Category Archives: Trinity School

South London duo included in England’s World Cup final team

Posted on October 31, 2019 by

There will be two players in England’s team for Saturday’s Rugby World Cup final in Japan who learned the game on the playing fields of south London. But when Elliot Daly runs out at Yokohama alongside prop forward Kyle Sinkler … Continue reading →

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Butcher: England should put their ‘batting brute’ Roy in at No3

Posted on July 10, 2019 by

Surrey’s Jason Roy should be in the England Test team’s top order for the Ashes series and has a hugely important role in tomorrow’s World Cup semi-final against Australia. That’s the view of Mark Butcher, the former Surrey and England … Continue reading →

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Whitgift Foundation is going for a Burton at Old Palace

Posted on January 29, 2019 by

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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After 65 years, MidWives could deliver club with new name

Posted on January 22, 2019 by

There is a meeting tomorrow night at one of the area’s biggest rugby clubs, Old Mid-Whitgiftian RFC, to discuss changing the club’s name. The rugby club proposal comes a mere 65 years since the old boys’ school changed its name … Continue reading →

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Trinity is named in country’s top eight independent schools

Posted on November 20, 2018 by

Trinity School in Shirley Park has been shortlisted for the Independent School of the Year award by the Times Educational Supplement. The £17,500-a-year private school, part of the Whitgift Foundation, is one of eight named on the shortlist for the … Continue reading →

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Win a pair of free tickets to top-class Croydon Proms concert

Posted on June 26, 2018 by

Inside Croydon is delighted to announce another great prize competition, this time exclusively for the website’s growing band of supporters. The lucky winner will get two free tickets – worth £30 – to attend the Trinity Proms Concert at Trinity … Continue reading →

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Trinity Proms, in aid of CLIC Sargent, Shirley Park, Jul 7

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Trinity Boys’ Choir plays starring part in West End opera

Posted on March 8, 2018 by

The Trinity Boys’ Choir has been receiving rave reviews again, this time on stage with the English National Opera. BELLA BARTOCK, our arts correspondent, used her freedom pass to go ‘up West’ It is a sign of Trinity School’s decades-long … Continue reading →

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Tory minister Barwell chooses £16,650 private school for son

Posted on June 6, 2017 by

WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, on a piece of information that Croydon Central’s MP of the past seven years didn’t want you to know A possible reason for gaffe-prone Gavin Barwell’s reluctance to engage with Croydon’s voters over the plight … Continue reading →

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Veteran Labour figure calls for CEO Negrini to be dismissed

Posted on May 5, 2017 by

A senior figure in the Croydon Labour Party has called for the immediate dismissal of the council’s chief executive, Jo Negrini. Adrian Dennis, who was made a Freeman of Croydon for his 25 years service as a local councillor in … Continue reading →

Posted in 2017 General Election, Gavin Barwell, Jo Negrini, Thornton Heath, Trinity School, Whitgift Foundation | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Croydon school choir helps to make a Fantastic soundtrack

Posted on November 26, 2016 by

A school choir based in Shirley has provided their vocal skills for the soundtrack to  Fantastic Beasts, the latest movie based on the work of JK Rowling. Opening in cinemas last weekend, the new box office hit Fantastic Beasts and … Continue reading →

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Croydon schoolboy is rewarded for his Peake performances

Posted on August 4, 2016 by

A pupil from a Croydon school has just had an out-of-this-world experience, meeting British astronaut Tim Peake at a reception in No 10 Downing Street. Michael Eagling, 15, was invited to the event, hosted by Prime Minister Theresa May, after … Continue reading →

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Stellar season sees Trinity shortlisted for rugby award

Posted on August 2, 2016 by

RUGBY ROUND-UP: Trinity School has been shortlisted as the Rugby School of the Year at a set of awards which recognise outstanding contribution to the sport. The National Rugby Awards will take place at Twickenham on September 1 and the … Continue reading →

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‘Utterly superfluous’ Barwell could face early test as minister

Posted on July 22, 2016 by

Inside Croydon editor STEVEN DOWNES on the multi-tasking tests, and moral challenges on his home patch, which are facing Croydon’s Government minister for housing, planning and London A bit of polite name-calling is all part of the cut and thrust … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Andrew Pelling, Business, Centrale, CPO, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell, Housing, Mayor of London, Planning, Property, Sadiq Khan, Trinity School, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

MP Barwell’s political future is left waiting for a call from May

Posted on July 14, 2016 by

Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, reports from near Downing Street on a big day for some political ambitions When Theresa May stood outside No 10 Downing Street last night and spoke of the disadvantages in life faced by “white working-class … Continue reading →

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MP Barwell quits Whitgift. Did he jump or was he pushed?

