Enfield County School

Infobox UK school
name = Enfield County School


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motto = Learning: it's at the heart of everything we do
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established = 1967
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type = Comprehensive school
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head_label = Headteacher
head = Pamela Anne Rutherford
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chair_label = Chair of governors
chair = Phyllis Oborn
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specialist = Languages
street = Holly Walk
city = Enfield
county = Middlesex
country = England
postcode = EN2 6QG
phone = 020 83633030
fax = 020 83676569
LEA = Enfield
ofsted = 102048
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enrollment = 1130
gender = Girls
lower_age = 11
upper_age = 18
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colours = bottle Green
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website = http://www.enfieldcs.enfield.sch.uk/
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Enfield County School is a girls' comprehensive school which was originally created as Enfield Chace School in 1967, following the amalgamation of Enfield County School, which had been a girls' grammar school, with Chace Girls School, a secondary modern school. The amalgamated school readopted the name Enfield County School in 1987. In 2005, it was designated a specialist school for languages.

History

The original Enfield County School had been opened in 1909. Chace Girls School had been formed in 1962 as a girls' secondary modern school from the senior girls department at Lavender School. Both were well-established girls' schools, each with a long tradition of high achievement and academic excellence, according to the current Headteacher, Ms. P. Rutherford [ [http://www.enfieldcs.enfield.sch.uk/head.shtml Headteacher] Retrieved 2007-11-20] .

Campus

The buildings are a blend of solid Edwardian, post war and 1990s 'design-build'.The lower school in Rosemary Avenue, which were the former Chace Girls School, houses years 7, 8 and 9; at fourteen years of age students transfer to the upper school in Holly Walk, about a mile away in the centre of the old town of Enfield, London. After Enfield Court in Baker Street had been purchased to accommodate the lower school of Enfield Grammar School in 1942, the first year pupils of the previous girls' grammar school, Enfield County School, shared it with the first year pupils of Enfield Grammar for a few years.

chool Culture

At first, the school motto, which was incorporated in the school badge, was 'Onward Ever', which had previously been the motto of the grammar school in the amalgamation. This was later changed to 'Learning: it's at the heart of everything we do'.

The current Head Girl and Deputy Head Girl are Maxi Twum-Barima and Meltem Cenktas respectively.

Notable Alumnae

*Joyce Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St Johns, politician
*Geraldine McCaughrean, author
*Elena Souta, [cite web
title =Ooh La Laa
work =September 2002
publisher =Startups
url =http://www.startups.co.uk/6678842909162589946/ooh-la-laa.html
accessdate = 2007-11-20 ] entrepreneur [cite web
title =Ooh La Laa- Shell North London Entrepreneur of the Year
publisher =PRWeb
date =2003-04-04
url =http://www.prweb.com/releases/2003/4/prweb61886.htm
accessdate = 2007-11-20 ]
*Keisha White, singer
*Jaime Winstone, actress
*Lois Winstone [imdb name|1092837|Lois Winstone] , actress

Bibliography

*"Onward ever: the story of Enfield County School for Girls, 1909-1967" by Joan Hinchcliffe Hart, 1999

External links

* [http://www.enfieldcs.enfield.sch.uk/ Enfield County School official site]
* [http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/reports/index.cfm?fuseaction=summary&id=102048 2006 OFSTED report]
* [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=26961 A detailed history of Education in Enfield at British History Online]
* [http://www.howson.ukgateway.net/index.html Enfield County School Old Girls' Association]
* [http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/histories/jewish/growing_up/grete_rudkin_5.htm Moving Here - The immigration story of Grete Rudkin (born Glauber), who attended Enfield County School]

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