The Sanders Draper School is a mixed-gender

secondary school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ...

for students aged between 11 and 16 located in

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, UK. In September 2018 Mr Brooks took over as Headteacher and the school joined Success For All Educational Trust (SFAET) and so worked in partnership with Redden Court and Royal Liberty. The school will be reverting to its historic name of Sanders Draper in September 2021, this followed the drive for this from Headteacher Mr Brooks and Success For All Educational Trust. The school is very keen to celebrate its history and has implemented a house system based on celebrating Havering heroes and the local community have voted on which of the 13 heroes will become the 5 house names.

History

The school was opened as Suttons Modern Secondary School in 1937. It was built to provide educational facilities for between 950 and 1,100 students. It originally housed boys and girls in different departments with the boys on the southern edge, eventually running as two separate school establishments (one for boys and the other for girls) in 1945. The two "establishments" were amalgamated as one mixed school in 1953.British History online, excerpt from "A History of the County of Essex: Volume 7"
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, Flying Officer

Raimund Sanders Draper Flying Officer Raimund Sanders Draper (27 December 1913 – 24 March 1943) was a Royal Air Force Fighter Command pilot who gained fame in 1943 after dying in an aircraft crash in Hornchurch, Essex. He was the son of activist Muriel Draper and th ...

deliberately crashed his Spitfire to avoiding hitting the school, after engine failure on take-off from

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. In 1973 the school was renamed in his honour to Sanders Draper School. In 2014 the Headteacher (John McEachern) made the decision to change the schools name to Sanders School The school will be reverting to its rightful name of Sanders Draper in September 2021 following the drive for this from the Headteacher Stuart Brooks, SFAET. There was full support from the local community and ex students for this change which is part of the introduction of a new House system which celebrates Havering heroes and the school's rich history.

References

External links

Sanders School Official Website

Success For All Educational TrustHornchurch Aerodrome Historical Trust

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