Have you ever wondered how Shears Green got its name?

Shear relates to the word sheriff which is medieval in origin. So Shears Green is a green belonging to or used by a sheriff - sheriff's green.

Sheriff/shears is a contraction of the term 'shire reeve'.

Did the sheriff ride around on a horse wearing a stetson and a star badge?

In Anglo-Saxon England the reeve was a senior official with local responsibilities under the Crown, e.g., as the chief magistrate of a town or district. ​

After the Norman conquest a reeve acted as the overseer of the serfs and peasants on an estate.

The sheriff may have ridden around on a horse but definitely no stetson or badge!

So next time someone tells you it is a place where sheep were sheared - you can tell them how our school really got its name.