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Richmond Park Academy is an academy status secondary school in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
.
, (e.g. Sutton
, Wimbledon
and Richmond) parents were for the most part obliged to be content to give their children an Elementary
education. Richmond County was to be one of a series of new Technical Buildings erected or being erected by the County Council in the seven principal towns of the county. The school was opened on 2 July 1895 on land in Kew Road, Richmond and was fee paying. The buildings occupied a prominent site on the Kew Road at the corner of Selwyn Avenue. This building housed both the Technical Institute and secondary school. Pupils residing in Surrey paid £6 per year, whilst those from outside the county paid £10. The school began with a headmaster and five assistant masters, with visiting staff for the teaching of Art, Singing, French and German. Originally there were 50 boys between 11 and 16 and by 1901, when the new south wing was added, numbers had increased. An extension comprising an assembly hall, four classrooms a gymnasium/drill hall and two workshops was opened in 1902. The first headmaster, A E Buckhurst, was succeeded in 1912 by T W Beasley who continued in office until the school's amalgamation with East Sheen County School for Boys in 1939. When the school merged with East Sheen County School for Boys in 1939 the school moved out of the Kew Road premises leaving the Technical Institute as sole occupants of the Kew Road site. The Technical Institute continued up to the Second World War when it was put on a war-time basis and used as an A.R.P
and ambulance depot. It was revived as the Technical Institute and School of Art for Richmond and Barnes in 1947 and in 1954 renamed as The Richmond Institute of Further Education. In 1970 it became the Richmond Adult College and in 1978 transferred to the Parkshot site, vacant with the closure of Richmond County School for Girls
and as the Richmond Adult & Community College remains at that site.
East Sheen County School for Boys opened on 18 January 1927 on Hertford Avenue. The first headmaster was Mr H.H. Shephard, then aged 33. Ninety pupils gained entry via the Common Entrance Examination and fifteen boys were transferred from Richmond County Boys School. Provision was made for 20 county scholarship places and by 1928 the intake had risen to 210 boys.
. All boys were members of one of four houses, each house name derived from the names of local roads. The houses remained in use until the closure of the school in the 1970s.
. In 1939, despite local opposition, the boys from Richmond County school were merged with East Sheen County School for Boys at the Sheen site, continuing under headmaster Mr Shepherd. In the same restructuring, East Sheen County School for Girls was merged with Richmond County School for Girls at the Parkshot site. Although the Richmond girls' school retained its name, the Sheen school was renamed Richmond and East Sheen County School for Boys.
Seniors were based in the original Boys' school building nearer Park Avenue, whilst junior boys (age 10-13) occupied the former Girls' school site which was also used for laboratory science and, for the first time, to provide school meals. The school also retained use of the former Richmond school playing fields at Pesthouse Common, (now the site of Christ's School
).
Following the Education Act 1944
the School became known as Richmond and East Sheen County (Grammar) School for Boys.
, the school relocated to the then partially empty girls' school buildings on the Hertford Avenue site. The school remained there as Hertford Avenue Girls School until the formation of the Sixth Form College.
Like his predecessors, Grahame Pryce Rawlings (1912 – 17 April 1993) was educated at Oxford where he gained his MA in mathematics and represented Hertford College
at Rugby Union
. During the second world war he joined the RAFVR
, became a Spitfire
pilot, and rose to the rank of Wing Commander
. At the end of the war he was awarded the OBE
.
After the war Rawlings remained in the Air Force, transferring to a commission as Flight Lieutenant
, Technical Branch, in 1948. Rawlings wrote several books; a training manual 'Electricity for Air Training' published in 1941. and mathematics books covering Trigonometry
, the Slide rule
and Calculus
. Prior to joining the school he was Director of Studies at the naval training establishment HMS Worcester. He joined the school in the summer of 1954. Outside of school, Rawlings also became a JP.
.
In 1957, Richmond and East Sheen County Grammar School for Boys became known simply as Shene County Grammar School for Boys, using the Anglo-Saxon spelling of the name for Richmond previously adopted by the Old Boys' society. (Informally, the school was more commonly referred to simply as Shene Grammar).
