Sydenham School
Sydenham School | |
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Dartmouth Road , , SE26 4RD | |
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 |
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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 |
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[]
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- 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
See also[]
- Sydenham High School (UK), nearby girls independent school for ages 4–18, and part of the Girls' Day School Trust (GPSDT)
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[]
- Girls' schools in London
- Secondary schools in the London Borough of Lewisham
- Educational institutions established in 1917
- 1917 establishments in England
- Community schools in the London Borough of Lewisham
- Basil Spence buildings
- Sydenham, London