Quintin Kynaston Community Academy

Quintin Kynaston
Type Academy
Headteacher Alex Atherton
Location Marlborough Hill
St John's Wood
Greater London
NW8 0NL
England
Coordinates: 51°32′16″N 0°10′37″W / 51.5378°N 0.1770°W / 51.5378; -0.1770
DfE number 213/4295
DfE URN 137646 Tables
Ofsted Reports Pre-academy reports
Students 1312
Gender Mixed
Ages 11–18
Colours Pale blue
Website Quintin Kynaston

Quintin Kynaston (QK) is a secondary school in the St John's Wood area of north London, England. It was created in 1969 by merging two pre-existing schools—Quintin grammar school and Kynaston comprehensive school—both of which had been constructed almost side by side on the same site and opened at the same time, September 1956.

The merged school of 1969 was called Quintin Kynaston School. It became a Specialist Technology College in 2001,[1] a Foundation School in 2008,[2] and an Academy in November 2011, keeping its name throughout as Quintin Kynaston School until 2015, when the school renamed itself Quintin Kynaston.[3]

Quintin Kynaston was rated 'outstanding' by Ofsted in two previous inspections, in 2008 and December 2011, but lost its 'outstanding' rating during the most recent Ofsted visit in September 2014. The school was judged as 'requires improvement' because standards are not consistently in line with or above the national average in all subjects. The majority of the individual judgements are ‘good’, including leadership and management, behaviour and safety and sixth form.

Its new building opened to students on 12 January 2015 and was designed by van Heyningen and Haward Architects. The building is situated on Marlborough Hill next to the west side of the A41 in the north of the borough of Westminster in St John's Wood, close to the boundary with the Borough of Camden, and just south of South Hampstead railway station and the junction with the B509.

In March 2015 QK received unwelcome publicity with the revelation that Mohammed Emwazi, the ISIL killer who was portrayed in the media as "Jihadi John", had been a student at the school, leaving it in 2006.[4]

History

Quintin school was founded in 1886 by Quintin Hogg[5] (grandfather of the mid-20th-century politician of the same name) as the Polytechnic Secondary School, part of Regent Street Polytechnic. Named the Polytechnic Boys' Day School from 1886–1919, it was a voluntary aided school.

Prior to 1956, in a different location, Kynaston had been known as Paddington Secondary Technical School.

Grammar and Comprehensive Schools

In 1944 Quintin became a grammar school, and in 1946 was renamed the Quintin School after Quintin Hogg, who founded the Polytechnic at Regent Street in 1882 building on the legacy of the Royal Polytechnic Institution. It was a voluntary controlled school. A new building was built in 1956 in St John's Wood. It had around 550 boys.

Also in September 1956, Quintin's next-door-neighbour, Kynaston School, opened as a county comprehensive, named after Sir Kynaston Studd OBE, a former president of the Royal Polytechnic at Regent Street, and Lord Mayor of London in 1928. Kynaston School was among the small number of early comprehensive schools in the U.K., which combined a non-restrictive admissions policy with, in essence, three kinds of education in one—roughly matching that found in grammar, secondary modern and technical schools (Kynaston was equipped with extensive technical labs in part financed by corporate donations).

The Quintin School,1956

This approach allowed children from all social classes and income levels to attend a new kind of school with equal opportunity, something that had often been denied them by more elite traditional grammar schools. Depending on their aptitudes and preferences and work, students could find their own levels. They could advance to university or some other kind of college, or leave school earlier and enter business or become an apprentice. Whichever path they took, they would be well prepared, This philosophy of education would go a long way to providing opportunities and removing class divisions and lack of life chances in general, and it became the basis of the merged Quintin-Kynaston School of 1969.

Comprehensive

Quintin and Kynaston merged in 1969 as a single new comprehensive school, renamed Quintin-Kynaston School, becoming co-educational in 1976.

During the period of 1990s – 2001, the school had issues usually associated with problem schools in inner city areas. This was gradually rectified by new head teacher Nick Kemp.

In 2002 Joanna Shuter was appointed head teacher. In September 2003 the prime minister, Tony Blair, launched the 'Extended Schools' scheme at Quintin Kynaston.[6] In May 2005, the school featured in the 30-minute BBC documentary Head on the Block, made by the headteacher's sister, Debbie Shuter. It was not broadcast as planned because the BBC decided that it broke their rules on objectivity.[7][8] Blair visited the school again in 2006.

After being named Headteacher of the Year in a Secondary School in 2007,[9] and receiving a CBE in 2010, Shuter resigned in May 2013 and was replaced by Alex Atherton. In May 2014 Shuter was banned for life from the classroom by the National College for Teaching and Leadership after admitting the misuse of public funds on various personal expenses during her tenure.[10] After an appeal the decision was revised in November 2014 to allow Shuter to challenge the prohibition order after two years.[11]

Academic performance

The school has successfully created many 'school systems' that are now being used in other schools. In September 2004 the school received an excellent OFSTED report. The Section 5 Ofsted inspection of 10 December 2008 characterised QK as "an outstanding school and exceptionally well led by its inspirational headteacher".[12] Following the most recent Ofsted inspection in September 2014, the school has been downgraded to 'requires improvement' because standards are not consistently in line with or above the national average in all subjects.

It gets the third best GCSE results in Westminster LEA with above average results. Results at A level are weaker – below the national average, however the school performs strongly in measures of contextual value added.

Headteachers

Headteachers[13] Era School
Dr V Butler-Smith 1886–1892 Polytechnic Day School for Boys
Charles Mitchell and David Woodhall 1892–c.1918 Polytechnic Commercial School and Polytechnic Technical School respectively
Percy Abbott 1919–1934 Polytechnic Secondary School
Frederick Wilkinson 1934–1937 Polytechnic Secondary School
Dr Bernard Worsnop 1937–1958 Polytechnic Secondary School and The Quintin School
A J Holt 1958–1969 The Quintin School
T G Jones 1956–1959 Kynaston School
G H Harmer 1959–1969 Kynaston School
A J Holt 1969–1972 Quintin Kynaston School
Peter Mitchell 1972–1983 Quintin Kynaston School
Laurie Goodhand 1983–1986 Quintin Kynaston School
Sheila Madgwick 1987–1994 Quintin Kynaston School
Nicholas Elliott-Kemp 1994–2001 Quintin Kynaston School
Jo Shuter 2002–2013 Quintin Kynaston School / Community Academy
Alex Atherton 2014– Quintin Kynaston Academy

Notable former pupils

Quintin School

Polytechnic Secondary School

References

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  10. "Head teacher Jo Shuter banned for life over personal expenses". BBC News. 13 May 2014. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  11. "Prohibition Order – Ms Joanna Shuter" (PDF). National College for Teaching and Leadership. 28 November 2014. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
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