Marlwood School

Marlwood School (founded 1606) is a comprehensive secondary school located in Alveston, South Gloucestershire, just north of Bristol.

Admissions

It is on the B3561 on the outskirts of the south-west of the village.

History

Grammar school

The school used to be Thornbury Grammar School and was located in the buildings that are now the sixth form centre for The Castle School in Thornbury. Thornbury Grammar School was relocated to new buildings on the outskirts of neighbouring Alveston in 1972.

Comprehensive

It received its first comprehensive intake and was renamed Marlwood School under the headship of Terry Fazey.

Academics

It is a Beacon school and has attained the status of Science College, due to excellence at science. Marlwood currently has around 1300 pupils and its own sixth form department, with over 200 students studying AS, A2 and BTEC qualifications.

The school produces a regular newsletter known as 'Grapevine' as well as the termly general school newsletter.

Alumni

• Paul Nicholls
• Rhys Oakley, rugby player
• Wayne Thompson

Thornbury Grammar School

• Dr Peter Brand, Liberal Democrat MP for Isle of Wight from 1997-2001.
• Tony Britton, actor
• R. W. G. Dennis, mycologist
• Christopher Hamer, The Property Ombudsman since 2006
• Stephen Lansdown, founded Hargreaves Lansdown
• , philosophy academic
• Dr Caroline St John-Brooks, Editor from 1997-2000 of the Times Educational Supplement
• Prof , Professor of Tissue Engineering since 2001 at the University...... ...
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