During 1957 a new laboratory, prep room and two classrooms were added and the school electricity supply changed from DC
to AC
. In 1961 a new dining area and kitchen were built at the rear of the Main Hall and a new Gymnasium built to the west of the site in 1967.
During this period, the sports facilities at Barn Elms
were used for Rugby and Cricket according to season, and use made of the county sailing and canoeing facilities at Ham
.
in the borough in the early 1970s caused the demise of the school. Shene Grammar took in its final intake of pupils in September 1972.
From 1973 the former grammar school sixth form was expanded and the school became Shene College, predominately a sixth form college
but, due to the remaining Grammar school pupils, not entirely so. Mr. Rawlings left to become Mathematics Advisor for the borough. Mr. Eric Healey was appointed as principal, with Mr. R. Friggens, former Deputy Head of the Boys School assisting administratively, Mrs. K. Kulisa, Headmistress of the Richmond County Girls taking charge of academic affairs and Mr. R. Smith (from outside the borough) leading on student matters. As part of the conversion of the school a new Technical Block was built to the east of the main hall.
With dwindling pupil numbers and some staff increasingly sharing roles across Richmond and Shene sites, the remaining pupils and staff of Richmond County School for Girls merged with the remainder of the boys' school at the Shene site in 1974.
In a further borough education reorganisation in 1977, with the final cohort of grammar school pupils reaching the sixth form, Shene College was merged with the borough's other sixth form college, Thames Valley
, and the Technical College at Twickenham
. Together they formed one large tertiary college
, Richmond upon Thames College
, on the Technical College site off the Great Chertsey Road. The Shene site became the Shene Comprehensive School.
In August 2010 Richmond upon Thames Council announced that the Department for Education
had approved the proposal to grant the school status as an Academy. Shene School closed and in September 2010 Richmond Park Academy opened on the same site.
report in September 2007 gave Shene School Notice to Improve. However, under the new headship of Lesley Kirby and her leadership team, the school's overall examination results improved by 12 per cent, meeting Ofsted targets and lifting the school above the Government's floor targets for 5 A* - C. A subsequent Ofsted re-visit showed that the school and its pupils, described as a capable student body, were satisfactorily on course to achieving further improvement. Both the leadership team and the governing body were deemed strong by the Ofsted inspectors.
Richmond Park Academy
Richmond Park Academy was formed in 2010 when academy status was granted to the predecessor Shene School. The academy is led by former Shene School head, Lesley Kirby, is sponsored by the Greensward Charitable Trust, and is managed by the Academies Enterprise Trust. In 2011 the academy secured almost £10 million of government funding for building improvements.History
Richmond Park Academy is the most recent in a succession of schools that have occupied the location on Park Avenue and Hertford Avenue, East SheenEast Sheen
East Sheen, also known as 'Sheen', is an affluent suburb of London, England in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It forms part of the London post town in the SW postcode area....
.
Richmond County School
In the latter part of the nineteenth century there was no reasonable secondary education in Barnes and Richmond for miles around except for those who could afford private tuition or send their children many miles to school. In the most populous areas of SurreySurrey
Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...
, (e.g. Sutton
Sutton, London
Sutton is a large suburban town in southwest London, England, and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Sutton. It is located south-southwest of Charing Cross and is one of the major metropolitan centres identified in the London Plan. The town was connected to central London by...
, Wimbledon
Wimbledon, London
Wimbledon is a district in the south west area of London, England, located south of Wandsworth, and east of Kingston upon Thames. It is situated within Greater London. It is home to the Wimbledon Tennis Championships and New Wimbledon Theatre, and contains Wimbledon Common, one of the largest areas...
and Richmond) parents were for the most part obliged to be content to give their children an Elementary
Elementary school
An elementary school or primary school is an institution where children receive the first stage of compulsory education known as elementary or primary education. Elementary school is the preferred term in some countries, particularly those in North America, where the terms grade school and grammar...
