Aims of the School The school’s aims are to blend a a lifelong desire for learning. The school grammar school’s pursuit of academic seeks to emphasise a moral obligation excellence with the preparation of to show understanding, respect and students for life beyond school. We aim sympathy to others, and to foster a to work supportively with the students collective sense of shared responsibility for their intellectual, moral, physical and and care. emotional development and to develop Peter Kent Headmaster Tradition, Change and Development Lawrence Sheriff was born in 1515 or the school over to the County, led to the The six older science laboratories have 1516 in or near Rugby. He became a creation of a governing body chaired by been fully re-fitted and to these have full member of the Worshipful Company the Headmaster of Rugby School and been added two that are completely new. of Grocers, prospered in the reign of containing both Foundation and County The school boasts four fully networked Elizabeth I, bought extensive property Governors. computer rooms and there are additional near London and in the area of Rugby, computer facilities in almost every and in his will of 1567 left money for a This partnership continued into subject area of the school. school ‘to serve chiefly for the children voluntary aided status under the 1944 of Rugby and Brownsover ... and next Act: Lawrence Sheriff School is now More than half of the school’s 22 full- for such as be of other places hereunto the selective boys’ grammar school for sized classrooms were built since 1990 adjoining’. Rugby and the surrounding area, with and almost every classroom contains the building owned and maintained by video facilities and modern furniture. By the eighteenth century, Rugby School the Governors, and the running costs Interactive whiteboards, initially available had acquired a national reputation as a funded by the Local Authority. only in computer rooms, are being Public School, and moved to its present gradually introduced into other areas of site. As the proportion of pupils from the school. outside Rugby increased, and the people Buildings and Facilities of the town seemed to benefit less from The Design and Technology Lawrence Sheriff’s original bequest, local Like many other schools with a long Department, opened in 1993, contains concern prompted the nineteenth-century tradition, Lawrence Sheriff has a much state-of-the-art equipment as proposal of a Lower School for local collection of buildings from different well as many traditional facilities and a boys, with Foundation Scholarships to the periods, with laboratories, workshops, specialist Electronics area. Great School. The Lower School opened classrooms and activity areas added over in 1878 on the present site of Lawrence the years to the fine nineteenth century The Sheriff Centre houses a much Sheriff School, with a curriculum designed mock-tudor Big School. Since 1990, a admired and well resourced library and to meet the needs of commercial education series of refurbishments, modifications, information centre, on two floors of and preparation for Rugby School. By and new facilities more than doubling what was originally the Headmaster’s 1906, a compromise between the traditions the area of the buildings has modernised house. An extensive and modern stock of the Foundation, and a proposal to hand the school extensively. of books, both fiction and non-fiction, Specialism Among the most recent developments ground fl oor a huge sixth form common In September 2003 the school became are the Griffi n Centre, Sports Hall and room and study area, and upstairs six a Specialist College in Mathematics Studio, opened in 1996 and frequently new classrooms, a virtual language and Computing. This new status used by local sports groups as well as laboratory founded by a generous gift has provided a wide range of fresh the school community. The Studio is from the Old Laurentian Society, and the opportunities to our students. However, fully equipped for drama, with excellent school’s fourth computing room. specialist status has not in any way lighting and sound facilities, although restricted the range of subjects available full-scale drama productions tend mainly The opening of the centre, at the start to our pupils. to be staged in Big School, where larger of the new millennium, illustrates the audiences can be accommodated. Governors’ continuing commitment to providing students with the best possible CD-ROMs, videos and other research In September 2001 our new Sixth Form facilities. The Governors have invested facilities are available to students and the Centre opened, boasting state-of-the- over £4m in new buildings for the library is widely regarded as one of the art facilities for sixth form study and benefi t of students over the past fi fteen fi nest in any Warwickshire school. research. The centre comprises on the years. Admissions The Curriculum Lawrence Sheriff School welcomes any for the Year 7 places each year is in the are many opportunities to meet staff and Each student is of equal value in the in eight or more subjects. In recent is to make full use of the requirements enquiry from parents or students about region of 550. Further information about decide which course, at A and/or AS school. The curriculum is aimed not years, substantially more than 40% of of the National Curriculum for the admission. The Head of Lower School admission to the school can be obtained Level, is most appropriate. Normally only at the acquisition of knowledge GCSE passes have been at grade A* students’ benefi t, to enrich it where or a senior member of staff will meet from the LEA booklet ‘Entry to Schools 95% of sixth formers go on to Higher but also the development of skills and or A. However, such pleasure is not possible, and to pursue the chance of and walk round the school with any in East Warwickshire’. Education courses after leaving school. responsibility for academic intended to be complacent, nor does it many new challenges. interested parent who wishes to make an There is a separate sixth form prospectus self-fulfi lment. Outstanding individual suggest that the curriculum only leads appointment with the school offi ce on Entry to any year group which already containing curriculum details and the achievement is to be expected in to examinations. Overall, our intention 01788 542074. has at least the standard number of date of the school’s sixth form open a selective school, and is a cause pupils will depend on an appeal to an evening. The Head of Sixth Form is for congratulation and rejoicing: Boys are admitted on the result of the independent panel. Last year 25 appeals happy to discuss entry to the sixth form but six grade C’s at GCSE, or two local authority’s 11+ selection tests, and were heard for Year 7, 18 of which were with pupils or parents at any time. low passes at A Level, are also parental choice. The school’s standard successful. worthy of congratulation if they are entry number is 94, but the current Year Parallel timetabling with Rugby High representative of a student’s hard 7 contains 112 boys in four unstreamed Applications to the sixth form are School for Girls has broadened the work, self-discipline and mastery over classes. The school has grown from 480 welcomed from students in Year 11 already extensive academic opportunities diffi culties. We are delighted with our to 775 in 15 years, with the sixth form at Lawrence Sheriff and other schools. for students at both schools. Over 150 record of strong examination results. increasing from 130 to 300. The minimum guideline for entry to students in the sixth form, both boys and An overall pass rate in excess of 95% at Lawrence Sheriff School is 40 points at girls, are studying A or AS Levels at the A Level has been consistently achieved Information about the procedure for GCSE, with at least fi ve grades at A*- ‘other’ school. for several years, with well over 50% 11+ entry is distributed through the C including Mathematics and English. of passes at grades A and B. At GCSE area’s junior schools and can be obtained Most entrants have much more than level, almost every student achieves directly from the Education Offi ce, on this, and each case will be discussed at least fi ve passes at A*-C and the 01926 410410. The number of applicants individually with the applicant. There vast majority obtain this standard The School Faculties The school is divided, for academic purposes, into five main faculties as follows: Communications Mathematics, Creative Science English, Drama, Media Studies, French Computing and ICT Design and Technology enjoys a high The Science Faculty enjoys excellent with class sets of apparatus to enable German and Music are all taught in new, profile and excellent facilities at Lawrence resources, with two new general practical work to be undertaken, mainly or nearly new, purpose-built facilities, and Mathematics is studied by more pupils Sheriff School, which is one of just laboratories and six specialist labs, all in pairs. Extensive use is made of ICT, students in all these subjects have achieved in this school than any other subject. All twelve schools in the entire country recently refurbished. All are equipped with computer suites for simulations and excellent examination results for several students take Mathematics from Year 7 that took part in the national pilot for word processing, laptop computers for years. All students study English and through to 11; students are setted from the TEP (Technology Enhancement laboratory use, data logging using remote English Literature from Year 7 through to Year 8 onwards.