St Olave's Grammar School
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St Olave's Grammar School
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| Motto | 'Olaf to Right the Wrong' |
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| Established | 1562 |
| School type | State, grammar school |
| Headmaster | Anthony Jarvis |
| Location | Orpington, Kent, England |
| Pupils | c. 800 |
| Member of | Woodard Foundation, HMC |
| Homepage | www.saintolaves.net |
St. Olave's and St. Saviour's Grammar School (also known as St. Olave's, St. Olave's Grammar School, and informally as STOGS) is a selective boys' secondary school in Orpington, England. The school is consistently one of the top achieving state schools in the country.
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History
The school was formed from the amalgamation in 1896 of two schools, St. Olave's (founded 1571), and St. Saviour's (founded 1562). Originally situated on the south bank of the Thames in Southwark, the school moved to suburban Orpington in 1962.
General information
The school, which is named after Saint Olaf, has an Anglican foundation, and is also affiliated to the Woodard Foundation. Entry is entirely by selection so the school is heavily oversubscribed (7 applicants per place in 2002). Since 1998, the school has admitted girls to its sixth form. It is currently designated as a maths and computing specialist school. The school is notable for being one of only a few state schools to play the game of Eton Fives. Members of the school are known as Olavians, and alumni as Old Olavians. The school's headmaster is currently Anthony Jarvis, an associate member of the HMC.
The school was at the centre of controversy in 1996 when Labour Party Cabinet minister Harriet Harman sent her son to the school, despite it being some considerable distance from where she lived. Many considered her sending her son to a selective school to be contrary to Labour's supposedly egalitarian principles.
St. Olave's has a strong relationship with Newstead Wood School for Girls, a selective all girls school situated a mile away. The St. Olave's Foundation also supports the all girls St Saviour's and St Olave's School in Old Kent Road. Established in 1903, this is a non-selective school in an economically deprived area that is very different in nature to its brother school.
Noted alumni
This is a partial list. For a more comprehensive one see: List of notable Old Olavians
- H. B. Acton (1908–1974), philosopher
- Samuel Laman Blanchard, (1804–1845) author and journalist
- Sir Lawrence Chubb, (1948–?) first Secretary of the National Trust; Secretary of the Commons
- Paul Dimond, (born 1944) HM Ambassador to the Philippines
- Lawrence Durrell, (1912–1990) novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer
- Abba Eban, (1915–2002) Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations; Israeli Minister for Foreign Affairs; Israeli Deputy Prime Minister
- Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton, (1830–1911) politician
- Andy Green, (1962– ) past team leader of RAF Red Arrows Display Team; current holder of the world land speed record
- John Harvard, (1607–1638) founder of Harvard University
- William Heberden, (1710–1801) physician, coined the term 'angina'
- Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton, (1904–?) Chairman of the BBC
- Sean P. Kennan, Irish Ambassador to the United Nations; Irish Ambassador to Canada
- Kenneth Lindsay, M.P. for Kilmarnock Burghs; Civil Lord of the Admiralty; Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Education
- Chris Philp, Chairman of the Bow Group
- Sir Michael Scholar, (born 1942) President, St John's College, Oxford
- William Sherlock, (1641–1707) English church leader
- Thomas Frederick Tout, (1855-1929) historian
- William Van Mildert, (1765–1836) Bishop of Durham; founder of the University of Durham
External links
- St Olave's Grammar School website (http://www.saintolaves.net)
- The Old Olavians network (http://www.oldolavians.net)