A warm How to get in touch welcome from with us our Chairman Schools The Whitgift Foundation was established more than four centuries ago as a hospital for the poor and needy and a TRINITY SCHOOL Tel: 020 8656 9541 Shirley Park Fax: 020 8655 0522 school house located on the corner of Croydon Email: [email protected] CR9 7AT Web: www.trinity-school.org North End and George Street, Croydon. These two buildings were the philanthropic vision of our WHITGIFT SCHOOL Tel: 020 8688 9222 founder, Archbishop John Whitgift, who had a desire to Haling Park Fax: 020 8760 0682 support the more vulnerable population of Croydon – South Croydon Email: [email protected] CR2 6YT Web: www.whitgift.co.uk the elderly and the young. Since then, the Foundation’s amazing history has become entwined with that of Croydon, and the Foundation remains as committed to the local area as it was more than 400 years ago. This year has seen landmark achievements across the Foundation. We granted in excess of £5million OLD PALACE OF Tel: 020 8688 2027 in bursaries so that more than 42% of 3000 pupils who JOHN WHITGIFT SCHOOL Fax: 020 8680 5877 attend Trinity, Old Palace and Whitgift, receive financial Old Palace Road Email: [email protected] Croydon Web: www.oldpalace.croydon.sch.uk assistance with school fees. This has enabled us to foster CR0 1AX strong and inclusive communities with pupils from all backgrounds. The schools not only achieved another year of outstanding academic and co-curricular success, they have supported the local community Whitgift Care through a number of initiatives. Our care homes have received awards for their excellent provision of care and we continue to expand our day care to the local community. We also opened the Carers Support Centre in central Croydon, a ground breaking initiative with The Croydon Council to support the Borough’s carers. We have been involved in a number of projects to benefit Croydon. This summer, we delivered the first Tel: 020 8760 0472 ANNUAL JOURNAL WHITGIFT HOUSE ever Croydon Heritage Festival to celebrate the town’s 76 Brighton Road Email: [email protected] South Croydon Web: www.whitgiftcare.co.uk 2012/13 rich and colourful history and heritage. We have played CR2 6AB a central role in Croydon’s regeneration by working WILHELMINA HOUSE Tel: 020 8760 0933 alongside Westfield and Hammerson PLC to achieve 21 Park Hill Rise Email: [email protected] Croydon Web: www.whitgiftcare.co.uk much needed improvements to Croydon’s town centre CR0 5JF and support the future success of the town. THE ALMSHOUSES Tel: 020 8649 8432 During the coming year, we will continue to fulfil our North End Email: [email protected] Croydon Web: www.whitgiftcare.co.uk founder’s aims by transforming the lives of many more CR9 1SS children and young people through educational excellence; providing inclusive and caring communities for older people and supporting many more carers in the Borough. We remain committed to a transformational change for the town centre and look forward to a bright carers’ information service future for Croydon. Passionate about Croydon for over 400 years Visit us at www.whitgiftfoundation.co.uk CARERS’ SUPPORT CENTRE Tel: 020 8649 9339 24 George Street Fax: 020 8686 3472 Croydon Email: [email protected] CR0 1PB Web: www.carersinfo.org.uk THE WHITGIFT FOUNDATION | NORTH END | CROYDON | SURREY | CR9 1SS TEL: 020 8680 8499 | FAX: 020 8681 2553 | EMAIL: [email protected] Ian Harley Chairman 1596 The Whitgift Foundation was founded contents The Foundation Schools 4 Trinity School 5 Old Palace of John Whitgift School 6 Whitgift School 7 Whitgift Care 8 Carers’ Information Service 10 Croydon Heritage Festival 12 A Year in Numbers 14 03 The Whitgift Foundation 2012/13 annual Journal 03 We educate 3,000 pupils The FOUNDATION SCHOOLS key achievements Oxbridge success A record 14 pupils were admitted to Oxbridge following excellent examination results in August 2013. Girls at Trinity Trinity’s first cohort of girls to graduate achieved stellar A-level results with 67% A*-A grades. London’s first All-Steinway secondary school In autumn 2012 Trinity became London’s first all-Steinway School thanks to the arrival of 15 grand pianos. trinity School of John Whitgift Business and Enterprise For the third year running, a team of “At Trinity I feel that my son and his future Trinity sixth-form pupils won the ifs Student Investor Challenge where students are are in the best possible hands.” required to invest a virtual £100,000 in shares over a four month period. Competing with over 7500 teams they finished first with These words from a Junior Year parent encapsulate the richness of a final portfolio value of over £200,000. experience offered by Trinity School to all its pupils. Trinity’s strong academic results regularly place it among the top schools in the country – it has achieved the best combined GCSE and A-Level