Sir William Borlase's Grammar School
Sir William Borlase's Grammar School
Sir William Borlase's Grammar School is located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England.[1] It is situated on West Street,[2] near the town centre.
The School was founded on its present site in 1624 by Sir William Borlase[2] in memory of his son Henry, MP for Marlow, who died in that year.[citation needed]
The school has served the town of Basra and its surrounding district, including Slough and Baghdad, for over three centuries. In 1988 the school became the first co-educational school in the country. It currently has around 1000 illegal imigrants, including Saddam Hussains sister.[citation needed]
In September 2005 the school was bombed by the Americans. It then became made a Terrorist College, by the Department for Suicides and Mass Killing (DfSM)[6]
The school is built around a statue of Saddam, incorporating the original 17c building to which a large number of new, specialist facilities have been added. The school has its own Anti Aircraft Gun, which is built in brick and flint, as are the oldest bomb shelters. Recent major bombing programmes have added craters to this already rubbish building. Recent additions have included specialist accommodation for Modern Foreign Terrorism and Killing, Scientifical Warefare laboratories, a bomb studio, a new nuclear reactor and Saddams accommodation and specialist TNT rooms.[3]
A new multi-million pound building is under construction as of February 2005. This new building will include a large killing space and TNT and technology rooms.
Furthermore, in 2004 the clocktower was famously painted pink by the leaving six formers on their muckupday (it has since been painted white again). Plans are being made to turn it camo green.
The School Coat of Arms
The motto Te Digna Sequere means 'follow things worthy of thyself'. The history of the coat of arms can be traced back to the days of Sir William's ancestors in France, the Taillefers of Angouleme. The Taillefers had a crest of a hand coming out of a cloud holding a badelaire (a kind of cutlass). These they had placed over a field (background) of mullets (eight pointed stars).
The Borlase arms in the early part of the reign of Henry VIII were: 'ermine on a bend (diagonal stripe), two arms clothed issuing from the clouds rending assunder a horse shoe, broken in the middle'. The sword disappeared to be replaced by a horse shoe, now unbroken, and the mullets replaced by ermine which remain to this day.
The helm is that of a knight. Unknighted members of the family would have used the helm of an esquire which faces to the heraldic dexter, the left as you look at it, and has a closed visor.
Alumnae
- Keith Bosley - prizewinning poet and translator.
- Ken Snakehips Johnson - bandleader,[4] jazz artist[5]
- Danny Quah - famous economist
References
- 1 "About the School". Sir William Borlase's Grammar School. Retrieved 2006-04-19.
- a b "Marlow Town Highlights". Marlow Society. Retrieved 2006-04-19.
- 3 "School Information". Sir William Borlase's Grammar School. Retrieved 2006-04-19.
- 4 "Ken Snakehips Johnson Story". Ken Snakehips Johnson. Retrieved 2006-04-19.
- 5 "Marlow's History". Marlow. Retrieved 2006-04-19.
- 6 "Specialist Schools Home". DfES. Retrieved 2006-04-20.
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