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Bury Grammar School is an independent grammar school in Bury, Greater Manchester, England, that has existed since c.1570. The headmaster is Richard Marshall. The previous headmaster, Reverend Stephen Harvey, retired after 7 years to take up a position at Newcastle Cathedral. The Headmistress of the Girls' School is Roberta (Bobby) Georghiou. Bury Grammar School celebrates its Founders' Day on the Friday closest to 6 May (the Feast of St John before the Latin Gate), the date upon which Roger Kay, who re-founded the school with a generous bequest, specified the Trustees should meet annually to inspect the school. On this particular Friday, a procession leads from school through the main streets of Bury to Bury Parish Church, led by the Combined Cadet Force (CCF). Since the CCF is attached to the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, a regiment with the Freedom of the Borough, the cadets are permitted to march with swords drawn, drums beating and colours flying. After a commemoration service, the pupils are awarded a half-holiday. Services for younger pupils are held simultaneously in the Roger Kay Hall (located in what is now the Girls' School), the Boys' School and the Boys' Preparatory School. In 1977, the Boys' School celebrated the 250th anniversary of its re-founding by Roger Kay, and the school was visited on 19 November 1976 by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. The grammar school, originally housed in buildings in the Wylde (which exists today as the Blackburn Hall) behind the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, moved to a new building on Tenterden Street which it shared with the local girls' high school, then known as Bury High School for Girls. The girls' school was subsequently renamed Bury Grammar School for Girls and the two schools, whilst remaining separate entities, shared the same building until the erection of a more modern facility for the boys across Bridge Road in the 1960s. The schools recently publicly announced their intention to build a joint sixth form centre for day use only, and certain subjects in the sixth form are taught jointly across the two schools. The Roger Kay bequest specified that the Headmaster had to be an Oxford or Cambridge graduate, hence the reason for the predominance of dark and light blue in the school uniforms. The school's crest (depicted opposite and worn with pride on the blazer and cap) dates from c. 1840. It depicts a swan tenaciously gripping a key in its beak, under which is the motto: ラテン語:''Sanctas Clavis Fores Aperit'' (Latin for "the key opens holy doors"). Both are largely considered to have been created by the Revd Henry Crewe Boutflower, a former headmaster. The tenacious swan is from the device of John, Duke of Berry, who may, or may not, have been an ancestor of the Founder, Revd. Henry Bury (but was more likely chosen due to the similar names), whilst the key is believed to be a play on the name of the re-founder, the Reverend Roger Kay. The current school fees are £9,333 p.a. for senior pupils and £6,936 p.a. in the junior school. ==Publications and alumni activities== For the Boys' school, "The Clavian" is the school magazine, edited by David Benger, while "The Key" is the Alumni magazine. The Old Girls' Association produces a glossy, full colour annual magazine called "The Record"; members of the Old Boys' Society receive an annual 4 page newsletter entitled "Newsletter". The Girls' School also produce a magazine, which is eminently readable. There is an active alumni group run by the Schools' Development Association and membership of the vibrant Bury Grammar Schools' Alumni Group on LinkedIn is open to Old Boys and Old Girls who are LinkedIn members. The Old Boys' Society organises an annual dinner in Bury around 6 May each year; The Old Boys' Society (London Branch) organises an annual dinner in London a few days after 6 May each year for Home Counties-based Old Boys (but moved to a Friday late in May in 2012). The London Old Girls also have a lunch each year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bury Grammar School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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