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Leyton Sixth Form College
Address
Essex Road Leyton, Greater London, E10 6EQ England
Information
Type	Sixth form college
Motto	Success at a Caring College
Established	1929 (1985)
Local authority	Greater London LSC (although in Waltham Forest LEA)
Department for Education URN	130457 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Principal	Mr Kevin Watson
Gender	Co-educational
Age	16 to 19
Enrollment	1950
Website	http://www.leyton.ac.uk

Leyton Sixth Form College is a mixed, 16-19 Sixth Form college on Essex Road in the London Borough of Waltham Forest.

Admissions

The school holds more than 6500 students. The college is situated close to the Greenwich Meridian, about 300 metres south of the A104 road, and west of the Whipps Cross University Hospital. The school offers more than 35 A level subjects and more than hundrends BTEC's course. The school has formal partnerships with Queen Mary University of London and the University of Westminster.

History

Grammar school

Leyton County High School for Boys, was formed in 1916 by amalgamation of Leyton and Leytonstone high schools. The school occupied temporary premises at Connaught Road until 1929, when it moved to new buildings in Essex Road. The opening was performed by the Prince of Wales. It was a selective grammar school for boys aged 11 to 18. The analogue of this school was the Leyton County High School for Girls on Colworth Road. Head Master for the school in the 1940-1949 period was Dr Couch, a cousin of Dr Quiller-Couch. He presided over the school while it housed first-year pupils at Ruckholt Road annex, a building partly damaged in the World War 2 air raids on the nearby Temple Mills marshalling yard. The site is now a car sales outlet. No doubt there was an influx of pupils at the end of the war that could not be accommodated in other Grammar Schools that had been damaged in that area of South West Essex.

Sixth form college

In 1968, Waltham Forest adopted of the comprehensive system and in its new guise it catered for mixed-ability 14-18 year-old boys as Leyton Senior High School for Boys before a re-organisation in 1985 led a change of role as a co-educational sixth form college.

Former teachers

• David Flaxen, Director of Statistics from 1989-96 at the Department of Transport (taught in 1963)
• Sir William Emrys Williams, Editor in Chief from 1935-65 of Penguin Books (taught English in the 1920s)
• Phil Woosnam, footballer for West Ham (taught Physics in the late 1950s)

Alumni

• Lomana LuaLua, footballer
• Tim Stoner, painter

Leyton County High School for Boys

• Sir George Bolton, Chairman from 1957-70 of the Bank of London and South America
• Alan Booth, travel writer
• Prof Sir Giles Brindley, Professor of Physiology in the University of London at the Institute of Psychiatry from 1968–91
• Prof Bernard Corry, economist at Queen Mary College
• Prof Robert Gibson, Professor of French from 1965-94 at the University of Kent at Canterbury
• Prof Laurance Hall, Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry from 1985-2004 at the University of Cambridge, who worked on early NMR spectroscopy
• Steve Harris of Iron Maiden
• Frank Hawkins, Chairman from 1959-73 of International Tea Co. Stores
• Sir Derek Jacobi CBE, actor
• Prof Ralph Kekwick, Professor of Biophysics from 1966-71 at The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine (part of London University), who pioneered blood plasma fractionation
• John Lill CBE, pianist
• Philip Burton Moon, Poynting Professor of Physics in the University of Birmingham from 1950–74, part of the Manhattan Project
• Frank Muir, broadcaster
• Zulfiqar Hussain, Chairman of Raeburn Energy Limited.
• Jonathan Ross, former BBC presenter
• Paul Ross, radio presenter
• Eric Shilling, bass-baritone
• Sir Philip Wilkinson, Chief Executive from 1983-7 of NatWest
• Peter Winch, philosopher
• Nick Logan, former editor NME, founder editor Smash Hits, editor/publisher The Face, Arena, Arena Homme Plus
• Bobby Crush entertainer.

References

2. A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6 (1973), pp. 233-240. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42774
3. http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/result_details.asp?DocID=87907

External links

• Leyton SFC
• OFSTED report
• EduBase

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