Category Archives: Alasdair Kennedy

£40m Trinity School expansion given planning green light

Posted on May 2, 2026 by insidecroydon

The council’s planning committee has given a green light to a £40million development to expand Trinity School in Shirley Park to ready the independent boys’ school to go fully co-educational by 2031. The scheme is the first major re-build since … Continue reading →

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Trinity submits planning application for £40m co-ed conversion

Posted on February 11, 2026 by insidecroydon

Less than a year after announcing the £30,000 a year fee-paying school would start offering places to girls, plans have gone in for works that will see its expansion to 1,400 pupils. By STEVEN DOWNES Plans for a £40million extension … Continue reading →

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Secondaries celebrate as ‘covid bubble’ pupils pass GCSEs

Posted on August 22, 2025 by insidecroydon

For the 15- and 16-year-olds who began their secondary school careers with a year or more spent in a covid “bubble”, yesterday’s GCSE results will have come as a form of vindication, and relief. Covid and its aftermath had sent … Continue reading →

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Old Palace pupils deliver improved grades in school’s final year

Posted on August 14, 2025 by insidecroydon

It was a poignant A-Level results day in Croydon Old Town, where the last cadre of pupils in Old Palace School’s 136-year history received the news that could shape their adult lives. Old Palace of John Whitgift formally closed its … Continue reading →

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Trinity boys’ school confirms that it will go co-ed from 2027

Posted on April 28, 2025 by insidecroydon

EXCLUSIVE: Almost two years since the Whitgift Foundation shocked the Croydon community by deciding to close its fee-paying girls’ school, Old Palace, the charity has decided to re-balance its education provision by converting one of its other large independent schools … Continue reading →

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