with a 'house' system, prefects, school uniform, a heavy emphasis on games (particularly football and cricket), and indeed corporal punishment. There was also rich extracurricular activity: debating, amateur dramatics, choral and instrumental music, and a plethora of school societies. During this period the school applied for and was granted its coat of arms. The Latin motto "Futuram civitatem inquirimus" translates as "Seeking society's future". In other words: "Looking forward". Becoming comprehensive and co-educational (merger with the Girls' Grammar) In 1975, it became part of the newly formed Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, and joined with Prescot Grammar School for Girls (founded 1955) to become Prescot School. The school moved to the girls' school site as a result of two arson incidents at the Boys' School site in St. Helens Road. The extensive playing fields of the boys' school in St Helens Road were sold off and are now covered by a housing development. In 2000 Prescot School gained specialist status as a Language College. Merger with Higher Side With funding from the Labour government's Building Schools for the Future initiative, the school was rebuilt, In September 2009 it merged with Higher Side School in Whiston to become officially named "Knowsley Park Centre for Learning, Serving Prescot, Whiston and the Wider Community" in 2009, listing as a compromise all the schools and communities merged into it. The name lasted seven years before its headmistress, who called the name "so embarrassing" cut it to simply "Prescot School" in 2016. Notable alumni Gill Burns MBE, former English Ladies Rugby Captain Paul Lewis, classical pianist, soloist at the 2005 Last Night of the Proms Dave McCabe, The Zutons lead singer Colin Vearncombe, singer songwriter formerly known as the artist Black Rob Vincent, former professional footballer for D.C. United, in MLS Prescot Grammar School (both schools) Alan A'Court, England and Liverpool FC footballer Jack Aspinwall, Conservative MP for Kingswood from 1979 to 1983 and for Wansdyke from 1983 to 1997 Dave Bamber, Blackpool, Coventry City footballer Alan George Bamford CBE, Principal of Homerton College, Cambridge from 1985 to 1991 Paul Blinkhorn, archaeologist, pottery expert and TV personality on programmes BBC Time Team, and Channel 5 Pub Dig Prof Sir Mike Brady, BP Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Oxford The Right Honourable Lord Burrows, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom since 2020, formerly Professor of the Law of England at the