Dame Alice Owen's School

Dame Alice Owen's School
The school's logo
Mottoes In God is All Our Trust
The Owen's Way[lower-alpha 1]
Established 1613 (1613)
Type Voluntary aided[2] partially selective academy
Trust Dame Alice Owen's Foundation
Headteacher[3] Mrs Hannah Nemko
Deputy Head Mr Stephan Fry
Chair of Trustees Mr Peter Martin [4]
Founder Alice Owen
Dame Alice Owen's School
Dame Alice Owen's School
Dame Alice Owen's School
Location Dugdale Hill Lane
Potters Bar
Hertfordshire
EN6 2DU
England
51°41′27″N 0°12′26″W / 51.69076°N 0.20719°W / 51.69076; -0.20719Coordinates: 51°41′27″N 0°12′26″W / 51.69076°N 0.20719°W / 51.69076; -0.20719
Local authority 919 Hertfordshire[5]
DfE URN 136554 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Staff 190 (as of November 2015)[6]
Capacity 1416[5]
Students 1466 (as of January 2017)[5]
Gender Mixed
Ages 11–18
Colours          Red and black
Publication The Arrow
Former pupils Old Owenians
Website Dame Alice Owen's School

Dame Alice Owen's School (also known as Dame Alice Owen's or Owen's; referred to by the acronym DAOS[lower-alpha 2]) is a partially selective secondary school and sixth form with academy status located in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire in southern England. The school was founded in Islington as a boys' school for 30 students in 1613, which makes the school one of the oldest in the United Kingdom, and is named after its founder, the 17th-century philanthropist Alice Owen. Over time, the boys' school expanded. A girls' school was built in 1886, and the two schools were merged in 1973; the mixed school moved to its current location in stages between 1973 and 1976.

There are 1466 students aged 11 to 18 at the school; the school is entirely co-educational, and therefore contains roughly equal numbers of boys and girls (as of January 2017, there are 720 boys and 745 girls at the school).[5] The school's first headmaster was William Leske, who held the position from 1613 to 1614. Its present headteacher is Hannah Nemko, who has held the position since 2016 and is the fifth headteacher of the mixed school in Potters Bar. The trustees of the Dame Alice Owen Foundation are the Worshipful Company of Brewers.[7]

The school is consistently one of the highest performing state schools in England and Wales in terms of General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) and GCE Advanced Level (A-Level) results, and is widely considered one of the best schools in the United Kingdom. The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) rated it outstanding in all areas in 2009. In 2016, it was named the State Secondary School of the Year by The Sunday Times in the newspaper's rankings for the 2016–17 school year,[8] and Tatler and The Daily Telegraph have also strongly praised it. Dame Alice Owen's School is one of the most oversubscribed schools in the UK, with over 600 more applicants than places (in 2013).[9]

Dame Alice Owen's School offers a wide range of extracurricular activities for the pupils that attend it, such as sport and music. Many pupils take part in the Duke of Edinburgh Award[10] and school trips, for example to the Galapagos Islands or CERN. The school has a number of notable alumni, many of whom still retain ties to the school, such as the musician Gary Kemp and the film director Sir Alan Parker. Former pupils are referred to as Old Owenians.[11]

History

Foundation: pre–1613

A black-and-white engraving of a woman, visible up to her waist, with the capiton "Lady Owen."
An engraving copied from a copy of a portrait of Alice Owen.

Dame Alice Owen's School was founded in 1613 by the English philanthropist Alice Owen (née Wilkes; 1547 – 26 November 1613).[12][13][lower-alpha 3] Owen decided to found a school to thank God for saving her when she was a child after she narrowly avoided being struck by an arrow, which passed through her hat, in the fields in Islington;[16] the exact nature of this event is disputed.[lower-alpha 4]

