Bourne Grammar School

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Bourne Grammar School
Motto Vigila et Ora
(Watch and pray)
Established 1921
Religious affiliation Christian
Headmaster Mr Jonathan P Maddox, MA (Oxon)
Specialism Arts College
Location South Road
Bourne
Lincolnshire
PE10 9JE
England
LEA Lincolnshire
Ofsted number 120661
Students 956
Gender Coeducational
Ages 11 to 18
Website http://www.bourne-grammar.lincs.sch.uk/
Coordinates: 52°45′45″N 0°22′24″W / 52.76246, -0.37334

Bourne Grammar School is a co-educational selective state secondary school in Bourne, Lincolnshire. The school has been awarded Arts College Status. It is situated on South Road (A15). The school badge, derived from the Bourne Town Council (formerly Bourne UDC) Coat of Arms, is a shield with broad bands surmounted by three identical balls symmetrically placed, and it shares the town motto "Vigila et Ora", meaning "Watch and Pray" (The reference is Christ's injunction to His disciples in St. Matthew's Gospel ch 26, v 41).

The school opened in July 1921 as the Harrington and Trollope Secondary School, named after Robert Harrington and William Trollope, local philanthropists whose bequests are administered by Bourne United Charities. In 1947, following the Education Act 1944, this was changed to the current name.

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