Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall
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Queen Mary's Grammar School was founded in 1554 by Queen Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. The School badge is the personal badge of Queen Mary Tudor: it combines the Tudor Rose of her father Henry VIII with the badge of her mother, Catherine of Aragon, a sheaf of arrows, tied with a Staffordshire knot. In 1554 the School was housed in a small building near St. Matthew's Church, the parish church of Walsall, where a handful of pupils were taught. Over the centuries it has moved to several locations in Walsall including, in the nineteenth century, the Victorian buildings on Lichfield Street, now occupied by Queen Mary's High School. Now on a site in the south of the town, there are approximately 680 pupils and 39 staff housed in buildings constructed in the 1960s.The Grammar School is within the Queen Mary's Schools Foundation which also includes Queen Mary's High School and Mayfield Preparatory School.
