William Ellis School is a

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for boys located in

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, England.

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The School is located near Hampstead Heath. It is situated just east of

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and north of

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. It is next to

Parliament Hill School Parliament Hill School is a secondary school for girls with a mixed sixth form located in the London Borough of Camden, Borough of Camden in City of London, London, England. In 2013, there were 1,250 students on roll, between the ages of 11 and ...

, a girls' school. Up to 10% of places are offered to boys with an aptitude for music as determined by a music aptitude test.

History

Origins

The school's founder, William Ellis (not to be confused with the inventor of rugby football,

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) was a public-spirited businessman. In the mid-19th century, Ellis founded a number of schools and inspired many teachers to promote his educational ideas. Ellis wanted children to be taught "useful" subjects such as science (including "

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"), and to develop the faculty of reason; this was in contrast to the learning by rote of religious

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s, ancient languages and history, characteristic of many schools at the time. William Ellis School is the only one of these schools which now remains.

Foundation and development (1862-1937)

The school was established in 1862 at

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, and was originally known as the Gospel Oak Schools. It catered for both girls and boys of a wide age range. In 1889, the Gospel Oak Schools were reconstituted as a boys' secondary school, under the headmastership of E.B. Cumberland.

Move to current site and grammar school years (1937-1978)

At this time, the school displayed characteristics of traditional public schools, such as a

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; a prefect system (with prefects wearing gowns when on duty); a

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; and playing

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rather than

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as the school sport.

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was strictly observed, with blazer colours and ties indicating Junior School, Middle School, Sixth Form and prefects; and blazers and ties could only be removed in the summer if the weather was pronounced “Officially Hot”. It combined these traditional features with liberal educational developments such as School Committees, in which pupils discussed and helped determine aspects of school policy. Classes in each Form were labelled G, L and M (rather than A, B and C) to avoid any suggestion of rank or streaming. The school ran its lessons on an unusual six-day timetable, so that if a Monday were Day One, the following Monday would be Day Six of the timetable, and Day One’s academic timetable would fall on the Tuesday. This provided a rotation of lessons, so that unpopular items did not always fall upon the same weekday; it also allocated a Day for the sports activities of each Form, from First to Sixth, which again did not always fall upon the same weekday. It was a matter of pride that pupils could master the Six Day timetable, and remember over weekends and vacations the Day upon which the School would recommence. The school also had a Combined Cadet Force with army and RAF sections. The CCF Hut on the periphery of the school playground nearest Parliament Hill Fields house a stores for uniforms etc., an armoury with chained very elderly Lee Enfield .303 rifles, and one .22 target rifle, rumour having it that on one occasion when recalibrating the sights the then armoured in a curious accident fired a live round from the target rifle. Sighting through the hole in the asbestos cement walls appears to have shown that the bullet may have passed between two young girls seated on the grass. Around 1955 two young teachers who'd qualified during or as a result of a 3 year short service contract in the Education Corps resigned to return to Army service in the Greenjackets, causing something of a concern. Although the adjacent Parliament Hill Fields and Kenwood were used for cross country runs, Rugby and Cricket activities were held at the School's extensive playing fields in Edgware, some seven miles away. Pupils at least between 1951 and 1955 walked to Belsize Park Underground and thence to Edgware by train holding cardboard tickets, later would be ferried to and from the fields by coach on their appointed games afternoon.

The shift to comprehensive status (1978 onwards)

Much ingenuity had gone into extending and converting the building to provide the additional classrooms and specialist accommodation required by the post-war grammar school's large sixth form. However, the school's relatively small size meant that it was not capable of becoming either an independent, or a full comprehensive school, at the point when the state withdrew funding from direct grant grammar schools. An option of the school going independent was discussed. In March 1977, a group of parents tried to get a High Court injunction to stop the governors changing its grammar school status, organised by Dudley Stanley Fox. With the provision of better facilities for the national curriculum and for

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the School became fully comprehensive in the years after 1978. The Queen visited the school on 7 November 1979.

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, the previous school governor, sent both her sons to the school.

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have also sent their sons to the school.

