Fryerns Comprehensive School
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| Motto |
Latin: Age Quod Agis ("If you do something, do it well.") Motto on Fryerns pulpit in hall "Labor omnia vincit" |
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| Established | 1956 |
| Closed | 1999 |
| Type | Secondary school |
| Headteacher | Mr Cyril Baggs, Mr Timothy Slater, Mr Stuart Hayes, Mr D.A. Anderson |
| Location |
Craylands Basildon Essex SS14 3RN England 51°34′37″N 0°29′13″E / 51.577°N 0.487°ECoordinates: 51°34′37″N 0°29′13″E / 51.577°N 0.487°E |
| Local authority | Essex |
| DfE URN | 115224 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Colours | Blue/yellow |
| Publication | Fryern' Easy |
| Former name | Fryerns Grammar and Technical School, Craylands County Secondary |
| Fate | Closed in 1999 |
| Website | Fryerns Community School L.M. |
Fryerns Comprehensive School /friːəns/, also known as Fryerns Community School, was a mixed intake secondary school in Basildon, Essex that opened in 1956. The school was situated around one mile directly east of Basildon town centre. It was closed in 1999 due to falling pupil numbers. The site is now being redeveloped into two housing estates.
Fryerns School was the first new secondary school to be opened in Basildon New Town. Its name came from the nearby Fryerns Farm which also provided the name for the local area.
Fryerns was created as a Grammar and Technical school. In August 1968 it merged with Craylands County Secondary school, which had opened on the same site in 1935, to create Fryerns Comprehensive. The influx of families into the area meant that another secondary school, Barstable, was placed across the road. In 1994 the school changed its name once again to Fryerns Community School.
Essex County Council Education department closed Fryerns in 1999 due to falling pupil numbers and a serious funding issue. Basildon's demographics had changed markedly over the previous four decades. A rapidly ageing population meant that there were too many schools in the district for the number of pupils and Fryerns had to close. Fryerns, had been threatened with closure in 1990-91 but a strong defence of the school was launched in parliament by the then Basildon Conservative MP David Amess. In the speech he stated that no school would close in Basildon while he was its member of parliament. This turned out to be the case as in 1997 he did not contest the Basildon seat as the New Labour candidate Angela Smith MP was elected. Less than two years later the school had closed.
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