George Stephenson High School
George Stephenson High School is a large secondary school in the English town of Killingworth, North Tyneside.AdmissionsThe school provides education to pupils from Killingworth, Backworth, Shiremoor, West Moor,and West Allotment.The school is situated opposite The Killingworth Centre (Morrisons)HistoryGrammar schoolIt was called the George Stephenson Grammar School in 1953, at which time it was built on Benton Lane in West Moor. (George Stephenson lived nearby in a cottage when he worked at Killingworth Colliery.) The current school site in Killingworth is a replacement that opened in 1970, and was originally known as Killingworth High School, a comprehensive, but eventually took the George Stephenson name from the old school. The old school no longer exists; as it was demolished in 2004.The headmaster since the opening of the old school in 1953 was Tom W. King, BA. He became headmaster of the new school and finally retired around the end of the 1981-1982 school year. When he died in 2004 at the age of 94, a plaque reading "Here, from 1956 to 2004, stood a Place of Learning" was placed on the wall of the West Moor Residents Association Community Centre, which now stands on the site of the old grammar school.Each year group in the grammar school had 3 streams, L, G, and F. The L stream studied 3 years of Latin, 2 of German, and 5 of French. The G stream took German and French.
