Sydenham School

Sydenham School
Sydenham School
Address
	Dartmouth Road; Sydenham, Greater London, SE26 4RD; England
Coordinates	51°26′03″N 0°03′32″W / 51.434167°N 0.058889°WCoordinates: 51°26′03″N 0°03′32″W / 51.434167°N 0.058889°W
Information
Type	Community School
Motto	Aim high, Achieve Higher.
Established	1917
Local authority	Lewisham
Department for Education URN	100741 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Headteacher	Mrs Gloria Lowe
Gender	Girls
Age	11 to 18
Enrolment	1462
Website	http://www.sydenham.lewisham.sch.uk
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Sydenham School (known as Sydenham Girls by locals) is a comprehensive girls' school located on Dartmouth Road (A2216) in Sydenham, London.

History[]

The school was founded in 1917 as a girls' grammar school, known as Sydenham County Grammar School for Girls . London County Council commissioned Basil Spence & Partners, in the early 1950s, to design additional accommodation to allow the school to increase capacity from 600 to 1140 students and to merge with Shackleton School to become a comprehensive school. This took place in 1956 on completion of the new six-storey, E-shaped, classroom block, on which work had begun in 1954. The official opening ceremony took place on 28 February 1957.^[1]

In 2003 Sydenham School was granted Specialist Science College status and in 2008 it was granted Specialist in Mathematics by the DfES. Sydenham School has close ties to Forest Hill School, a nearby boys' comprehensive school.

Form system[]

In each year there are 8 tutor groups, each beginning with the year number they are in e.g. 7 with the letters S,Y,D,E,N,H,A,M, attached to each form. In years nine, ten and eleven the forms are mixed during lessons intermingling students from the different tutor groups for lessons.

Admissions[]

The current headmistress is Ms Gloria Lowe. It has always been a girls' school. Forest Hill Pools and Forest Hill library is next door.

Academic performance[]

In the last OFSTED inspection, Sydenham School was graded as 'good with outstanding features '. It gets GCSEs and A levels above the England average.(64%)

Notable former pupils[]

Katie Brayben, Olivier Award Winner 2015 Best Actress in a Musical.
Sarah Jane Crawford, television and radio presenter.
Tasha Danvers, 400 metre hurdler, bronze in the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

Sydenham County Grammar School for Girls[]

Eva Crane, researcher into bees^[2]
Linda Ludgrove, swimmer
Elsie Widdowson, dietitian

References[]

^ "Sydenham School - Sir Basil Spence". Canmore. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
^ Marren, Peter (14 September 2007), "Eva Crane: Authority on the history of beekeeping and honey-hunting who travelled the world in pursuit of bees", The Independent, archived from the original on 5 September 2008, retrieved 28 October 2018

https://sydenham.fluencycms.co.uk/science

External links[]

[1] "Sydenham School - Sir Basil Spence". Canmore. Retrieved 17 September 2014.

[independent-2] Marren, Peter (14 September 2007), "Eva Crane: Authority on the history of beekeeping and honey-hunting who travelled the world in pursuit of bees", The Independent, archived from the original on 5 September 2008, retrieved 28 October 2018

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