Kettering Grammar School
| Closed | 1976 (completely in 1993) |
|---|---|
| Type | Grammar school |
| Location |
Kettering Northamptonshire NN15 6PH England Coordinates: 52°23′19″N 0°42′39″W / 52.3887°N 0.7108°W |
| Local authority | Northamptonshire |
| Gender | Boys |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Publication | The Cytringanian |
| Website | Old Cytringanians |
Kettering Grammar School was a boys grammar school (selective) that had a number of homes in Kettering, Northamptonshire throughout its history.
One of its early seats was a small building on Gold Street that was demolished during the 1960s "anything goes" era of town centre planning.
The final incarnation of the school was on Windmill Avenue (you can just see the school in this photo - the row of windows with mobile phone aerials above - next to the tree on the right), to the east of the town north of Wicksteed Park. Up to 1964, the school had shared a purpose-built premises on Bowling Green Road (A6003) with its girls' equivalent - Kettering High School. After the move to Windmill Avenue (A6098), the Bowling Green Road building was taken over by Kettering Borough Council as its headquarters office, a function it still performs.
In later years the Windmill Avenue buildings housed Kettering Boys School, with many of the same teachers as the Grammar School but no longer selective, and now part of the area's Comprehensive education system. It operated on two sites - a lower and upper school. The Kettering High School became Kettering School for Girls on Lewis Road (near Wicksteed Park).
The Windmill Avenue site has been occupied by Tresham College of Further and Higher Education (Kettering Campus) since 1993. The former Grammar School buildings were knocked down in 2007 to make way for the Tresham's new block.
In the 1960s, Geoffrey Perry, head of the school Physics department experimented with using satellite signals and the Doppler effect as an aid to teaching. The activity soon grew into regular monitoring of Soviet launched satellites and expanded into an international collaboration that became known as the Kettering Group. The group was headed by Geoffrey Perry, who by then had become Head of Science Teaching. On the technical front Geoff was partnered by the head of the Chemistry department, Derek Slater - a Radio Amateur, G3FOZ.
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