Enfield County School

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Enfield County School
Motto	Learning: it's at the heart of everything we do
Established	1967
Type	Community school
Headteacher	Pamela Rutherford
Chair of Governors	Romany Joseph
Specialism	Languages
Location	Holly Walk Enfield Middlesex EN2 6QG England Coordinates: 51°39′15″N 0°05′01″W / 51.654167°N 0.083611°W / 51.654167; -0.083611
Local authority	Enfield
DfE URN	102048 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Students	1099
Gender	Girls
Ages	11–18
Colours	Bottle Green
Former name	Enfield Chace School
Website	ECS

Enfield County School is a girls' comprehensive school which was originally created as Enfield Chace School in 1967, following the amalgamation of Enfield County School, which had been a girls' grammar school, with Chace Girls School, a secondary modern school. The amalgamated school readopted the name Enfield County School in 1987.

Admissions

In 2005, it was designated a specialist school for languages. It is situated directly in the middle of Enfield, slightly to the north of the town centre, equidistant between the two railway stations, near St Andrew's church.

History

Former schools

The original Enfield County School had been opened in 1909, becoming Enfield County Grammar School for Girls, which had around 850 girls. It was administered by Middlesex County Council Education Committee (Borough of Enfield). Chace Girls School had been formed in 1962 as a girls' secondary modern school from the senior girls department at Lavender School. Both were well-established girls' schools, each with a long tradition of high achievement and academic excellence, according to the current Headteacher, Ms. P. Rutherford.^[1]

Comprehensive

It became the comprehensive girls' Enfield Chace School in 1967, changing to its current name in 1987.

Former teachers

Jill Paton Walsh (nee Bliss) CBE, author (taught English from 1959-62 at the grammar school)

Campus

The buildings are a blend of solid Edwardian, post war and 1990s 'design-build'. The lower school in Rosemary Avenue, which were the former Chace Girls School, houses years 7, 8 and 9; at fourteen years of age students transfer to the upper school in Holly Walk (former grammar school), about a mile away in the centre of the old town of Enfield, London. After Enfield Court in Baker Street had been purchased to accommodate the lower school of Enfield Grammar School in 1942, the first year pupils of the previous girls' grammar school, Enfield County School, shared it with the first year pupils of Enfield Grammar for a few years.

Traditions

At first, the school motto, which was incorporated in the school badge, was Onward Ever, which had previously been the motto of the grammar school in the amalgamation. This was later changed to Learning: it's at the heart of everything we do.

Academic performance

It gets similar good GCSE results to Enfield Grammar School, the analogous boys' school. However it gets better results (above-average) at A-level, the best for comprehensive schools in the borough of Enfield.

Notable alumnae

Keisha White, singer
Jaime Winstone, actress
Lois Winstone,^[2] actress

Enfield County Grammar School for Girls

Joyce Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St Johns (née Clarke), Conservative politician, former shadow Chief Whip
Olive Banks (née Davies), historian
Geraldine McCaughrean, author
Dame Helen Metcalf (née Pitt), former headteacher from 1998-2001 of Chiswick Community School, and former Islington Labour councillor
Frances Perry (née Everett) MBE, horticulture author and broadcaster, and wife of Roy Hay (horticulturist)
Nancy Tait, health campaigner^[3]

Bibliography

Onward ever: the story of Enfield County School for Girls, 1909-1967 by Joan Hinchcliffe Hart, 1999

References

↑ Headteacher Retrieved 2007-11-20
↑ Lois Winstone at the Internet Movie Database
↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/feb/23/nancy-tait

External links

v t e Schools and colleges in Enfield

Primary schools	Bowes Primary School Fleecefield Primary School Houndsfield Primary School Oasis Academy Hadley Our Lady of Lourdes School St Edmund's RC Primary School St George's RC Primary School St Paul's School Starks Field School

Secondary schools	Aylward Academy Broomfield School Chace Community School Edmonton County School Enfield County School Enfield Grammar School Highlands School Kingsmead School Lea Valley High School Nightingale Academy Oasis Academy Enfield Oasis Academy Hadley Southgate School St Anne's Catholic High School St Ignatius' College Winchmore School

Grammar schools	The Latymer School Bishop Stopford's School

Special schools	Aylands School Durants School Russet House School

Independent schools	Grange Park Preparatory School Keble School Palmers Green High School St John's Senior School St Martha's Senior School Salcombe Preparatory School

Colleges	Barnet and Southgate College Capel Manor College The College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London

Former	Enfield-chantry school Minchenden Grammar School

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