Hendon School
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Hendon School | |
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Latin: Omnia discendo vinces (Knowledge conquers everything) | |
Established | 1914 |
Department for Education URN | 137645 Tables |
Ofsted | Reports |
Chair of Governance | Andrew Leslie |
Headteacher | Rhona Povey |
Staff | 150 |
Gender | Coeducational |
Age | 11 to 18 |
Enrolment | 1,269 |
Capacity | 1,269 |
Colour(s) | Navy blue |
Website | http://www.hendonschool.co.uk/ |
Hendon School is a mixed secondary school in Golders Rise, Hendon, with academy status since November 2011[1] (previously a comprehensive) in the London Borough of Barnet. It specialises in languages.
Overview
Hendon School is a mixed
The student population is culturally diverse, multi-faith and multi-lingual, with more than half of students speaking languages other than English as their first language. The proportion of students eligible for
History
Foundation
Hendon School now occupies the site where the 16th-century mapmaker John Norden lived, and only a pond survives from the park of Greenhill.
The County School,
Hendon County Grammar School
By 1955 the school had 620 pupils and 32 staff, resulting in a necessary extension on the east side of the main building, which included a new Hall, Dining Hall and Kitchens. This was officially opened in 1961. In the late 1960s, when plans for the reorganisation of secondary education were passed by Parliament, the London Borough of Barnet suggested the amalgamation of Hendon County Grammar School, situated in Golders Rise, with St David's County Secondary School for Boys, in St David's Place, West Hendon. Hendon Grammar School Choir released commercial recordings with Owen Brannigan, with traditional British songs.
Former St David's County Secondary School pre-1971
On 1 October 1929, Barnfield Senior Boys’ School opened in Silkstream Road,
Hendon Senior High School
In 1971, this merger took place. Hendon County Grammar School became Hendon Senior High School, and St David's County Secondary School for Boys was renamed Hendon Junior High School. In 1978, when all the new buildings on the Hendon County site were finished, the whole school became completely integrated on one site and called by its present name Hendon School.
During 1987–88 the school was threatened with closure by the London Borough of Barnet claiming falsely that it was no longer a viable institution, but by 1988–1989 the school had survived the threat and was awarded Grant-maintained status by the Conservative Government. Hendon became a foundation school with the changes to state funding of education which were brought about by the School Standards and Framework Act 1998. Extensions to the new buildings close to the perimeter on the south side of the site took place during the 1990s to provide extra room for the Maths and Music departments.
Hendon School today
The school currently has an eight form intake with approximately 1,300 pupils, 120 teachers and 30 ancillary staff as well as a Saturday School for Languages with 200 pupils and 11 teachers. With an expanding sixth form roll, the school built a new Sixth Form Centre close to the eastern perimeter of the 6-acre site in 2011, which provides classrooms and facilities exclusively for use by the sixth form students. In late 2011, the school completed the expansion of the autism unit and the expansion of internal and external dining facilities within and around the original school building. In November 2011, the school converted to become an academy school, although chose not to change the name of the school. The Ofsted inspection in November 2011 graded the school to be outstanding.[4] The school was previously a "failing school" in Special Measures by Ofsted in 2005 and subsequently deemed Satisfactory.[2]
Academic results
Hendon School has sustained five years[
Notable former pupils
- Morgan Fisher, musician and photographer (1961–68)
- Carl Martin
- Harry Melling
- Michael Obiora
- James Ward
- Antony Costa
- Amber Rose Revah
- Gary Shoefield, television and film producer
- Oliver Stark
Hendon County Grammar School
- Dr Dora Black (née Braham), director, Royal Free Hospitalchild trauma clinic
- Rabbi Lionel Blue
- Bernard Braine, Baron Braine of Wheatley, former Conservative MP
- Ashleigh Brilliant, writer and cartoonist (1947–52)
- Sir Philip Cohen, Royal Society research professor
- Robert Earl, founder of the Planet Hollywood chain
- Prof Mark Freedland, professor of employment law
- Prof Harvey Goldstein, professor of social statistics
- Christopher Gunning, composer
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, novelist
- Professor Peter Maitlis FRS, organometallic chemist
- Peter Mandelson, Baron Mandelson, former Labour MP
- Gerald Ratner[7]
- Michael Sternberg, professor at Imperial College London
- Harold Whitlock, Olympic walker
- Reverend Timothy Farthing in Dad's Army
See also
References
- ^ "Welcome to Hendon School". archive.is. 7 July 2013. Archived from the original on 7 July 2013.
- ^ a b "The record rise of failing school". Times Series.
- ^ Hendon and District Archaeological Society Archived 2 August 2012 at archive.today
- ^ Ofsted Communications Team (28 December 2018). "Find an inspection report and registered childcare". reports.ofsted.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 13 September 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
- ^ "BBC News - School league tables". BBC News.
- ^ "BBC News - School league tables". BBC News.
- ^ "Watch out: Ratner's back | News". Archived from the original on 12 October 2010. Retrieved 17 July 2010.