The Player Hall The south side of the school, showing the war memorial Tower The school front and other features are Grade II listed. East Wing contains the old gymnasium, the Player assembly hall and classrooms for modern languages, history and classics. Housed in Middle Corridor are the learning support department, two ICT centres, two language laboratories, religious studies classrooms, two multi-purpose lecture theatres, the library and staff offices. West Wing houses classrooms for mathematics, English and geography. It consists of a tower and three wings: West Wing, Middle Corridor and East Wing. Main building War memorial at the south gatesĪn example of Gothic Revival architecture, the original school building on the present site, built between 18, was designed by Thomas Simpson. The present site has undergone a long programme of building and development. Since 1868 the school has stood high on Waverley Mount to the north of the city centre, looking down towards its foundation site in St Mary's Church and continuance in Stoney Street. Representatives of the school's Combined Cadet Force mark their respect with a parade around the main school building. Scholars attend a morning special assembly usually in the Player Hall, at which a minute's silence is observed. Remembrance Day service Plaque on the war memorialĪn annual Remembrance Day service on 11 November is attended by the whole school with the headmaster, president of the Old Nottinghamians and the school captain placing wreaths at the war memorial. In 2007 the school unofficially introduced a new logo for more general use, a modified version of the shield that omits the lozenge and ermine field. The arms incorporate those of the founder: the arms of the Mellers family were three blackbirds (or merles – an example of canting arms) – on a white field Dame Agnes, being a woman, would have displayed them on a lozenge, not a shield. The motto, Lauda finem, is Latin for "praise the end". And for the crest, on a wreath argent and gules, a squirrel sejant gules holding between the paws a ducal coronet or. On a chief gules, an open book also proper, garnished or, between two ducal coronets of the last.
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The College of Arms granted the school a coat of arms in 1949, the full blazon being:Įrmine, a lozenge argent charged with three blackbirds rising proper. Any balance remaining is required to be given to the poorest scholar, but now is given to a representative scholar of the school. and for the purchase of bread, cheese and ale for consumption by officials attending the service. The foundation deed also provides for distributing (out of a total sum of 20 shillings) certain monies to the lord mayor of Nottingham, vicar and others. The formal procession seeks to symbolise the ancient links the school has with the Crown, the city and the church. In the foundation deed, Mellers provided for a commemoration service in St Mary's Church in the Lace Market "on the Feast of the Translation of St Richard of Chichester, namely 16 June" each year, although the service "is now held on the nearest Saturday to that date." With the exception of Nottingham Goose Fair, this is the most ancient ceremonial event still held in the city of Nottingham, and the oldest still largely in its original form (the Goose Fair now being a funfair rather than a livestock fair), although there seems to be no record of it being held between the mid-16th century and its revival in 1923.
Almost 20,000 boys are estimated to have attended between 15.
It is unclear whether this was a new institution or an endowment of an existing school, of which records exist back to 1289. Through their combined efforts, king Henry VIII sealed the school's foundation deed on the 22 November that year. To do so she enlisted help from Sir Thomas Lovell as governor of Nottingham Castle and Secretary to the Treasury. In 1513, the "Free School" was founded by Dame Agnes Mellers, after the death of her husband Richard, partly in his memory, but also as atonement for wrongdoings against the people of Nottingham.
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History Foundation The original 1512 charter approving the foundation of a free grammar school in Nottingham There were 1177 students enrolled as at January 2022, of whom 262 were in the sixth form, studying for advanced certificate examinations. Nottingham High School is a private fee-charging day school for boys and girls in Nottingham, England, with an infant and junior School (ages 4–11) and senior school (ages 11–18).
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