All Saints Catholic School was a
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located on Layhams Road,
West Wickham
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London Borough of Bromley
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. Formerly known as 'St. John Rigby Catholic College', its name was changed in 2004 as a rebranding because of falling pupil numbers and substantial debts following the departure of former headmistress
Colleen McCabe.
The site was originally a teacher training college before opening as a school in 1979. It was an amalgamation of the former St Joseph's School for Boys, Orpington, itself a former Victorian orphanage, now a housing estate opposite Orpington Hospital and a girls' school.
Mr. Tranter was the first Deputy Headmaster.
The site is now being developed for housing .
Fraud and closure
Colleen McCabe was convicted in 2003 of stealing around £500,000 from her school over a period from 1994 to 1999, which she spent lavishly both on herself and on gifts for her friends. The story was the subject of the 2006
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, ''The Thieving Headmistress'' Money was diverted away from the school's budget resulting in the children being without books in a dirty, unheated school. The fraud was only detected when the school's
. McCabe was sentenced to five years in prison.
After a consultation period, in April 2006 Bromley Council approved the proposal to close the school with effect from August 2007.