Lampton School

Lampton School is a secondary school and sixth form with academy status located in Hounslow, west London, England.

Admissions

Lampton is a Leading Edge school, and is a training school which currently has around 1,358 students on roll. Lampton borders the A4 (Great West Road) in Hounslow, and is next to Lampton Park. This is about one mile west of Spring Grove, and a mile south of the M4 near Heston. Osterley Park is a mile to the north-east. Its ethnic mix reflects that of the local area, with most students being of South Asian heritage. The school has a wide range of ethnicities, including white British, Polish, and many more from across the world. Around 30% of students receive free school meals.

Lampton also offers a 6th Form for pupils aged 16 and over, which takes the majority of its intake from Lampton GCSE students, but is also open to applicants from outside the school. The headteacher is Stephen Davis. He was preceded by Sue John, also known as Dame Susan Elizabeth John (born 1953), who was knighted in 2012 for her service to education.

History

Lampton School used to be known as Spring Grove Grammar School, a grammar school before being converted to a comprehensive. The school gained its Humanities Specialist status in 2003, a designation which enabled the building of the Language and Learning Zone (LLZ), a multi-media and Information and communication technologies suite situated at the western end of the Spring Grove building.

In recent years an ultra-modern Sixth Form Block resembling a barn was constructed on what used to be a hockey gravel pit.

Murder of Lynne Weedon

One of Britain's most high-profile unsolved murders occurred outside the school in September 1975. At approximately 11:20pm on the evening of 3 September 1975, a 16-year-old schoolgirl named Lynne Weedon was hit over the head with a blunt object by an unidentified attacker in the 'School Walk' alleyway (also known as the 'Short Hedges'), which provides access to the school from the Great West Road.

The site of Weedon's murder remains largely unchanged today. The electricity sub-station where she was found remains next to the School Walk alleyway, as does the original fence she was thrown over by her attacker.

Academic performance

The last OFSTED inspection, in 2013, found the school to be "outstanding". In 2009 Ofsted highlighted Lampton as one of 67 good schools serving disadvantaged communities.

Prime Minister's Global Fellowship

The school has a good record of students attaining places on the Prime Minister's Global Fellowship programme. The school achieved its first student in the inaugural year of the programme, 2008, and in 2009 had two more successful applicants.

Notable former pupils

• Hammasa Kohistani, Miss England 2005
• Owais Shah, cricketer

Spring Grove Grammar School

• Sylvia Cheeseman, 100m sprinter, won bronze in the 4x100m relay at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki
• Robert Gurth Hughes, Conservative MP from 1987 to 1997 for Harrow West, and chief executive of the Association of Optometrists, since 2005.
• Ian McLagan, musician, including with the rock bands Small Faces and Faces.

References

External links

• Lampton School official website
• Teacher suspended in 2008