Whitehorse Manor Junior School

Whitehorse Manor Junior School is a junior school for pupils aged between 7 and 11 years. The school is located on Whitehorse Road in Thornton Heath. The Local Education Authority for the school is the London Borough of Croydon. The school caters for pupils from Year 3 to Year 6. The uniform of the school is a red sweatshirt with the school logo, white shirt and grey trousers or skirt. There are 240 pupils on roll with a maximum of 30 pupils in each of 8 classes. The current Headteacher is Mr Jolyon Roberts; B.Ed, NPQH.

History

The school was opened in 1892 and has a complicated history - having undergone a great many re-organisations. Dr Ron Cox, consultant archivist to the Education Department of the London Borough of Croydon, lists the chronological story as follows:

* 1892-1911
Three schools (apart from the infants) opened on the Whitehorse Road site:

Whitehorse Road Junior (Mixed) school
Whitehorse Road Senior boys' school
Whitehorse Road Senior girls' school

* 1911-1930
In 1911 Whitehorse Road Junior (Mixed) school closed and the pupils moved into the respective boys and girls departments of the two senior schools therefore giving:

Whitehorse Road (Post-Infants) boys' school
Whitehorse Road (post-Infants) girls' school

In 1921 as part of a general re-organisation of school names the Whitehorse Road schools were re-designated "Whitehorse Manor".

* 1930-1955
In 1930 there was a substantial re-organisation. All the Whitehorse Manor senior girls moved to another local school, Ecclesbourne, and all the Ecclesbourne senior boys moved to Whitehorse Manor. All the Whitehorse Manor junior boys moved to Ecclesbourne and all the Ecclesbourne junior girls moved to Whitehorse Manor. On the Whitehorse Manor site this left:

Whitehorse Manor Senior (later secondary modern) boys' school
Whitehorse Manor Junior girls' school

* 1955-1961
In 1955, doubtless because of the inadequacy of the facilities, Whitehorse Manor secondary modern boys' school closed and pupils and staff were transferred to other schools in the area. This left:
Whitehorse Manor Junior girls' school

* 1961 onwards
The closure of Ecclesbourne Junior boys' school meant these pupils transferred to the Whitehorse Manor site and were combined with the girls which left a single school;
Whitehorse Manor Junior (Mixed) school

Agnes Mason, an associate of D. H. Lawrence taught at this school for some years until Davidson Road School opened in 1907 when she went there to teach with Lawrence. A penetrating description of the school and its staff at that time is to be found in Helen Corke's book "In our infancy:an autobiography, Part 1 1882-1912". She too was an associate of Lawrence.

References

External links

* [http://www.whitehorse.croydon.sch.uk/whitehorse.htm Official Website]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/education/05/school_tables/primary_schools/html/306_2047.stm Performance Tables]
* [http://www.croydon.gov.uk/leisure/archives/lslibrary] Croydon local studies library where many of the school's documents from 1892 to present are now held