Fortismere School

Fortismere School
Fortismere School
Fortismere logo.jpg
Established 1983 (William Grimshaw in 1902)
Type Foundation school
Headteacher Ms Helen Anthony
Specialisms Maths and Computing, Music and Modern Languages
Location Tetherdown (South Wing), Creighton Avenue (North Wing)
Muswell Hill
London
N10 1NS (South Wing)
N10 1NE (North Wing)

England England
Local authority London Borough of Haringey
DfE number ???/4032
DfE URN 102156
Ofsted Reports
Students 1614
Gender Co-educational
Ages 11–18
Colours blue, black
Website Fortismere on the Hill

Coordinates: 51°35′34″N 0°09′03″W / 51.59285°N 0.15095°W / 51.59285; -0.15095

Fortismere School is a mixed, community foundation secondary school in Muswell Hill, London, United Kingdom.

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Admissions

It falls under the London Borough of Haringey Local Education Authority. The school is situated on an extensive site a little west of the town centre, with main entrances in Twyford Avenue and Tetherdown (South Wing), and Creighton Avenue (North Wing).

To gain entrance to the sixth form, high performance at GCSE is needed.

It is situated just off the A504.

History

The first school on the site was Tollington School, a private boys' school.

Grammar schools

After World War II, this became a state grammar school and the attached preparatory school became Tetherdown Primary School (this moved from the site in 1958 when it exchanged premises with the girls' grammar school). In 1958 the current building was erected and Tollington High School for Girls and Tollington Grammar School for Boys merged to become Tollington Grammar School (co-ed). In the 1950s William Grimshaw Secondary Modern School opened on an adjoining site in Creighton Avenue.

Creighton Comprehensive school

With the introduction of comprehensive education in Haringey in 1967, Tollington Grammar School and William Grimshaw Secondary Modern School were merged to form Creighton School on Creighton Avenue. Sir William Grimshaw was a local councillor. Charles Loades, head of William Grimshaw since 1958, became head, and remained until his retirement in 1974.[1]

In the early 1970s, Creighton School became the centrepiece of a Labour Party education experiment. Situated in the middle class largely white suburb of Muswell Hill it was decided to integrate a large number of Afro-Caribbean and other ethnic minority children into the school from distant parts of the borough in an attempt to maximise education choice and social interaction - a policy based heavily on the then United States system of desegregation busing. In 1975, before this new intake had worked through the school, around one third of the Sixth Form was either a first-generation immigrant, or had a surname of Cypriot or Asian origin.[1] The head who was charged with overseeing this experiment was Molly Hattersley, the wife of Labour Party minister Roy Hattersley.[1]

As a part of the continuing debate about comprehensive schools, Creighton school became the subject of a series of articles in the Sunday Times and a subsequent book by Hunter Davies, "The Creighton Report",[1] illustrated by an A Level Photography student at the school.

Fortismere School

Entrance to the North wing

After further reorganisation, Creighton School and another comprehensive, Alexandra Park School, were combined under the new name of Fortismere School. It opened in September 1983 and gained Technology College status in 1997; this status has been extended to 2007. The school is now one of the most successful comprehensive schools in North London.

In the summer of 2006, the school's governors made a proposal to change the school's status to that of a foundation school. The governors argue that the increased autonomy from the LEA that foundation status provides would be beneficial to the school,[2] which critics argue that the proposal is an attack on the school's comprehensive nature and would lead to a reduction in provision for pupils with special educational needs.[3]

Foundation status

On September 1, 2007, Fortismere became a Foundation school, as well as taking on a new joint specialist status in Maths/Computing with Music and a secondary specialism in Modern Languages. In December 2009, it was announced that the Head, Aydin Önaç, would be leaving in July 2010, at the end of the current academic year, after 5 years at the school. He will be joining St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School in Orpington, Greater London as their new Head. Mr Önaç is a prize-winning pianist.

Notable alumni

Joel Defries, current co-presenter of BBC's Blue Peter children's TV programme

Tollington School

Tollington Grammar School

William Grimshaw Secondary Modern School

Creighton Comprehensive School

See also

  • former Tollington Park Secondary School in Morden

References

  1. ^ a b c d Hunter Davies The Creighton Report: A Year in the Life of a Comprehensive School, (1976), Hamish Hamilton. ISBN 0-241-89412-3.
  2. ^ Fortismere School Governing Body (PDF). Fortismere School – Foundation Status Informal Consultation. http://www.fortismere.haringey.sch.uk/docs/Gov%20Docs/FSC.pdf. 
  3. ^ Keep Fortismere Comprehensive campaign. "Keep Fortismere Comprehensive". http://www.keepfortismerecomprehensive.co.uk/. Retrieved 2007-04-26. 
  4. ^ a b c Dafydd Rees & Luke Crampton,Q Encyclopedia of Rock Stars, (1996), Dorling Kindersley, ISBN 0-7513-0393-3

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