Our school
"DONATA REPONERE LAETI"
We shall be happy to repay the attention we have received (School Motto)
Was opened in September 1960 as "Longsands School", a Secondary Modern, under its original headmaster Harold K Whiting assisted by Deputy Head Mr Denny and Head Mistress Miss K C Flowerdew. The school's original four houses were: Rutherford (after Physicist Ernest Rutherford), Britten (after composer Benjamin Britten), Eliot (after poet Thomas Stearns Eliot) and Moore (after sculptor Henry Moore).
This later changed to six houses:
Hardy, Elgar, Darwin, Turner, Russell & Brunel.
Alumni:
John Gregory - England Footballer
Lee Philpott - Footballer
Wayne Larkins - Cricketer
Robert Grabarz- High Jumper. Bronze Medalist at the 2012 London Summer Olympics and Gold at World's the same year in Helsinki
Rob Harris - Lead Guitarist with Jamiroquai
For present & past pupils to keep in touch.
Specialism - Arts College
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