St Clement Danes School

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St Clement Danes School
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Address
St Clement Danes School
Chenies Road

Chorleywood
,
Hertfordshire
,
WD3 6EW

England
Coordinates 51°39′49″N0°30′50″W / 51.6637°N 0.514°W / 51.6637; -0.514
Information
Type Academy
MottoLoyauté M'Oblige (Loyalty has its Obligations)
Established1862
Department for Education URN 136901 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Head teacherToby Sutherland MA, MEd (Camb)
Gender Mixed
Age11to 18
Enrolment1,578
Houses 8 houses
Website http://www.stclementdanes.org.uk/

St Clement Danes School is a co-educational academy school for pupils aged 11 to 18 in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire.

Contents

Admissions

St Clement Danes is a partially selective school, providing education to students aged 11 (Year 7) through to 18 (Year 13). Most students are admitted based on proximity to the school, with priority given to students with siblings already at the school, or whose parents are staff at the school, but up to 10% of the Year 7 cohort are admitted based on performance in the eleven-plus exam, and a further 10% may be admitted based on performance in a musical aptitude test. [1] Entry to the sixth form in Year 12 is dependent on GCSE exam grades, and admissions are mainly from students already at the school, but there is also an additional intake of external students. [2]

Location

The school occupies a large site to the northwest of Rickmansworth in Chorleywood. It is about a mile (1.6 km) from Chorleywood station, and is served by 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 west of junction 18 of the M25.

History

The school was founded in 1862 by the church wardens of St Clement Danes Parish in Aldwych, London and opened in Houghton Street. It was funded from income from the St Clement Danes Holborn Estate, [3] a charity founded in 1551 which owned a piece of land on the north side of Holborn. [4]

Grammar school (Holborn & Hammersmith)

The first St Clement Danes Holborn Estate Grammar School for Boys was established in 1862 in Houghton Street Holborn, near to the church.

In 1928, the school transferred to a new site on Du Cane Road in Hammersmith, where it flourished as St. Clement Danes 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 Clement's House, a block of flats and Wood Lane High School. [5]

On 29 June 1973, 13-year-old Nicholas St Clair from Fulham was killed on the school playing fields when he was struck in the chest by a javelin thrown by a fellow student. [6] A verdict of accidental death was recorded by the coroner following an inquest into the incident. [7]

Comprehensive (Chorleywood)

In 1975, under an agreement between the Governing Board of the School and Hertfordshire County Council, it was re-established in 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. [4]

The school receives additional financial support from the St Clement Danes School Charitable Foundation, [8] one of the beneficiaries of the historic St Clement Danes Holborn Estate.

Academy (Chorleywood)

The school converted to academy status in July 2011. In 2016, the school became part of the Danes Educational Trust, a multiple-academy trust, which also includes Croxley Danes School, Chancellor's School, Elstree Screen Arts academy and Onslow St Audrey's School. [9]

Houses

The house system was introduced in 1907 with four houses: Clare, Temple, Clement and Dane. By 1938 the school had grown and two new houses were added: Burleigh and Lincoln. Essex and Exeter were subsequently introduced in 1952. On the move to Hertfordshire, the school reverted to six houses, with Clare and Essex not being reintroduced until 2005. [10]

Current Houses and Colours

HouseHouse Colour
Clare  Orange
Burleigh  Maroon
Clement  Crimson
Dane  Golden Yellow
Exeter  Light Blue
Lincoln  Lincoln Green
Essex  Purple
Temple  Dark Blue

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. Half of the school visit the church in London, whilst the other half attend a service held at the school in Chorleywood. The school's song 'The Anchor Is Our Emblem' is sung at the church.

Notable former pupils

Boys' grammar school in London:

Mixed comprehensive in Hertfordshire:

Notable former staff

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References

  1. ↑ "Admissions - St Clement Danes School". www.stclementdanes.org.uk. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  2. ↑ "Sixth Form Admissions - St Clement Danes School". www.stclementdanes.org.uk. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  3. ↑ "Holborn Estate Charity (known as St Clement Danes Holborn Estate Charity), registered charity no. 206754". Charity Commission for England and Wales.
  4. 1 2 School History Archived 29 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine , St Clement Danes School.
  5. ↑ "Wood Lane High School".
  6. ↑ "My grief, by mother of javelin boy" . Daily Mirror. 30 June 1973. p. 2. Retrieved 28 July 2020– via The British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ↑ "Javelin speared boy through the heart" . The Birmingham Post. 21 July 1973. p. 34. Retrieved 28 July 2020– via The British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ↑ "St Clement Danes School Charitable Foundation, registered charity no. 312757". Charity Commission for England and Wales.
  9. ↑ "Our schools". Danes Educational Trust. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  10. ↑ "The House System - St Clement Danes School". www.stclementdanes.org.uk. Archived from the original on 18 July 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
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