Tag Archives: Wallington County Grammar School

Walcountians to celebrate Clockhouse’s diamond anniversary

Posted on August 30, 2025 by insidecroydon

One local rugby club will be celebrating a special anniversary next month. Here, OWRFC President STEVE SIMMONDS outlines the plans, recalling the day that a future Lions captain came down to Woodmansterne to help open their clubhouse Wallington County School … Continue reading →

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Trinity School goes to top of the class in post-pandemic exams

Posted on December 14, 2022 by insidecroydon

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 →

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How real-life Indiana Jones put together the Scrolls of antiquity

Posted on November 27, 2022 by insidecroydon

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: The archives at Croydon Minster contain many varied treasures, some of them with links going back to the dawn of civilisation, as DAVID MORGAN discovered Among the many and varied artefacts in the archives at Croydon Minster are … Continue reading →

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Council to approve selective school build on playing fields

Posted on January 19, 2017 by insidecroydon

GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, on a scheme going to Monday’s cabinet meeting for approval for a 1,200-pupil free school to be built close to Lloyd Park Croydon Council is about to become a local planning authority which blocks the … Continue reading →

Posted in Chris Philp MP, Coombe Wood School, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Education, Gavin Barwell, Paul Scott, Planning, Schools, Selsdon & Ballards, South Croydon, Tony Newman | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Croydon Tory MP chooses Sutton grammar school for his son

Posted on September 9, 2014 by insidecroydon

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

Barwell the ‘outsider’ is less attractive online than Galloway

Posted on April 22, 2014 by insidecroydon

It’s not been a good day for Gavin Barwell, the MP for the Whitgift Foundation. First, he discovers that Ladbrokes have him as only second favourite to win the Croydon Central seat at next year’s General Election. And now it … Continue reading →

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Galloway gives pupils a lesson in how politics works

Posted on April 21, 2014 by insidecroydon

Here’s an entertaining video if you have a spare hour this bank holiday. George Galloway’s Respect Party is not – as they undertook to do so 18 months ago – fielding any candidates in Croydon’s local elections next month. The … Continue reading →

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Council fails to do its homework on Croydon GCSE results

Posted on August 27, 2013 by insidecroydon

So how did Croydon’s pupils do in their GCSEs this year? Our education correspondent GENE BRODIE gives Croydon Council an “F” for its efforts in failing to release full results for local schools, when Sutton and other boroughs provided that … Continue reading →

Posted in Addington High, Advance School, Aerodrome Primary, Archbishop Lanfranc, Archbishop Tenison's, BRIT School, Coloma, Croydon Central, Croydon High, Education, Gavin Barwell, John Fisher School, Oasis Academy, Old Palace, Schools, Sutton Council, Trinity School, Whitgift School, Woodcote High | Tagged , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Schoolboys have fund-raising in the bag on Purley Way

Posted on April 19, 2013 by insidecroydon

RUGBY ROUND-UP: Customers at Sainsbury’s, Purley Way, this weekend have the chance to take advantage of some extra special service when it comes to packing up the weekly shop. Dozens of pupils from Wallington County Grammar School will be helping … Continue reading →

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