Chiswick School
Chiswick School /ˈtʃɪzɪk/ (listen) is an English secondary school with academy status in Chiswick, West London. It educates more than 1,200 pupils, aged 11 to 18 years. The school also includes 200 pupils studying at the upper school sixth form, which is located within the school grounds.
Chiswick School | |
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Address | |
Burlington Lane – Staveley Road , London , W4 3UN England | |
Coordinates | 51°28′55″N 0°15′35″W / 51.48192°N 0.25981°WCoordinates: 51°28′55″N 0°15′35″W / 51.48192°N 0.25981°W |
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Type | Academy |
Motto | Empowering Students to be Ambitious and Proud |
Established | 1968 |
Founder | R.K Hands |
Department for Education URN | 137907 Tables |
Ofsted | Reports |
Headteacher | Laura Ellener |
Gender | Mixed |
Age | 11 to 18 |
Enrolment | 1288 |
Colour(s) | Royal Blue Navy White |
Publication | Chiswick School News |
Website | http://www.chiswickschool.org |
Admissions[]
Chiswick School is beside Chiswick House, and uses an icon of that building as its logo. Most of the buildings are new, however the North Eastern block still remains from the original girls' school. Before the school was built a farm was on the site. Due to its location it has a very wide catchment area taking pupils from the borough of Hounslow as well as Kensington and Chelsea, Richmond, Hammersmith and Fulham and Ealing.
Chiswick School prides itself on being a very multicultural school; its students have ethnic backgrounds ranging from Asian to African. Due to this diversity, it has double the national average of students for whom English is a second language. Because of the prevalence of prominent all-girls schools in the local area, Chiswick School's intake is roughly 60% male.
History[]
Chiswick County School for Girls opened in 1916 in Burlington Lane.[1] Chiswick County School for Boys, opened in 1926 beside the girls school.[1] These two combined in 1966 to form the co-educational Chiswick County Grammar school.[1] Meanwhile, a "central" school opened in 1927 in Staveley Road, becoming a secondary modern school, then merging with the grammar school to become Chiswick Comprehensive School in 1968.[1] The school continued on two sites with the lower school (from ages 11 to 14) on the Staveley Road site and the upper school on the Burlington Road site.[2]
During the amalgamation period and after, Rory K. Hands was Headteacher. In 1973, the secondary school buildings had to be closed as they were built with the brittle high alumina cement. The school operated with a "village of huts"; Hands maintained school morale with a production of The Gondoliers by Gilbert and Sullivan. The strain of the amalgamation and running a very large school took its toll; he retired after a series of heart attack in 1975.[3]
Dame Helen Metcalf was a strong[4] and emotionally intelligent headteacher[4] from 1988 to 2001; she was made DBE for services to education in 1998.[4]
Sometime after 1978 the school was renamed Chiswick Community School; the name reverted to Chiswick School when it became an academy on 1 March 2012.
Notable former pupils[]
- Prof John Stuart Archer CBE, Vice-Chancellor from 1997 to 2006 of Heriot-Watt University, and Professor of Petroleum Engineering from 1986 to 1997, and President from 2005–6 of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)
- Rolan Bell – actor, Eastender
- James Stevenson – musician
- Henry Badowski - musician
- Carlton Cole – footballer, most notably for West Ham United
- Phil Collins, singer, songwriter and world-renowned drummer, member of rock band Genesis
- Chas Cronk, singer, songwriter, bass guitarist for rock band Strawbs
- John Edwards, bass guitarist in rock band Status Quo
- Aleksander Kolkowski - musician
- John Neville, starred in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
- Nana Ofori-Twumasi – footballer, Northampton Town FC
- Charlotte Hatherley – musician
- Fola Onibuje – footballer
- Graham Pearce (English footballer) – Footballer, Brighton & Hove Albion
- Natalie Sawyer – TV presenter, Sky Sports News
- Don Taylor, director and playwright
- Brian Tesler CBE, Chairman from 1984 to 1992 of London Weekend Television
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Clegg, Gillian (1995). Chiswick Past. Historical Publications. p. 107. ISBN 0-94866-733-8.
- ^ Diane K. Bolton, Patricia E. C. Croot and M. A. Hicks, "[ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol7/pp95-99 Chiswick: Education]", in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 7, Acton, Chiswick, Ealing and Brentford, West Twyford, Willesden, ed. T F T Baker and C R Elrington (London, 1982), pp. 95-99. British History Online, accessed 18 July 2021.
- ^ Williams, Paul (23 April 2015). "Share Facebook Twitter Pioneering former Headmaster of Chiswick Community School has died aged 96". The Chiswick Herald. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Dame Helen Metcalf". The Independent. 27 December 2003. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
External links[]
- Academies in the London Borough of Hounslow
- Educational institutions established in 1968
- Secondary schools in the London Borough of Hounslow
- 1968 establishments in England
- Chiswick
- Buildings and structures in Chiswick