Sedgehill
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Sedgehill Secondary School is a large mixed gender school in south-east London in England.
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[edit] About Sedgehill
Sedgehill school opened in 1957 and has excelled in many subjects including performing arts. The school recently gained an arts mark and became a performing arts college. The school is now in federation with Forest Hill School (boys school) and Sydenham School (girls school), making the federation Hillsyde, which is the name of the sixth form federation.
Pupils wear black blazors with the school emblem on the front. The emblem is a yellow shield with a lion inside and the words "Dominat Regnat" underneath.
Pupils are grouped using a house system. Each House - 'Bristol', 'Lincoln', 'Sailsbury' and 'York', have their own colours on ties. These colours are Blue, Green, Red and Yellow, respectively.
The school is now planning to be rebuilt on the same site but on different parts of land.
[edit] Well-known ex-sedgehillians
Well-known past pupils include:
- Francis Rossi (lead vocalist and guitarist for rock band Status Quo) [1]
- Malcolm Hardee (comedian) [2]
- Django Bates (jazz musician) [4]
- Chris Kibble (jazz musician)
Harry Greenway, was the school's deputy headmaster (under headmaster J.K. Turner) from 1972 to 1979 until he was elected MP for Ealing North in the 1979 United Kingdom General Election, where he served until losing his seat in the 1997 General Election.
Ex-sedgehillian, Carol Byrne (1972 intake), ran a Sedgehill Reunion website between 2001 and 2004.
[edit] The Sedgehill 'Birdman'
Sculptor, Elizabeth Frink, donated a 'bird man' sculpture to the school in the late 1950s, which was later replaced by 'The Sedgehill Bird Man', created by the school art department and mounted on the wall of the school gym block. There it remained until the mid-1980s.
[edit] School tragedies
- 1974 intake pupil, Lloyd Hall, was one of the tragic victims of the New Cross Fire of Sunday January 18, 1981. [5]
- Assistant headteacher, Patrick Stack (awarded the MBE in the Queen's birthday honours of 2000), was found hanged in the school grounds in 2001.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ The Quo History, Part 1 [1]
- ^ Comedy Zone [2]
- ^ Sydenham Town Community Website [3]
- ^ All About Jazz [4]
- ^ House of Commons Hansard Debates[5]
- ^ Hazards Magazine[6]
