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Sydenham School

Coordinates: 51°26′03″N 0°03′32″W / 51.434167°N 0.058889°W / 51.434167; -0.058889
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Sydenham School
Address
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Dartmouth Road

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SE26 4RD

Coordinates51°26′03″N 0°03′32″W / 51.434167°N 0.058889°W / 51.434167; -0.058889
Information
TypeCommunity School
MottoAim high, Achieve Higher.
Established1917
Local authorityLewisham
Department for Education URN100741 Tables
OfstedReports
HeadteacherEmma Wijnberg
GenderGirls
Age11 to 18
Enrolment4 (capacity 7.8)
Colour(s)Blue
Websitehttp://www.sydenham.lewisham.sch.uk

Sydenham School is a comprehensive girls' school located on Dartmouth Road (A2216) in Sydenham, London.

History

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The school was founded in 1917 as a girls' grammar school, known as Sydenham County Grammar School for Girls. London County Council commissioned Basil Spence & Partners, in the early 1950s, to design additional accommodation to allow the school to increase capacity from 600 to 1140 students and to merge with Shackleton School to become a comprehensive school. This took place in 1956 on completion of the new six-storey, E-shaped, classroom block, on which work had begun in 1954. The official opening ceremony took place on 28 February 1957.[1]

In 2003 Sydenham School was granted Specialist Science College status and in 2008 it was granted Specialist in Mathematics by the DfES. Sydenham School has close ties to Forest Hill School, a nearby boys' comprehensive school.

Form system

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In each year there are 8 tutor groups, named for the letters in SYDENHAM.

Admissions

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The current headmistress is Ms Emma Wijnberg. It has always been a girls' school. Forest Hill Pools and Forest Hill library is next door.

Academic performance

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In the last OFSTED inspection, Sydenham School was graded as 'good with outstanding features '. It gets GCSEs and A levels above the England average.(64%)

Notable former pupils

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Sydenham County Grammar School for Girls

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Sydenham School - Sir Basil Spence". Canmore. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
  2. ^ "Sydenham Olympian Tasha Danvers goes back to school". News Shopper. 17 November 2008. Archived from the original on 8 June 2023. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  3. ^ Chaudry, Ziad (1 June 2009). "Danvers beats Olympic champion". Your Local Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 June 2023. Retrieved 8 June 2023. "It was a good performance for me," said Danvers, a former St Leonards Streatham and Sydenham school pupil and the daughter of Brixton's former English Schools sprint hurdles champion Don Danvers.
  4. ^ Perry, Kevin Eg (13 February 2020). "Mia Goth on marriage, modelling and that Miu Miu campaign". Evening Standard. Archived from the original on 14 June 2024. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  5. ^ Marren, Peter (14 September 2007), "Eva Crane: Authority on the history of beekeeping and honey-hunting who travelled the world in pursuit of bees", The Independent, archived from the original on 5 September 2008, retrieved 28 October 2018

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