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Bicentenary Celebrations begin

On Sunday 8th January 2012, the school celebrated the first event of the 200th Anniversary of the founding of the Wesleyan Academy at Woodhouse Grove. There were just nine boys on opening day in 1812 but a congregation of over 300 representatives of the school of today celebrated with a service in chapel led by Old Grovian Reverend Jeremy Fletcher, Vicar of Beverley Minster, followed by a reception in the dining hall. Many current staff, Governors, parents and school prefects were joined by former staff, former Governors, former Head Prefects and other OGA representatives. The OGA Chairman, Lord Walker of Aldringham, presented the current Head Prefects with the “Stamp Rose Bowl” that had been kindly donated to the school last summer by several descendants of two of the original nine pupils, the Stamp brothers.

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