Hemel Hempstead School
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| Motto |
Esse Quam Videri (To be rather than to seem to be) |
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| Established | 1931 |
| Type | Community school, |
| Headteacher | Patrick Harty |
| Location |
Heath Lane Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 1TX England 51°44′57″N 0°28′44″W / 51.74921°N 0.47884°WCoordinates: 51°44′57″N 0°28′44″W / 51.74921°N 0.47884°W |
| Local authority | Hertfordshire |
| DfE URN | 117500 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 1200 |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Ashridge, Chalfont, Flaunden, Latimer, Nettleden, Pendley |
| Colours | Blue & gold |
| Website | www |
Hemel Hempstead School is a secondary school and sixth form located in the town of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, in the United Kingdom.
The school has roughly 1200 students, including a sixth form, and over 115 members of staff. The current headteacher is Patrick Harty, who was appointed at the end of December 2012 to replace Sandra Samwell, who had left the previous year. The headteacher before Sandra Samwell, Alan Gray, is now head of Sandringham School in St Albans, after leaving Hemel Hempstead School in 2006.
Th school was officially opened on 14 October 1931 as Hemel Hempstead Grammar School. It was opened by Lady Cicely Gore, the wife of James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury (whose father, Robert Cecil, was the Prime Minister from 1885-1892 and 1895-1902), and the Marchioness of Salisbury. Another grammar school, the Apsley Grammar School, opened in the town in 1955.
It became a comprehensive school in 1971, when schools in the town were reorganised.
The original Hemel Hempstead School building (known as 'Main Block' today) opened in 1931, along with a canteen and gymnasium block to the west and north of it. In the early 1960s an outdoor swimming pool was installed. In the latter half of the 1960s a new assembly hall, canteen, sports hall and changing rooms, and technology block were constructed. Work was completed shortly before the school became comprehensive.
In 1974 a temporary languages block was opened, which had been built on the land of the old canteen building which had long since been replaced. The languages block (known colloquially as 'West Block') was only designed to be serviceable for 20 years or so, and is now increasingly decrepit with holes in the walls, shaky walls, and is overcrowded with students at peak times. It has recently been renovated in 2015 to make the building of better quality.
In the late 1960s, a 15th-century barn (called Heath Barn) to the south of the school fields was refurbished and put back into use as a Music block. The building has now been repartitioned into two floors and many original features have since disappeared as a result. However, because of the tight budget some original features remain, such as the floor tiles near the reception and brick arches for certain doorways.
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