education. Richmond County was to be one of a series of new Technical Buildings erected or being erected by the County Council in the seven principal towns of the county. The school was opened on 2 July 1895 on land in Kew Road, Richmond and was fee paying. The buildings occupied a prominent site on the Kew Road at the corner of Selwyn Avenue. This building housed both the Technical Institute and secondary school. Pupils residing in Surrey paid £6 per year, whilst those from outside the county paid £10. The school began with a headmaster and five assistant masters, with visiting staff for the teaching of Art, Singing, French and German. Originally there were 50 boys between 11 and 16 and by 1901, when the new south wing was added, numbers had increased. An extension comprising an assembly hall, four classrooms a gymnasium/drill hall and two workshops was opened in 1902. The first headmaster, A E Buckhurst, was succeeded in 1912 by T W Beasley who continued in office until the school's amalgamation with East Sheen County School for Boys in 1939. When the school merged with East Sheen County School for Boys in 1939 the school moved out of the Kew Road premises leaving the Technical Institute as sole occupants of the Kew Road site. The Technical Institute continued up to the Second World War when it was put on a war-time basis and used as an A.R.P
Air Raid Precautions
Air Raid Precautions was an organisation in the United Kingdom set up as an aid in the prelude to the Second World War dedicated to the protection of civilians from the danger of air-raids. It was created in 1924 as a response to the fears about the growing threat from the development of bomber...
and ambulance depot. It was revived as the Technical Institute and School of Art for Richmond and Barnes in 1947 and in 1954 renamed as The Richmond Institute of Further Education. In 1970 it became the Richmond Adult College and in 1978 transferred to the Parkshot site, vacant with the closure of Richmond County School for Girls
Richmond County School for Girls
Richmond County School for Girls was a school in what is now the London Borough of Richmond, once noted for the fact that its female pupils played cricket, and from which a number of female cricketers emerged some of whom went on to play for England.-History:The school had its origins in the...
and as the Richmond Adult & Community College remains at that site.
East Sheen County School for Boys
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East Sheen County School for Boys opened on 18 January 1927 on Hertford Avenue. The first headmaster was Mr H.H. Shephard, then aged 33. Ninety pupils gained entry via the Common Entrance Examination and fifteen boys were transferred from Richmond County Boys School. Provision was made for 20 county scholarship places and by 1928 the intake had risen to 210 boys.
Houses
Shepherd established use of the House systemHouse system
The house system is a traditional feature of British schools, and schools in the Commonwealth. Historically, it was associated with established public schools, where a 'house' refers to a boarding house or dormitory of a boarding school...
. All boys were members of one of four houses, each house name derived from the names of local roads. The houses remained in use until the closure of the school in the 1970s.
East Sheen County School for Girls
In 1930 an area of the Hertford Avenue site was fenced off to build the girls' school which opened in 1931.Richmond and East Sheen County School for Boys
A review of education in the county commencing in 1937 concluded that local population numbers were relatively stable so there were significant economies to be made by reducing the number of county schools in the borough from four to two. In addition the Kew Road site was inadequate in size, and pupil numbers in the county schools were declining due to increased school building in neighbouring boroughs and the effect of the Great DepressionGreat Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s...
. In 1939, despite local opposition, the boys from Richmond County school were merged with East Sheen County School for Boys at the Sheen site, continuing under headmaster Mr Shepherd. In the same restructuring, East Sheen County School for Girls was merged with Richmond County School for Girls at the Parkshot site. Although the Richmond girls' school retained its name, the Sheen school was renamed Richmond and East Sheen County School for Boys.
Seniors were based in the original Boys' school building nearer Park Avenue, whilst junior boys (age 10-13) occupied the former Girls' school site which was also used for laboratory science and, for the first time, to provide school meals. The school also retained use of the former Richmond school playing fields at Pesthouse Common, (now the site of Christ's School
Christ's School
Christ's School is a Church of England secondary school in Richmond, London. It has the distinction of being the only Church of England secondary school in Richmond upon Thames...
).
Following the Education Act 1944
Education Act 1944
The Education Act 1944 changed the education system for secondary schools in England and Wales. This Act, commonly named after the Conservative politician R.A...
the School became known as Richmond and East Sheen County (Grammar) School for Boys.
