Beechen Cliff School
Established	1903
Type	Foundation
Headmaster	Andrew Davies
Chair of Governors	C J Oldham
Specialism	Technology College
Location	Alexandra Park Bath B&NES BA2 4RE England
LEA	Bath and North East Somerset Council
Ofsted number	109332
Students	1049
Gender	Boys (Coeducational sixth form)
Ages	11 to 18
Colours
Publication	The Torch
Website	www.beechencliff.org.uk
Coordinates: 51°22′20″N 2°21′36″W / 51.3723°N 2.3600°W / 51.3723; -2.3600

Beechen Cliff School is a boys` secondary school in Bath, Somerset, in England. There are around 800 boys in years 7–11 and a co-educational sixth form of over 200 students. The school is located just south of the city centre near Alexandra Park, up a hill from Bear Flat which is on the closest bus route.

[edit] History

The school began in 1903 as the City of Bath Boys' School in the Guildhall, Bath, and moved to its present site in 1932. It changed to its present name in 1972 when the grammar school was amalgamated with Oldfield Boys' School, a local secondary modern school, to form a comprehensive school.

A review of Bath secondary provision by Avon County Council in the 1980s led to proposals for the school to be closed and replaced with a sixth-form college on the same site serving the whole city. Partisans of the school, however, took advantage of new legislation to obtain grant-maintained status for the school, taking it out of local authority control, which the then Government permitted despite a policy that schools would not be allowed to use grant-maintained status as a way of avoiding closure.

Beechen Cliff School acquired specialist Technology College status in 1997 and with the demise of grant-maintained status became a Foundation school with similar characteristics.

[edit] Uniform

The school uniform consists of a blazer, trousers, shirt and a striped tie (blue, red and yellow).

[edit] Notable alumni

• Adam Campbell, actor
• Jason Dodd, manager of Southampton F.C.
• Alan Doughty, musician, former bassist for Jesus Jones
• Jason Gardener^[1], sprint athlete
• David Lassman, author, arts journalist and scriptwriter
• Andrew Lincoln, actor
• Charlie McDonnell, AKA charlieissocoollike
• Curt Smith, musician (Tears for Fears)
• Tony Spreadbury, rugby union referee
• Paul Tisdale, manager of Exeter City football club^[2]

[edit] City of Bath Boy's Grammar School

• Paul Acres, Chief Constable of Hertfordshire Constabulary from 2000-4
• Roy Ascott, artist and President of the Planetary Collegium
• Roger Bannister, first man to run a mile in less than 4 minutes
• Andrew Bridges CBE, HM Chief Inspector of Probation since 2004
• Keith Chapple, Managing Director from 1972-2000 of Intel UK
• Rt Rev Christopher Morgan, Bishop of Colchester since 2001
• Prof Richard Hodges OBE, archaeologist
• John Rees-Jones, cellist
• Raymond Leppard CBE, musician and conductor
• Robert Orledge, scholar of early twentieth century French music
• Arnold Ridley, Dad's Army actor and playwright
• Sir Richard J. Roberts, 1993 Nobel Laureate^[3]
• Sir John Sawers, Ambassador to the United Nations from 2007-9
• Prof Percival Sheppard CBE, Professor of Meteorology from 1952-74 at Imperial College London, and President from 1957-9 of the Royal Meteorological Society
• Michael Stacey, Chief Executive from 1995-2001 of Meggitt plc
• Dr William Styles OBE, Chairman from 1993-6 of the Royal College of General Practitioners
• Colin Tweedy OBE, Chief Executive since 1983 of Arts & Business
• Graham Watson, Liberal Democrat MEP and leader of the Liberal Democrats in Europe
• Prof Duncan Wingham, Professor of Earth Sciences at University College London since 2005 and Director of the Centre for Polar Observation & Modelling

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Old Sulians' Association Association for former pupils of Beechen Cliff and the City of Bath Boys' Grammar School.
• EduBase