colin Heath - footballer formerly of Manchester United, currently playing for Farsley Celtic
• Billy Hughes (1914–1995) - member of parliament and educator
• Peter Lawton ^[4] - actor known for his role as Craig Jackson in Emmerdale
• Sir Maurice Oldfield - former director-general - "C" - of MI6, 1973-78
• Becky Measures - radio DJ at Peak FM
• Cath Urquhart - The Times travel editor (former Head Girl)
• Alison Uttley - Writer
• Phillip Whitehead - the late Labour MEP for the East Midlands, former chairman of the European Parliamentary Labour Party, television producer and Labour MP for Derby North 1970-83^[5]

References

External links and Sources

• The school's official website
• Article by Roy Hattersley in THE GUARDIAN, 27/09/2005
• 2005 OFSTED Report
• "The Story of the School of Grace Lady Manners, Bakewell" by R. A. Harvey, published J. W. Northend, Sheffield, 1982.

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