| Motto | Tenax propositi ulteriora peto also use (since 2007) Learn - Achieve - Enjoy - Succeed |
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| Established | 1927 as Epsom County School for Boys |
| Type | • Comprehensive • Previously a Foundation school. Since 2011 Academy |
| Executive Headteacher (Glyn & Danetree) | Jon Chaloner |
| Associate Headteacher (Glyn & Danetree) | Jack Mayhew |
| Deputy Headteacher | Agnes Bailey |
| Assistant Headteachers | Jo Newton (Head of School - Danetree), Liz Ball, Matt Duffield, Mark Leach, Maggie Morton, Hugh Proctor, Kevin Sullivan, Barbara Mayaire, James Kearns |
| Chair of Governors | Denis Ward |
| Specialism | Technology |
| Location | The Kingsway, Ewell Epsom Surrey KT17 1NB England |
| Local authority | Surrey |
| DfE URN | 136534 |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 1,700 |
| Gender | Boys (girls admitted for sixth form) |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | • Abbey • Bourne • Carew • Derby • Merton • Oaks • St. Benet • Tudor |
| Website | glyn.surrey.sch.uk |
Glyn School is a boys' comprehensive secondary school – with a partially co-educational sixth form – situated in the borough of Epsom and Ewell in the English county of Surrey.
The school was rated as an "outstanding" school in 2009 by Ofsted, the non-ministerial government department of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools in England. Glyn is only the third school in England to move from 'satisfactory' to 'outstanding' within one inspection cycle.
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The school was founded in 1927 as Epsom County School for Boys, but became a comprehensive school in 1980, having changed its name to Glyn Grammar in September 1952.
On April 1 2011, Glyn Technology School was renamed 'Glyn School'.
As of September 2005, the sixth form began accepting applications from female students. Since then, the female population at the school has grown from a handful to represent around one twelfth of the sixth-form body. In 2010, with only one applicant, the role of Head Girl was established to represent them alongside the male majority of the school.
The school's General Certificate of Secondary Education results have broken school records for 5 successive years. Last year, 90% of boys gained five or more GCSEs graded between A*-C., with 82% of the boys gaining five or more GCSEs between A* to C including English and Maths. The latter figure was marginally surpassed according to the school's website in 2011.
In 2003, construction of an extension to the school began and it was officially opened in 2005 by HRH Prince Edward, The Duke of Kent. This building was named the Turner Wing after the-then headteacher Stuart Turner, who retired in 2006 after being headmaster for twenty years.
The school's sixth, and incumbent, headteacher is Jon Chaloner who joined in September 2006 from his previous Headship in Berkshire and the school's progress has been exceptional since as shown by the Ofsted inspections of 2009 and 2011.
In January 2010, Glyn became a National Support School and since September 2010, Jon Chaloner has been Executive Headteacher of both Glyn and Danetree Junior School. Jack Mayhew is Associate Headteacher at both schools. Agnes Bailey is Deputy Headteacher at Glyn whilst Jo Newton is Head of School at Danetree.
During the 2006/2007 football season, the under-thirteen team made the final of the English Schools' Football Association Boys' Cup, self-described as "'the largest 11-a-side schools' football tournament in Europe".[1] Prior to reaching the final, the team was crowned South-East champions,[2] which led to a semi-final played against the South-West champions at Reading F.C's Madjeski Stadium.[3]
There are eight houses at the school. Students are allocated into each of these houses upon entry. The house to which any particular student is membered is depicted by the colour of the stripe on his tie.
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The names of these eight houses are linked to Epsom's local history, and falls into four pairs of two:
The Tudor family named Carew, the Bourne river flows through the town of Chertsey, site of a Benedictine monastery, a former abbey at Merton, the Merton Abbey. While Derby is named after Lord Derby whose home in the locality is named Oaks. Abbey was the first house, followed by St Benet both in the 1920s. They were followed by Tudor, Carew, Derby, Merton, Bourne and Oaks in 2009.
House competitions span a wide range of sports, and in recent times, competition in academic subjects have been inaugurated. Success is measured through a points based system called 'merits'. Merits can be awarded for the degree of success in house competitions but are also used in recognising achievement in academic activities. The house which accumulates the most merits at the end of every academic year is awarded with the Victor Ludorum trophy.
Each house appoints its own Senior Prefect, a student in the upper sixth. His or her role is to bridge the link between the school's staff and the students within the house. He or she is often responsible for organising and coordinating inner-house activities and inter-house competitions. Each Senior Prefect has a small group of prefects who assist. In 2009, the school acknowledged the growing female presence in the upper school by conferring the title of Head Girl upon a member of the upper-sixth, alongside the Head Boy and his deputies. In 2011 the post of Deputy Head Girl was created.
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