Posted on May 20, 2015 by

More than four years after Inside Croydon started an often lonely campaign for Gavin Barwell, the MP for Croydon Central, to quit his position as a governor of the Whitgift Foundation because of potential conflicts of interest with his public … Continue reading →

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Testy Tory Philp refuses to answer property questions

Posted on April 29, 2015 by

Appearing less “lively” by the day, WALTER CRONXITE reports from what he claims is his 18th hustings of the election campaign so far, this time in Croydon South “Mind your own business.” That was the extraordinary response at last night’s … Continue reading →

Posted in 2015 General Election, Chris Philp MP, Coulsdon, Croydon Greens, Croydon South, Emily Benn, Gill Hickson, Jon Bigger, Kathleen Garner, Peter Underwood, Richard Ottaway MP, Schools, Trinity School | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Education spokeswoman joins Letts on Whitgift board

Posted on September 12, 2014 by

An overwhelming 81 per cent of respondents in Inside Croydon’s latest online poll believe that veteran Labour councillor Tony Letts should resign her position on the board of governors of the Whitgift Foundation to avoid conflicts of interest in her … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Alisa Flemming, Allders, Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Dudley Mead, Education, Emily Benn, Gavin Barwell, Margaret Mead, Old Palace, Property, Sarah Jones MP, Schools, Toni Letts, Tony Newman, Trinity School, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Croydon Tory MP chooses Sutton grammar school for his son

Posted on September 9, 2014 by

GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, delivers another exclusive report which reflects badly on the real standards of schools in our borough There is not a secondary school in the whole of Croydon that is good enough for the son of … Continue reading →

Posted in 2015 General Election, Chris Philp MP, Clare Hilley, Croydon Central, Education, Emily Benn, Gavin Barwell, Old Palace, Sarah Jones MP, Schools, Sutton Council, Trinity School, West Thornton, Whitgift School | Tagged , , , , , , | 8 Comments

Time for thorough ethical review of Croydon’s governance

Posted on May 31, 2014 by

 CROYDON COMMENTARY: The nexus of connections that have been developed between the local authority – of whatever political hue – and vested interests in the borough makes it long overdue for a review of proper governance, says CHARLOTTE DAVIES The … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Art, Ashcroft Theatre, Bishop of Croydon, Business, Care Homes, Croydon Commitment, Croydon Council, CVA, Dudley Mead, Fairfield Halls, Gavin Barwell, George Ayres, Housing, Jason Perry, Jo Negrini, Lynne Hale, Margaret Mead, Planning, Property, Riesco Collection, Timothy Godfrey, Toni Letts, Trinity School, URV, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 12 Comments

Addiscombe teacher’s tale of Hastings Banda attracts plaudits

Posted on May 15, 2014 by

Among the four plays in the final of the International Playwriting Festival being staged at the Fairfield Halls this weekend is a new piece called Ngwasi, written by a science teacher at Trinity School, David Klempner. Born in Cape Town, … Continue reading →

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Council pays public money to private school for election count

Posted on May 1, 2014 by

Croydon’s Tory-run council is to pay thousands of pounds of tax-payers’ money to a wealthy private school to use its halls for the election count later this month, instead of using its own buildings, like the £140 million “Fisher’s Folly” … Continue reading →

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Rigourous? Gaffe-in Barwell gets in a spell of trouble

Posted on February 14, 2014 by

Oh dear. Michael Gove, the education secretary, will be displeased. Standards must be maintained, after all. Will he order gaffe-prone Gavin to stay behind for detention, or tell him to write  200 lines (“I must not make myself look like … Continue reading →

Posted in 2015 General Election, Croydon Central, Education, Gavin Barwell, Schools, Trinity School, Whitgift School | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Charity reform required to alter Foundation’s influence

Posted on December 23, 2013 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: At the weekend, Susan Oliver asked: what is the real role in Croydon of the multi-million pound Whitgift Foundation, the owners of much of the land being redeveloped as part of the £1bn Hammersfield scheme? Here, DAVID CALLAM … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Care Homes, Charity, Church and religions, David Callam, Dudley Mead, Education, Gavin Barwell, History, Margaret Mead, Old Palace, Property, Schools, Trinity School, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift School | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

Lanfranc is latest Croydon school in fear of academisation

Posted on December 14, 2013 by

GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, wades through the morass of educational half-truths to investigate why private education is quite so popular in Croydon This week’s latest Ofsted tables of school performance by borough showed that Greater London performed especially well. … Continue reading →

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