Whitgift School
Whitgift School is an independent day school for 1,200 boys aged 10 to 18 in South Croydon, London in a parkland setting.
History and Area
The school was founded in 1596 by the Archbishop of Canterbury John Whitgift and is part of the Whitgift Foundation with Trinity School of John Whitgift and Old Palace School of John Whitgift.
1931 the school moved to its present location Haling Park, the former home of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, the Lord High Admiral of the fleet against the Spanish Armada. A model of the HMS Ark Royal, the clear at the top of the " big school " ( the auditorium ) can be seen, is a reminder of the history of the place. Attachments for the 400th anniversary of the school are a maze in the garden of the founder, a bird house, a housing for red squirrels, lakes and a sports complex.
Whitgift is in the area with its variety of animals, especially the peacocks that adorn the plant since the 1930s, famous. In 2005 David Attenborough visited the school to open up the lakes in the surrounding areas also two albino wallabies are ( a gift from the Queen, as in 2002, the lakes were opened again), and a variety of water birds, including Hawaiian Geese the zoo has successfully bred.
Education
Since 2005, at the Whitgift the International Baccalaureate, offered for the sixth grade as an alternative to A-Levels.
School management
- Christopher A Barnett
Famous graduates
- Stafford Beer, Cybernetics expert, entrepreneur and author
- Peter Bourne, physician, anthropologist, biographer, author and international civil servant
- Derren Brown, illusionist
- Danny Cipriani, rugby players
- Tom White, National 1 Rugby
- Lord Diplock, judge and Law Lord
- Robert Dougall, BBC newsreader and president of the Royal Society for Protection of Birds ( RSPB)