Richard Taunton Sixth Form College
Richard Taunton Sixth Form College, until 2012 called Taunton's College, is a sixth form college in Upper Shirley, Southampton attended by approximately 750 students. It is part of the Lighthouse Learning Trust, along with St Vincent Sixth Form College in Gosport.
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• Name — Richard Taunton Sixth Form College • Established — 1760 • Type — Sixth form college • Head Label — Principal • Head — Andy Grant • Founder — Richard Taunton • Address — Hill Lane • City — Southampton • County — Hampshire • Country — England • Postal Code — SO15 5RL • Local Authority — Southampton • Ofsted — yes • Urn — 145228 • Enrolment — 1000 • Gender — Coeducational • Lower Age — 16 • Upper Age — 18 • Website — http: www.richardtaunton.ac.uk
Admissions
Admissions
It offers a range of T levels and vocational courses, but mostly A Levels. It is to the west of Southampton Common next to the Bellemoor pub at the junction of Hill Lane and Bellemoor Road. Near to the south is King Edward VI School, Southampton.
Foundation
Foundation
Taunton's School was founded in 1760 by Richard Taunton, former mayor of Southampton. In 1864 it moved to a specially built premises on New Road. In 1875 it was established as an endowed school, to be called Taunton's Trade School. The school became a public secondary school and the name changed once more to Taunton's School.
Sixth form college
Sixth form college
In 1969, it was reorganised as a sixth form college for boys and renamed to Richard Taunton College. From 1978 girls were admitted.
Hill College
Hill College
Meanwhile, in 1858, the Southampton College and High School for Girls was founded. In 1936 it moved to a site on Hill Lane. In 1967, it was reorganised as a sixth form college for girls and renamed to Southampton College for Girls. Boys were admitted from September 1978, along with a name change to Hill College, reflecting the location of the college.
Merger
Merger
In 1989 the two colleges merged using the name Taunton's College although the Hill Lane site was refurbished and moved into in 1993.
Redevelopment proposal 2007
Redevelopment proposal 2007
A 2007 redevelopment proposal for Taunton's College, on Hill Lane in Southampton, which proposed replacement of nearly all the buildings on the site including the main building completed in 1937 as the Southampton Grammar School for Girls was formally cancelled by June 2009. Funds hoped for the redevelopment of many sixth form and Further Education colleges throughout England were revealed earlier in 2009 to be insufficient for a mooted major national programme of rebuilds, Building Schools for the Future. Taunton's proposal was one of many which could not be funded.
Name Change
Name Change
On 11 July 2012, Taunton's College changed its name to Richard Taunton Sixth Form College.
Taunton's College
Taunton's College
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Grammar school
In 1926, the school moved to a new site on Highfield Road. It was officially opened by Eustace Percy, 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle (then the Coalition Conservative MP for Hastings) on 26 April 1927. It was administered by the City of Southampton Education Committee. In 1968 it had around 850 boys.
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- 1.Taunton's College, Southampton – International Baccalaureate Organization.
- 2.International Baccalaureate – Taunton's College.
- 3.College History – The Early Years, 1760–1864 – Old Tauntonians' Association.
- 4.College History – New Road, 1864–1926 – Old Tauntonians' Association.
- 5.College History – Highfield, 1926–1993 – Old Tauntonians' Association.
- 6.College History – Recent Years, 1989–Present – Old Tauntonians' Association.
- 7.Obituary, The Daily Telegraph, 31 July 2022
- 8.Who's Who 1991, A. & C. Black, London, p. 106.
- 9.Jack Mantle VC. Daily Echo. 21 June 2007.
- 10.John Edgar Mann, Southampton People, Ensign Publications, Southampton, 1989. pp. 16-17.
- 11.Who's Who 1991, p. 139.
- 12.Obituary, The Daily Telegraph, 8 June 2016, p. 29.
- 13.The Daily Telegraph, 26 February 1998, p. 23.
- 14.H. Spooner, A History of Taunton’s School, Southampton, 1760-1967, Southampton, 1968, p. 198.
- 15.Dictionary of Irish Biography
- 16.Papers of George Robert Graham Conway. Archives Hub. 20 May 1951.
- 17.Mann, Southampton People, pp. 34-5.
- 18.Obituary, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 41, November 1995.
- 19.The Daily Telegraph, 19 August 2015, p. 33.
- 20.Fowler, Bridget. John Eldrige obituary. The Guardian. 14 February 2023.
- 21.S/Ldr. D O Finlay. Battle of Britain London Monument. 2007.
- 22.Obituary: Trevor Gardner. The Independent. 12 October 1997.
- 23.Obituary, The Daily Telegraph.
- 24.Spooner, A History of Taunton's School, p. 419.
- 25.Obituary, The Independent, 21 May 1997
- 26.Spooner, A History of Taunton's School, p. 187.
- 27.Spooner, A History of Taunton’s School, p. 454; The Times, 28 June 1965, p. 13; Microscopy Today, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2022, pp. 46-47.https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/microscopy-today/article/remembrance-of-david-c-joy-a-true-microscopy-and-microanalysis-pioneer/D20BD604970EF9AFB1B2F3DBD02FE1FD
- 28.Spooner, A History of Taunton's School, p. 452.
- 29.Spooner, A History of Taunton's School, p. 158.
- 30.Who’s Who 1991, A & C Black, London, 1991.
- 31.Entry in Sotonopedia: the A-Z of Southampton's history.
- 32.Who's Who 1991, p. 1321.
- 33.Obituary, Guardian.
- 34.Spooner, A History of Taunton's School, p. 360.
- 35.Mann, Southampton People, pp. 78-79.
- 36.Spooner, A History of Taunton's School, pp. 212-213.
- 37.The Times, 2 February 1963, p. 12.
- 38.The Times, 28 September 1950, p. 6.
- 39.Spooner, A History of Taunton's School, p. 238.
- 40.Richard Taunton Sixth Form College Prospectus, 2018-19, p. 4
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