Chiswick School Explained

Chiswick School
Coordinates:51.4819°N -0.2598°W
Established:1968
Head Label:Headteacher
Head:Laura Ellener
Founder:R.K Hands
Address:Burlington Lane – Staveley Road
County:London
Country:England
Postcode:W4 3UN
Ofsted:Good
Urn:137907
Dfeno:313/4020
Enrolment:1288
Gender:Mixed
Lower Age:11
Upper Age:18
Colours:Royal Blue Navy White
Publication:Chiswick School News
Website:http://www.chiswickschool.org

Chiswick School is an English secondary school with academy status in Chiswick, West London. It educates more than 1,300 pupils, aged 11 to 18 years.[1]

This number includes 200 pupils studying at the upper school sixth form within the school grounds. The current headteacher is Laura Ellener. The school operates a very wide curriculum, mainly focusing on Science and the Arts, and has many extracurricular activities.

Admissions

The school has a wide catchment, encompassing its native borough of Hounslow, but also areas including Kensington and Chelsea, Richmond, and Hammersmith and Fulham. As of 2004, the school's intake was almost 60 percent male, explained by the number of girls' schools nearby.[2] Half of the school's students are of minority ethnic backgrounds, and 44% are from ‘disadvantaged’ backgrounds. 50% have English as their second language.[3] The percentage of disadvantaged students receiving help from the pupil premium is also above average.[4]

History

Chiswick County School for Girls opened in 1916 in Burlington Lane, and Chiswick County School for Boys opened in 1926 beside the girls' school.[5] Rory K. Hands was appointed head of the boys school in 1963, and in 1966, he oversaw a merger of the two institutions, to form the co-educational Chiswick County Grammar School. Shortly thereafter, the Borough proposed that Hands' grammar school should be merged with two nearby secondary modern schools to form a comprehensive school,[6] following Circular 10/65. This amalgamation created Chiswick Comprehensive School, which opened in 1968.[5] The new school operated across two sites, with the lower school (for ages 11 to 14) occupying what had been the secondary modern school's buildings at Staveley Road, and the upper school operating on the old grammar school site at Burlington Lane.[7]

In 1973, some of the buildings at Staveley Road had to be closed as they were made of brittle high alumina cement. The school was forced to operate with a "village of huts"; Hands maintained school morale with a production of The Gondoliers by Gilbert and Sullivan. He retired the headship in 1975 after suffering a series of heart attacks.[8] Dame Helen Metcalf was the school's headteacher from 1988 to 2001, providing strong and emotionally intelligent leadership.[9] 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.[10]

Notable pupils

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Osborne . Bridget . 2019-12-02 . Chiswick School head: "Children need to know who's in charge" - Chiswick Calendar News . 2023-05-16 . The Chiswick Calendar . en-GB.
  2. Web site: 25 November 2004 . Chiswick Community School Inspection Report . live . Ofsted. https://web.archive.org/web/20211227130957/https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/801121 . 27 December 2021 .
  3. Web site: Meinke . John . 23 April 2012 . Chiswick School Inspection report. live . Ofsted. https://web.archive.org/web/20211227125648/https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/1971607 . 27 December 2021 .
  4. Web site: 26 October 2017. Inspection report: Chiswick School, 3–4 October 2017 . live . Ofsted. https://web.archive.org/web/20211227125649/https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/2732799 . 27 December 2021 .
  5. Book: Clegg, Gillian . Chiswick Past . Historical Publications . 1995 . 0-94866-733-8 . 107.
  6. News: Olding . George . 23 April 2015 . Funeral of educational pioneer takes place today . Wandsworth Times.
  7. Diane K. Bolton, Patricia E. C. Croot and M. A. Hicks, "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.
  8. News: Williams . Paul . 23 April 2015 . Pioneering former Headmaster of Chiswick Community School has died aged 96 . The Chiswick Herald . 18 July 2021.
  9. News: Dame Helen Metcalf . 18 July 2021 . . 27 December 2003.
  10. Web site: Norris . Frank . 15 August 2012 . Academy conversion and predecessor school . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211227123738/https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/2048247 . 27 December 2021 .
  11. http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/mfwhoswho/individuals/A_mfwwi/john_stuart_archer.html Frost's Scottish Who's Who
  12. Book: Ogg, Alex . 2006 . No More Heroes: A Complete History of UK Punk from 1976 to 1980 . Cherry Red Books . 978-1-901447-65-1 . 127.
  13. Web site: Carlton Cole tells of media ordeal after allegations were made against him . Chiswick W4 . 27 December 2021.
  14. Web site: Posh restaurants, riverside pubs and Phil Collins: it's the best bits of Chiswick . Time Out . 27 December 2021 . 8 September 2015.
  15. News: Billen . Andrew . Phoebe Fox: TV's hot new star . 27 December 2021 . The Times.
  16. Web site: Curriculum Vitae, Kenneth C. Holmes . 2024-05-10 . www.mr.mpg.de . en.
  17. News: 2011-11-28. OBITUARY: John Neville. The Courier Mail. 2021-12-27.
  18. Web site: Seth Nana Twumasi . Seth Nana Twumasi (via LinkedIn) . 27 December 2021.
  19. News: Natalie Sawyer - Biography and Images . TV Newsroom . 8 July 2009 . 27 December 2021 . Larkin . Johnnie .
  20. Web site: Chiswick's Local Web site . Chiswick W4 . 27 December 2021 . 24 February 2014.
  21. News: Former Chiswick School Pupil at Centre of Partygate Row . 8 December 2021 . Chiswick W4 . 8 December 2021.
  22. News: Purser . Philip . Television industry: Don Taylor . 27 December 2021 . . 20 November 2003.
  23. Web site: Roberts . June . Where they once were: Brian Tesler . Talk of Thames . 27 December 2021 . 21 June 2018.

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