Slough Grammar School

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Slough Grammar School (Language College) is a fully selective Foundation School in Lascelles Road, Slough (originally Buckinghamshire but now Berkshire), and since September 2002 formally named Slough Grammar School (Language College).

The school is a Language College, a Beacon School, a Leading Edge School, an ICT-Focus School, a Training School, an International School (under the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO)) and a participant in the Primary Language Initiative. From September 2004 it has offered some International Baccalaureate courses alongside its conventional secondary and sixth form courses.

1 History
2 Headmasters (1936 - 1982)
3 Principals (1993 - )
4 Old Paludians
5 External links

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History

The School was founded as Slough Secondary School in William Street, Slough, in 1912. By 1936, the School had outgrown its premises and was split into Slough Grammar School for boys (1936 - 1982) in Lascelles Road and Slough High School for girls (1936 - 1982) in Twinches Lane, although the girls stayed on in the William Street buildings until 1939 when their new buildings were ready.

In 1982, when the Twinches Lane site was sold for redevelopment, Slough Grammar School and Slough High School merged to form Upton Grammar School (1982 - 1993), which became today's Slough Grammar School (Language College).

The original Slough Secondary School buildings in William Street were replaced in the 1960s by the tower blocks of Slough College. This site is now the Slough Campus of Thames Valley University.

Former students and staff are called Old Paludians, from the Latin palus (gen paludis) meaning "swamp" or "marsh" (the literal meaning of "slough").

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Headmasters (1936 - 1982)

Mr Edward Rudland Clarke, MC, MA (Cantab), FRGS (1936 - 1952)
Mr Tom Anderson (Acting) (-1952)
Dr Wilfred Robert Victor Long, BA, PhD (1952 - 1966)
Mr GH Painter, MSc (1966 - 1982) and continued with Upton Grammar School until 1988