Westminster City School

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Westminster City School
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Location
Westminster City School
55 Palace Street

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SW1E 5HJ

Coordinates 51°29′52″N0°08′21″W / 51.4978°N 0.1391°W / 51.4978; -0.1391
Information
Type Academy
MottoStrength in Unity
Established17th century
Refounded in 1877
Department for Education URN 138312 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Head teacherPeter Broughton
ChaplainStephen Taylor
GenderBoys, mixed sixth form
Age11to 18
Enrolment807
Website http://www.wcsch.com

Westminster City School is a state-funded secondary academy for boys, with a mixed sixth form, in Westminster. The school educates over 800 students, with links to more than 100 different cultures, in a central London location. The school offers places at Year 7 entry, each year, to boys of Christian faith, other world faiths, and those of no faith. The current headteacher is Peter Broughton, while the current deputy headteachers are Jen Lockyer and Simon Brown. [1]

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The school became an academy in 2012. In March 2022, Ofsted rated it "good". [2]

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Old school poster
The vestibule 1922 WCS-History-4LR.jpg
The vestibule 1922
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Aerial view of School

History

The charters and foundations of several historic charity schools [3] were by Act of Parliament in 1873 incorporated into the Grey Coat Hospital Foundation and United Westminster Schools (UWS) Foundation. UWS comprised the Westminster City School and Emanuel School, Wandsworth; the Grey Coat Hospital Foundation comprised the Grey Coat Hospital, Westminster and Queen Anne's School, Caversham. In 1910, the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers transferred the Sutton Valence School in Kent into UWS. [4] [5] Westminster City School is amalgamation of the former Brown Coat, Green Coat and Black Coat schools. Key dates in its history are: [5]

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The Duke of Kent at the opening of the Pouchot Building

Notable former students

Recent living alumni

Other notable pupils (from Westminster City Grammar School days)

References

  1. "Westminster City School : Home". wcsch.com. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  2. "Westminster City School Inspection report" (PDF).
  3. "WHERE DID THEY GO TO SCHOOL?" (PDF). 26 May 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 September 2013. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  4. Foundation, Westminster City School. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Carrington, R (1983). Westminster City School and its Origins (PDF). Amazon: WESTMINSTER CITY SCHOOL and its origins by R. Carrington Published by kind permission of the Trustees of the United Westminster Schools' Foundation, and the Governors of Westminster City School. pp. 1–113. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  6. 1 2 Department of Science and Art (1880). "Appendix A; Case of Mr. Goffin". Twenty-Seventh Report. Command papers. Vol. C. 2619. London: HMSO. pp. 3–7.
  7. Report from the Select Committee on Mr. Goffin's Certificate; together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix, and Index. Parliamentary Papers. Vol. HC 1878-9 x (334) 23. H.M. Stationery Office. 1 August 1879. p. iii.
  8. Hughes, Joseph, ed. (September 1881). "Monthly Notes; The Goffin Case". The Practical Teacher. 1 (7). T. Nelson: 348.
  9. R. Carrington: Westminster City School and its Origins. United Westminster Schools Foundation and the Governors of Westminster City School. 1983.
  10. Ronan Thomas, Victoria Street SW1 1940–1945, West End at War, with photograph. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
  11. Teacher raped by boy wins damages, BBC News, 22 June 2009
  12. "John Pouchot". Leighton Linslade Town Council. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
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  14. "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  15. "John Auguste Pouchot – Fenny Stratford in the Great War". freewebs.com. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  16. Athletics at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metres
  17. "OWCA | Welcome to the Old Westminster Citizens' Association". owca.org.uk. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  18. "National Portrait Gallery – Person – Alan Francis Bright Rogers". npg.org.uk. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
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  20. "Sir Denis Rooke, OM". The Telegraph. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
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