Mortlake County Girls School
As Mortlake County Girls School lacked air-raid shelters, early during World War IIWorld War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, the school relocated to the then partially empty girls' school buildings on the Hertford Avenue site. The school remained there as Hertford Avenue Girls School until the formation of the Sixth Form College.
G. P. Rawlings
In 1953 Mr H.H. Shephard retired after 25 years service and assistant head, history teacher Mr Bacon, led the school for a brief period until the appointment of his successor, G P Rawlings.Like his predecessors, Grahame Pryce Rawlings (1912 – 17 April 1993) was educated at Oxford where he gained his MA in mathematics and represented Hertford College
Hertford College, Oxford
Hertford College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is located in Catte Street, directly opposite the main entrance of the original Bodleian Library. As of 2006, the college had a financial endowment of £52m. There are 612 students , plus various visiting...
at Rugby Union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
. During the second world war he joined the RAFVR
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
The Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve consists of a number of groupings of individual military reservists for the management and operation of the Royal Air Force's Air Training Corps and CCF Air Cadet formations, Volunteer Gliding Squadrons , Air Experience Flights, and also to form the...
, became a Spitfire
Supermarine Spitfire
The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was used by the Royal Air Force and many other Allied countries throughout the Second World War. The Spitfire continued to be used as a front line fighter and in secondary roles into the 1950s...
pilot, and rose to the rank of Wing Commander
Wing Commander (rank)
Wing commander is a commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many other Commonwealth countries...
. At the end of the war he was awarded the OBE
Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
.
After the war Rawlings remained in the Air Force, transferring to a commission as Flight Lieutenant
Flight Lieutenant
Flight lieutenant is a junior commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many Commonwealth countries. It ranks above flying officer and immediately below squadron leader. The name of the rank is the complete phrase; it is never shortened to "lieutenant"...
, Technical Branch, in 1948. Rawlings wrote several books; a training manual 'Electricity for Air Training' published in 1941. and mathematics books covering Trigonometry
Trigonometry
Trigonometry is a branch of mathematics that studies triangles and the relationships between their sides and the angles between these sides. Trigonometry defines the trigonometric functions, which describe those relationships and have applicability to cyclical phenomena, such as waves...
, the Slide rule
Slide rule
The slide rule, also known colloquially as a slipstick, is a mechanical analog computer. The slide rule is used primarily for multiplication and division, and also for functions such as roots, logarithms and trigonometry, but is not normally used for addition or subtraction.Slide rules come in a...
and Calculus
Calculus
Calculus is a branch of mathematics focused on limits, functions, derivatives, integrals, and infinite series. This subject constitutes a major part of modern mathematics education. It has two major branches, differential calculus and integral calculus, which are related by the fundamental theorem...
. Prior to joining the school he was Director of Studies at the naval training establishment HMS Worcester. He joined the school in the summer of 1954. Outside of school, Rawlings also became a JP.
Shene County Grammar School for Boys
The Jubilee of Richmond County School was celebrated in 1956 and a fund launched towards the building of a new Library, completed in 1958. Also in 1956 Mr Rawlings established the school motto Enrich the time to come taken from the last scene of Shakespeare's Richard IIIRichard III (play)
Richard III is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1591. It depicts the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of Richard III of England. The play is grouped among the histories in the First Folio and is most often classified...
.
In 1957, Richmond and East Sheen County Grammar School for Boys became known simply as Shene County Grammar School for Boys, using the Anglo-Saxon spelling of the name for Richmond previously adopted by the Old Boys' society. (Informally, the school was more commonly referred to simply as Shene Grammar).
During 1957 a new laboratory, prep room and two classrooms were added and the school electricity supply changed from DC
Direct current
Direct current is the unidirectional flow of electric charge. Direct current is produced by such sources as batteries, thermocouples, solar cells, and commutator-type electric machines of the dynamo type. Direct current may flow in a conductor such as a wire, but can also flow through...
to AC
Alternating current
In alternating current the movement of electric charge periodically reverses direction. In direct current , the flow of electric charge is only in one direction....
. In 1961 a new dining area and kitchen were built at the rear of the Main Hall and a new Gymnasium built to the west of the site in 1967.