The death of her third husband (the judge Thomas Owen) in 1598 caused Alice Owen to be free to carry out her plans. On 6 June 1608, she acquired a licence to purchase 11 acres (4.5 hectares) of ground in Islington and Clerkenwell, on which to build a hospital for 10 poor widows, and to confer power over that land (and some other land; in total, it was worth £40 a year) to the Worshipful Company of Brewers (her first husband, Henry Robinson, had been a member of the company).[15] The site had been called the "Hermitage"[lower-alpha 5] field.[20][21] In 1609, Owen officially gave authority over the charity she had founded to the Brewers' Company;[20][22] by indentures dated in that year, she had given the company an annual payment of £25 to support her almshouses.[15]

After founding the almshouses in 1608 on the site, which was on the east side of St John Street, in 1610 Owen obtained the right to build a school and chapel in the same location.[21][22] Three iron arrows were fixed into a gable in the building, to commemorate the time when she was almost hit by an arrow; Owen also erected a free chapel there.[15] On 20 September 1613, she made rules for her school (and the almshouses); notably, the school was to take thirty boys – twenty-four from Islington and six from Clerkenwell – and be inspected by the Brewers' Company once a year.[20][22]

The rules also stated that the school's headmaster was to be paid five pounds every three months and be given a house to live in for free; he was to teach writing, mathematics and bookkeeping.[20][22] Her will (which was dated 10 June 1613), directed the yearly purchase of land worth £20 in order to pay the headmaster's salary.[15][20][22] The first man to hold the position was William Leske, who held the position until 1614 before resigning.[23] Samuel Lewis Jnr writes that according to John Stow's Survey of London, building the school and almshouses, as well as purchasing the land, cost £1776.[20] To provide her charity with an income, the executor of Owen's will, Sir Thomas Rich, bought a 41-acre (17-hectare) farm in Orsett in Essex for £22.[20][21]

The school has maintained many traditions from the time of its founding, such as the giving of a small amount of "beer money" to every pupil.[8] The gift is now a limited-edition five-pound coin in mint condition, having previously been beer,[24] a reminder of the school's long-standing close association with the brewing industry and the Worshipful Company of Brewers.[17][25] Arrows feature prominently on the school's crest, which is in itself largely identical to the crest of the Worshipful Company of Brewers; other motifs on the school's logo include barrels and hops.

Early years and expansion: 1613–1886

A wood engraving of the boys' school in Islington, which was a large two-storey building.
Lady Owen's School, Islington. Wood engraving, 1840.

William Smith, who held the position of headmaster between 1666 and 1678, was dismissed because of alleged involvement in the Popish Plot.[26]

In 1818, the Charity Commission found that there were 55 boys at the school – the 30 specified by Owen, and 25 private pupils (several of whom boarded with Alexander Balfour, who served as headmaster from 1791 to 1824). Only the private pupils learned French and Latin (the other children had the opportunity to learn Latin, but none took it). At the time, the headmaster earned £30 a year.[27] The value of the trust estates in Islington and Clerkenwell had grown to £900 a year by 1830. The school was rebuilt and a new almshouse was built in 1840 or 1841[lower-alpha 6] on a new site in Owen Street, Islington (near their previous location), at a cost of about £6,000, because the old buildings had fallen into disrepair; the original buildings were demolished.[15][20][28] In 1842, there were 85 boys attending the school – one-fifth (17) of them were from Clerkenwell while four-fifths (68) were from Islington[30] – though the new school was intended to be for 120 boys.[31] That number of pupils had been reached by 1865, when there were 100 boys from Islington and 20 from Clerkenwell at the school (all aged 7–14).[31]

A new project received royal assent on 14 August 1878; this scheme enabled the school to expand into two schools – one for 300 boys, and the other for that many girls.[15] The almshouse was demolished so that a playground could be built (the former inhabitants of the almshouse received pensions).[32] The girls' school was opened in Owen's Row in 1886; its first headmistress was Emily Armstrong.[32] The boys' school was expanded further in 1895 so that 420 boys could go there.[32]

