Carrington School

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Carrington School
Address
Carrington School
Noke Drive

Redhill
,
Surrey
,
RH1 4AD

England
Coordinates 51°14′31″N0°09′40″W / 51.2420°N 0.1610°W / 51.2420; -0.1610
Information
Type Academy
MottoAd Astra [1]
TrustSouth East Surrey Schools Education Trust
Department for Education URN 143903 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Head teacherKerry Oakey
Staff56
Gender Coeducational
Age11to 16
Enrolmentapprox. 800 [2]
Colour(s)Cyan (Light blue)
Website www.carringtonschool.org

Carrington School is a coeducational secondary school located in Redhill, Surrey, England. [3]

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Initially known as The Warwick School, it was founded in September 1984 through a merger of Albury Manor and Redstone Schools. Previously a community school administered by Surrey County Council, in January 2017 it converted to academy status. The school is now sponsored by the South East Surrey Schools Education Trust. In September 2021, the school changed its name to Carrington School. [4]

History

Albury Manor School opened in Merstham in September 1953 with 200 pupils, serving a new London County Council estate. [5] [6] Redstone School opened in September 1963 with 470 boys [7] and A level courses were first offered starting in 1967. [8] In September 1984, the two schools were merged to create Warwick School, [9] based at the former Redstone School site in Noke Drive, Redhill. From the outset, the new school educated pupils aged 12 to 16. [10] The school first admitted 11-year-olds in September 1993. [11]

As part of a £15M transformation project, which included the construction of a new teaching block, the school was renamed to Carrington School in September 2021. The new name was chosen in honour of the astronomer, Richard Carrington, who built an observatory on Furze Hill in 1852. [4] [12]

Headteacher

Kerry Oakley has been the Headteacher since 2018.

Prior to this, Ms Oakley was the Headteacher at St Andrew's High School in Croydon where she used the name Mrs Kerry Targett. During this time she was involved in several controversies including inappropriate use of the school credit card [13] and one of her school trips making national headlines. [14] St Andrew's was subsequently judged by OFSTED to be inadequate prior to its closure. [15]

Ms Oakley invited parents to discuss this further with her upon starting at The Warwick School. [16]

Notable former pupils

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References

  1. ↑ "Headteacher's Welcome". 9 September 2021.
  2. ↑ "The Warwick School". 19 June 2018.
  3. ↑ "The Good Schools Guide" . Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  4. 1 2 Pengelly, Emma (19 May 2021). "Warwick School unveils new building in £15m project with name and uniform set to change". Surrey Live.
  5. ↑ "Merstham's fine new school". Surrey Mirror and County Post. No. 4021. 21 August 1953. p. 7.
  6. ↑ "Albury Manor Secondary School". Surrey Mirror and County Post. No. 4039. 25 December 1953. p. 4.
  7. ↑ "'A school that has everything'". Surrey Mirror and County Post. No. 4538. 13 September 1963. p. 17.
  8. ↑ "Redstone starts A level courses". Surrey Mirror and County Post. No. 4749. 29 September 1967. p. 17.
  9. ↑ "New head of Warwick". Surrey Mirror. No. 5707. 21 February 1986. p. 6.
  10. ↑ "The world of Warwick". Surrey Mirror. No. 5848. 3 November 1988. p. 10.
  11. ↑ "Looking forward to a second decade". Surrey Mirror. No. 6108. 28 October 1993. p. 10.
  12. ↑ Lindop, Norman (23 September 2004). "Carrington, Richard Christopher (1826–1875)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4765.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  13. ↑ Matthews, Tom (6 September 2017). "Croydon head used school credit card to pay for £1,365 staff Christmas meal". croydonadvertiser. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  14. ↑ Boult, Adam (3 August 2016). "Pupils 'spat on animals' and ran wild during zoo visit". The Telegraph. ISSN   0307-1235 . Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  15. ↑ Ofsted Communications Team (1 January 2018). "Find an inspection report and registered childcare". reports.ofsted.gov.uk. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  16. ↑ Seymour, Jenny (8 May 2018). "New Redhill head says don't judge her on past controversies". SurreyLive. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
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