Fullbrook School

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Fullbrook School
Address
Fullbrook School
Selsdon Road

New Haw
,
Surrey
,
KT15 3RL

England
Coordinates 51°20′37″N0°30′23″W / 51.343663°N 0.506347°W / 51.343663; -0.506347
Information
Type Academy
MottoMake every student be better than they ever thought they could be
Local authoritySurrey
Department for Education URN 137003 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Head teacherAlastair McKenzie
Staff269
GenderMixed
Age11to 18
Enrolment1,500
HousesPhoenix, Pegasus, Griffin and Dragon.
Colour(s)Navy Blue, Light Blue, White
Website www.fullbrook.surrey.sch.uk

Fullbrook School is a secondary school and sixth form college in northwest Surrey, England. The school has held Specialist Science, Technology, Mathematics and Computing College status since 2002. [1]

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The school gained Grant Maintained status in the mid-1990s and was then given foundation status in 1999. In 2011, the school became an academy. Its main catchment areas are Byfleet, West Byfleet and New Haw with some pupils coming from Addlestone, Woking, Goldsworth Park and Sheerwater. The school has around 1550 students and there are about 250 students in the school's Sixth Form. [2] In January 2017, Mrs A Turner retired as head of Fullbrook School, and was succeeded by Mrs K Moore. In 2022, Mr A McKenzie was appointed as head of the school, coinciding with his lead as principal at King's College, Guildford. [3]

History

Fullbrook was first established on its present site in 1954, when West Byfleet County Secondary School was divided into two as numbers at that school, due to postwar expansion, reached 747 in September 1953. Pupils living to the north of the line from Sheerwater Road, the Basingstoke Canal and then along the railway to West Weybridge (now Byfleet and New Haw) transferred to Fullbrook County Secondary School.

Above the main entrance is a stone plaque that was loaned to the school from the London County Council (LCC) during the building programme in the early 1950s.[ citation needed ] The Sheerwater Estate was being built to provide over spill housing for Londoners. The school there, now Bishop David Brown, had not yet been built and so the plaque came to the just completed Fullbrook School. The Headteacher and Governors used it to inspire the school badge.[ citation needed ] The plaque features an eagle and a squirrel. It was decided that as an eagle was often used on badges, to use choose the squirrel as it was different. The Festival of Britain was held at that time and celebrated contemporary design.

The original Fullbrook building is in a typical 1950s style and perhaps the plaque was placed over the main entrance to decorate an otherwise plain architectural design.[ citation needed ] The plaque design is very much in the Art Deco style and it is possible that it came from a London building destroyed during The Blitz. [4]

Mr W. H. Bean, the school's first headmaster, retired in 1968.

In 1976, West Byfleet County Secondary School closed and its pupils and teachers joined Fullbrook.

Notable alumni

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References

  1. ↑ "Welcome". Fullbrook School. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  2. ↑ Ofsted Inspection Report 2007, accessed 3 April 2009.
  3. ↑ "Fullbrook School - GOV.UK". get-information-schools.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  4. ↑ Fullbrook Newsletter - May 2001 - Page 3 - Article by J. Williams
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