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Category Archives: Croydon High
Croydon High pupils create floral tribute to former Head
Pupils, staff and parents at Croydon High in Selsdon have created an extended floral tribute at the school gates to Emma Pattison, the school’s former head teacher. Pattison was head at Croydon High from 2016 until 2022, when she left … Continue reading
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Tagged Croydon High School, Emma Pattison, Epsom College
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Croydon High ‘shocked’ at death of former head at Epsom
Emma Pattison, the headteacher at Epsom College who was discovered dead with her husband and daughter yesterday, had joined the private school in 2022 after six years as head at Croydon High School in Selsdon. Pattison, 45, her husband George, … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Croydon High, Education, Schools, Surrey
Tagged Croydon High, Croydon High School, Emma Pattison, Epsom College
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Jubilation all-round as High School stages early street party
With the school’s pupils due to be away on half-term during the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, Croydon High staged its own “street party” this week when pupils and staff from across the school came together to celebrate. The entrance to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Croydon High School, Platinum Jubilee, Selsdon
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Croydon High School appoints Davies as new headteacher
Croydon High, the £18,000 per year private girls’ school in Selsdon, has announced the appointment of Annabel Davies as its new headteacher, with effect from September 2022. Davies is to replace Emma Pattison, the head since 2016, who is leaving … Continue reading
Thousands of girls’ school teachers fear Trust’s ‘fire and rehire’
Our education correspondent, GENE BRODIE, reports from the picket line at Croydon High, where dozens of teachers fear that they will lose their jobs in a dispute with what some have called a ‘petty and vindictive’ schools trust Croydon High … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon High, Education, Schools
Tagged Croydon High, Croydon High School, GDST, Girls Day School Trust, Hamida Ali, Selsdon
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Pensions dispute sees private schools’ teachers go on strike
More than 50 teachers at Croydon High School are going on strike tomorrow in the first of six days of planned industrial action to defend their pensions. Croydon High, the fee-paying girls’ prep to sixth form school in Selsdon, is … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon High, Education, Schools
Tagged Croydon High School, Girls Day School Trust, National Education Union, NEU, Selsdon
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Croydon High PTA Winter Fair, Selsdon, Nov 23
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Tagged Croydon High School, Selsdon
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Museum of Croydon gets its suffrage banners on parade
Croydon residents are showcasing their craft skills at the Museum of Croydon in a London-wide project celebrating 100 years of votes for women. They have joined museums, archives and arts organisations across the capital taking part in the 100 Banners … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Croydon High, Education, History, Museum of Croydon
Tagged Croydon High School, Museum of Croydon
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Digby Fairweather plays Croydon High S’cool Jazz, June 5
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Tagged Croydon High, Digby Fairweather, Jazz
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Charity worker seeks your support for award nomination
Alison Maguire, a director of the charity The Lily Foundation who has helped to get the law changed to help families affected by mitochondrial disease, went back to her old school, Croydon High, this week following her nomination for the Girls’ … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Croydon High, Education, Schools, The Lily Foundation
Tagged Alison Maguire, charity, Croydon, The Lily Foundation, Warlingham
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Croydon High’s jazz fans welcome a Fairweather friend
Croydon High is delighted to announce that they are hosting an exciting musical event, Croydon High S’Cool, featuring Digby Fairweather on Friday June 13, from 7pm. Fairweather has been a full-time jazz musician since 1977 and is very well-known and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Croydon High, Music, Schools
Tagged Croydon, Croydon High School, Digby Fairweather, Education, George Melly, Jazz
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GCSE figures put Croydon schools at bottom of their class
Last week, the Department for Education published the 2013 statistics for GCSE pupils across the country. As Inside Croydon has already reported, based on these results, not a single Croydon state secondary managed to make it into the top 200 … Continue reading
Posted in Addington High, Archbishop Lanfranc, Archbishop Tenison's, BRIT School, Coloma, Croydon High, Education, Harris Academy Crystal Palace, Harris Academy South Norwood, Oasis Academy, Schools, Tim Pollard
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Education, GCSE, London Borough of Croydon, schools, Tory
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How you can tell which schools are really making the grade
School pupils – whether attending the borough’s high-profile independents, our state secondaries or the privatised academies – will be receiving their life-shaping GCSE, AS and A level results in the next few weeks. Education correspondent GENE BRODIE provides an insider’s … Continue reading
Posted in Archbishop Lanfranc, Archbishop Tenison's, Coloma, Croydon High, Education, Old Palace, Roke Primary, Schools, Trinity School, Whitgift School
Tagged Croydon, Department for Education, EBacc, English as a second or foreign language, GCSE, General Certificate of Secondary Education, Michael Gove, Riddlesdown Collegiate
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