Salesian School, Chertsey

Salesian School, Chertsey

Salesian School crest
Motto	Enlightening minds, uplifting hearts
Established	1921 (As Salesian College)
Type	Academy
Headteacher	James Kibble
Chaplain	Fr Marco Villani
Deputy	Mr Paul Gower Mr Paul Bryce
Founders	Salesian Brothers
Location	Guildford Road / Highfield Road Chertsey Surrey KT16 9LU / KT16 8BX England 51°22′54″N 0°31′07″W / 51.3816°N 0.5185°W / 51.3816; -0.5185Coordinates: 51°22′54″N 0°31′07″W / 51.3816°N 0.5185°W / 51.3816; -0.5185
Local authority	Surrey County Council
DfE URN	125312 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Staff	>100
Students	1500
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	11–18
Houses	Rinaldi, Rua, Savio, Zatti
Website	www.salesian.surrey.sch.uk

Salesian School is a split-site Roman Catholic Comprehensive Secondary School in Chertsey, Surrey. The two sites were originally a pair of single-sex education Roman Catholic private schools maintained by the Salesian Fathers and Sisters. The Salesian College at Highfield Road, founded in 1921, was for boys and the later Guildford Road school was for girls. In 1971 they merged to form one comprehensive school but still maintained single-sex education on separate sites.

In 1981 it became a coeducational school with pupils located on sites according to their age or subject taught. As of 2009, however, Years 7 to 11 (aged 11–16 years) began to exclusively study at the larger Guildford Road, while the Sixth Form Centre (ages 16–18) remains at Highfield Road – the students currently following a two-week timetable.

Staff

Father James Curran was Headmaster until 1963, followed by Father Vincent Ford (1964–1967), Father Edward O'Shea (1967–1977), Father John Gilheney (1977–1990), David Cleworth (1990–2005) and Eric Doherty (2005–2006). In September 2006, James Kibble took on the post of Head teacher. Currently, there are over 100 members of staff, either working as teachers, learning and teaching assistants or associate staff. One of the most famous former members of staff at Salesian School was Sean Devereux, the inspirational UNICEF worker assassinated while helping the poor of Somalia in 1993, who taught Physical Education at Salesian School from 1986 to 1988.

Ofsted

Following a two-day inspection in early September, on 4 October 2013 OFSTED published its most recent report on the school, declaring it to be outstanding in all four categories of inspection.^[1]

Partnerships

Salesian has a track record of supporting other schools in difficulty.

From December 2010 – August 2011, head teacher James Kibble worked as Interim Executive Head for St John Bosco College, London, while overseeing the winding down of two schools: Salesian College (London) and John Paul II School in Wimbledon. In this capacity he worked with a range of stakeholders and appointed the new school's first head teacher. In March 2013, an Ofsted inspection judged the new school to be Good.^[2]

In May 2012, a neighbouring school, Jubilee High, Addlestone, was given a 'notice to improve' by OFSTED and the head teacher resigned. Salesian head teacher James Kibble, was appointed executive head of Jubilee High, until a permanent appointment could be made.^[3] He returned to the full-time headship of Salesian with the appointment of Stephen Price as head teacher of Jubilee in the spring of 2013.^[4]

In July 2013, Deputy Head teacher Ciran Stapleton, who served as Head of School during the Salesian/Jubilee partnership, was seconded to St Joseph's Catholic High School in Slough as interim head teacher.^[5] He has since been employed as the head teacher.

In September 2014, Salesian became a Teaching School, as leader of the Salesian Teaching School Alliance.^[6] In September 2015 the school started training teachers as a School Centre for Initial Teacher Training (SCITT),^[7] in partnership with St John the Baptist School, Woking, under the umbrella body Teach SouthEast.^[8] The school is also supporting the work of the Bourne Education Trust^[9] to open a new Free School in Chertsey, following approval by the Department for Education in May 2015.^[10]

Alumni

• John Boorman, British film director
• Tim Brabants, British World Champion Canoeist Olympic K1000 Gold Medallist
• Tony Doyle, Cycling World Pursuit Champion 1980 & 1986
• Andrew Mackinlay, MP
• Martin Freeman, actor^[11]
• Ian Selley, Arsenal FC 1992–1997
• Sir Kieran Prendergast, British diplomat
• Sev Lewkowicz, session musician (Mungo Jerry, Dennis Locorriere)

Extra-Curricular activities

The school has staged productions of Sweet Charity, Bugsy Malone and Grease, The Wizard of Oz and Oliver!. It produces two bi-annual community musical concerts. The school takes part in Young Enterprise events as well as the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme.

External links

• School Website

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