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Category Archives: Whitgift School
Charity Commission alerted to problems at Whitgift Foundation
CROYDON IN CRISIS: No chief exec in place for 12 months, accounts later than usual to be filed, and £50m wiped off its funds in five years. Now the borough’s biggest landowners are subject to a formal complaint to regulators. … Continue reading
Posted in Bishop of Croydon, Business, Charity, Education, Old Palace, Old Palace Parents' Alliance, Rosemarie Mallett, Schools, Stiles Harold Williams, Trinity School, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
Tagged Charity Commission, Charity Commission for England and Wales, Croydon, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Old Palace of John Whitgift School, Old Palace Parents Alliance, Old Palace Prep School, Old Palace School, Sarah Jones MP, Trinity School, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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Raman Subba Row: OW who saved Surrey and changed cricket
There will be a strange, sad, empty space on a bench near the boundary of the Old Whitgiftians’ Croham Road cricket ground in South Croydon this summer. It is a spot where Raman Subba Row used to sit in the … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Surrey CCC, Whitgift School
Tagged cricket, Croham Road, ECB, Jim Laker, Lord's, MCC, Old Whitgiftians, OWs, Peter May, Raman Subba Row, South Croydon, Streatham, Surrey, Surrey CCC, Surrey County Cricket Club, TCCB, Test and County Cricket Board, The Oval, Whitgift School
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Seth to start as Whitgift School’s new headmaster from 2025
Toby Seth is to take over as headmaster of Whitgift School, it has been announced. The financially challenged Whitgift Foundation, Croydon’s biggest landowners, made the announcement at lunchtime today, with Seth to take charge from September 2025. The Foundation and … Continue reading
16-year-old Whitgift pupil’s death is linked to text blackmail
‘The world is so cruel’: boy’s father tells Coroner’s Court of family’s pain after latest tragic case The John Whitgift Foundation, a registered charity which has been providing alms and education in Croydon since the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, … Continue reading
Posted in Christopher Ramsey, Crime, Schools, South Croydon, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
Tagged Archbishop of Canterbury, Catfishing, Child sexual abuse, Christopher Ramsey, Croydon, Dinal De Alwis, Dr Kevin Ralley, Metropolitan Police, Paul Dodd, Sexual abuse, South Croydon, South London Coroner's Court, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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Police investigated child abuse claims at Whitgift last year
The Met has confirmed that they followed up complaints about sexual abuse at the £47,000 per year boys’ private school, after pictures and messages were shared on social media, which may have contributed to the suicide of a former teacher. … Continue reading
Posted in Christopher Ramsey, Crime, Schools, South Croydon, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
Tagged Child sexual abuse, Christopher Ramsey, Croydon, Dr Kevin Ralley, Metropolitan Police, Paul Dodd, Sexual abuse, South Croydon, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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Head Ramsey’s exit a ‘shame for school’ admits Foundation
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Borough’s biggest landowners begin search for new head for £24,000 per year private school. By STEVEN DOWNES The shock announcement of the departure of Chris Ramsey as Whitgift’s headmaster is “a great shame for the school”, according … Continue reading
Another Whitgift shock as second head teacher decides to quit
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
Posted in "Hammersfield", Christopher Ramsey, Education, Jane Burton, Old Palace, Schools, South Croydon, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
Tagged Christopher Ramsey, Croydon, Haling Park, Hammersfield, Old Palace, Old Palace of John Whitgift School, South Croydon, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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Foundation abandoned new school plan after taking £70m loan
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
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Education, Jane Burton, Old Palace, Schools, Trinity School, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
Tagged Christopher Houlding, Croydon, Hammersfield, Jane Burton, Old Palace School, Old Town, Trinity School, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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Old Palace parents threaten legal action over school closure
CROYDON IN CRISIS: With accusations of ‘sexist and misogynistic behaviour’ and even a claim of ‘fraud’ against the financially troubled property developers at the Whitgift Foundation, the fight to save the girls’ independent school has taken a new turn. EXCLUSIVE … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Charity, Community associations, Education, Old Palace, Schools, Trinity School, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
Tagged Christopher Houlding, Croydon, Old Palace of John Whitgift School, Old Palace Parents Alliance, Old Palace School, Old Town, Trinity School, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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Parents take their fight to school gates to save Old Palace
Parents of pupils at Old Palace – from nursery, through primary and into secondary – turned out in Shirley yesterday morning to protest at what they see as the arbitrary unfairness of the plans to close their school. As first … Continue reading
Old Palace parents cancel protest in respect for murdered girl
A campaign launched less than a week ago to fight for the future of Old Palace School has cancelled plans to stage a protest tonight, out of respect for the schoolgirl murdered in Croydon yesterday. Elianne Andam, the 15-year-old who … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Education, Old Palace, Old Palace Parents' Alliance, Schools, Trinity School, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
