Oasis Academy Wintringham

The current school buildings in Weelsby Avenue, Grimsby, were opened in 1953 as Wintringham Grammar School to replace the former school on Eleanor Street, Grimsby. The school was first divided into a boys' and girls' grammar school on a combined site, with around 750 boys and a similar number of girls. The boys' school was only the Weelsby Avenue side of the site, and the girls' school (now demolished) was on the west side of the site, accessed via Park Avenue next to the tennis courts. The Highfields School was next door, to the north, which is now the Lisle Marsden CE primary school.[2] The school was administered by the County Borough of Grimsby Education Committee, which had its offices[3] on Eleanor Street. The headmaster of the boys' school in the 1950s was Ronald Gill. The headmistress of the girls' school until the late 1970s was Dorothy Dean. The schools were separate up to 1969 when a mixed 6th form was the start of a gradual merger. It shared the playing field, as were out-of-school activities. From September 1969, a sixth form block was built between the two sites, which was then co-educational with a size of 200. From the late 1960s until 1974, it was administered (but not taught) as the single-entity Grimsby Wintringham Grammar School for ages 11 to 18. The old Boys' School became the Upper School, and the old Girls' School became the Lower School. Music lessons were held in Highfield House, an old Victorian detached house on the school property.

It became the comprehensive Wintringham School in September 1974. The school name comes from the Wintringham family, specifically John Wintringham. Also in 1974, administration was transferred over the Humber to Beverley, and Humberside County Council, in the Grimsby Division. The school became a comprehensive (incrementally) year by year, with the first all-ability year composed of ten forms. It also became an upper school with ages 12–18, as Grimsby became part of the three tier system. There was still streaming in the school, with two main streams: the 'X' stream and the 'Y' stream. The X forms took mainly GCE examinations and the Y forms took the CSE examinations, and/or fewer GCEs.

In the late 1980s, headmaster Keith Bardgett switched the school from streaming to mixed-ability classes, the change starting with the new intake of pupils in September 1988. A restricted form of streaming remained, limited to specific subjects, notably Mathematics and foreign languages. From September 1990, the naming convention for classes switched to the modern nomenclature still in use today. At the same time, a re-organisation of local education saw Wintringham give up its 6th Form and take in new pupils a year earlier than was previously the case. This meant that the 2nd - 6th forms were replaced with Years 7 - 11.

In 1996, administration passed back to Grimsby under North East Lincolnshire. Streaming similar to that of its grammar school days was re-introduced.

Since September 2007, the school has been transformed into an Academy run by the Oasis Trust, and the new state-of-the-art buildings has replaced the current ones with a cost of £25 million. Construction started on 30 August 2007, being undertaken by Clugston Construction of Scunthorpe who finished in January 2009. The start of construction work was marked by a groundbreaking ceremony on 30 August 2007, where Steve Chalke and pupils from the new Academy drove the first spades into the ground where the Academy and community facilities would be built.

The old school (Wintringham School) closed in August 2007 and opened as Oasis Academy Wintringham in the existing buildings in September 2007. The Academy transferred across to the brand new buildings during the academic year 2008–09 in February 2009. The sports hall is sponsored by Stagecoach. The Dean Suite is named after Dorothy Dean, the headteacher of the school from 1953 to 1975, who died on 23 October 2011 aged 96.

• Julie Peasgood, actress, TV presenter, author[4]
• Thomas Turgoose, actor

• Prof George Edward Briggs, Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge from 1948 to 1960
• John Edward Brown, Bishop of Cyprus and the Gulf 1987-96
• Dennis Brown, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
• Ian Cawsey, former Labour MP for Brigg and Goole
• Quentin Cooper, Radio 4 science presenter
• Derek Gladwin, Baron Gladwin of Clee, trade unionist and life peer[5]
• Sir William Harpham OBE CMG, UK Ambassador to Bulgaria from 1964 to 1966
• Duncan McKenzie, footballer
• Adrian Royle, runner
• John Sellars CBE, Chief Executive from 1983 to 1994 of the Business and Technology Education Council (BTEC)
• David Tarttelin, artist
• Prof Michael Tilmouth, musicologist
• Professor C. Rowel Twidale PhD, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Geology and Geophysics, University of Adelaide, South Australia.
• Patrick Wymark (born Patrick Carl Cheeseman), Shakespearian and film actor (portrayed AVM Trafford Leigh-Mallory in the 1969 film Battle of Britain)

• Dame Janet Baker CH, mezzo-soprano opera singer[6]
• Sheila Foulkes, Member of the Legislative Council, Parliament of Western Australia 2005-2009
• Patricia Hodge, actor[7]
• Pamela Reed, American actress, spent 3 years at the School (1962-1965)
• Prof Jill Rubery, Professor of Contemporary Politics at the University of Manchester

• Norma Procter, contralto opera singer[8][9]