Boys' and girls' schools in Islington: 1886–1973

The schools were evacuated to Bedford during the Second World War,[2][24] in which the schools' buildings were badly damaged. The girls' school was mostly destroyed by bombing in 1940 and had to be rebuilt;[33] on 15 October 1940, 143 people were sheltering in the basement when a parachute mine hit the building, causing a pipe to flood the basement and killing 109 of the occupants.[34][35][36] (A memorial to the people who died in the bombing was unveiled in 2005 at City and Islington College, at the former site of Dame Alice Owen's School's playground).[36] A new building was erected in the early 1960s, replacing temporary buildings. Dame Alice Owen's School achieved voluntary aided status in 1951.[2] There were over 600 boys at the boys' school in 1963, of whom more than 100 were students in the school's sixth form.[2] The main buildings of the boys' and girls' schools facing each other across the boys' school playground, were located in Goswell Road, Islington, and were merged as a single school in 1973.[1][37] The school moved to its current location in the 1970s, with pupils being transferred in stages between 1973 and 1976 (when the process finished).[1][19][37]

Comprehensive school in Potters Bar: 1976–present

In July 1976, the school finished relocating to Potters Bar, Hertfordshire.[1] The former boys' school building has now been demolished, but the girls' school building is now part of the City and Islington College. On 2 November 1990, the Duke of Edinburgh visited the school. On 25 November 1997, the Princess Anne opened a new languages centre. The school offers a wide range of sports for students, including football, gymnastics, rugby and athletics.[8]

400th Anniversary (2013)

Reported conversation between the school and the Royal Albert Hall
Hall: We don't do school concerts.
School: Neither do we.

Reported in Tatler, 2014[38]

To commemorate the school's quatercentenary in 2013, the school's 400th Anniversary Committee, headed by the musician Gary Kemp, an Old Owenian, i.e. former student (his band Spandau Ballet performed their first gig in the dining room of the school in Potters Bar), set up events for the whole school community to take part. A 1-by-2-metre (3.3-by-6.6-foot) cake was made at the school for all the staff, students and parents to share, to mark the beginning of the year's celebrations. The film director and producer Sir Alan Parker (also an Old Owenian) directed a Celebration Concert at the Royal Albert Hall on 23 April 2013, with the school's Concert Band, Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, Junior and Senior Soul Bands, and Junior and Senior Choirs (as well as possible performances by members of Spandau Ballet). A Thanksgiving Service was held at St Paul’s Cathedral on 30 April 2013. In November, the train company First Capital Connect named one of its trains "Dame Alice Owens 400 years of learning" to honour the occasion.[39]

The programme of various sporting occasions, a specially written drama production and the 400th Summer Ball (on 13 July 2013) which were to take place during the year ended with a carol service at St Albans Cathedral on 16 December 2013. Old Owenians could keep in touch with what was happening by joining the school’s 400th Anniversary email list, to which over 3 300 alumni signed up (they received quarterly newsletters).[40]

In conjunction with the celebrations, a 400th Anniversary Appeal was set up to raise £1 million towards a new science building for the school. It was launched in February 2011 in an event at Portcullis House, Westminster, with Lord Robert Winston (the keynote speaker) and Dr Alan Davison (who was the school's headteacher at that time) joined Edward Guinness (CVO), James Clappison MP (Member of Parliament) and Emily Thornberry MP in outlining the school’s new project. Patrons included Lord Lingfield, Sir Alan Parker and Sir Terry Leahy; David J. C. MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change also supported the project and endorsed the school’s commitment to providing outstanding facilities for students studying science. The appeal's chairman was Gary Kemp, who said the school needed "help to continue to support those talented students who will be the scientists of tomorrow".[41] In 2014, Lord Winston unveiled the new block.[8]

List of headteachers

The modern and former boys' and girls' schools have had many headteachers:[42][23]

Mixed school in Potters Bar

  • Hannah Nemko, 2016–present[43]
  • Alan Davison, 2005–2016
  • Aldon T Williamson, 1994–2005
  • David Bolton, 1982–1994
  • Gerald F Jones, 1973–1982 (head of the boys' grammar school in Islington; he became the first head of the partially selective, mixed school in Potters Bar in 1973)

