Northgate High School, Ipswich

Awarded Language College status in 1999, this was the first Language College designated in Suffolk. This development led to outreach work taking place in both the school's main feeder schools and across other schools in the county.[3]

Helen Boaden in 2016

Brian Cant in 2009

• Graham Addicott, TV Producer-Director, IRN Foreign Correspondent, ITV Presenter/Reporter and founder of First Freedom Productions
• Rear-Adm Paul Bass CB, Flag Officer Portsmouth and Port Admiral Portsmouth from 1979-1981
• Michael Blackburn, Chief Executive from 1993-98 of the Halifax Building Society, Chief Executive from 1987–93 of the Leeds Permanent Building Society, and President from 1998-99 of the Chartered Institute of Bankers
• Very Rev Mark Bonney, Dean of Ely since 2012
• Malcolm Brabant, BBC Foreign Correspondent
• Helen Boaden, former Director of BBC News
• David Brighty CMG CVO, Ambassador to Cuba from 1989–91, Czech and Slovak Republic from 1991-94, and to Spain (and Andorra) from 1994–98
• Adrian Brown, International orchestra conductor
• Bernard Buckham, Daily Mirror journalist, and Editor from 1918-20 of the Sunday Herald
• Terry Burrows, author/musician
• Brian Cant,[6] long-established former BBC children's television presenter
• John Constable, Headteacher since 2010 of Langley Grammar School, Deputy Head from 2003-09 of Wycombe High School and from 1998-2003 of Sir William Borlase's Grammar School
• James Easter, international speedway team manager from 1984-2000 of ENGLAND:Australia:USA
• David Edwards, Theatre Directorship
• Sir Cyril English, Director-General from 1968–76 of the City and Guilds of London Institute
• Dr Edward Glazier CB, Director from 1967-72 of the Royal Radar Establishment
• Prof Malcolm Guthrie, Professor of Bantu Languages from 1951–70 at the University of London
• Garry Hart, Baron Hart of Chilton, Chancellor from 2008-14 of the University of Greenwich
• Birkin Haward, architect (designer of West Ham station - with his wife, Joanna van Heyningen)
• Sir Edmund Hirst CBE, Forbes Professor from 1947–68 of Organic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1959–64 and President from 1956-8 of the Royal Society of Chemistry; he was the first person to synthesise Vitamin C in 1933.
• Stuart Jarrold, Anglia TV Correspondent
• Nik Kershaw, singer and songwriter
• Jane Lapotaire, actress
• Prof Alan Little, Professor of Social Administration from 1978-86 at Goldsmiths' College
• Geoffrey Lucas, General Secretary from 2000-11 of The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, Director of the PGCE course from 1980-89 at Trinity and All Souls College, Leeds
• Vice Adm Alan Massey CBE, Chief Executive from 2010-18 of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Second Sea Lord from 2008–10, and Commander from 2001-02 of HMS Illustrious, and from 2002-03 of HMS Ark Royal
• Peter Mornard, Wimbledon referee
• Sir Trevor Nunn CBE, film and theatre director and married to the actress Imogen Stubbs
• Dame Winifred Prentice, President from 1972-76 of the Royal College of Nursing
• Nigel Roome, Professor from 1993-96 at the Schulich School of Business, from 1996-99 at University of Tilburg, from 1999-2006 at Erasmus University Rotterdam, from 2006-11 at Free University Brussels and from 2010 at the Vlerick Business School and Chair since 2006 of the European Academy of Business and Society
• Frank Salmon, architectural historian
• Peter Sharman CBE, Chief General Manager from 1975-84 for the Norwich Union Insurance Group
• Cecil Studd, England international hockey player
• Sir Frank Willis CBE, General Secretary from 1939-55 of the National Council of YMCAs, who married the daughter of the biochemist Sir Frederick Walker Mott FRS
• Donald Woods FRS, Iveagh Professor of Chemical Microbiology from 1955–64 at the University of Oxford, won the 1953 Marjory Stephenson Prize