A view of the front of Calday Grange Grammar School, prior to extensive refurbishment.

Calday Grange Grammar School (abbreviated to CGGS; also known as Calday,Calday Grange) is a grammar school, founded in 1636 which is situated on Caldy Hill above the town of West Kirby on the Wirral. It is one of the oldest schools on Wirral. The school takes boys (and girls for the sixth form). It is a Foundation School, designated Technology College, and as of 2006 is also a designated Language College. For other uses, see Motto (disambiguation). ... Educational institutions are often categorised along several dimensions. ... A grammar school is a school that may, depending on regional usage as exemplified below, provide either secondary education or, a much less common usage, primary education (also known as elementary). Grammar schools trace their origins back to medieval Europe, as schools in which university preparatory subjects, such as Latin... William Glegg, founder of Calday Grange Grammar School William Glegg, a gentleman of considerable local standing, founded the school in 1636. ... England, Wales, Northern Ireland The sixth form, in the English, Welsh and Northern Irish education systems, is the term used to refer to the final two years of secondary schooling (when students are about sixteen to eighteen years of age), during which students normally prepare for their GCE A-level... , West Kirby is a town located on the north west corner of the coast of the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, England. ... Map showing the location of the Wirral at grid reference SJ285850 Wirral or The Wirral (IPA: [wɪɹəɫ]) is a peninsula in the north west of England, bounded by the River Dee to the west and the River Mersey to the east. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... The Universitätscampus Wien, Austria ( details) Campus (plural: campuses) is derived from the (identical) Latin word for field or open space. English gets the words camp and campus from this origin. ... School colors are the colors chosen by a school to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Image File history File linksMetadata Caldaygrangegrammarschool. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Caldaygrangegrammarschool. ... A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom. ... Caldy Hill is an area of heath and woodland on a sandstone outcrop on the Wirral Peninsula. ... , West Kirby is a town located on the north west corner of the coast of the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, England. ... Map showing the location of the Wirral at grid reference SJ285850 Wirral or The Wirral (IPA: [wɪɹəɫ]) is a peninsula in the north west of England, bounded by the River Dee to the west and the River Mersey to the east. ... England, Wales, Northern Ireland The sixth form, in the English, Welsh and Northern Irish education systems, is the term used to refer to the final two years of secondary schooling (when students are about sixteen to eighteen years of age), during which students normally prepare for their GCE A-level... Institute of technology, and polytechnic, are designations employed in a wide range of learning institutions awarding different types of degrees and operating often at variable levels of the educational system. ... Language Colleges were introduced in 1995 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the UK. The system enables secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, modern foreign languages. ...

Geography

The school is situated in a residential area of Wirral close to the Dee Estuary. The pupils largely come from the Deeside areas of Wirral. In recent years, however, an increasing number are opting to join from the rest of Wirral and from Cheshire. The main site at the top of Caldy Hill is occupied by the school buildings. A mile down the hill, towards Chester, Calday has playing fields, with 3 functional rugby pitches, a cricket square, and an artificial hockey field (sand based AstroTurf). Altogether the land occupies 30 acres. The school is surrounded by suburban housing development and the woods of Thurstaston and Caldy. Map showing the location of the Wirral at grid reference SJ285850 Wirral or The Wirral (IPA: [wɪɹəɫ]) is a peninsula in the north west of England, bounded by the River Dee to the west and the River Mersey to the east. ... The Dee Estuary is a large estuary where the River Dee flows into Liverpool Bay. ... Caldy Hill is an area of heath and woodland on a sandstone outcrop on the Wirral Peninsula. ...

Achievements

The school has a high achievement in both sport and academic results:

