Category Archives: Jane Burton

Old Palace up for ‘wellbeing’ award just weeks before closure

Posted on May 31, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: The fee-paying girls’ school in Old Town has been shortlisted for a prize at a national awards event to be staged at a 5-star hotel where tickets cost £245 per head. By GENE BRODIE, education correspondent With … Continue reading →

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Foundation brings forward Old Palace prep closure by a year

Posted on January 18, 2024 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Early closure of the fee-paying primary school will speed up sale of the site in South Croydon – probably to a profit-hungry housing developer. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The financially troubled Whitgift Foundation is seeking to accelerate … Continue reading →

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Another Whitgift shock as second head teacher decides to quit

Posted on January 17, 2024 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: To lose one head teacher in a single academic year is unfortunate. For Croydon’s biggest landowners to lose two from their private schools is beginning to appear worrying. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Christopher Ramsey, the headmaster of … Continue reading →

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Foundation abandoned new school plan after taking £70m loan

Posted on November 3, 2023 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: The decision to close Old Palace marked a rapid U-turn on all previous policy at the property-owning charity, according to documents obtained by this website. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES As recently as last year, the Whitgift Foundation … Continue reading →

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Old Palace head announced retirement days before new term

Posted on September 26, 2023 by insidecroydon

Parents are discussing potential legal and sex discrimination challenges to Whitgift Foundation’s school closure plans, reports our education correspondent, GENE BRODIE Pupils at Old Palace and their parents were told just two days before the start of the new term … Continue reading →

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Old Palace closure brought on by shaky Foundation finances

Posted on September 22, 2023 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: There’s not much that has happened in Croydon in the last dozen years or so that cannot be traced back, in some respect, to the £1billion-plus non-development of the Whitgift Centre. And as the accounts of landowners … Continue reading →

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Falling rolls and rising fees: how Old Palace got squeezed

Posted on September 22, 2023 by insidecroydon

Our education correspondent, GENE BRODIE, examines the likely reasons and consequences of yesterday’s announcement of the decision to close one of Croydon’s oldest and best-known girls’ schools For the 80 or so 11-year-old girls who started their secondary school careers … Continue reading →

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Whitgift Foundation decides to close Old Palace School in 2025

Posted on September 21, 2023 by insidecroydon

Pupils at a £20,000 per year independent school in Old Town which is operated by the borough’s biggest land-owners will be told at assembly on Friday morning that it is to close after ‘many years’ of financial struggles EXCLUSIVE by … Continue reading →

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Whitgift Foundation is going for a Burton at Old Palace

Posted on January 29, 2019 by insidecroydon

The Whitgift Foundation has named a new head for Old Palace School: Jane Burton, who will take over the independent girls’ school from September 1. Burton succeeds Carol Jewell, who has been head at the 900-pupil nursery, prep and secondary … Continue reading →

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