Tagged Croydon, Croydon schoolgril murder, Elianne Andam, murder, Old Palace of John Whitgift School, Old Palace Parents Alliance, Old Palace School, OPPA, Trinity School, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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Old Palace head announced retirement days before new term
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
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Education, Jane Burton, Old Palace, Schools, Trinity School, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
Tagged Croydon, Hammersfield, Jane Burton, Martin Corney, Old Palace School, Old Town, Trinity School, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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Falling rolls and rising fees: how Old Palace got squeezed
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
Former Whitgift teacher given 4-year sentence for child abuse
A former teacher at Whitgift School was yesterday given a four-year prison sentence for abusing boys at the private school in the 1980s. The school could now face a class action legal case brought on behalf of three victims because … Continue reading
‘Counts finish on the up as clubs struggle with league shuffle
RUGBY ROUND-UP: The RFU’s league reorganisation has taken a heavy toll on clubs in and around Croydon these past few months. JOHNNY DOBBYN, right, provides the end-of-season report, and discovers some worrying developments down Croham Manor Road Walcountians ended the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Croydon RFC, John Fisher School, Old Mid-Whitgiftians/Trinity RFC, Old Walcountians, Old Whitgiftians, Purley-John Fisher, Rugby Union, Sport, Streatham-Croydon RFC, Warlingham RFC, Whitgift School
Tagged Alex Dombrandt, John Fisher School, Johnny Dobbyn, Kieran Treadwell, Old Walcountians, Old Whitgiftians, Purley-John Fisher, RFU, Rugby Football Union, Streatham and Croydon RFC, Trinity RFC, Warlingham RFC, Whitgift School
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Trinity roar their way into second Twickenham cup final
A Croydon school features in the showpiece finale to the rugby season for the fourth time in succession, with their three England call-ups bidding to retain the RFU Schools Cup. Semi-final photos by LEO WILKINSON Trinity are back in Twickenham … Continue reading
Trinity School goes to top of the class in post-pandemic exams
Single-sex selective schools shine in the annual Sunday Times schools rankings, in which the highest Croydon state school is rated only 186th Trinity, the £20,000 per year boys’ school at Shirley Park, has been rated the top school in Croydon, … Continue reading
Posted in Coloma, Education, Kingston, London-wide issues, Old Palace, Schools, Southwark Council, Sutton Council, Trinity School, Whitgift School
Tagged Coloma Convent Girls' School, Croydon, London, Old Palace School, Sunday Times, Sutton, Trinity School, Wallington, Wallington County Grammar School, Whitgift School, Wilson's
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Trinity defend their title in game of the season with Harrow
They are calling it “the game of the season”, and they are not referring to a soccer game being played against the French in the desert on Saturday. Today at 2.15pm will see one of the most-awaited clashes in the … Continue reading
Posted in John Fisher School, Rugby Union, Schools, Sport, Trinity School, Whitgift School
Tagged Harrow, John Fisher School, Trinity, Trinity School, Wallington CGS, Whitgift
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The Victorian tax master who made Haling Cottage his home
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: A badly worn gravestone, now used to pave a walk way outside the Minster, provides DAVID MORGAN with the first clues to a family history of eminent 19th Century lawyers Uncovering the stories behind the names found on … Continue reading
Posted in Church and religions, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History, Whitgift School
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, Thomas Dax
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Minster choir hits right notes alongside Abbey and St Paul’s
Croydon Minster’s choirs have been named among some of the best-known singing groups from cathedrals around the country as recipients of a special grant in recognition of their outstanding work and performances. The Cathedral Music Trust has named Croydon Minster … Continue reading
Choong’s Olympic gold burnished on playing fields of Croydon
Whitgift School can now add Olympic gold to the long list of sporting achievements of its former pupils, after Joe Choong won the men’s modern pentathlon at the Tokyo Games yesterday. Whitgift has long been a nurturing ground for outstanding … Continue reading
Posted in Athletics, South Croydon, Sport, Swimming, Whitgift School
Tagged 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, Croydon, Joe Choong, South Croydon, Whitgift School
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Whitgift old boy aiming to knock England out of Euro2020
Twelve months ago, there was a decent chance that a sporting prodigy that had enjoyed coaching and schooling at Whitgift in South Croydon might play a part in the Euro2020 tournament, as Callum Hudson-Odoi was making progress as an attacking … Continue reading
Posted in Football, Schools, South Croydon, Sport, Whitgift School
Tagged Callum Hudson-Odoi, Jamal Musiala, South Croydon, Whitgift School
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Whitgift Foundation sows the seeds of a green revival
The Whitgift Foundation, Croydon’s biggest landowners and the operators of three large fee-paying schools, has launched an ambitious borough-wide gardening project to inspire residents to shrug off lockdown, dust off the trowels and get green-fingered as we spring into spring. … Continue reading
Whitgift School offers tributes to former head David Raeburn
A private family funeral service is to be held at 3pm this afternoon for David Raeburn, a former headmaster at Whitgift School and Oxford University academic. Raeburn died at Abingdon Hospital on February 1. He was 93 years old. He … Continue reading
Posted in Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
Tagged David Raeburn, Whitgift School
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