Herschel Grammar School
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| Motto | Achievement, challenge, excellence |
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| Established | 1952 |
| Type | Grammar academy |
| Headteacher | Mrs Joanne Rockall |
| Location |
Northampton Avenue Slough Berkshire SL1 3BW England |
| DfE number | 871/5407 |
| DfE URN | 137726 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports Pre-academy reports |
| Students | 861 |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Website | www |
Herschel Grammar School is a co-educational grammar school with academy status, located in Slough, Berkshire, England. The headteacher is Mrs Joanne Rockall. The school has around 900 pupils, 250 of whom are in the sixth form.
The school was established in town centre buildings formerly occupied by Slough Secondary School in William Street (a site later occupied by the Slough campus of Thames Valley University) in about 1952. In 1958, the school moved to a purpose-built site on Northampton Avenue, occupying land that had (before the Second World War) been used as 'Timbertown', an area of temporary houses. The school has remained at Northampton Avenue, although for the 1988/89 academic year it temporarily moved to the site of the former Orchard Secondary Modern School while the permanent buildings were refurbished after damage to the roof in the storms of 1987.
Within its present buildings, the school has had a number of names and forms, including:
In 2004, the school completed a sports centre, which now serves as Herschel Sports to the public when out of school hours. The sports complex includes a full-size astro-turf football, hockey pitch, four full-size tennis courts, six full-size indoor badminton courts, one full-size indoor basketball court, a dance studio and changing facilities with lockers.
The school has a sixth form of about 250 pupils, both from the lower school and pupils who have moved from other schools. The sixth form is a part of the Herschel Consortium. The pupils in the sixth form have a common room that is used for studying as well as more general recreational and relaxing activities during lesson time. In September 2006 a silent study room was built inside the sixth form block and pupils are timetabled to spend one or two hours of non-lesson time in a supervised study room.
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