Leyton Sixth Form College
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Leyton Sixth Form College is a mixed, 16-18 Sixth Form
college on Essex Road in the London
Borough of Waltham Forest.
. The school offers 33 A-Level subjects, and, as of 2008, 99% of the students passed their A-Levels. The school has formal partnerships with Queen Mary, University of London
and the University of Westminster
.
until 1929, when it moved to new buildings in Essex Road.. The opening was performed by the Prince of Wales
. It was a selective grammar school
for boys aged 11 to 18. The analogue of this school was the Leyton County High School for Girls
on Colworth Road.
adopted of the comprehensive system
and in its new guise it catered for mixed-ability 14-18 year-old boys as Leyton Senior High School for Boys before a re-organisation in 1985 led a change of role as a co-educational sixth form college.
Students starting at Leyton Sixth Form College in September 2011 will be amongst the first students to see the results of a £40M major capital project and to benefit from some wonderful new resources.
The students will be able to take advantage of the brand new purpose-built 120-seat theatre, dance studio, music studios, even a professional TV studio! If the students are taking computing or a humanities subject, their lessons will be in the bright, modern classrooms of Howarth House. The new sports hall and fitness centre will be home to a wide range of activities, which go on every day and evening.
Sixth form
In the education systems of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and of Commonwealth West Indian countries such as Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Jamaica and Malta, the sixth form is the final two years of secondary education, where students, usually sixteen to eighteen years of age,...
college on Essex Road in the London
London
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Borough of Waltham Forest.
Admissions
The school holds 1950 students. The college is situated close to the Greenwich Meridian, about 300 metres south of the A104, and west of the Whipps Cross University HospitalWhipps Cross University Hospital
Whipps Cross University Hospital is an NHS-run University Hospital in Whipps Cross, Waltham Forest, London, United Kingdom which housed London's first Hyperbaric Unit....
. The school offers 33 A-Level subjects, and, as of 2008, 99% of the students passed their A-Levels. The school has formal partnerships with Queen Mary, University of London
University of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
and the University of Westminster
University of Westminster
The University of Westminster is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom. Its origins go back to the foundation of the Royal Polytechnic Institution in 1838, and it was awarded university status in 1992.The university's headquarters and original campus are based on Regent...
.
Grammar school
Leyton County High School for Boys, was formed in 1916 by amalgamation of Leyton and Leytonstone high schools. The school occupied temporary premises at Connaught RoadConnaught School for Girls
Connaught School for Girls is a girls only, 11-16 comprehensive school in Leytonstone, London. The school has been awarded specialist Language College status.-History:...
until 1929, when it moved to new buildings in Essex Road.. The opening was performed by the Prince of Wales
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
Edward VIII was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth, and Emperor of India, from 20 January to 11 December 1936.Before his accession to the throne, Edward was Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay...
. It was a selective grammar school
Grammar school
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching classical languages but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school.The original purpose of mediaeval...
for boys aged 11 to 18. The analogue of this school was the Leyton County High School for Girls
Leytonstone Business and Enterprise Specialist School
Leytonstone Business and Enterprise Specialist School is a mixed, comprehensive 11-16 school on Colworth Road in Leytonstone, London.-Admissions:The school holds specialist Business and Enterprise College status...
on Colworth Road.
Sixth form college
In 1968, Waltham ForestLondon Borough of Waltham Forest
The London Borough of Waltham Forest is in northeast London, England. Officially, it forms part of Outer London as it borders Essex. However, it can be seen that the NE London boundary does not extend far compared to elsewhere in the city...
adopted of the comprehensive system
Comprehensive school
A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of a selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to the United...
and in its new guise it catered for mixed-ability 14-18 year-old boys as Leyton Senior High School for Boys before a re-organisation in 1985 led a change of role as a co-educational sixth form college.
Students starting at Leyton Sixth Form College in September 2011 will be amongst the first students to see the results of a £40M major capital project and to benefit from some wonderful new resources.
The students will be able to take advantage of the brand new purpose-built 120-seat theatre, dance studio, music studios, even a professional TV studio! If the students are taking computing or a humanities subject, their lessons will be in the bright, modern classrooms of Howarth House. The new sports hall and fitness centre will be home to a wide range of activities, which go on every day and evening.
Former teachers
- David Flaxen, Director of Statistics from 1989-96 at the Department of TransportDepartment for TransportIn the United Kingdom, the Department for Transport is the government department responsible for the English transport network and a limited number of transport matters in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland which are not devolved...
(taught in 1963) - Sir William Emrys WilliamsWilliam Emrys WilliamsBill Williams was Editor-in-Chief of Penguin Books from 1936 to 1965 and powerhouse of popular education in the 20th century. [1]A close collaborator with Allen Lane, Penguin's founder, for over thirty years, he was the cultural force behind Penguin Books' success...
, Editor in Chief from 1935-65 of Penguin BooksPenguin BooksPenguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and V.K. Krishna Menon. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence. Penguin's success demonstrated that large...
(taught English in the 1920s) - Phil WoosnamPhil WoosnamPhillip Abraham Woosnam is a Welsh former Association football inside-right and manager. He went on to become commissioner of the North American Soccer League.-Playing career:...
, footballer for West Ham (taught Physics in the late 1950s)
Academic results
It gets results at A level higher than the England average.Leyton County High School for Boys
- Sir George Bolton, Chairman from 1957-70 of the Bank of London and South AmericaBank of London and South AmericaThe Bank of London and South America or BOLSA was a British bank which operated in South America between 1923 and 1986.- Origins :The bank was incorporated in England on 27 September 1862 as the London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate Bank, originally to operate in Buenos Aires...
