The Sandon School

Not to be confused with the Grantham Sandon School

The Sandon School
Location
Molrams Lane Chelmsford , Essex , CM3 7AQ England
Coordinates	51°42′57″N0°30′59″E / 51.71572°N 0.51644°E / 51.71572; 0.51644
Information
Type	Academy
Motto	"Vincit Qui Se Vincit" (He who conquers themself, conquers) and "Aiming Higher Together"
Established	1955
Department for Education URN	137240 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Headteacher	Andrew Weaver
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11to 18
Enrolment	1221
Houses	Blake   Glennie  Thompson  Russel
Website	sandon.essex.sch.uk

The Sandon School ^[1] is an 11-18 mixed comprehensive academy school of approximately 1250 students. It serves a rural area on the outskirts of Chelmsford, Essex, England, and previously specialised in Maths and Computing.

History

The Sandon School opened in 1955 and became an academy in 2011. The very first headmaster was Arthur Harvey who unofficially said he was going to run as a comprehensive with no streamed classes. According to one of his pupils, Arhur Harvey was a superb educator and many fellow pupils achieved several O levels under his guidance. ^[2]

The school has also had multiple sex offenders over time, ^{[3] [4]} with another and latest conviction in March 2024 for extreme pornography from a teacher who worked at the school from September 2020 to November 2020 ^[5]

In March 2024 an Ofsted inspection found it to be a Requires Improvement school. ^[6]

The school has a 25-hour teaching week. Jo Wincott, headmaster since 2004, retired in the summer of 2018. ^[7] He has been succeeded by Andrew Weaver (2018–Present)

Notable former pupils

• Bon Harris and Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb ^{[ citation needed ]}
• James Graham, singer and member of the boyband Stereo Kicks

House System

The school also has a house system, in which the students take part in events and in-school activities in order to earn 'House points' for their houses.

House motto: "Many Branches, One Root"

The 4 houses conceive of:

•   Blake
•   Glennie
•  Thompson
•  Russel

References

1. "The Sandon School - GOV.UK". get-information-schools.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
2. "TES jobs: The Sandon School, Essex, United Kingdom". Times Education Supplement. Archived from the original on 12 January 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
3. "Paedophile music teacher jailed for more than eleven years". ITV. 14 December 2015. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
4. Axtell, Sean (31 January 2017). "Craig Keane, Sandon School teacher charged with sexually assaulting a young child". Chelmsford Weekly News. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
5. "Chelmsford teacher banned from classrooms after conviction for possession of extreme porn". Essex Live. 15 March 2024.
6. https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/50249465.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
7. Meyler, Piers (30 October 2017). "The head teacher of Sandon School in Chelmsford is stepping down". Essex Live. Archived from the original on 12 January 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2018.