Bridlington School


Bridlington School is a secondary school and sixth form located on Bessingby Road, in Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

History

Grammar school

The school was formed from Bridlington School on Bessingby Road and Bridlington High School for Girls on St John's Street. The girls' school was opened on 26 September 1905 by Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock; it cost £3,500. In November 1938, 13-year-old Tom Elliott of Weaverthorpe died at the school when a small splinter of bone in a playground accident punctured a main artery. The school had around 550 boys in the 1950s and 1960s with a boarding school. The girls' school also had a boarding house. The girls' school had around 550 girls.

Comprehensive

In 1975 the LEA changed the school to a comprehensive. The high school site became Bridlington Lower School and the current site was the Upper School. Most of the lower school site has become a housing estate, although the main building, visible from Quay Road, has been preserved and converted into flats. When a comprehensive it still had its girls' and boys' boarding house until the 1990s. It no longer has a boarding house.

School motto

The school motto is “Vitai Lampada Tradunt,” taken from the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, and directly translates as "They Hand on the Torch of Life." The motto is shared with that of Sydney Church of England Grammar School, North Sydney, Australia.

Combined Cadet Force

The school has a Combined Cadet Force which celebrated its centenary in 2010. Before the CCF, the school had an Officers Training Corps. It has all three sections. The Combined Cadet Force is one of the Schools stronger attributes.

Awards

Bridlington School emerged from special measures on 1 March 2007. The most recent Ofsted inspection of the school concluded it was a "satisfactory" school.
The Sixth Form has recently joined with Headlands Sixth Form to form 'The Shores'.

Notable former pupils