Myers Grove School Wood Lane, Sheffield S6 5HG

Myers Grove School is a mixed nonselective local authority comprehensive school serving the area between Malin Bridge and Stannington. It is located on the edge of the countryside between the Loxley and Rivelin valleys, (see map).

Sheffield City Council is currently consuting on proposals to close both Myers Grove and Wisewood schools and replace the two of them with a brand new BSF-funded school on the Myers Grove site. Details are on the City Council website here. The consultation is due to end on 31st January 2007.

Myers Grove was built in 1960 and the first headmaster was William Hill. It was one of the first purpose-built comprehensive schools in the country, and for a while it was the largest in the north of England. At that time, Myers Grove was the envy of most schools, both academically and in sport and other non-academic achievements.

Upper School main entrance [Mark Lucas]

I attended Myers from 1980 to 1987. During this period Roy Yates (1978 to 1993) was head teacher and approximately 2200 pupils attended from years 1 to 5 and two years of sixth form.

We lost the sixth form in 1988 when David Blunkett's city council "rationalised" it away from us.

Head teachers:

• 1960 - 1978 William Hill
• 1978 - 1993 Roy Yates
• 1993 - 1998 David Lowe
• 1998 - 2003 Gerry Richardson
• 2003 - 2004 John Hull
• 2004 -      John Wilkinson

Some other people with sites recalling Myers Grove:

• David Bowler at http://www.shef.ac.uk/misc/personal/cs1drb/ (who also went to Malin Bridge primary, as I did)
• Mark Lucas at http://www.lucas-digital.com/sheffield_steelcity/Map/Stannington/schooldays/schooldays.html