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St Saviour's and St Olave's Church of England School is a
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and
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for girls located on
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near
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, in the
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, England. It is a
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school in the
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and is affiliated to the
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group.


History

The school was founded in 1903 as a girls' grammar school to complement
St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School St. Olave's Grammar School (formally St. Olave's and St. Saviour's Church of England Grammar School) ( or ) is a selective secondary school for boys in Orpington, Greater London, England. Founded by royal charter in 1571, the school occupied sev ...
for boys, after the Charity Commissioners had required that girls in the area should be afforded some equality of education, and the Governors of the joint foundation agreed to use their endowment to provide this. Both schools are beneficiaries of the charitable St Olave's and St Saviour's Schools Foundation, which in turn is a beneficiary of
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, successor to the historic
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charity. (See also
St Saviour's Grammar School St Saviour's Grammar School was a free grammar school for boys located in the borough of Southwark, south of the River Thames in London, England. It existed as a separate entity from 1559 until 1896, when it was amalgamated with St Olave's Gra ...
, and
St Olave's Grammar School St. Olave's Grammar School (formally St. Olave's and St. Saviour's Church of England Grammar School) ( or ) is a selective secondary school for boys in Orpington, Greater London, England. Founded by royal charter in 1571, the school occupied sev ...
.) On examination of the separate governing instruments of the two ancient
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s which had merged a few years before, it was clear that St Olave's purpose to educate "boys", while that of St Saviour's was to do so for "younglings". St Olave's governors had already set up a 'Girls School Fund' but the Dulwich and St Saviour's endowment was vital to realise this proposal. It was therefore proposed to set up a new girls' school, to be called 'St Saviour's and St Olave's Grammar School for Girls'. A local landowner, Lord Llangattock, was approached to provide a site, and this new part of the educational foundation was opened in 1903 at the present New Kent Road site. Two small parish schools and old endowment, for St Thomas (the 'May Feast Society') and St John's girls schools, were combined into it. The school ceased to be a
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in the
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reorganisation of the 1960s. A new chapel was consecrated by the
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in 1999. In 2001
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, while Prime Minister, announced that year's General Election while on a visit to the New Kent Road site. For the celebration of the centenary of the school in 2003, HM Queen Elizabeth visited it and unveiled a commemorative piece of
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.


Present day

The school remains a semi-independent
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voluntary aided school. The similar names for the girls' and boys' schools and the educational foundation sometimes cause confusion, but when a proposal to rename the girls' school simply 'St Saviour's' was made it was unwelcome. Nevertheless, the "old girls'" association call themselves the 'Salvatorians', while the old boys of St Olave's are known as 'Old Olavians'. The school holds its annual Commemoration Service at the ancient
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, now known as
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.


Notable former pupils

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References


Further reading

* Carrington, R. C. ''Two Schools: A History of the St. Olave's and St. Saviour's Grammar School Foundation'' (London: The Governors of the St. Olave's and St. Saviour's Grammar School Foundation, 1971). *Humphrey, Stephen, ''Southwark, Bermondsey and Rotherhithe'' in the series Britain in Old Photographs (Stroud, Gloucestershire:
Alan Sutton Publishing The History Press is a British publishing company specialising in the publication of titles devoted to local and specialist history. It claims to be the United Kingdom's largest independent publisher in this field, publishing approximately 300 ...
, 1995), pp. 65, 126.


External links


St Saviour's and St Olave's Church of England School websiteProfile at Direct.gov
{{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Saviour's and St Olave's Church of England School Girls' schools in London Woodard Schools Secondary schools in the London Borough of Southwark Church of England secondary schools in the Diocese of Southwark Voluntary aided schools in London Educational institutions established in 1903 1903 establishments in England