• In the 2003/2004 season, the year Nine hockey team won both the Wirral final and the North West of England regional final. They continued to the national finals, where they unfortunately lost both matches, and only scoring one goal. Scored by Graeme Larkin. ^[1]
• The school has recently produced a number of famous plays and musicals, including Les Miserables and West Side Story. In November 2006, a production of The Who's Tommy was performed and in March 2007, William Shakespeare's Richard III was performed.
• Calday has won the past 8 of the last 10 regional annual United Nations quizzes. In 2005, the School "A" team defeated local rivals Park High, 44-40, taking the title for the third year in a row.
• Calday also won the Gold in the UK Schools Quiz Championship in 2005, having achieved Silver in 2004.
• Calday won the cricket Year 8 Cheshire Cup in 2005 beating Sale Grammar School by 10 wickets.
• The school also has strong links with schools in Russia, China, and Germany, and takes part in regular student exchange programs.
• The Merseyside regional Mock trials were won by Calday in 2005.
• School teams excel at table tennis, rugby, and hockey.
• Students have gone on co-educational trips, to Westminster, CERN, etc.
• Winning the UK robotics and coming third in the world beating Germany 12-1
• The Royal Air Force section of the school's Combined Cadet force contingent have been declared drill champions in the Ground Training Competition once in recent years.
• The Army section of the schools Combined Cadet Force (CCF) recently won the last ever "Cheshire Cup" an inter-ccf comptetition, against local CCF's.
• On 26th April 2007, Calday U14s defeated St. Ambrose School at Wilmslow Rugby Club, to win the U14s Cheshire Knockout Cup.

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Buildings

The buildings/blocks are named after past headmasters or the subject taught there. The current buildings are:

• The Art building (A) [Including Michael Cross Drama Studio] - Art and Drama
• The Business Centre (B) - Business Studies/Economics, Law, Philosophy
• The Canteen Extension (C) - Music
• The Dodd building (D) - Technology, ICT
• The E Block (E) - Careers, Counselling, Wirral Able Child Centre
• The Glasspool building (G) - English, Mathematics, Psychology
• The Hawkins building (H) - Modern Foreign Languages, Latin
• The Walker building (W) - Sciences, Geography, History, RE
• The Nigel Briers Building (W) - Study Area, English, History, Government and Politics

Each building has a letter code consisting of the first letter of its name, with the exception of the Briers building, which, for this purpose, is considered an extension of the Walker building. These letters are used to designate room names, for example, the second room (2) on the first floor (1) of the Hawkins building (H) is known as H12.

Houses

The school has three Houses named after past benefactors and headmasters. Members of each house are identified by different coloured stripes on the school tie, or in the case of the 6th form, the colour of their lapel pin or 6th form tie. The House System is a traditional feature of British schools, similar to the collegiate system of a university. ...

• Bennett - Named after Thomas Bennett, House colour blue
• Glegg - Named after William Glegg, House colour red
• Hollowell - Named after Rev. William Hollowell, House colour green

Up until quite recently ^{[citation needed]} there was a fourth house, named after Sir Alfred Paton, with gold as its house colour. Although Paton House is no more, Sir Alfred's memory is preserved in the naming of Paton Fields, bequeathed by him to the school in 1928. William Glegg, founder of Calday Grange Grammar School William Glegg, a gentleman of considerable local standing, founded the school in 1636. ...

Famous alumni

• Most Rev. William Bennett Bond (1815-1906), Archbishop of Montreal
• John Bowe - actor, notably as Duggie Ferguson in Coronation Street between 1999 and 2002 and as Colonel Feyador in the James Bond film The Living Daylights, (1987).
• Steve Bower - Setanta presenter and commentator
• Daniel Craig - actor, notably James Bond in Casino Royale, (2006) and 'XXXX' in Layer Cake, (2004). His Calday attendance was brief; having joined the Sixth Form to do his A-levels, he quit in 1984 after two weeks, aged 16, when he moved to London to pursue acting.
• Will Foster - Member of pop band The Tears
• Cyril Edward Gourley - Victoria Cross recipient
• Raymond Towers Holmes (1914-2005), Battle of Britain RAF pilot, famous for stopping a German bomber from attacking Buckingham Palace by crashing his Hurricane fighter into it during WWII
• Paul Humphreys - of the group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
• Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy - "Woodbine Willy"; First World War poet - taught at Calday 1905-1907.
• Craig Lindfield - football player at Liverpool F.C.
• Andy McCluskey - of the group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
• David Raven - football player at Carlisle United
• Bill Steer - guitarist in the band Napalm Death from 1987-1989, more well known as a member of grind-pioneers Carcass
• Ray Stubbs - TV presenter on BBC and contestant on the 2007 series of Comic Relief Does Fame Academy.
• Sir David Weatherall - Oxford physician and editor of the Oxford Textbook of Medicine
• Chris Redfield

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Headmasters

Further reading

• M. J. Protheroe M.A. (Oxon.) - A History of Calday Grange Grammar School, West Kirby, 1636-1976 (1976)

References

External links

• Official website
• Google Maps view of the school