Mixed school in Islington

  • Ronald C. Puddhepatt, 1973–1976

Girls' grammar school

  • Celia Nest Kisch, 1960–1973
  • Eslie P. Ward, 1945–1960
  • Agnes Mary Bozman, 1933–1945
  • Eleanor Wilson, 1914–1933
  • Emily Armstrong, 1886–1914

Second boys' grammar school

  • Gerald F. Jones, 1962–1973 (he later became the headteacher of the modern, mixed school; see above)
  • E.H. Burrough, 1955–1962
  • Walter Garstang, 1948–1954
  • Oliver W. Mitchell, 1939–1948
  • Rev Harry Asman, 1929–1939
  • Edwin England, 1927–1929
  • Robert F. Cholmeley CBE, 1909–1927
  • James Easterbrook, 1881–1909
  • Thomas H. Way, 1879–1881
  • John Hoare, 1840–1879

First boys' grammar school

  • John Hoare, 1833–1840 (he later became the head of the second boys' school; see above)
  • Joseph Summersby, 1825–1833
  • Alexander Balfour, 1791–1824
  • David Davies, 1750–1791
  • Richard Shilton, 1738–1750
  • Henry Clarke, 1731–1738
  • Thomas Dennett, 1717–1731
  • Laurence Brandreth, 1716–17
  • George Thomson, 1711–1716
  • Roger Rogerson, 1699–1711
  • William Vickars, 1692–1699
  • John Clutterbuck, 1678–1692
  • William Smith, 1666–1678
  • Mr Fowle, 1665–66
  • John Clarke, 1665
  • George Lovejoy, 1654–1665
  • Peter Dowell, 1628–1654
  • Nathaniel Bate, 1626–1628
  • John Jorden, 1624–1626
  • John Weston, 1624
  • Mr Lymer, 1620–1624
  • Mr Jones, 1617–1620
  • John Hewes, 1614–1617
  • William Leske, 1613–14

Academic performance

In terms of exam results, the school has been one of the best state-school schools in the country for some time now, with over 95% of students receiving 10 A*–C grades in their GCSE exams. The school has appeared in the 2014 Tatler State Schools Guide, where it was highly praised and described as a "golden ticket for Islington parents".[38] In 2009, the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) rated it outstanding.[6]

Around 90 per cent of students enter higher education, with many going to some of the best British universities: in 2016, 14 successfully applied to the University of Oxford or Cambridge (collectively called Oxbridge; the school's record number of successful applications in a single year is 30), and two-thirds of students continue to Russell Group universities.[8] In a 2016 study, Sol Gamsu, a PhD student at King's College London, found that Dame Alice Owen's School acts as a "de facto feeder school" for Oxbridge.[44]

The school had its first two students attain places on the prestigious Prime Minister's Global Fellowship programme in 2009.[45][46]

Dame Alice Owen’s School has been a Science Specialist School since 2007 and 43 per cent of students go on to study science at world-class universities. The school holds regular lectures, organised by its science society, for students; worked with Cancer Research last year on a skin cancer project and is building relationships with Imperial College London. The school aimed to attract additional government funding, with over £250 000 already raised as of October 2011, to support the construction of a new science block, which finished in 2014.[8]

Exam results

2016

In 2016, 94% of all Year 11 students secured 5 A*–C grades including English and Maths in their General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) exams, which was significantly higher than the average for the school's local education authority (80.2%);[47] 68.6% of entries were given grades of A* or A.[8] The school's GCE Advanced Level (A-Level) results were described by the school's headteacher, Hannah Nemko as "fantastic"; 94.1% of grades were A*–C, with 82.1% being A*–B and 55% being A*–A.[48]

2015

At A-Level, 55.5% of grades were A*–A, 80.7% were A*–B and 93.8% were A*–C.[48] 22.9% of grades were A*'s, and 16 pupils secured university places at Oxbridge.[49]

2012

At GCSE, 94.2% of pupils achieved 5 A*–C grades including English and maths and 96.1% of pupils received 5 A*–C grades without English and maths. 64.5% of entries were graded A*–A (at that time, the school had only performed better than that once), and many pupils only received A* grades. A Level results for that year were also record-breaking.[50]