results of any school in the Borough of Croydon for five years running. Giving back to the The School admits boys from the age of 10 and welcomes girls into community its Sixth Form. Students come from a wide geographical area and Trinity won three awards for its around half benefit from The Whitgift Foundation’s generous bursary commitment to the community at the 2012 and scholarship policy. Trinity’s Music Department is one of the finals of Croydon Community Civic Awards, best-known in Britain and pupils can take part in over 50 different including the prestigious School of the Year ensembles. The School was recently awarded the Pro Corda Special Award. It has also won the Independent Award for Schools in recognition of its “outstanding contribution” to Schools Award 2013 in the ‘Outstanding chamber music playing. The only school choir to be invited to sing Community Initiative’ category for its regularly in the BBC Proms, its pupils have sung on prime time TV shows Trinity Museum project. and appear frequently at The Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne and with major London orchestras as well as internationally. Trinity has an outstanding reputation for sporting excellence. The Sport School is extremely proud of the large number of International, In a year of record participation levels District and County honours achieved by its pupils, and of its team in Trinity sports, and a requirement for successes across a wide range of sports including football, hockey, extra storage in its trophy cabinet, five rugby, swimming, cricket and water polo. boys and two girls represented England internationally in rugby, football, golf, There is much more to Trinity than purely academic, musical water polo and cross country, whilst one or sporting success! The School encourages families to come member of the coaching staff earned his 100th International cap for hockey. and experience for themselves the friendliness, wide range of achievements and enthusiasm, coupled with superb facilities that makes a Trinity education so special. 03 The Whitgift Foundation 2012/13 annual Journal 05 key achievements Excellent examination results in 2013 44% of all A-Level grades were A* or A, with students continuing their studies at leading universities including Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial and Durham. 82% of students achieved their first choice of university. 100% pass rate at GCSE – 58% A/A*. Masterclasses and community outreach On Saturday afternoons throughout the year, Old Palace opened its door to the wider community for Masterclasses for Year 5 and old PALACE 6 students in Music, Drama, Dance, Science, Mathematics, Sport, and Modern Foreign of John Whitgift School Languages. Many students from local primary schools attended and were able to enjoy the teaching offered at Old Palace. “The School successfully encourages pupils’ understanding and enjoyment of the rich range of cultures and beliefs Parental engagement in represented in the school community. Pupils are well the curriculum prepared to play a full part in adult life and are ambitious for their own futures.” Throughout the year, Old Palace hosted a vibrant parental workshop programme. Good Schools Guide, 2012 Parents were invited to Old Palace for talks by teachers who assisted them with On London’s most ancient site of thinking and learning, dating back curriculum matters, the School Nurse to 896AD, stands Old Palace of John Whitgift School. Known previously advised on health and lifestyle issues, and as Croydon Palace, and a former residence of the Archbishop of support staff were able to advise on internet Canterbury, the site has Croydon Minster as its neighbour. The main safety and other critical issues. Parental building of the school is steeped in history as the footsteps of Kings feedback was overwhelmingly positive. and Queens have graced its corridors. Our surroundings stimulate boys and girls aged three months to four Musical at Glyndebourne years at Old Palace Nursery, and girls aged 4 to 18 through Preparatory and Seniors to develop and flourish in ways beyond the reach of a Students have received national recognition conventional education. For example, not every girls’ school in the at Garsington and Glyndebourne as part country can boast the opportunity to sing cathedral repertoire every of the Hänsel und Gretel production. At Preparatory, Years 2-3 Palace Singers won week just next door in Croydon Minster. the choral section of the Croydon Music At Old Palace, education means more than excellent academic Festival, whilst Years 4-5 Palace Singers performed exceptionally well in the results. We offer a unique and broad education within a rigorous Coulsdon and Purley Music Festival, winning framework that embraces service, courage, knowledge and the Junior Choral Shield for being the highest emotional intelligence.