Trinity School, Carlisle
Trinity School is an 11–18 mixed secondary school and sixth form with academy status in Carlisle, Cumbria, England. It is a Church of England school with strong links to Carlisle Cathedral.
History
In 685 AD St Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, visited Carlisle and founded both a school and a church. For the next 900 years the school continued around the grounds of the Cathedral.In 1545 Lancelot Salkeld, The Dean and Head of Chapter of Carlisle Cathedral took on responsibility for the school in the Cathedral close. The Cathedral was rededicated to the Holy and Undivided Trinity. The school occupied buildings on West Walls, some of which are part of the diocesan offices to this day.
Grammar school
In 1883 it became Carlisle Grammar School and moved to Strand Road, into what is now the Carliol Building of the school, housing the Sixth Form Centre. Since that time, governors continue to be appointed by the Cathedral Foundation. The analogous girls' school was Carlisle County School for Girls, which became St Aidan's County High School.Comprehensive
As the movement towards comprehensive schools took shape, in 1968 the grammar school amalgamated with two local schools, the Margaret Sewell School and the Creighton School, to become Trinity School, a Church of England comprehensive school, with all of the sites along Strand Road.In the 1990s, Trinity School became grant-maintained, until 1999 when it became a Church of England Voluntary Aided School.
In 1998 the school was awarded Specialist School status and was designated as a Language College.
Recent developments include an increasingly international perspective, shown in the Uganda Project, the USA Exchange Scheme, and many overseas visits and links.
The school became a Church of England converter academy in September 2011.
Year Group system
From September 2018 Students in the 11-16 School are now organised into a year group structure containing 9 forms. The year groups are led by a Head of Year and a Year Tutor. Each year group is represented by a coloured flash: Yr7 = Green, Yr8 = Blue, Yr9 = White, Yr10 = Yellow, Yr11 = Red.Each year the color is brought up, for example, next year:
Yr7 = Red, Yr8 = Green, Yr9 = Blue, Yr10 = White, Yr11 = Yellow
Source For Year System: A student at trinity
Former House Group System
The 11- to 16-year-old students were formerly grouped into smaller family units known as houses. Houses were named after two rivers and two mountains, Amazon, Everest, Kilimanjaro and Nile. Each House had an area of the school for its own use. Students normally remained in the same House for five years, with the same Form Tutor and the same Head of House and House Tutor.
The house system was formerly based on the season of the year in which a pupil was born, with house colours shown in outline on blazer and cap badges.
Spring House March to May,
Summer House June to August,
Autumn House September to November,
Winter House December to February
Facilities
The £20m rebuilding scheme of the 11-16 school was completed in September 2012.They have spent £1.8 million worth of funds on a sports hall.
The Armstrong Building
This new building was opened in 2011 as the new Science and Technology centre for the school. It was the major part of the £20m rebuild programme that was officially opened by the Duke of Kent in October 2012.The Chapman Library
This purpose-built Library is the main school library. It was opened in 2001 and is named after the former Chair of Governors, Canon Rex Chapman. It has a stock of over 10,000 items including fiction, non fiction and reference books, as well as networked computers.The Carliol Library
This library is a learning resource centre with study areas designed for use by sixth form students.Ofsted and academic performance
In 2009 the Ofsted inspection concluded, "Trinity School provides its students with a good education... the quality of the teaching and learning is good". In its February 2012 inspection, Trinity was judged to be "good" in all categories.Former Masters
- Cyril Broom, Headmaster of Emanuel School from 1928 to 1953
- Victor Ehrenberg
- John Howard
- H. J. R. Murray
Former Headteachers
- Ambrose Wilson
- Edmund Arblaster
- Frederick Hendy
- Charles Padel
- Victor Dunstan
- DJW Williams
- J Thorley
- BD Dexter
- MA Gibbons
- J Williamson
- AP Mottershead
- D Kay & S Johnston
Notable alumni
Carlisle Grammar School
- Gordon Adam — former Labour MEP for Northumbria.
- Keith Batey — World War II codebreaker.
- David Beattie — venture capitalist with Grosvenor Development Capital.
- Roger Bolton — Radio 4 presenter.
- Joseph Dacre Carlyle — Arabic scholar.
- Thomas Heathfield Carrick — painter.
- Sir Ian Carruthers — NHS executive, acting Chief Executive of the NHS in 2006.
- Hunter Davies — Beatles biographer, married to Margaret Forster.
- William Farish — chemist.
- Sir Brian Fender — Chairman of BTG from 2003–08 and former Vice-Chancellor of Keele University.
- William Frankland, Order of the British Empire| — allergist.
- George MacDonald Fraser Order of the British Empire| — screenplay writer.
- Prof Michael Goodfellow Order of the British Empire|
- Reginald Hill — TV writer of Dalziel and Pascoe.
- Rt Rev William Warren Hunt — Bishop of Repton from 1965–77.
- Ifor James — musician.
- Sir John Laing Order of the British Empire| — civil engineer, who developed John Laing plc.
- Roger Liddle, Baron Liddle — Labour Party adviser.
- Ronald McLean F.R.I.C.S. - President Waddington McLean & Co. - Canada's foremost fine art auction house.
- Rt Rev Robert Nelson — Bishop of Middleton from 1958-59.
- Sir John Fearns Nicoll — Governor of Singapore from 1952-55.
- Gordon Preston — mathematician.
- Herbert Ponting — photographer.
- Derek Ratcliffe — conservationist.
- Eric Robson — Gardeners' Question Time host.
- Thomas Story — English Quaker convert and friend of William Penn.
- Sir Godfrey Tearle — actor.
- Charles Terrot — Scottish Episcopalian minister, theologian and mathematician.
- Rt Rev John Thomas — Bishop of Rochester from 1774–93.
- Neil Turner — Labour MP for Wigan from 1999-2010.
- Allen J Scott — distinguished Professor, Depts of Geography and Public Policy, University of California, Los Angeles.
Trinity School
- Lee Brennan — former member of 911.
- Roxanne Pallett — actress from Emmerdale.
- Andrew Johnston — treble singer on Britain's Got Talent.