In 2011, Calday Grange Grammar School celebrates its 375th anniversary.
The centrepiece of the anniversary celebrations will be the first ever completion by a school of a relay from Land’s End to John O’Groats. For this event the school is partnering with Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool.

This enormous but exciting undertaking will involve pairs of runners covering over 500 stages, of approximately 2 miles each, to complete the route of more than 1000 miles.

In addition, all pupils are responding with enthusiasm to the challenge, by attempting to raise at least £375 each. This venture reflects the school’s relish for a challenge and its concern for the community.

Through the sponsorship of individuals, the support of parents, staff and students (both current and past in all categories), as well as outside companies and organisations, the event will raise money for IMAGINE, the charity for Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. The objective is to raise £3.75 million for childhood cancer research at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, where one of the school’s runners is currently receiving chemotherapy treatment for leukaemia.

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Who Are We?

Calday Grange Grammar School, Wirral

Founded in 1636 by William Clegg a local gentleman, the school situated close to the Dee Estuary and has over 1400 pupils including some 500 in the Sixth Form. Following the 1944 Education Act the school became a County Grammar School and in recent decades the school has undergone considerable change becoming not only a Trust School but also a designated Technology School in 1996 and Language College in 2006. Calday Grange Grammar School is also one of only five schools chosen by the Chinese Government as a ‘Confucius Classroom’ for the development of Mandarin Chinese teaching in the UK.

Calday Grange Grammar School has an excellent reputation for sporting success as well as academic achievement. Alumni include Andy Maxwell (England rugby international), Bobby Crutchley (GB Olympic hockey player) and Andy Baddeley (GB Olympic 1500m finalist, 2008). Current runners include Nick Jones, one of England’s top cross-country and middle distance school athletes.

Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool www.alderhey.com

Founded in 1914, Alder Hey is the largest children’s hospital in Europe. An international centre of excellence, it is the birthplace of modern paediatric anaesthesia. Neonatal surgery and children’s cardiac surgery were pioneered in the 1940’s and 1950’s. The hospital which offers 20 specialist services, typically treats more than 250,000 young patients every year.

IMAGINE is the name of Alder Hey’s charity, a fundraising campaign that helps the hospital to continue its pioneering work, to develop facilities and to offer the very highest standards of care to its young patients..

Disclaimer

CGGS 375 LE JoG Relay 2011 is a registered charity no.1131825. IMAGINE is a registered charity no. 1105610. The IMAGINE logo has been created from John Lennon’s drawings for his son Sean. Permission to use the image has been generously granted by Yoko Ono. The CGGS 375 LE JoG Relay 2011 logo was designed by James Quirk, a Calday Grange Grammar School pupil, and refined by USP Creative, 19 Old Hall Street, Liverpool L3 9JQ. Tel 0151 227 1777. Brochures and posters printed by Creativo Limited, Craft Workshops, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire CH65 4FW. Tel 0151 355 0444. The organising committee reserves the right to alter the route and dates of the CGGS LE JoG Relay 2011.