The Lawrence Sheriff School is a boys grammar school in Rugby in Warwickshire. The school is named after Lawrence Sheriff the Elizabethan gentleman who founded Rugby School.

History

The Lawrence Sheriff School was founded to fulfil Lawrence Sheriff's original intentions to provide a school for the boys of Rugby, which was originally carried out by Rugby School. By the eighteenth century, Rugby School had acquired a national reputation as a public school and moved to its present site.

As the proportion of pupils from outside Rugby increased and the people of the town seemed to benefit less from Lawrence Sheriff's original bequest, local concern led to the nineteenth century proposal of a Lower School for local boys, with Foundation Scholarships to the Great School. The Lower School was opened in 1878 on the present site of Lawrence Sheriff School with a curriculum designed to meet the needs of a commercial education and preparation for Rugby School. By 1906, a compromise between the traditions of the Foundation and a proposal to hand the school over to the County, led to a Governing body chaired by the Headmaster of Rugby School and containing both Foundation and County Governors.

This partnership continued into voluntary aided staus under the 1944 Act:

Lawrence Sheriff School is now the selective boys' grammar school for Rugby and the surrounding area, with the buildings owned and maintained by the Governors, and the running costs funded by the local Authority.

The school has been expanded greatly in the last five years with the constuction of a new sixth form center and the conversion of Penrhos House into a Music and Drama block.

Facts

• There are four houses at the school: Wheeler, Simpson, Tait and Caldecott
• The current headmaster is Dr. Peter Kent
• The school Bursar is Melissa Hipkins
• The school has a partnership with Rugby School, Bishop Wolston School and Rugby High School For Girls .
• Arthur Bostrom who played Crabtree, the policeman, in 'Allo 'Allo! was the head boy at the school.

External Link

• The School's website