Weymouth College

Weymouth College

Type	FE College
Principal (Acting)	Nigel Evans
Location	Cranford Avenue Weymouth Dorset DT4 7LQ England
Local authority	Dorset
DfE number	???/8001
DfE URN	130653 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Gender	Mixed
Ages	16+
Former name	Weymouth Grammar School
Website	.uk.ac.weymouthwww

Weymouth College is a further education college located in Weymouth, England. The college has over 4,000 students,^[1] studying on a wide range of practical and academic courses in many subjects. The college is part of The University of Plymouth Colleges network.

Until recently, the college had a second site on Newstead Road.

There was a private school (Eng: "public school") of the same name from 1862 to 1940 in Weymouth.^[2]

1 History
2 Alumni
- 2.1 Weymouth Grammar School
3 References
4 External links

History

Grammar school

This site was opened in 1913 as Weymouth Secondary School, which in 1927 became known as Weymouth Grammar School. In 1939, the school began sharing this site with South Dorset Technical College. In the 1960s, the school moved to new premises in Chickerell Road, leaving the technical college with sole use of the site. The grammar school was co-educational with around 1,050 boys and girls administered by the South Dorset Divisional Executive of Dorset Education Committee.

Merger and formation

1985 saw the creation of the modern Weymouth College, with the merging of the technical college with Weymouth College (the former Weymouth College site became known as the Cranford Avenue campus).

New site

In 2001, the Newstead Road site was sold for housing development, and all students based there were transferred to new facilities at the Cranford Avenue campus, creating the college as it exists today.

Recently, Weymouth College has expanded provision beyond its traditional curriculum offering. A sports centre and gym facility for public use was opened at the Cranford Avenue site, with the college additionally taking over the operation of the former Weymouth Sports Club site on Dorchester Road, now renamed as Redlands Community Sports Hub.

Alumni

Mark Hix, chef

Weymouth Grammar School

Charles Bawden, professor of Mongolian 1970-84 at the School of Oriental and African Studies
Air Vice-Marshal Victor Otter CBE, chief engineering officer 1956-9 of RAF Bomber Command and project director 1963-66 of the Hawker Siddeley P.1127/P.1154 (Harrier)
General Sir Frederick Alfred Pile MC, colonel commandant from 1945 to 1952 of the Royal Artillery
Maj-Gen Alec Walkling CB OBE, Colonel Commandant from 1973 10 1986 of the Royal Artillery

References

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^ Web page Old Weymouthians' Club

External links

Weymouth College website
EduBase
Weymouth College Stonemasonry website

Schools in Dorset (including Bournemouth and Poole)

Primary	Isle of Portland Aldridge Community Academy Longfleet CofE Primary School

Middle	Emmanuel CE Middle School St Michael's CE Middle School

Secondary	All Saints CE School Avonbourne School Beaminster School The Bishop of Winchester Academy The Blandford School The Bourne Academy Budmouth College Carter Community Sports College Corfe Hills School Ferndown Upper School Gillingham School Glenmoor Academy The Grange School The Gryphon School Harewood College Highcliffe School Isle of Portland Aldridge Community Academy Lytchett Minster School Magna Academy Oak Academy Poole High School The Purbeck School Queen Elizabeth's School St Aldhelm's Academy St Edward's RC & CE School St Peter's RC School Shaftesbury School The Sir John Colfox Academy Sturminster Newton High School The Thomas Hardye School Twynham School Wey Valley School and Sports College Winton Academy The Woodroffe School

Grammar	Bournemouth School Bournemouth School for Girls Parkstone Grammar School Poole Grammar School

Independent (preparatory)	Castle Court School Dumpton School Hanford School Port Regis School Sherborne Preparatory School

Independent	Bournemouth Collegiate School Bryanston School Canford School Clayesmore School Leweston School Milton Abbey School Ringwood Waldorf School St Mary's School, Shaftesbury Sherborne School Sherborne School for Girls Talbot Heath School

Further education colleges	Bournemouth and Poole College Kingston Maurward College Weymouth College

Former	Beaminster Grammar School Cranborne Chase School Durnford School Homefield School The Old Malthouse Swanage Grammar School Uplands School Weymouth College (independent)

Universities and colleges in South West England

Universities	Arts Bournemouth Bath Bath Spa Bournemouth BPP Bristol Exeter Falmouth Gloucestershire Law Plymouth Royal Agricultural St Mark & St John West of England

Further Education colleges	Bath Bicton Bournemouth & Poole Bridgwater Bristol Cirencester Cornwall Exeter Gloucestershire Hartpury Kingston Maurward New Swindon Norton Radstock Petroc Plymouth Plymouth Art Somerset South Devon South Gloucestershire & Stroud Strode Swindon Truro & Penwith Weston Weymouth Wiltshire Yeovil

Sixth form colleges	Richard Huish St. Brendan's

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