Nottingham High School

For other uses, see Nottingham High School (disambiguation).

Nottingham High School
Illustration of a silver heater-shaped shield bearing three naturally-coloured blackbirds. These face left, as if about to take flight. Two blackbirds are above the third to make a triangle. The shield has a red horizontal band with a golden ducal coronet on the left and right and an open book in the middle. The book has blank white pages, a red cover and gilded page edges. Below the shield is a parchment (curved like a smile, curled at each end, and centred) with an uppercase "Lauda Finem" in an old-fashioned serif font. The front of the parchment is yellow and the back red.
Photograph of a Gothic Revival building in grey slate, with walls of light brown and a pitched roof bearing algae. It has a wide chimney on each side, five large multi-segment windows on each storey on each section. The left and right sections have two and three storeys respectively, separated by a central protrusion with five storeys. The central section has two-storey bays window flanking an arched, elevated wooden door, above an outdoor double staircase with a simpler wooden door in the front. Above each bay window is a smaller window. Above these is a narrower section with three large multi-segment windows, above which is a yet narrower section forming a square tower and the highest storey. The tower is crenellated with one large multi-segment window, a flagpole with no flag in the centre, and a crenellated stone structure projecting from the right corner like a crow's nest, which could be used as a lookout. The building is fronted by a lawn between an embankment and a planted area. Steps down from the central part lead to a war memorial: a bronze statue of a First World War uniformed British soldier looking back and pointing up towards the left, atop a white stone plinth with a relief of Nottingham's heraldic achievement, an inscription on a plaque and a relief of the lozenge of Dame Agnes Mellers. The war memorial has stone steps on all four sides separating an outer circle of shrubbery. Below is a paved stone floor.
South side of the school
Address
Map
Waverley Mount

Nottingham
,
Nottinghamshire
,
NG7 4ED

England
Coordinates52°57′45″N 1°09′33″W / 52.96253°N 1.15912°W / 52.96253; -1.15912
Information
TypePrivate day school
MottoLatin: Lauda finem
(Praise to the end[1])
Established1513; 511 years ago (1513)
FoundersDame Agnes Mellers, Sir Thomas Lovell and King Henry VIII
Local authorityNottingham
Department for Education URN122915 Tables
Chairman of GovernorsMr Steve Banks
HeadHeadmaster of the Senior School:
Mr Kevin Fear
Head of the Infant and Junior School:
Clare Bruce
Staff<130
GenderCo-educational since 2015;[2] previously boys
Age4 to 18
EnrolmentSenior School:
~1056
Infant and Junior School:
~270
Totals:
987[2]
HousesSenior:
Cooper's
Maples'
Mellers'
White's
Junior:
Ball's
Hardy's
Tonkin's
Trease's
PublicationFormer Senior School:
Old Nottinghamian
Former 'Junior School':
Young Nottinghamian
Former 'Lovell House':
The Squirrel
AlumniOld Nottinghamians[3]
Websitewww.nottinghamhigh.co.uk

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).[4] There were 1177 students enrolled as at January 2022, of whom 262 were in the sixth form, studying for advanced certificate examinations.[5]

  1. ^ Etherington, Jan (29 June 2007). "Carpe diem – adopt a motto like Gordon Brown". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Co-education Proposals Potential Questions" (Microsoft Word document). Nottingham High School website. Nottingham High School. 2014. p. 4. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  3. ^ "Old Nottinghamians". oldnottinghamians.co.uk. Archived from the original on 9 August 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  4. ^ "Nottingham High School – Fees". Nottingham High School website. Nottingham High School. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
  5. ^ "Independent Schools Council. Retrieved 11 December 2022".