Recent history (1990-present)

From 1990 the School gained greater autonomy under the Local Management of Schools scheme, and spent a devolved budget of over £13 million per year for its 1000 pupils. In 1997 the school earned

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status under the Specialist School Scheme. In line with this specialist status, the school requires students to study at least two languages in Key Stage 3, with a requirement for at least one to be taken at GCSE level. Languages on offer include French, German, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Russian and Bengali. In addition, the school employs a number of native-speaking language specialists, who work with students throughout the school, but particularly in coaching GCSE and A-Level candidates in advance of oral language exams. The schools

was removed in 2011, and cutbacks in the languages department have been made, in terms of staff members and language teaching time. In January 2008, it was revealed that the school was in financial difficulty, following a dispute between the school and the local authority concerning a new central heating system. Consequently, the incumbent headmaster R.J. Tanton stepped down from his position. J.M. Rose (who had begun his career at the school in the 1970s, and was now Director of the Sixth Form consortium) was appointed Acting Headmaster. The previous Headmaster, Sam White, formerly Deputy Headmaster of the

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, took up his position in September 2011, and is due to leave at the end of the 2019-20 school year. The current Headmaster is Izzy Jones

Headmasters since 1862

*Edward Teather 1862-1889 *Edward Boyce Cumberland 1889-1919 (First Headmaster of the reconstituted school) **F. G. Firth (Acting 1917-1918) *Major William Hathaway Davis, DSO, MC, MA *Edgar Paul Jewitt (Acting 1928-1929) *Dr. Thomas Crockett MA,

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(Edin) 1929-1942 **Albert Edward Ball (Headmaster of North London Emergency Secondary School for Boys 1940-1945) *Edmund Richard Martin (Acting 1942-1944) *Francis William Lockwood MA(Cantab.) 1944-1953 *Albert Edward Ball (Acting 1953-1954) *Sydney Leonard Baxter MA(Cantab.) 1954-1975 *R. L. Perry MA 1975-1983 *R. K. James MA 1984-1988 *Michael W. Wheale MA 1988-2002 *Richard J. Tanton BA 2002-2008 *James Malcolm Rose BA (acting) 2008 *Robert J. Cathcart

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2008-2010 *Jill Hislop (interim) 2010–2011 *Sam White 2011–2020 *Izzy Jones 2020–present (Oxon.)

Involvement in the LaSWAP Sixth Form Consortium

William Ellis School has a joint Sixth Form with the adjacent Parliament Hill Girls School, and all classes are coeducational. Together with La Sainte Union Catholic Secondary School and

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they make up the "LaSWAP" consortium for 16–19 education, educating around 1000 students altogether.

Academic performance

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compared to the national average of 29.70%.

Notable former pupils

1978-present (comprehensive school period)

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1862-1978 (early years and grammar school period)

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* Tim Selwood, opening batsman who made 18 appearances for

Middlesex CCC Middlesex County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Middlesex which has effectively been subsumed within the ceremonial ...

Bill Sheils William J. Sheils , known as Bill Sheils, is professor emeritus in history at the University of York and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Sheils is a specialist in the early modern religious and social history of Britain. Education She ...

, Professor of History at the University of York *

Phil Soussan Philip Raphael “Phil” Soussan (born 23 June 1961, London, England) is a British bass guitarist, songwriter and producer who has gained notoriety as a member of a host of famed rock and roll bands, including some who have been frontman, front ...

- musician, songwriter, Bass player of Ozzy Osbourne, Billy Idol and others and previous Vice President of the

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Joe Swift Joseph Samuel Swift (born 25 May 1965) is an English garden designer, journalist and television presenter. Television career Swift is a regular presenter and designer on the BBC's ''Gardeners' World'', co-presenter on the Royal Horticultural So ...

, TV gardener, son of actor

Clive Swift Clive Walter Swift (9 February 1936 – 1 February 2019) was an English actor and songwriter. A classically trained actor, his stage work included performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company, but he was best known to television viewers for ...

(

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) and author Dame Margaret Drabble * Julien Temple, film maker who made the 1980 ''

The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle ''The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle'' is a 1980 British mockumentary film directed by Julien Temple and produced by Don Boyd and Jeremy Thomas. It centres on the British punk rock band Sex Pistols and, most prominently, their manager Malcolm Mc ...

'' * Richard Thompson, singer-songwriter and guitarist with

Fairport Convention Fairport Convention are an English folk rock band, formed in 1967 by guitarists Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol, bassist Ashley Hutchings and drummer Shaun Frater (with Frater replaced by Martin Lamble after their first gig.) They started o ...

* Fred Titmus, England cricketer (53 tests) from 1955–1975,

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in 1963 *

Neil Turok Neil Geoffrey Turok (born 16 November 1958) is a South African physicist. He holds the Higgs Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh since 2020, and has been director emeritus of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physi ...

, Professor of Mathematical Physics from 1996-2008 at the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

, and Director since 2008 of the

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* Prof Bernard Wood FRS, geophysicist, Professor of Earth Sciences from 1989-2005 at the

University of Bristol , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ...

, Professor of Mineralogy at Oxford

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