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St. Clement Danes School Motto Loyauté M’Oblige Established 1862 Type Academy Headteacher Josephine Valentine BSc, PhD Specialisms Languages & Science Location Chenies Road
Chorleywood
Hertfordshire
WD3 6EW
EnglandLocal authority Hertfordshire DfE number ???/5421 DfE URN 117593 Ofsted Reports Students 1285 Gender Mixed Ages 11–18 Houses 8 houses Website St Clement Danes Coordinates: 51°39′49″N 0°30′50″W / 51.6637°N 0.514°W
St. Clement Danes School is a mixed, voluntary-aided, comprehensive school in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire.
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Admissions
It has specialist status for languages and science and takes students aged 11 (Year 7) through to 18 (Year 13).
The School occupies a large site to the northwest of Rickmansworth in Chorleywood. It is about a mile (1.6 km) from Chorleywood station but there are buses from the station and Watford. It is situated on Chenies Road (A404), which at that point occupies the boundary of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire for a half mile, adjacent to the north side of the school. The school is less than a mile east of junction 18 of the M25.
History
The school was founded in 1862 by the church wardens of St Clement Danes Parish in Holborn, London and opened in Houghton Street. It was funded from income from the St Clement Danes Holborn Estate,[1] a charity founded in 1551 which owned a piece of land on the north side of Holborn.[2]
Grammar school
The St. Clement Danes Holborn Estate Grammar School for Boys remained in Houghton Street until 1928, when it transferred to a new site on Du Cane Road in the Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith, where it flourished as a grammar school until 1975. The school had a well-known choir which featured in a 1975 EMI recording (ASD 3117) of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, conducted by André Previn with the LSO (and chorus). The site was next to Hammersmith Hospital, and is now occupied by St Clements House, a block of flats and Woodlane High School.
On 29 June 1973, 13 year old Nicholas St Clair from Fulham was killed on the school playing fields at Shepherd's Bush, when he was struck in the chest by a javelin.
Comprehensive
In 1975, under an agreement between the Governing Board of the School and Hertfordshire County Council, it was re-established in its new premises in Chorleywood, as a Voluntary-Aided Mixed Comprehensive School. In April 1994 the School was incorporated as a grant-maintained school. The Du Cane Road buildings were taken over by Burlington Danes Church of England School, sold to Hammersmith Hospital in 2002 and demolished in 2004.[2]
The school receives additional financial support from the St Clement Danes School Charitable Foundation,[3] one of the beneficiaries of the historic St Clement Danes Holborn Estate.
In a storm in January 2007, a classroom roof caved in during schooltime.
Uniform
Navy blue blazer with school crest, white shirt, green tie with house colour woven in, black trousers, or tartan kilt.
- Trainers are only to be worn in PE and games and at no other time
- No jewellery may be worn, apart from one stud earring in each ear-lobe (not in top of ear)
- Long hair must be tied back
- Make-up and nail varnish are not to be worn
- Plain white T-shirts or vests can be worn under the uniform shirt in winter months but no printing or visible sign of T-shirt is allowed
Houses
The school is subdivided into eight houses which also function as forms:
- Burleigh Burgundy ‘B’
- Clement Red 'C'
- Dane Yellow 'D'
- Exeter Light blue ‘E’
- Lincoln Green 'L'
- Temple Dark Blue 'T'
(and added in 2005)
- Clare Orange 'A'
- Essex Purple 'S'
Commemoration
Every year a commemoration service is held in St Clement Danes Church in London to commemorate the beginning of the school. It is a large celebration, in which the orchestra and choir play a big part.
Academic performance
Being a partially-selective school, it gets very good GCSE results. Results at A level are also impressive, being above the England average.
Notable alumni
Boys' grammar school in London:
- Joseph Allen, publisher - especially of books on equestrian pursuits
- Sir John Barbirolli, conductor & cellist
- Maj-Gen Eric Barton CB MBE, Colonel Commandant from 1982-7 of the Royal Engineers
- Geoffrey Davies, developed pacemakers with Aubrey Leatham in the 1950s
- Wally Downes, Wimbledon football player
- Frank Field, politician
- Martin Fitzmaurice, darts master of ceremonies
- Andy Fraser, guitarist and vocalist with Free famous for "All Right Now"
- John Jackson, Crystal Palace goalkeeper
- Ben Levene, artist
- Hugh Lindsay (born 1938), English amateur footballer who played for Southampton and appeared in the 1960 Summer Olympics[4]
- Glen Matlock, guitarist with the Sex Pistols
- Mikey Craig, bass player with Culture Club
- Prof Alvin Nienow, Professor of Biochemical Engineering from 1989-2004 at the University of Birmingham, and Director from 1989-2000 for the Centre for Biochemical Engineering
- Michael Oliver, broadcaster on Radio 3 and on Radio 4's Kaleidoscope
- Dennis Potter, television playwright, director, novelist
- John Slater, actor
- David Smallman LVO, Governor from 1995-9 of Saint Helena
- David Stoddart, Baron Stoddart of Swindon, Labour MP from 1970-83 for Swindon
- Michael Ward, economist who developed international economic statistics
- Alan Wilder, former keyboard player for Depeche Mode
Mixed comprehensive in Hertfordshire:
- Katy Brand, comedienne.
- Dee Caffari, record-breaking sailor.
- Natasha Khan, Singer and musician from the band Bat For Lashes.
- Tim Lovejoy, TV presenter.
- Rob Kiernan, Professional Footballer.
Notable teachers
- Andrew Davies (screenwriter) taught English 1958–1961.
- Bill Ashton (jazz musician and founder of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra) taught French 1971–1973.
- Tom Duncan, physics teacher, wrote the successful GCSE Physics book (ISBN 0719586143)
- Roland Mathias, poet
- Jonathon Porritt (eco-politician) taught English and directed drama 1974–1977[5]
References
- ^ Holborn Estate Charity (known as St Clement Danes Holborn Estate Charity), Registered Charity no. 206754 at the Charity Commission
- ^ a b School History, St Clement Danes School.
- ^ St Clement Danes School Charitable Foundation, Registered Charity no. 312757 at the Charity Commission
- ^ Holley, Duncan; Chalk, Gary (1992). The Alphabet of the Saints. ACL & Polar Publishing. p. 209. ISBN 0-9514862-3-3.
- ^ "Hot 100 burning issues". Resource: 24. Jan–Feb 2008. http://transitionculture.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/ResourceMagazineHot100.pdf.
External links
Categories:- Schools in Three Rivers (district)
- Comprehensive schools in Hertfordshire
- Language Colleges in England
- Science Colleges in Hertfordshire
- Educational institutions established in 1862
- Relocated schools
- 1862 establishments in England
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