Crown

CROWN HOUSE - Find your passion

The Crown Score got its name thanks to the Crown Hotel, which is located on the High Street at the score's top end. This score has 48 steps, and is made of brick and pebble walls which are signature to this part of the country. The score is also home to the ‘Invasion of the Crabs’ sculpture by Paul Amey, a local artist. Celebrating the influence of art in the region we have dedicated Crown House to famous local composer and musician, Benjamin Britten.

Crown House with its historical connection to successful business and local artists, is associated with our value to ‘find your passion’. We endeavour to provide our pupils with myriad experiences and opportunities hoping to ignite in them a passion that will stay with them for life and enrich their future. We encourage pupils to take up as many opportunities as possible both within school and outside to help them develop as a person.

Celebrating our local heroes is an important part of how we advocate for the community of Lowestoft so, who better to represent Crown Score than Benjamin Britten. Britten is an icon of the town, born in Lowestoft he was the son of a dentist but followed his passion and became a renowned composer, conductor and pianist of the 20th Century.

To represent our passion for STEM, pupils and staff of Crown House voted for their inspirational STEM focus figure and chose the tenacious Edith Clarke. A woman who showed tremendous resilience to achieve what she did in her lifetime. Born in America, her parents died when she was just 12 years old. She had a reading and writing disability growing up but she didn’t let that hold her back. Clarke was the first woman to graduate the world-renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering. She went on to publish many scientific papers, invent a new graphical calculator and improve the efficiency of the American National Grid’s transmission lines.