2011

In 2011, 93% of all Year 11 students secured 5 A*–C grades including English and Maths. 96% of all Year 11 students secured 5 A*–C grades without English and Maths. 68.1% of all entries were graded A or A* and 32% were graded A*. 82.1% of all grades awarded were A*–B. There was an upward trend with the new A* grade, with 21.3% of all entries being awarded an A*, 32% were awarded an A, making the A* and A total 52.3%. 64 of all students secured straight A*s and As. 99.4% of all entries secured a pass grade. 20 students with offers confirmed their Oxbridge places and the majority of students secured places at their first choice of university. AS results showed a new school record with 54.1% being graded A (compared to 44.1% in 2010) and 78% being graded A or B (68.9% in 2010).

Admissions

The school is partially selective by means of an entrance examination; roughly a third of pupils are selected based on academic ability, while others are chosen because of musical skills, having a sibling at the school or living in the school's catchment area (which includes Islington, from where 20 pupils are admitted yearly because the school was previously located there).[51] 200 pupils are admitted to Year 7 annually, 65 of whom enter through the entrance examinations (there are two, which take place on different days – the first tests verbal reasoning and English and the second tests mathematics)[51] and 10 through a musical aptitude test.[52] Tatler have described the admissions procedure as "mind-boggling".[38] The school also allows external applications to its sixth form.[8]

Students are drawn from a wide area, and the school is heavily oversubscribed.[53] In 2013, it received 665 more applications than there were places.[54] As of 2016, fewer than a quarter of applications succeed; ten people apply for every place offered to external candidates to the sixth form.[8]

In 2006, Alan Davison, the school's headteacher at that time, strongly opposed a plan by the Department for Education and Skills to ban partially selective schools from prioritising applications from the siblings of students attending the school, saying that the proposal threatened the school's "family-friendly atmosphere", and also stated that potentially affected schools were obtaining legal advice[55] (the government never implemented the rule).[56] Davison would later (in 2013) criticise Hertfordshire County Council and the government for their alleged lack of response to fraudulent applications (these were for the 22 places at the school available based on residence, and it was claimed that people were renting or buying houses near the school without living in them in order to qualify). He said "[p]eople will do anything to [obtain a place at the school]".[57]

Location and school grounds

The 626 bus, which is a large red double-decker bus, driving on the road in North Finchley.
The 626 bus (in Tally Ho Corner, North Finchley). The bus is one of several that serves the school.

Dame Alice Owen's School is situated in the south of Potters Bar, just north of the M25 motorway and near South Mimms services (which are to the west of the school). Its grounds have an area of 34 acres (14 hectares) and include a lake and large playing fields.[8] In 2014, Alice Rose, writing for Tatler magazine, praised its "excellent facilities" and "smart campus";[58] in 2016, the journalist Sue Leonard, writing in The Times, said that the school "offers...facilities many other secondary schools can only envy".[8]

Students at the school come from a wide area, and the school is served by six bus routes.[59] Four of these are London buses contracted by Transport for London (TfL): the 313,[60] 626,[61] 692[62] and 699[63] (Arriva London operates the 313 route, while Sullivan Buses operates the other routes).[64] Two other bus routes, namely the 242, which is operated by Metroline,[65] and the 610 (operated by Uno)[66] also stop at the school. More than 200 students also travel to school by train daily via Potters Bar railway station.[39]

Alumni

An older man wearing glasses, with his head and shoulders visible.
The film director Sir Alan Parker, a former pupil at the school.

