Figure 1.--Here we see some of the boys at Steyning Grammarv School in 1947. Almost all of the boys are wearing suits. A few are not, perhaps because of the post-War austerity. The younger boys wear short pants, but apparently this was not required.

Steyning Grammar School like quite a number of British schools has an amazing hustory. The school dates back to the 17th century. It was founded and endowed as a grammar school by William Holland, an Alderman of Chichester (1614). The townn of Steyning has existed since Anglo-Saxon times. It os located in West Sussex near Horsham in the South Downs, four miles north of the Channel town of Shoreham-by-Sea. A grammar school in modern times was an acacademically selective secondary schools. Children who did well in he 11-plus exam were channeled into the grammar schools. As part of educational reforms, most grammar schools were converted into comprehnsives (1960s-70s). It was felt at the time that this would expand educational opportunity. Steyning Grammar was merged with Steyning Secondary Modern School to form a comprehensive school (1968). The combined school thus shares two sites in Steyning. The original histoic half-timbered Church Street site housed years 7 and 8 (not to be confused with age groups) until the 2021-22 academic year finished. At his time the group ('Lower School') transferred to the Towers site in Upper Beeding close by. The main Shooting Field accomodated years 9-11 and the sixth form college. A third lower school site opened in Storrington (September 2017 after the closure of Rydon Community College (September 2017). The Steyning Leisure Centre was used for some of the PE ckasses. School governors over the oppositionn of many teachers voted to convert the school to an academy as part of the Bohunt Trust. This converted to a private or independent school as the British tend to use. This is a rare example of a schoolm opting out of the state system. We are not sure why this decision was taken. The Bohunt Education Trust runs eight schools, including other secondary schools in Worthing and Horsham.

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