broadcast on Thursday 1 October 1959. On Thursday 10 December 1959 at 7.30pm in the first semi-final, the team played against a boys team from Mackie Academy from Stonehaven in Scotland, which the team lost. This team from Stonehaven would win in the final on Thursday 24 December 1959. The boys were Colin Lambert, David Cooper, John Fisher, and Martin Gotheridge. Four girls from West Bridgford Grammar School - Judith Lambert, Vanessa Syson, Maureen Howell, Patricia Heathcote - competed in Television Top of the Form shown at 7.30pm on Wednesday 20 March 1963 on BBC television. The programme was recorded on Tuesday 26 February 1963. The team played boys of the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, in heat 2. Belfast won 44-35, with Hugh Gibson aged 17, Barry Stevens aged 14, Harry Cowle aged 13, and Bill Smith aged 12. This team would win the competition in the final 39-33 on 1 May 1963, against a girls' grammar school. Comprehensive schools were first discussed in 1965 by WG Lawson, the Director of Education for Nottinghamshire. On Sunday 29 October 1967 at 12.30pm, the programme Inside Local Government: the education committee on BBC1, featured the school, with the Dukeries School at Ollerton, which had already become comprehensive. The programme was presented by Denis Mitchell (filmmaker). Comprehensive school It became West Bridgford Comprehensive in September 1969. It kept some of its old grammar school ethos long after it became a comprehensive: Latin and Classics were taught and rugby was given priority over football until the 1970s. Its catchment area was the east side of the old LNER railway line (now the Green Line nature reserve) in West Bridgford and included Ruddington. The school buildings were adjacent to the old Central College Nottingham building, which was demolished in 2016 to make space for a new housing estate. Academy The school applied to be an Academy under the Academies Act 2010 and officially became an Academy at midnight on 31 March 2011. It allocates up to 10% of its places based on technological aptitude. Its admissions policy, however, is still as a Comprehensive and these places are allocated after offers have been made to those that live within the catchment area. In September 2014 The Ripley Academy (formerly Mill Hill School) in Ripley, Derbyshire joined West Bridgford School as part of the East Midlands Education Trust. In March 2016 The West Bridgford School was recognised