St. Edwards Church of England School
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St. Edward's Church of England Comprehensive School is a school for eleven to eighteen year olds in Romford, Essex, England. It is a specialised Language College and contains a sixth form for sixteen to eighteen year olds. It was founded in 1710, making it the oldest school in the area.
Currently there are approximately 1180 students in the school, aged between 11 and 18. The school is located on London Road. The current Headmaster is Mr. Giles Drew. Other notable members of staff include the two deputy headteachers - Mr. N. Webster (who teaches geography in the school) and Ms. B. Godson (who specialises in physics) - and the head of the sixth form, Mr. I. Raper, (who specialises in chemistry).
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[edit] History
The original St. Edward's school was founded as a charity school in 1710. The vestry book for St. Edwards Church in Romford records an entry on the September 5 1710 "whereas a charity school is erecting or setting up with all possible speed to be set up and opened in this town of Rumford... for the educating of poor children and teaching them to Read and Write and instructing them in the knowledge and practice of the Christian religion as profesed and taught in the Church of England..."
For the first eighteen years the school was accommodated in two houses, but in 1728 it moved to a new building in the Market Place in Romford, where it remained until the mid 1960's when the primary and secondary classes separated and moved to their present sites.
St. Edward's Comprehensive School and St. Edward's Primary School are now run independently, but they still have much in common and work very closely together. Most of the primary school pupils transfer to the comprehensive school at 11, and they account for over one third of the 210 pupils who join every September.
[edit] Recent History
Recently approximately £ 2 million has been spent expanding the school by building a new block, which includes, but is not limited to, two toilets, five science labs, some broken automatic doors, a small lift which is never used, a water fountain, a large computer room, two large Drama rooms and fifteen regular classrooms.
The school was recently made into a language college. This has given it access to further funding for courses in Spanish, French and German to up to A level, as well as fornightly lessons in Mandarin.
[edit] School Newsletter
A monthly newsletter is published by a group of students (usually members of the sixth form). This is entitled "Reachout" and keeps students up to date on current affairs within the school and can mark out special activities or events, such as sporting events, "rag week", Trips or Prom.
[edit] Sporting Successes
The school competes in a number of sports. Most notablly in volleyball the school's female under 17 team qualified for the World Schools Volleyball Championship in Croatia, where they represented the whole of England. The school also has teams in rugby, basketball, athletics, cricket and football.
[edit] School Links
The School has links within the local area, and internationally. It works alongside two local churches, St Edward's and St Andrew's, as well as with its partner primary school. Internationally, it runs exchanges with a school in Molay in France and Zaragoza in Spain. It also has links with a school in Beijing and is hoping to develop these so that Mandarin can be tought as a GCSE course in a few years time.They also have links with a school in Koln (GERMANY)
