THE Holgate academy

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The Holgate Academy is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, England, a former mining community north of Nottingham.The school has a centre for deaf students and the sixth form is part of a collaboration of both the secondary schools in Hucknall. A carved stone cross called a khatchkar was placed in the school by the Armenian government as a thank you for the Lord Byron School which was built in Leninakan in Armenia following their 1988 earthquake. The carving was replaced in 2004.BackgroundThe school was not complete in 1955 but the first students attended that year. The school was named after Annie Elizabeth Holgate who had been a teacher but had entered local politics and she became chair of the local education committee. She married Henry and her son Sidney Holgate was to become a noted mathematician and rise to head Grey College in Durham. Two other schools in Hucknall are named after Ms Holgate.In 1968, while the school was a secondary modern school, a former headmistress was charged and found guilty of theft and fraud. She pleaded guilty to a number of charges including spending £38 that the students had collected for charity.