Enfield County School

Community school in Enfield, London, England

Former nameEnfield Chace SchoolWebsitehttp://www.enfieldcs.enfield.sch.uk/

Enfield County is a girls' comprehensive school which was once created as Enfield Chace School in 1967, following the amalgamation of Enfield County School, which had been a girls' grammar school, with Chace Girls School, a secondary modern school. The amalgamated school readopted the name Enfield County School in 1987.

In 2018 the School adopted the name Enfield County School for Girls.

Admissions

It is situated directly in the middle of Enfield, slightly to the north of the town centre, equidistant between the two railway stations, near St Andrew's Enfield.

History

Former schools

The original Enfield County School had been opened in 1909, becoming Enfield County Grammar School for Girls, which had around 850 girls. It was administered by Middlesex County Council Education Committee (Borough of Enfield). Chace Girls School had been formed in 1962 as a girls' secondary modern school from the senior girls department at Lavender School. Both were well-established girls' schools, each with a long tradition of high achievement and academic excellence, according to the current Headteacher, Ms. J. Gumbrell.^[1]

Comprehensive

It became the comprehensive girls' Enfield Chace School in 1967, changing to its current name in 1987. In 2005 the school was designated a specialist school for languages.

Former teachers

Jill Paton Walsh (nee Bliss) CBE, author (taught English from 1959 to 1962 at the grammar school)

Campus

The buildings are a blend of solid Edwardian, post war and 1990s "design-build". The lower school in Rosemary Avenue, which was the former Chace Girls School, houses years 7, 8 and 9; at fourteen years of age students transfer to the upper school in Holly Walk (former grammar school), about a mile away in the centre of the old town of Enfield, London. After Enfield Court in Baker Street was purchased to accommodate the lower school of Enfield Grammar School in 1942, the first year pupils of the previous girls' grammar school, Enfield County School, shared it with the first year pupils of Enfield Grammar for a few years.

Traditions

At first, the school motto, which was incorporated in the school badge, was Onward Ever, which had previously been the motto of the grammar school in the amalgamation. This was later changed to Learning: it's at the heart of everything we do.

Notable former pupils

Enfield County School

Keisha White, singer
Jaime Winstone, actress
Lois Winstone,^[2] actress
Ash Sarkar, journalist and activist
Lola Olufemi,^[3] writer
Jasmine Blackborow, actress and voiceover artist

Enfield County Grammar School for Girls

Joyce Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St Johns (née Clarke), Conservative politician, former shadow Chief Whip
Olive Banks (née Davies), historian of feminism
Geraldine McCaughrean, author
Dame Helen Metcalf (née Pitt), former headteacher from 1998 to 2001 of Chiswick Community School, and former Islington Labour councillor
Frances Perry (née Everett) MBE, horticulture author and broadcaster, and wife of Roy Hay (horticulturist)
Nancy Tait, health campaigner^[4]
Brenda Bruce actress

References

^ Headteacher Archived 2007-08-23 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2007-11-20
^ Lois Winstone at IMDb
^ "I'm proud my daughter took on Cambridge for its 'colonial curriculum'". Evening Standard. 27 October 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
^ "Obituary: Nancy Tait". 23 February 2009.

External links

Enfield County School official site
A detailed history of Education in Enfield at British History Online
Moving Here - The immigration story of Grete Rudkin (born Glauber), who attended Enfield County School

Schools and colleges in the London Borough of Enfield

Primary schools