Moulton School and Science College

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Moulton School & Science College is a secondary school with academy status located in the village of Moulton, Northamptonshire. Formerly known as Moulton School, the founding Headmaster was Leslie Alfred Scott (1914-1999) who was Headmaster from 1954 until his retirement in 1979. He established the school motto - "Fill the Unforgiving Minute" - from Kipling's If. He also established the first house system (Hilary, Bannister, Fleming and Whittle) and created the school crest. The school currently has 1352 students on roll, including the sixth form, and 135 teachers. It is a school for ages 11–18. The school was granted specialist Science College status in 2002, and this was re-designated in 2007.The current Headteacher is Mr Trevor Jones. The used school separates the students into four different houses: Holdenby, Althorp, Rockingham, and Sulgrave. They had different colour ties to represent them: blue for Althorp, green for Holdenby, red for Rockingham and yellow for Sulgrave, but now they have year groups as of 7 September 2012 which the classes are in each year are separated from A-G instead of 1&2 in each house. The colours for each year are, green for Year 7, white for Year 8, black for Year 9, gold for Year 10 and blue for Year 11.The school serves students from Moulton, Pitsford, Boughton, Brixworth, Chapel Brampton, Church Brampton, Old, Kingsthorpe, Walgrave, Harlestone, Rectory Farm, Holcot and Sywell.