During this period, the sports facilities at Barn Elms
Barn Elms
Barn Elms is an open space in Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.It is located on the northerly loop of the River Thames between Barnes and Fulham....
were used for Rugby and Cricket according to season, and use made of the county sailing and canoeing facilities at Ham
Ham, London
Ham is a district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames on the River Thames.- Location :Its name derives from the Old English word Hamme meaning place in the bend in the river. Together with Petersham, Ham lies to the east of the bend in the river south of Richmond and north of Kingston...
.
Shene College
A major reorganisation of education and the end of selective educationSelective school
A selective school is a school that admits students on the basis of some sort of selection criteria, usually academic. The term may have different connotations in different systems....
in the borough in the early 1970s caused the demise of the school. Shene Grammar took in its final intake of pupils in September 1972.
From 1973 the former grammar school sixth form was expanded and the school became Shene College, predominately a sixth form college
Sixth form college
A sixth form college is an educational institution in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Belize, Hong Kong or Malta where students aged 16 to 18 typically study for advanced school-level qualifications, such as A-levels, or school-level qualifications such as GCSEs. In Singapore and India, this is...
but, due to the remaining Grammar school pupils, not entirely so. Mr. Rawlings left to become Mathematics Advisor for the borough. Mr. Eric Healey was appointed as principal, with Mr. R. Friggens, former Deputy Head of the Boys School assisting administratively, Mrs. K. Kulisa, Headmistress of the Richmond County Girls taking charge of academic affairs and Mr. R. Smith (from outside the borough) leading on student matters. As part of the conversion of the school a new Technical Block was built to the east of the main hall.
With dwindling pupil numbers and some staff increasingly sharing roles across Richmond and Shene sites, the remaining pupils and staff of Richmond County School for Girls merged with the remainder of the boys' school at the Shene site in 1974.
In a further borough education reorganisation in 1977, with the final cohort of grammar school pupils reaching the sixth form, Shene College was merged with the borough's other sixth form college, Thames Valley
Thames Valley Grammar School
Thames Valley Grammar School was a co-educational grammar school in Twickenham, Middlesex, England.-History:Thames Valley Grammar School opened in 1928 under one of the youngest headmasters in the country, Mr H. W, Bligh. Initially conceived as a boys school, unusually for the time it opened, and...
, and the Technical College at Twickenham
Twickenham
Twickenham is a large suburban town southwest of central London. It is the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and one of the locally important district centres identified in the London Plan...
. Together they formed one large tertiary college
Tertiary education
Tertiary education, also referred to as third stage, third level, and post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of a school providing a secondary education, such as a high school, secondary school, university-preparatory school...
, Richmond upon Thames College
Richmond upon Thames College
Richmond upon Thames College is a further education college in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, which provides education primarily to 16-19 year olds...
, on the Technical College site off the Great Chertsey Road. The Shene site became the Shene Comprehensive School.
Shene Comprehensive School and Shene School
Shene School was formed from the amalgamation of Barnes School (Barnes) and Gainsborough School (Kew) in 1977. It was a state secondary six-form entry school with a multi-cultural pupil roll of just over 900. Uniform was mandatory. The school retained its predecessor's motto: “Enrich the Time to Come” and the school crest was a deer surmounted by a globe.In August 2010 Richmond upon Thames Council announced that the Department for Education
Department for Education
The Department for Education is a department of the UK government responsible for issues affecting people in England up to the age of 19, including child protection and education....
had approved the proposal to grant the school status as an Academy. Shene School closed and in September 2010 Richmond Park Academy opened on the same site.
Performance
As a result of unsatisfactory attainment over several years, an OfstedOfsted
The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills is the non-ministerial government department of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools In England ....
report in September 2007 gave Shene School Notice to Improve. However, under the new headship of Lesley Kirby and her leadership team, the school's overall examination results improved by 12 per cent, meeting Ofsted targets and lifting the school above the Government's floor targets for 5 A* - C. A subsequent Ofsted re-visit showed that the school and its pupils, described as a capable student body, were satisfactorily on course to achieving further improvement. Both the leadership team and the governing body were deemed strong by the Ofsted inspectors.
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