Nottingham High School
The school’s coat of arms
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| Motto |
Latin: Lauda Finem (Praise to the end) |
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| Established | 1513 |
| Type | Independent day school |
| Head |
Headmaster of the Senior School: Kevin Fear Head of the Infant and Junior School: Clare Bruce |
| Deputy Headmasters |
Pastoral: Paul Spedding Academic: Nick Dennis |
| Chairman of Governors | Paul Balen |
| Location |
Waverley Mount Nottingham Nottinghamshire NG7 4ED England Coordinates: 52°57′45″N 1°09′33″W / 52.96253°N 1.15912°W |
| Local authority | Nottingham |
| DfE number | 892/6004 |
| DfE URN | 122915 Tables |
| Staff | <130 |
| Students |
Senior School: ~717 Infant and Junior School: ~270 Totals: 987 |
| Gender | Coeducational since 2015; previously boys |
| Ages | 4–18 |
| Houses |
Senior: Cooper’s Maples’ Mellers’ White’s Junior: Ball’s Hardy’s Tonkin’s Trease’s |
| Publication |
Senior School: The Nottinghamian Former 'Junior School': Young Nottinghamian Former 'Lovell House': The Squirrel |
| Former pupils | Old Nottinghamians |
| Website | www |
Nottingham High School is an independent fee-payingday school for boys and girls in Nottingham, England, comprising the Infant and Junior School (for ages 4–11) and Senior School (for ages 11–18). Nottingham High School has 987 pupils, including approximately 717 in the Senior School (about 123 in each of years 7–11 and around 51 in each of the two years of the Sixth Form).
Located on Waverley Mount, the school's main building is close to local amenities and public transport. The main building is in the style of Gothic Revival architecture; other buildings include: the Founder Hall building (in which the school's swimming pool and drama studios are situated); the Sir Harry Djanogly Art and Design Technology building; the Lady Carol Djanogly Music School; the Sports Hall; the Simon Djanogly Science building; the Old Gymnasium; and the Player Hall. The Junior School has its own buildings on the same campus. The playing fields are some 3 miles (4.8 km) from the school and are located at Valley Road.
In 1513, the school was founded as the "Free School" by Dame Agnes Mellers, after the death of her husband, Richard, partly in his memory, but also as an act of atonement for his several wrongdoings against the people of Nottingham. In order to do this she enlisted the help of Sir Thomas Lovell, who was both the Governor of Nottingham Castle and Secretary to the Treasury. As a result of their combined efforts, King Henry VIII sealed the school’s foundation deed on the 22 November of that year. It is not clear whether this was a new institution or a refoundation or endowment of an existing school, of which records exist as far back as 1289. 19,940 boys are estimated to have attended the school since 1513.
1949 saw the granting of the school’s coat of arms by the College of Arms, the full blazon being:
Ermine, a lozenge argent charged with three blackbirds rising proper. On a chief gules, an open book also proper, garnished or, between two ducal coronets of the last. And for the crest, on a wreath argent and gules, a squirrel sejant gules holding between the paws a ducal coronet or. Mantling, argent and gules. Motto "Lauda Finem".
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