Former pupils notable for careers in the entertainment industry include Fiona Wade, an actress in the soap opera Emmerdale;[67] Owen Aaronovitch, an actor who starred in Coronation Street; Chris Foreman, a guitarist in the band Madness; Gary Kemp, the lead guitarist and songwriter for the band Spandau Ballet, and Sir Alan Parker, a film director. Sportsperson alumni include the gymnast Gabrielle Jupp; Jodie Williams, a sprinter; Paul Robinson, a footballer who plays for AFC Wimbledon, and Dame Mary Glen-Haig, a gold-medal-winning fencer at the Commonwealth Games. Old Owenians notable for their achievements in science are Frederick Gugenheim Gregory, a botanist who won the Royal Medal; Leslie Reginald Cox, a palaeontologist, and the chemist Leslie Orgel, who is known for inventing Orgel's rules. Two former Labour MPs have also attended the school: Ronald Chamberlain, MP for Norwood, and Millie Miller, leader of Camden Council and MP for Ilford North. The politician Alan Amos, who was the Conservative MP for Hexham, taught at the school between 1976 and 1984.[68]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ This is an acrostic from the word Owen's:
    • O – Opoortunity for all
    • W – Window to the world
    • E – Excellence in everything
    • N – Never stop learning
    • S – Supportive community.
    It was created in 2011.[1]
  2. ↑ Pronuounced /ˈdeɪ.ɒs/ DAY-oss.
  3. ↑ Owen is often referred to as Dame Alice Owen, or Lady Owen,[14] but this is because of her status as the widow of a judge – she was never knighted.[15]
  4. ↑ Many sources, especially modern ones (including the school's website), say that Owen was milking a cow when this happened; some claim that Owen saw a woman milking a cow and decided to try that herself.[1][17][18] However, her entry in the first edition of the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) says that this happened when she was playing with other children, and that the story has "received many embellishments".[12] Patricia Higgins, writing in A Historical Dictionary of British Women, calls the whole story of the incident a "legend".[19] The event was first mentioned in the second edition of John Stow's Survey of London, which was written in 1618, five years after Owen's death.[13][15]
  5. ↑ Also spelt "Ermytage".[15]
  6. ↑ Lupton writes that this took place in 1841[15] and Lewis says that the new buildings were built in 1840–41;[20]by contrast, Victoria County History's A History of the County of Middlesex states that this happened ten years after a project created in 1830[28] and the Survey of London says that the new schoolhouse was built in 1840.[29]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Our History". Dame Alice Owen's School. 2015. Archived from the original on 10 July 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 British History Online 1969, para. 7.
  3. ↑ "Dame Alice Owen's School – Summary". Edubase. Department for Education. Archived from the original on 10 July 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  4. ↑ "Dame Alice Owen's School – Governance". Edubase. Department for Education. Archived from the original on 10 July 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Dame Alice Owen's School – Establishment Details". Edubase. Department for Education. Archived from the original on 10 July 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  6. 1 2 "Dame Alice Owen's School". gov.uk. Government of the United Kingdom. Archived from the original on 10 July 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  7. ↑ "Dame Alice Owen's Foundation". gov.uk. Charity Commission for England and Wales. 2017. People. Archived from the original on 17 July 2017. Retrieved 17 July 2017. Trustee...The Brewer's Company
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Leonard, Sue (27 November 2016). "State Secondary School of the Year". The Sunday Times. London. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  9. ↑ Christian, Paul (8 March 2013). "Most secondary schools in Welwyn Hatfield hugely oversubscribed, figures reveal". Welwyn Hatfield Times. Archived from the original on 10 July 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017. Dame Alice Owen's School...665 more pupils applying than there were places
  10. ↑ Flagan, Chris (31 May 2017). "Potters Bar pupils scoop Duke of Edinburgh's Awards". Welwyn Hatfield Times. Archived from the original on 23 June 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2017. Miss Lord takes over 130 students through the Bronze Level each year, with about 30 going on to Gold
  11. ↑ "Old Owenians in Touch!". Dame Alice Owen's School. Archived from the original on 13 October 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2018. Old Owenians in Touch! This is our secure website for the alumni of Dame Alice Owen's School
  12. 1 2 Lupton 1895, pp. 398–399.
  13. 1 2 British History Online 2008, para. 5.
