page_title: Stockport Grammar School
section_title: Post-1980 Expansion
hierarchical_section_title: Stockport Grammar School / The school site / Post-1980 Expansion
caption_attribution_description: English: Stockport Grammar School Library and Learning Resource Centre, built in 2004.
context_page_description: Stockport Grammar School is a co-educational independent school in Stockport, England. Founded in 1487 by former Lord Mayor of London Sir Edmund Shaa, it is the second oldest in the North of England, after Lancaster Royal Grammar School, and a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.
context_section_description: Since becoming co-educational in 1980 the school has developed and grown rapidly. Acquisition of the adjacent convent school site, that is now the English and music block, allowed the enclosure of the playing fields and the creation of several football and rugby pitches, as well as the inheritance of the convent's swimming pool. In 1997 land was bought to extend the junior school, and in 2001 a new sports and technology centre was built featuring a gymnasium and sports hall. Food technology and textiles technology classrooms were also erected. The building further includes a design technology workshop with equipment able to perform computer aided design and computer aided manufacture. 
  The sports hall also holds an indoor climbing wall named after alumnus mountaineer Peter Boardman, squash courts and gives access to the school's swimming pool which is overlooked by a cafeteria area.
  In September 2005 a new library and learning resource centre was opened with more than 14,000 books, and also new physics labs and an information technology suite. A nursery was opened in 2006. With the purchase of the playing fields at Dialstone Lane, the school site expanded its site to almost 60 acres, one of the largest in Greater Manchester.
caption: New Library and Learning Resource Centre
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