Marling School
| Marling School | |
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| File:MarlingCrest.jpg | |
| Address | |
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Cainscross Road , , GL5 4HE | |
| Information | |
| Type | foundation grammar |
| Motto | Abeunt studia in mores (Studies form character) |
| Established | 1887 |
| Founder | Sir Samuel Marling |
| Local authority | Gloucestershire |
| Specialist | Engineering |
| Department for Education URN | 115752 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Head teacher | Dr Stuart Wilson |
| Gender | Boys |
| Age | 11 to 18 |
| Enrollment | 874 |
| Website | http://www.marling.gloucs.sch.uk/ |
Marling School is a grammar school for boys located in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, next to its sister school, Stroud High School. It is on the Cainscross Road, the main route out of Stroud towards the M5.[1]
The school won the Schools Achievement Award for 2002.[2]
History
Marling School is the oldest secondary school in Stroud, having been founded in 1887 by Sir Samuel Marling, a local cloth manufacturer and former Liberal Member of Parliament, along with Sir Francis Hyett and Mr S S Dickinson.
In 1882, Sir Samuel Marling offered £10,000 towards the building of the school,[3] and the school also inherited a number of endowments from the Red Coat School which was founded in 1642 by Thomas Webb, the St Chloe School founded at Amberley by Nathaniel Cambridge in 1699, and the educational charities established in the 17th and 18th centuries by William Johns and Robert Aldridge.
The left hand side of the school shield contains the Marling family crest while the right hand side relates to the marriage of Samuel Stephens Marling to Margaret Williams Cartwright of Devizes.[4]
The new school opened to fee-paying pupils in 1889 and in 1909 the school became a public secondary school. Its endowments, along with those of the Stroud School of Science and Art and the Stroud High School for girls, were placed under the administration of a body called the Stroud Educational Foundation.[5]
In 1965 the school was amalgamated with the Stroud Technical School for Boys which had been founded on a neighbouring site in 1910. The Technical School buildings now form much of the Lower School portion of the Marling campus.[6]
The original buildings were built shortly after the school's foundation, and both the long and short corridors were formerly temporary army field hospitals and as such became classified as listed buildings.[7] The short corridor has, however, now been demolished to make way for a new classroom block, commonly referred to as 'The New Building'. It is used for IT, History, English and Foreign Language Lessons as well as containing a New Library.
Facilities
Marling School has a programme of rebuilding and refurbishment to improve the learning environment.[8][9] A new sixth form block is now operational and serving the students of the joint Marling School and Stroud High School combined sixth form. A new design and technology block incorporates teaching rooms for food technology, graphical products, resistant materials and electronics, some of the rooms however are shared with Stroud High School
Other new facilities include the sports hall, the sharing of a music block with Stroud High School which includes a recording studio and music technology classroom's as well as a large Music Hall used for concerts since it can hold 100-200 people comfortably. The Music Hall and Rooms are well equipped with modern equipment such as Apple Macs, electronic keyboards, a piano in the Hall along with other musical instrumetns (such as 2 Full Drum Kits).
Notable former pupils
- Sir Michael R Angus - Businessman
- Laurie Lee - Poet, Novelist and Screenwriter
- Michael Ball - Bishop
- Peter Barnes - Dramatist
- Eugene Paul Bennett - Soldier, holder of the Victoria Cross
- Mark Chappell - Writer
- Reginald Clarry - MP
- Peter Hennessy - Historian and political journalist
- Jack Lee - Film director
- Tim McInnerny - Actor
- William Moseley - Actor
- Roderick Oliver Redman - Professor of Astrophysics at Cambridge University and a past President of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Christian Ribeiro - Professional Footballer
- Colin Walker - Cello player with the Electric Light Orchestra[10]
Dismissal of Headmaster
On 6 November 2008 Roger Lock, Headmaster since 2002, was suspended and an investigation into the undisclosed reasons for his suspension began.[11]
Parents learned of the unavailability of Mr Lock in a letter dated November 5 from Chairman of Governors Neil Carmichael who was the Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for Stroud and has a son at the school.[12]
The issue was raised in the British Houses of Parliament on 2 April 2009 by Stroud Labour MP David Drew[13] who said that the suspension was damaging the school.
A panel of three governors made the decision to dismiss Mr. Lock after a two day disciplinary hearing held at Stonehouse Court Hotel on Wednesday, May 20, 2009.[11] The allegations against Roger Lock were made under the charge of “Gross Misconduct”. Parents and students were made aware of this event by the local press and a Facebook group[14] and not by any formal communication from the school, which was unable to make any comment as the case was the subject of on-going legal proceedings.
On 31 March 2010, following a four day hearing, Roger Lock's dismissal for bullying and harassment of fellow members of staff was upheld by an Employment Tribunal in Bristol.[15]
Gallery
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The Short Corridor, now demolished for the new 20 room block (17 of which are used as classrooms).
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The Marling School West Campus sign. -
The Food technology room. -
The Marling crest.
References
- ^ "Marling School Track", School Track. URL last accessed on 2006-05-04.
- ^ "Candidates for Information", Schools Portal. URL last accessed on 2006-05-04.
- ^ Digital Stroud : Marling School
- ^ Marling School 1887 to 1987 W. Oliver Wicks Pub 1986
- ^ Stroud - Education | British History Online
- ^ Downfield Sixth Form Continued
- ^ "Stroud Education", British History Online. URL accessed on 2006-05-04.
- ^ "Ofsted Report for Marling School", Ofsted Government Agency. URL last accessed on 2009-06-03].
- ^ School safety 'failings' revealed. BBC news report 18 February 2009
- ^ http://www.face-the-music.de/colin_e.html
- ^ a b "Headteacher Roger Lock dismissed". Stroud News & Journal. 2009-06-02. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
- ^ "Riddle of suspended head teacher". Western Daily Press. 2008-11-07. Retrieved 2009-05-04.
- ^ "Suspension is damaging school, says MP". 2009-04-07. Retrieved 2009-05-04.
- ^ "Roger Lock - Whats Going On?". Facebook. 2009-06-08. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
- ^ "Grammar school head loses employment tribunal". 2010-03-31. Retrieved 2010-04-18.