The Vyne Community School
The Vyne Community School, Basingstoke was created out of the merger of two pre-existing schools, Queen Mary's School for Boys, Basingstoke a selective Grammar School, also known as QMSB, and Charles Chute Secondary Modern School, which occurred in 1970. Initially the school was known as Queen Mary's & Charles Chute School, and was the result of the U.K. Government's policy in the 1960s to make all maintained schools comprehensive. In the first instance the school remained a single sex institution, becoming coeducational in 1971–72. The name "Queen Mary's" was later transferred to the Queen Mary's College, a Sixth Form College, in Cliddesden Road, Basingstoke. The school was thereupon renamed The Vyne School, in commemoration of the links that both schools had to The Vyne, a property owned by the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, former home of the Sandys and Chute families, just North of Basingstoke.
The school is a coeducational community school, for young people aged 11–16, and still occupies the site of the former Queen Mary's School for Boys, in Vyne Road, Basingstoke. It is a specialist school for the Performing Arts.
The Vyne is also the only school in Basingstoke to have a Combined Cadet Force.Notable Alumni
- Professional association football manager and former Welsh international footballer. Former manager of Crystal Palace, Colchester United and Fulham.
Steve Hewlett - Professional ventriloquist and Britain's Got Talent finalist.
Rus Yusupov - Inventor of video-sharing platform Vine and quiz app HQ Trivia.
Alex Macqueen - British actor, well known for starring in The Thick of It and Pompidou.
