St. Clement Danes School
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| St. Clement Danes School | |
| Motto | Loyauté M’Oblige |
| Established | 1862 |
| Type | voluntary aided, comprehensive |
| Headteacher | Josephine Valentine BSc, PhD |
| Specialism | Languages |
| Location | Chenies Road Chorleywood Hertfordshire WD3 6EW England  |
| LEA | Hertfordshire |
| Ofsted number | 117593 |
| Students | 1280 |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 11 to 18 |
| Houses | 8 houses |
| Website | www.stclementdanes.org.uk |
| Coordinates: | |
St Clement Danes School has specialist status for languages and is a mixed, voluntary-aided, comprehensive school taking students aged 11 (Year 7) through to 18 (Year 13).
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[edit] History
The school was founded in 1862 by the churchwardens of St Clement Danes Parish in Holborn, London and opened in Houghton Street, WC2. It was funded from income from the St Clement Danes Holborn Estate, a piece of land on the north side of Holborn.
The School remained in Houghton Street until 1928, when it transferred to a new site in Du Cane Road, W12 where it flourished as a grammar school until 1975. In that year, under an agreement between the Governing Board of the School and Hertfordshire County Council, it was re-established in its new premises in Chorleywood, as a Voluntary-Aided Mixed Comprehensive School. In April 1994 the School was incorporated as a Grant Maintained School.
Screenwriter Andrew Davies taught English at the school in the 1960s.
[edit] Location
The School occupies a large site to the north of Rickmansworth in Chorleywood.
[edit] Uniform
Navy blue blazer with school crest, white shirt, green tie with house colour woven in, black trousers, or tartan kilt.
- Trainers are only to be worn in PE and games and at no other time
- No jewellery may be worn, apart from one stud earring in each ear-lobe (not in top of ear)
- Long hair must be tied back
- Make-up and nail varnish are not to be worn
- Plain white T-shirts or vests can be worn under the uniform shirt in winter months but no
printing or visible sign of T-shirt is allowed
[edit] Entry
[edit] Houses
The school is subdivided into eight houses which also function as forms:
- Burleigh Burgundy ‘B’
- Essex Purple ‘S’
- Clare Orange ‘A’
- Exeter Light blue ‘E’
- Clement Red ‘C’
- Lincoln Green ‘L’
- Dane Yellow ‘D’
- Temple Dark blue ‘T’
[edit] Famous alumni
- Tim Lovejoy, TV Presenter.
- Wally Downes, Wimbledon football player.
- Sir John Barbirolli, Conductor & Cellist.
- Frank Field, Politician.
