Aveling Park School was a mixed secondary school situated on Aveling Park Road,
Walthamstow
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which educated up to 600 pupils. In the early 1970s it was called William Fitt Junior High School and was a feeder school to McEntee, Walthamstow Girls, and Sir George Monoux Senior High Schools. William Fitt Secondary Modern School moved from its temporary site (shared with Winns Avenus Junior School) in Elphinstone Road, to the new purpose built school building in Lloyds Park in September 1962. The Headteacher at the time was Mr G R Easton. The school's motto was "Semper Aptus" ('Always Fit' or 'Always Prepared')
Notable ex-pupils include
Cartrain
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,
choreographer Matthew Bourne and footballers
Teddy Sheringham
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,
Colin Kazim-Richards
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and
Chris Day
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.
Aveling Park was created from the merging of William Fitt and Chapel End Senior School at the start of the 1986 school year. Although the two schools merged, the sites were retained and known as their respective previous names until the demolition of the old Victorian Chapel End school building some years later.
In September 2008, Aveling Park School merged with the
Warwick School for Boys
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to form a new school on the site of the former
Hawker Siddeley
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factory in Fulborne Road. The new school is known as the
Frederick Bremer School
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[Haringey Council School Place Planning Report 2007, page 83, July 2007]
http://www.haringey.gov.uk/school_place_planning_report.pdf
(retrieved 18 February 2008, 19:00)
Notes
Defunct schools in the London Borough of Waltham Forest
Educational institutions disestablished in 2008
2008 disestablishments in England
Walthamstow
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