Whitehorse Manor Junior School is a junior school for pupils aged between 7 and 11 years. The school is located in Thornton Heath

Thornton Heath

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. The Local Education Authority

Local Education Authority

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 for the school is the London Borough of Croydon

London Borough of Croydon

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. The school caters for pupils from Year 3 to Year 6. The uniform of the school is a red sweatshirt with the school logo, white shirt and grey trousers or skirt. There are 240 pupils on roll with a maximum of 30 pupils in each of 8 classes. The current Headteacher is Jolyon Roberts B.Ed, NPQH.

History

The school was opened in 1892 and has a complicated history - having undergone a great many re-organisations. Dr Ron Cox, consultant archivist to the Education Department of the London Borough of Croydon

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, lists the chronological story as follows:

• 1892-1911
  Three schools (apart from the infants) opened on the Whitehorse Road site: Whitehorse Road Junior (Mixed) school, Whitehorse Road Senior boys' school, Whitehorse Road Senior girls' school.
• 1911-1930
  In 1911 Whitehorse Road Junior (Mixed) school closed and the pupils moved into the respective boys and girls departments of the two senior schools therefore giving Whitehorse Road (Post-Infants) boys' school and

Whitehorse Road (Post-Infants) girls' school.

• In 1921 as part of a general re-organisation of school names the Whitehorse Road schools were re-designated "Whitehorse Manor".
• 1930-1955
  In 1930 there was a substantial re-organisation. All the Whitehorse Manor senior girls moved to another local school, Ecclesbourne, and all the Ecclesbourne senior boys moved to Whitehorse Manor. All the Whitehorse Manor junior boys moved to Ecclesbourne and all the Ecclesbourne junior girls moved to Whitehorse Manor. On the Whitehorse Manor site this left Whitehorse Manor Senior (later secondary modern) boys' school and Whitehorse Manor Junior girls' school.
• 1955-1961
  In 1955, doubtless because of the inadequacy of the facilities, Whitehorse Manor secondary modern boys' school closed and pupils and staff were transferred to other schools in the area. This left Whitehorse Manor Junior girls' school.
• 1961 onwards
  The closure of Ecclesbourne Junior boys' school meant these pupils transferred to the Whitehorse Manor site and were combined with the girls which left a single school, Whitehorse Manor Junior (Mixed) school.

Agnes Mason, an associate of D. H. Lawrence

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taught at this school for some years until Davidson Road School opened in 1907 when she went there to teach with Lawrence. A penetrating description of the school and its staff at that time is to be found in Helen Corke's book In our infancy:an autobiography, Part 1 1882-1912. She too was an associate of Lawrence.

Headteachers

The Headteachers of the school have been:

Whitehorse Manor Junior School 1892-1911

From	To	Headteacher
4 July 1892	26 August 1911	Amelia Corney

Headteachers of Whitehorse Manor Senior Girls' School 1892-1961

From	To	Headteacher
14 June 1892	31 March 1903	Miss Mary A Smyth
1 April 1903	31 August 1905	Miss Lily Thornton
1 September 1905	30 September 1916	Miss Annie Ada Malin
1 Oct 1916	31 Dec 1919	Ethel M Mayhew
1 Jan 1920	31 Dec 1934	Mrs. Lily Crittenden
1 January 1935	31 December 1957	Miss M.H Stafford
1 January 1958	31 March 1961	Mrs Joan C. Grunberg (Acting)

Headteachers of Whitehorse Manor Senior Boys' School 1892-1955

From	To	Headteacher
14 June 1892	31 Dec 1900	Mr William Hooper
1 January 1901	31 August 1911	Mr James Boys Edwards
1 September 1911	31 December 1919	Mr William Field
1 January 1920	31 Jan 1945	Mr Samuel J Cook
1 February 1945	31 August 1955	Mr Alfred Gregory

After spending some years as Headteacher of Sydenham Junior Boys Mr Alfred Gregory returned as Headteacher of the new Junior (Mixed) school in 1961

Headteachers of Whitehorse Manor Junior (Mixed) School

From	To	Headteacher
1 April 1961	31 August 1971	Mr Alfred Gregory
1 September 1971	31 December 1983	Mr Ernest Morgan
Mrs Wash 1977-?
1 January 1984	31 August 1989	Mr Di Davis
1 September 1989	31 December 1989	Miss Teresa McBain (Acting)
1 January 1990	22 April 1990	Mrs P Griffiths (Acting)
23 April 1990	30 April 1993	Ms Yvonne Stewart
1 May 1993	31 August 1993	Miss Teresa McBain (Acting)
1 September 1993	31 December 2000	Mrs Frances McGregor
1 January 2001	18 April 2004	Mr Alexander Clark
19 April 2004	Present	Mr Jolyon Roberts

External links

• Official Website
• Performance Tables
• http://www.croydon.gov.uk/leisure/archives/lslibrary Croydon local studies library where many of the school's documents from 1892 to present are now held