SOUTHGATE SCHOOL

'Southgate School' is a secondary school in the London Borough of Enfield. It has approximately 1600 pupils. The school has Specialist Science Status.

Contents

History

Specialist status

Centenary

Notable former pupils

References

History

Founded in 1907^[1] as Southgate County School, the school was originally housed within Broomfield House, Palmers Green.^[2] The school subsequently moved to Fox Lane (also in Palmers Green).
In 1967, the school merged with Oakwood Secondary Modern School which was located in Chase Road, Southgate. In 1960, the Fox Lane site was closed and a new site, in Sussex Way, Cockfosters, was purchased.^[3] The Chase Road site became the lower school, for children in their first three years of secondary education (currently referred to as years 7, 8 and 9). In 1991, the Lower School also moved to the Sussex Way site, with the Chase Road site being sold partly for housing and partly to a private school.

Specialist status

It was awarded Specialist Science Status in September 2004, which it gained through raising £50,000 and being providied with the necessary funding for a science specialist school. It used the funding to generally improve science facilites purchsing new equipment and renewing labs as well as building a high tech hanging lab in the middle of the East Wing building.

Centenary

Summer 2007 sees the end of the hundredth year of Southgate School. There was a celebration on 14th July celebrating this.

Notable former pupils

★ Peter Baker (footballer)⁴

★ John Bourn⁴

★ Matt Di Angelo

★ Lena Jeger, Baroness Jeger⁴

★ George Mitchell^[4]

★ Warren Mitchell⁴

★ Victoria Shalet

★ Phil Tufnell

★ Stephen Twigg

★ Sid Owen

★ Matthew Morris (Entrepreneur)

References