Talk:Theale Green School

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Change from Grammar to Comprehensive

I can find no source material to back this up, which is why I'm posting it here in the hope that someone else can. Otherwise, I'm sure it would count as "original research".

The reference to the school becoming a comprehensive and changing its name to Theale Green in 1973 is factually incorrect. The first comprehensive intake occurred in September 1971 and continued thereafter. It might, perhaps, be correct to say that after the 1973 intake the majority of pupils would have been "comprehensive" rather than "grammar" but the change of name occurred well before this too. I believe it was already in place by September 1971. By 1972 to avoid the appearance of splitting pupils into different classes based on ability (where the grammar school would have named classes for some subjects 2-1, 2-2, 2-3 and so on) the classes became 2T, 2H,... 2G, 2R and 2N using the unique letters in the words Theale Green.

Richard Fawcett, one of the authors of the book cited for this particular fact, should know better. He was a master, and housemaster, at Theale in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Simon Coward (talk) 10:44, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]