  14. ↑ Lewis 1842, p. 418.
  15. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lupton 1895, p. 399.
  16. ↑ Lupton 1895, p. 398.
  17. 1 2 "The Master and Keepers or Wardens and Commonalty of the Mystery or Art of Brewers in the City of London". brewershall.co.uk. The Worshipful Company of Brewers – A brief history. 2005. Archived from the original on 27 June 2009. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  18. ↑ Cahill, Nicholas (2012). "There's nothing like a death-defying Dame". The Clerkenwell Post. Archived from the original on 10 March 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2017. as she rose from the milking stool, she had a narrow escape
  19. 1 2 Higgins 2003, p. 341.
  20. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Lewis 1842, p. 419.
  21. 1 2 3 British History Online 2008, para. 6.
  22. 1 2 3 4 5 British History Online 1969, para. 1.
  23. 1 2 "Headteachers". Dame Alice Owen's School. 2016. Archived from the original on 24 July 2017. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  24. 1 2 "Some random memories of wartime Bedford - Part One - The Owen's School boys settle into Bedford". British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). 20 October 2005. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  25. ↑ "School History". Dame Alice Owen's School. 2009. Archived from the original on 17 November 2009. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  26. ↑ British History Online 1969, para. 2.
  27. ↑ British History Online 1969, para. 3.
  28. 1 2 British History Online 1969, para. 4.
  29. ↑ British History Online 2008, para. 34.
  30. ↑ Lewis 1842, p. 420.
  31. 1 2 British History Online 1969, para. 5.
  32. 1 2 3 British History Online 1969, para. 6.
  33. ↑ British History Online 2008, para. 33 & 44.
  34. ↑ "Details for: Air raids on Tuesday 15th October 1940". Islington Council. Archived from the original on 13 October 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2018. 15th October 1940... Dame Alice Owen’s School shelter (Finsbury) was hit this night with the loss of 109 of the 143 who were taking shelter
  35. ↑ "A River Runs Through It | New River". The Clerkenwell Post. Archived from the original on 13 October 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2018. The blast also fractured a pipe which was carrying New River water. The shelter was flooded and the majority of those sheltering were killed.
  36. 1 2 "War Memorials". Dame Alice Owen's School. Archived from the original on 13 October 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2018. A Memorial to the people who died in the Dame Alice Owen’s Girls’ School air raid shelter on 15th October, 1940 was officially unveiled on Tuesday 18th October, 2005.
  37. 1 2 British History Online 2008, para. 44.
  38. 1 2 3 Rose, Alice (3 January 2014). "The Tatler Guide to State Schools – Part Two". Tatler. United Kingdom. Archived from the original on 10 July 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017. The golden ticket for Islington parents, with excellent facilities and a smart campus
  39. 1 2 O'Neill, Natalie (11 November 2013). "First Capital Connect names train after Dame Alice Owen's School to mark 400th anniversary". Times series. Archived from the original on 22 November 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  40. ↑ Davison, Alan; et al. (Dame Alice Owen's School) (18 December 2013). "Old Owenians Newsletter" (PDF). Dame Alice Owen's School. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 July 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  41. ↑ Gruner, Peter (10 June 2011). "Spandau Ballet star Gary Kemp: Why I'm proud of my old school". Camden New Journal. Archived from the original on 10 July 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  42. ↑ British History Online 1969, paras. 2–7.
  43. ↑ Lewis, Spencer; et al. (Yavneh College) (July 2015). "Yavneh Bulletin" (PDF). Yavneh College. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 July 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2017. one of our Deputy Headteachers, Mrs Nemko
  44. ↑ Haslett, Emma (17 August 2016). "Named: The "elite" state schools which have become Oxbridge "feeder schools"". City A.M.. Archived from the original on 21 August 2017. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
  45. ↑ "Click on the links below to find out more about the 2010 Fellows". The Global Fellowship. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  46. ↑ "Congratulations to all of the successful Fellows of 2009". content.yudu.com. SecEd. 11 June 2009. Retrieved 8 July 2017. Otis Clarke Dame Alice Owen's School...Oshana Gazara Dame Alice Owen's School
  47. ↑ Yorke, Harry (19 January 2017). "GCSE school league tables 2016: compare your school's performance". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
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