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Grove School is sited on:

Grove Campus,
Newcastle Road,
Market Drayton,
TF9 1HF.

Phone: 01630 652121
Fax: 01630 658980
E-mail: admin@grove.biblio.net

Who's who

The school's management team is Jane Radbourne (Headteacher), Janice Campbell (Deputy Headteacher) Simon Stoneley, Conor McStay and Ceri Bedford (Assistant Headteachers), Jenny Horner (Inclusions Manager) and Mary Elkin (Grove College Co-ordinator).  For a full list of  teachers, follow the link.

The School Business manager is Mr Ian Morris and the Headteacher's P.A. is Mrs Carol Martin.

Site Manager position is vacant at the present time.  Grove Catering is managed by Claire Murray.

The School Librarian is Mr Dave Munn and Mrs Kathy Smale is the School Nurse

Grove ConneX is our mentoring scheme, run by Jenny Horner.  Connexions are represented in school by Shelley Robinson.

Peter InghamGrove is a Community School, with 20 Governors drawn from LEA representatives, school staff, parents and members of the community.  The Chair of Governors is Mr Peter Ingham, who can be contacted through the school.  Full list of Governors.

75 teachers work at the school (including 18 part-time) In addition there are over 30 education support staff and teams of site management/cleaning staff and catering staff.

There are currently 1014 students on roll, including 150 in Grove College - our Sixth Form. The school’s admission limit each year is 208.  Applications to join the school in Year 7 are currently made through Shropshire Local Authority but all other applications should be made directly to the school.

Grove enters students for a wide variety of examinations at different levels.  These include GCSE, ALAN tests, Key Skills, NVQ, OCR National, AS and A2 level.

  • In recent years the passrate at Advanced level has risen, and is now consistently high.  The vast majority of students from Grove College seeking Higher Education places this summer were successful, with nearly all getting their first choice.
  • The Key GCSE figure of students reaching 5+ GCSE passes at Grade C or better has also climbed steadily and the school was very pleased to record its highest ever level of 59.5% in 2009 However, this headline figure does not show the great successes of our more able students: in 2009 over 38% of students achieved over 10 higher passes and our flexible curriculum allows some to pass 12, 13 or even 14 subjects.
  • Substantial numbers of students added vocational awards to GCSE passes this Summer, mainly National Vocational Qualifications earned in partnership with local businesses.  We also had good success with Key Skills qualifications.

Good attendance is vital to successful education and Grove works hard with our Education Welfare Officer to eliminate truancy. 

Grove has a policy of Inclusion and the number of permanently exclusions is consistently low.