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I played rugby for Yale Grammar school; there against Grove Park quite a few times between 1966 - 67 and I remember they had a big lad who we were terrified of and we nearly always lost quite heavily. Our rugby sports master was Mr Weaver .
If you are referring to Yale High School Wrexham, that was never a Grammar School so far as I can recall. Someone must have told you porkies.
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If you are referring to Yale High School Wrexham, that was never a Grammar School so far as I can recall. Someone must have told you porkies.
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Beg to disagree there, when I attended Yale from 1968-1972 it was known as Yale Grammar School. I still have a number of reports etc. with that name on them. For those of my year, we then went to Grove Park for our fifth year when Yale became a 6th Form college.
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Known as the Grammar Tech!!
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If memory correct you still had to pass 11plus to go to Yale, if successful you had choice Grovie or Yale
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If you are referring to Yale High School Wrexham, that was never a Grammar School so far as I can recall. Someone must have told you porkies.
Yes it was when I went there in 1961-62 it was based in huts around the Denbighshire Technical College car park opposite the gym. It changed its name to Yale High School when it moved into the new building on Crispin lane but not sure when.

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If memory correct you still had to pass 11plus to go to Yale, if successful you had choice Grovie or Yale
Correct, I went to Rhosddu and we were streamed into 2 classes A and B. The A class steam were allowed to take the 11 plus exam and 35 out of 36 passed. In the B stream they took an exam(I think) that sent them to the secondary modern schools.
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Beg to disagree there, when I attended Yale from 1968-1972 it was known as Yale Grammar School. I still have a number of reports etc. with that name on them. For those of my year, we then went to Grove Park for our fifth year when Yale became a 6th Form college.
I believe its full name was Yale Co-educational Grammar School to designate firstly that it educated both male and female on the same campus (unlike the separate boys and girls Grove Park Schools), and that it was a grammar school.
I attended from 1971 to 1973, at which point comprehensive schooling was introduced and we all got shifted to either the new Grove Park Co-educational school or the newly created Bromfield school.
Subsequently spent some time living and working in the USA, and people would be very impressed that I had received a Yale education.
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Beg to disagree there, when I attended Yale from 1968-1972 it was known as Yale Grammar School. I still have a number of reports etc. with that name on them. For those of my year, we then went to Grove Park for our fifth year when Yale became a 6th Form college.
You must be right, having been a pupil there, but it's not something I recall as I have always thought it was a High School during that period.

I attended Grove Park Grammar from 68 to 73, so we were contemoraries in that regard and must have spent our 5th form year together.
I thought it all changed to Comprehensive in the 72/73 school year which was my last and was when Yale became a 6th form College. I didn't go to 6th form but a number of my friends did.
My understanding has always been that kids who passed the 11plus could choose to attend either Grove Park Boys (or Girls) Grammar or go to Yale High School.
Not sure what the academic differences were to be honest, other than all the Masters at GP wore there gowns on a daily basis (except maths teachers for some unknown reason), and in the first 2 years we were all taught the Classics (Latin Greek and Ancient History). May have been the same at Yale?
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You must be right, having been a pupil there, but it's not something I recall as I have always thought it was a High School during that period.

I attended Grove Park Grammar from 68 to 73, so we were contemoraries in that regard and must have spent our 5th form year together.
I thought it all changed to Comprehensive in the 72/73 school year which was my last and was when Yale became a 6th form College. I didn't go to 6th form but a number of my friends did.
My understanding has always been that kids who passed the 11plus could choose to attend either Grove Park Boys (or Girls) Grammar or go to Yale High School.
Not sure what the academic differences were to be honest, other than all the Masters at GP wore there gowns on a daily basis (except maths teachers for some unknown reason), and in the first 2 years we were all taught the Classics (Latin Greek and Ancient History). May have been the same at Yale?
'Romani ite domum'. Did they teach you that at GP?
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