Bridlington School
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| Motto | Vitai Lampada Tradunt (like runners, they pass on the torch of life) |
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| Established | 1899 |
| Type | Voluntary controlled school |
| Headteacher | Kate Parker-Randall |
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Bessingby Road Bridlington East Riding of Yorkshire YO16 4QU England Coordinates: 54°05′06″N 0°12′43″W / 54.0851°N 0.2119°W |
| DfE URN | 118111 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 1,020 pupils |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Website | Website home |
Bridlington School is a secondary school and sixth form located on Bessingby Road (A165), next to the hospital, in the seaside holiday resort of Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Bridlington school is a comprehensive school that accepts pupils from Bridlington and the surrounding villages. The school has Connexions facilities available, for confidential careers advice or bullying and social issues. The headteacher was, until July 2009, Mr. John Wilson, when he was replaced by Mrs S Pashley. Mrs Pashley was previously a Deputy Head teacher at Beverley High School, and Mr Wilson has become Assistant Director for Children and Young People's Services at East Riding of Yorkshire Council.
The school is situated on Bessingby Road (A1038), a section of one of Bridlington's two dual-carriageways, next to the Bridlington and District Hospital.
The school was formed from Bridlington School (a grammar school founded on the site 20 September 1899, although founded in 1447 by King Henry VI) on Bessingby Road and Bridlington High School for Girls (founded in 1905) 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.
In 1975 the local LEA (one year after Humberside was formed with its base in Hull) 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.
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