King Edward VI Community College (KEVICC) is a
coeducational
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secondary school
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and
sixth form
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located in
Totnes,
Devon
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, England. It is located in the Dart Valley on the
A385 Ashburton Road and serves Totnes and the surrounding area. It has a large campus with around 900 students, 200 of whom are at the Kennicott Sixth Form centre adjoining the main site.
History
The school was founded in 1966 as the King Edward VI Comprehensive School, an amalgamation of the King Edward VI Grammar School for boys (founded 1554),
the Redworth Secondary Modern School and the Totnes High School for Girls. The new school was located on the sites of the Redworth Secondary Modern and the neighbouring Totnes High School for Girls. The grammar school had been on a different site ("The Mansion" on Fore Street), which was too small to accommodate the new comprehensive school.
The school received its most recent Ofsted report in 2019, where it scored a 'Good'.
Previously a
community school administered by
Devon County Council, in September 2022 King Edward VI Community College converted to
academy status. The school is now sponsored by Education South West.
Curriculum
The school curriculum follows the National Curriculum of England and Wales and offers French and Spanish for a compulsory modern foreign language. Students choose 4 GCSE subjects, alongside Maths, English Language, English Literature, Science and Physical Education, which are all compulsory. Students also have the option of studying the English Baccalaureate (EBacc).
The school also has Kennicott sixth form for students to take A Levels, AS Levels, BTEC National Diplomas and EPQs.
College houses
The school currently has five houses: Babbage, Davis, Gyles, Scott and Snape.
These took over from the previous four-school house system of Rea, Smythe, Jeffrey and Scott in 2001.
Notable former teachers
* Thomas Peter Snape OBE (4 June 1925 - 30 April 1997), headmaster from 1964 to 1983; General Secretary from 1983 to 1988 of both the
Secondary Heads Association and the
Headmasters’ Conference.
Notable former pupils
*
Cressida Bowyer, musician and scientist
*
Joanna Briscoe, novelist
*
Jimmy Cauty
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, musician and artist
*
Miracle Chance, stage actress and singer
*
Helen J. Cooper, chemist and professor at the
University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a Public university, public research university in Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingham (founded in 1825 as ...
* Hester Goodman, musician; member of
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain[Interview with Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain](_blank)
''Outline Magazine''; retrieved 4 June 2013.
*
Cathryn Harrison, actress
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Ben Howard, singer-songwriter
*
Cosmo Jarvis (attended sixth form), singer-songwriter
*
Warwick Lightfoot, Conservative politician
*
Kieffer Moore, footballer
*
Mary Nightingale, journalist and news presenter
Toffs at the top
Press Gazette, 16 June 2006
* Guy Singh-Watson, organic farmer, Riverford Farm
* Ryan Stevenson, cricketer
* Sam and Sophie Tolchard, bowls players and 2014 Commonwealth Games medallists
* Toby Young, son of Lord Young of Dartington, journalist
Pupils of the Boys' Grammar school
*Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage (; 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer.
Babbage is considered ...
, inventor of the computer
* Philip Furneaux, an English independent minister.
References
External links
*
Old Totnesians Society
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Secondary schools in Devon
Academies in Devon
Totnes
King Edward VI Schools
Educational institutions established in 2018
2018 establishments in England