Sir George Monoux College

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Sir George Monoux Sixth Form College
Address
Chingford Road London , E17 5AA England
Information
Type	Sixth Form College
Established	1527 – original institution 1986 – current sixth form college
Local authority	Waltham Forest
Department for Education URN	130458 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Principal	David Vasse [1]
Enrollment	1,680 (2018) [2]
Website	www.sgmc.ac.uk

Sir George Monoux College is a sixth form college located in Walthamstow, London. ^[3] It is a medium-sized college with around 1,620 full-time students as of 2018. ^[2]

Contents

• Brief history
• Sir George Monoux Grammar School 1885-1968
• Sir George Monoux Senior School 1969-1985
• Sir George Monoux Sixth Form College 1986-
• The Principals
• Notable former students
• Sir George Monoux College
• Sir George Monoux Senior High School
• Sir George Monoux Grammar School
• References
• External links

Brief history

Sir George Monoux, the founder of the Grammar School (later College), was born in or before 1465. In 1506 he was a Warden of the Drapers Company, in 1509 he became the Sheriff of London and later in 1514 he became Lord Mayor. He was elected to Parliament as a Burgess for the City in 1523.

He was a wealthy man who spent much of his time in Walthamstow. He erected the Almshouses, associated school and feast ball for the poor of Walthamstow on a former parcel of St. Mary's Churchyard in 1527 in Walthamstow Village. The Monoux School operated there for 353 years until moving firstly to West Avenue then to High Street, and finally to Chingford Road in 1927. The western end was rebuilt in 1955 following bombing in October 1940.

From 1659 to 1968, the institution operated as a grammar school for boys. From 1968 to 1986 the school was a comprehensive while in 1986 the school became a sixth form college and girls were admitted for the first time. Following the 1992 Further and Higher Education Act, in 1993, Monoux became an Incorporated College, which it remains today.

Sir George Monoux Grammar School 1885-1968

The school was re-established following a scheme made under the Endowed Schools Act in 1885 in temporary premises in West Avenue, a different part of Walthamstow, and then a purpose-built site in High Street. It moved to the present premises in July 1927. There have been additions to the buildings in 1961, 1977, 1990, 2002 and 2004.

The school remained independent, but came to depend increasingly on local authority grants. Following the death of the then headmaster, William Spivey, in 1916, it can be regarded as effectively a selective boys local authority grammar school until 1968 catering 11 to 18 year olds.

The school was evacuated to Ampthill in Bedfordshire in September 1939, then to the Colchester Royal Grammar School on Friday 17 November 1939. ^[4]

Sir George Monoux Senior School 1969-1985

Following reorganisation of secondary education by Waltham Forest council (devised by a Labour council but instituted under a Conservative one), during the years 1968 - 72 it gradually became a comprehensive Senior High School for boys aged 14–18 admitting most of its pupils from the Junior High Schools Chapel End, William Fitt, Warwick Boys School and Aveling Park. The last entry of boys to the main Monoux building was in 1987 who were taught separately to the sixth form but within the same building in Chingford Road. The last entry of boys however was in 1988 who were not taught in the main building but in an "annexe" located in Brookscroft Rd in the old Chapel End Junior High School. This was closed in 1990.

Sir George Monoux Sixth Form College 1986-

Following the London Borough of Waltham Forest's re-organisation of post-16 studies, in 1986 the school became a co educational sixth form college for students aged 16–19 and fully co-educational from 1989. It was funded and administered by the borough from 1986 to 1993 when under the provisions of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 it was incorporated, becoming in effect an independent body funded by the newly formed Further Education Funding Council for England (FEFC).

In 2001 the FEFC was replaced with the Learning and Skills Council (LSC). The college driven by government growth targets increased in size from 600 students in 1986 to approximately 2000 students in 2006. The college offers A-level and vocational courses. ^[5] The college draws students from a wide geographical area of north and east London and from a very wide range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds. At present over 95% of the students are from minority ethnic communities.

Notable former students

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References

External links

• Sir George Monoux College website
• Sir George Monoux VLE
• School history
• Old Monovians
• Monovian extracts
• BBC stats page

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