Churston Ferrers Grammar School
| Established | 1957 |
|---|---|
| Type |
Academy Selective grammar school |
| Headteacher | Robert Owers |
| Location |
Greenway Road Brixham Devon TQ5 0LN England Coordinates: 50°23′45″N 3°33′27″W / 50.395948°N 3.557532°W |
| DfE URN | 136388 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports Pre-academy reports |
| Students | 954 |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Website | www |
Churston Ferrers Grammar School (CFGS, also known as Churston Grammar School) is a selective coeducational Grammar School with Academy status, situated in the village of Galmpton in Torbay, South Devon, England. It is also a specialist Humanities College.
The school was founded in 1957 and accommodated around 350 pupils, drawn from the surrounding areas including those of the schools it replaced and as far afield as Totnes. Its first headmaster, Donald W. Carter, was head of the Dartmouth Grammar School until its closing in 1957 when Churston opened. He led the school until 1972 when he retired.
In 2011, the school became an academy.
The school is next to Churston railway station on the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway. Its main playing fields are separated from the remainder of the school by the railway line and are currently accessible via a path under the railway line at the bottom of the main school playing field, or via Dartmouth road and the pavilions which were opened at the start of 2009.
The school has occupied its current buildings since opening and was largely unchanged for the first half of its existence. When the school expanded in the late 1980s, a new classroom block and sports facility was added. Later, in the 1990s, the school expanded further with a Modern Foreign Languages block. In late September 2008, the school had a new block consisting of: a humanities classroom; a study centre; an IT room and two new departmental offices. This building was named 'The Cube' by the students in a poll from a selection of alternative names. For some time, there was a "maths hut", which was a temporary building that housed two Mathematics classrooms. This was eventually demolished in 2011 to make way for the new Sixth Form Centre which was completed in the summer of 2012. Also in 2016 a remodeling and extension of the Modern Foreign Languages block created a new section of the school for Art and Music.
There are 5 academic houses at CFGS: Brunel, Christie, Gilbert, Singer and Thompson. Within the school, they are mainly referred to by their respective initial, and each have an individual colour (B - blue, C - green, G - red, S - purple, T - yellow). Throughout the academic year, there are many inter-house competitions in which house points are awarded to the winning form. House points are also awarded to students throughout the year for achievements, such as a piece of work or an extra-curricular activity, and can be banked through the system ePraise.
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