Manor High School, Oadby

Manor High School
Location
Copse Close

Oadby, Leicestershire
,
LE2 4FU

England

52°36′12″N 1°03′41″W / 52.6034°N 1.0613°W / 52.6034; -1.0613
Information
School typeAcademy (English school)
MottoExcellere Contende
"Strive for Excellence"
Establishedc. 1968
FounderWalter Higgins
137120 Tables
OfstedReports
Chair of Governors
Shehzad Qureshi
HeadmasterSimon Greiff
GenderCoeducational
Age10 to 14
Enrolmentc. 910
Hours in school day
6 1/3
Houses
  • Bradgate
  • Clarendon
  • Knighton
  • Watermead
Colours    Grey and yellow
PublicationManor High School Newsletter
Websitewww.manorhigh.leics.sch.uk

Manor High School is a school with academy status for boys and girls, aged 10 to 14 years (school years 6 to 9). The school serves a suburban area to the south of the City of Leicester, although it falls outside the city's administrative boundaries, within the district of Oadby and Wigston in Leicestershire. The school has specialist technology status.

History

Manor High School originally opened in 1968 as a middle school, taking children from 10 to 14 years of age. It was part of Leicestershire's changes in school structure, which the then Secretary of State for Education, Edward Short, described as making the county "an impressive name in the field of education". Short visited the school in 1970, eighteen months after it opened, when it was described as "one of the county's "showplace" schools ... [which] has been visited by hundreds of people from all over the world". The first intake of pupils were transferred from Gartree School, and pupils leaving at 14 moved to Beauchamp Grammar School. The first headmaster was Walter Higgins.

The current headmaster is Simon Grieff

Campus

The school is situated on a campus shared with the neighbouring Brookside Primary School in the north-east of the borough of Oadby along with Pebbles Nursery.

Curriculum

The school was one of only four of its kind in England in providing education for students aged 10 to 14. It was part of the system introduced in Leicestershire to provide for the introduction of comprehensive secondary education in the 1970s. Students transferred from primary schools at the age of 10, and sat National Curriculum Tests in the core subjects of English, Mathematics and Science after eight months at the school.


References

  1. 1 2 3 "Leicestershire Plan Will Grow - Minister". Leicester Daily Mercury. 14 February 1970. Retrieved 5 September 2026.
  2. 1 2 "Head Averts Uniform Showdown". Leicester Daily Mercury. 23 August 1968. Retrieved 5 September 2026.