Humphrey Perkins School

Grammar school The school was founded as the Humphrey Perkins Grammar School in 1717 in the will of Humphrey Perkins. Perkins was born in Barrow upon Soar and went to the University of Cambridge before becoming the rector of Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire, until his death in 1717. He left money for a grammar school to be built in Barrow upon Soar, and after land was acquired on an orchard near the centre of the village, the school opened in 1735 with 32 pupils. Academy In September 2010, Peter Nutkins joined the school as Headmaster, and the school underwent a period of rapid reorganisation and development. On 1 January 2012 Humphrey Perkins became an Academy School and converted to an 11–16 that same year, taking older pupils from September 2013. ==Teaching==

The school was inspected in 2011–12 and issued with a notice to improve after being judged inadequate. Only 14 months later the school was judged as 'good' by the return OFSTED inspection as the improvements that had taken place brought about change. Pupils within the school were given iPads to encourage creativity. The school held training events for other schools on the use of the devices in the classroom. Nutkins took a strong stance on including creative subjects in the curriculum and is a member of the Heads for Arts national lobby group. In September 2017, most iPads were removed from the school, with pupils no longer having them, but the staff still use them. ==Notable former pupils==

• Louise Lear, , BBC weather presenter, from Rothley (took her O-levels and A-levels at Quorn) • Jenny Tomlinson, , Archdeacon of Birmingham since 2019, from Quorn (took her O-levels and A-levels at Quorn) • Sheila Walker, , former executive with the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee, and executive director from 2003-09 of USA Field Hockey Humphrey Perkins Grammar School • Veronica van Heyningen FRS, geneticist, worked on the Human Genome Project ==References==