- Alan BoothAlan BoothAlan Booth was a well-known English travel writer, who wrote two insightful books on his journeys by foot through the Japanese countryside. The better-known of the two, The Roads to Sata is about his travels from the northernmost cape in Hokkaidō to the southern tip of Kyūshū in Cape Sata...
, travel writer - Prof Sir Giles BrindleyGiles BrindleySir Giles Skey Brindley, GBE , is a British physiologist, musicologist and composer.He made important contributions to the treatment of erectile dysfunction, and is perhaps best known for an unusual scientific presentation at the 1983 Las Vegas meeting of the American Urological Association, where...
, Professor of Physiology in the University of London at the Institute of PsychiatryInstitute of PsychiatryThe Institute of Psychiatry is a research institution dedicated to discovering what causes mental illness and diseases of the brain. In addition, its aim is to help identify new treatments for them and ways to prevent them in the first place...
from 1968-91 - Prof Bernard Corry, economist at Queen Mary CollegeQueen Mary, University of LondonQueen Mary, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
- Prof Robert Gibson, Professor of French from 1965-94 at the University of KentUniversity of KentThe University of Kent, previously the University of Kent at Canterbury, is a public research university based in Kent, United Kingdom...
at Canterbury - Prof Laurance Hall, Herchel SmithHerchel Smith Laboratory for Medicinal ChemistryThe Herchel Smith Laboratory for Medicinal Chemistry is a laboratory under the aegis of the Regius Professor of Physic in the School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge.- External links :*...
Professor of Medicinal Chemistry from 1985-2004 at the University of CambridgeUniversity of CambridgeThe University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
, who worked on early NMR spectroscopyNMR spectroscopyNuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, most commonly known as NMR spectroscopy, is a research technique that exploits the magnetic properties of certain atomic nuclei to determine physical and chemical properties of atoms or the molecules in which they are contained... - Steve HarrisSteve Harris (musician)Stephen Percy "Steve" Harris is an English musician and songwriter, known as the bassist, occasional keyboardist, backing vocalist and primary songwriter of the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, which he founded in 1975...
of Iron MaidenIron MaidenIron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from Leyton in east London, formed in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. Since their inception, the band's discography has grown to include a total of thirty-six albums: fifteen studio albums; eleven live albums; four EPs; and six... - Frank Hawkins, Chairman from 1959-73 of International Tea Co. StoresInternational Tea Co. StoresInternational Tea Co. Stores was a leading chain of grocers based in London. It was a constituent of the FT30 index of leading companies listed on the London Stock Exchange.-History:...
- Sir Derek JacobiDerek JacobiSir Derek George Jacobi, CBE is an English actor and film director.A "forceful, commanding stage presence", Jacobi has enjoyed a highly successful stage career, appearing in such stage productions as Hamlet, Uncle Vanya, and Oedipus the King. He received a Tony Award for his performance in...
CBE, actor - Prof Ralph Kekwick, Professor of Biophysics from 1966-71 at The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine (part of UCL), who pioneered blood plasma fractionationBlood plasma fractionationBlood plasma fractionation refers to the general processes of separating the various components of blood plasma, which in turn is a component of blood obtained through blood fractionation.-Blood plasma:...
- John LillJohn LillJohn Lill CBE is an English classical pianist.-Biography:Lill studied at the Royal College of Music and with Wilhelm Kempff. His talent emerged at an early age, as he gave his first piano recital at the age of nine. At age 18, he performed Rachmaninoff's 3rd Piano Concerto under Sir Adrian Boult...
CBE, pianist - Philip Burton Moon, Poynting Professor of Physics in the University of BirminghamUniversity of BirminghamThe University of Birmingham is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Birmingham Medical School and Mason Science College . Birmingham was the first Redbrick university to gain a charter and thus...
from 1950-74, part of the Manhattan ProjectManhattan ProjectThe Manhattan Project was a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the US Army... - Frank MuirFrank MuirFrank Herbert Muir was an English comedy writer, radio and television personality, and raconteur. His writing and performing partnership with Denis Norden endured for most of their careers. Together they wrote BBC radio's Take It From Here for over 10 years, and then appeared on BBC radio...
, broadcaster - Zulfiqar Hussain, Chairman of Raeburn Energy Limited.http://www.raeburn.com/home/
- Jonathan RossJonathan RossJonathan Ross may refer to:* Jonathan Ross , English television and radio personality* Jonathan Ross , United States Senator, Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court* Jonathon Ross , former Australian rules footballer...
, former BBC presenter - Paul RossPaul RossPaul Ross is an English television and radio presenter, journalist, and media personality. He is the son of Martha Ross and the elder brother of Jonathan Ross.-Early life:...
, radio presenter - Eric ShillingEric ShillingEric Shilling was an English opera singer and producer, long associated with English National Opera. He was married to the soprano Erica Johns, and their son is George Shilling.-Life and career:...
, bass-baritoneBass-baritoneA bass-baritone is a high-lying bass or low-lying "classical" baritone voice type which shares certain qualities with the true baritone voice. The term arose in the late 19th century to describe the particular type of voice required to sing three Wagnerian roles: the Dutchman in Der fliegende... - Sir Philip WilkinsonPhilip Wilkinson (banker)Sir Philip William Wilkinson was a British banker. He worked for NatWest all his life, rising to CEO during NatWest's period of greatest prosperity in the 1980s.-Biography:...
, Chief Executive from 1983-7 of NatWestNational Westminster BankNational Westminster Bank Plc, commonly known as NatWest, is the largest retail and commercial bank in the United Kingdom and has been part of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc since 2000. The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is ranked as the second largest bank in the world by assets... - Peter WinchPeter WinchPeter Guy Winch was a British philosopher known for his contributions to the philosophy of social science, Wittgenstein scholarship, ethics, and the philosophy of religion...
, philosopher