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During this, our special 450th anniversary year we're hoping that many more of our Pate's community will want to join us - we're looking forward to welcoming and connecting with you soon!
Dr James Richardson
Headteacher
2024 sees Pate's celebrate it's significant anniversary this year, but it also sees Lynne Hunt and classmates from 5S celebrate sixty years of friends… More...
CGS alumnus Keith Jones who turned 90 this year, looks back fondly at his school days in the 1950s where Music and Drama were key features of his scho… More...
Which other pupils can remember being told 'Don't climb above the angels!!'? More...
In 1574, Richard Pate founded his Schola Grammatica and a hospital or almshouse ‘for six old poor people'. A very special 450th anniversary tea part… More...
The Year 7 450th Anniversary History Activity day at the end of the Summer term comprised the winning combination of learning, exercise, fresh air and… More...
Staff and students always find themselves in a whirlwind of activity in the last few weeks of the Summer term as a path is cleared for House Drama! More...
To celebrate 450 years since Richard Pate founded Pate's Grammar School, a concert with pupils from The Richard Pate School and Pate's took place at t… More...
Following very successful Higher Education & Careers Fairs in 2022 and 2023, we are once again looking for alumni to support this fabulous event and join universities and businesses in chatting with our current students in Years 10-13. The students will attend with their… Read more
Nicola Eagleton
PGS 1987-1994
'My love of languages started in the first few days at Pate's. Before starting secondary school, I hadn't been anywhere where English wasn't spoken and the idea of conversing in foreign tongues was, well, foreign to me. This all changed with my first German lesson, when a young, lively German teacher breezed into the classroom with her guitar, covers of Eurovision winners ('Ein Bisschen Frieden' anyone?) and taught us incredibly long, tongue-twisting German words that seemed to open up a new world of excitement to me.'
Dr Annette Bugaighis (nee Tibbles)
PGSG 1961-1968
'I feel that being a pupil at Pate's was so important - a grammar school education was greatly valued. We were girls of similar backgrounds and there was no obvious inequality or bullying. I think we had a good work ethic and knew what was needed to succeed. This carried on after leaving school with all the girls who were in my year having successful careers. '
Mark Cratchley
PGS 1985-1992
'I had Mr Beale for more than 50% of my lessons. His encouragement of my writing and acting, even in the face of my teenage apathy and rebellion, kept me going at Pate's. His passion for his subject, and his faith in his students, is something that I hope I can learn from. However, the irony of me being permanently situated outside of the Headmaster's office, albeit in a photograph, is not lost on me.'
Matt Gilchrist
PGS 2012-2019
'There was no sense of thinking people to be odd or boring for being interested in 14th century Spanish poetry or the philosophical implications of quantum physics, and I believe that it was this organically cultivated atmosphere which made Pate's as intellectually a stimulating environment as it was.'
Lizza Head (nee Mitchell)
PGS 1998-2005
'I feel privileged to be able to pay forward some of what was invested in me by teaching at Pate's now. The school still allows students a huge amount of independence and autonomy encouraging learning through collaboration and taking risks and the core ethos that together we can learn and grow is unchanged.'
Professor Lynne Hunt (nee Hardy)
PGS 1959-1966
'I've looked back at my teachers and realised that the women forged a career path for themselves through the 1950s and 60s when they would not have had the support services that my generation of feminists fought for – no childcare, nor maternity leave. Many were unmarried and some were stereotypically spinsterish, but they were strong women who had earned themselves a degree at university.'
Nick Thomas
CGS 1969-1975
'I first clapped my eyes on Pate's Grammar School in the Spring of 1969. It was an Open Day and I and 200 other aspiring 11 year olds were shown around by adults in long gowns and prefects with spotty faces. My first abiding impression was of the outside. The school looked like a futuristic ship that had run aground in a huge sea of grass.'
Nicola Eagleton
PGS 1987-1994
'My love of languages started in the first few days at Pate's. Before starting secondary school, I hadn't been anywhere where English wasn't spoken and the idea of conversing in foreign tongues was, well, foreign to me. This all changed with my first German lesson, when a young, lively German teacher breezed into the classroom with her guitar, covers of Eurovision winners ('Ein Bisschen Frieden' anyone?) and taught us incredibly long, tongue-twisting German words that seemed to open up a new world of excitement to me.'
Dr Annette Bugaighis (nee Tibbles)
PGSG 1961-1968
'I feel that being a pupil at Pate's was so important - a grammar school education was greatly valued. We were girls of similar backgrounds and there was no obvious inequality or bullying. I think we had a good work ethic and knew what was needed to succeed. This carried on after leaving school with all the girls who were in my year having successful careers. '
Mark Cratchley
PGS 1985-1992
'I had Mr Beale for more than 50% of my lessons. His encouragement of my writing and acting, even in the face of my teenage apathy and rebellion, kept me going at Pate's. His passion for his subject, and his faith in his students, is something that I hope I can learn from. However, the irony of me being permanently situated outside of the Headmaster's office, albeit in a photograph, is not lost on me.'
Matt Gilchrist
PGS 2012-2019
'There was no sense of thinking people to be odd or boring for being interested in 14th century Spanish poetry or the philosophical implications of quantum physics, and I believe that it was this organically cultivated atmosphere which made Pate's as intellectually a stimulating environment as it was.'
Lizza Head (nee Mitchell)
PGS 1998-2005
'I feel privileged to be able to pay forward some of what was invested in me by teaching at Pate's now. The school still allows students a huge amount of independence and autonomy encouraging learning through collaboration and taking risks and the core ethos that together we can learn and grow is unchanged.'
Professor Lynne Hunt (nee Hardy)
PGS 1959-1966
'I've looked back at my teachers and realised that the women forged a career path for themselves through the 1950s and 60s when they would not have had the support services that my generation of feminists fought for – no childcare, nor maternity leave. Many were unmarried and some were stereotypically spinsterish, but they were strong women who had earned themselves a degree at university.'
Nick Thomas
CGS 1969-1975
'I first clapped my eyes on Pate's Grammar School in the Spring of 1969. It was an Open Day and I and 200 other aspiring 11 year olds were shown around by adults in long gowns and prefects with spotty faces. My first abiding impression was of the outside. The school looked like a futuristic ship that had run aground in a huge sea of grass.'