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The Latymer School
Address
Haselbury Road Edmonton, Greater London, N9 9TN England
Coordinates	51°37′30″N 0°04′28″W / 51.6250°N 0.0744°W / 51.6250; -0.0744
Information
Type	Voluntary aided grammar school
Motto	Template:Lang-la ("He who endures wins")
Established	1624; 401 years ago (1624)
Founder	Edward Latymer
Local authority	Enfield Council
Department for Education URN	102055 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Chair of the Governing Board	Stephen Way
Headteacher	Maureen Cobbett
Staff	141 (as of Nov 2016)
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11 to 18
Enrolment	1365 (2016–17 Academic Year)
Houses	Ashworth   Dolbé   Keats   Lamb   Latymer   Wyatt
Colour(s)	Royal & Navy Blue
Website	https://www.latymer.co.uk

The Latymer School is a selective, mixed grammar school in Edmonton, London, England, established in 1624 by Edward Latymer.

History and traditions

Latymer was established in 1624 on Church Street, Edmonton by bequest of Edward Latymer, a London City merchant in Hammersmith. Although most of his wealth passed to the people of Hammersmith and the Parish of St Dunstan's (now Latymer Upper School), he named certain properties and estates to fund the education and livelihoods of "eight poore boies of Edmonton" with a doublet, a pair of breeches, a shirt, a pair of woollen stockings and shoes distributed biannually on Ascension Day and All Saints' Day. Pupils wore the red Latymer cross on their sleeves.

In 1662, John Wild of Edmonton made a bequest for the annual maintenance of a schoolmaster and a poor scholar at Cambridge. In 1697, Thomas Style extended the bequest to fund the education of "twenty poor boys ... Grammar and Latin tongue." Several similar benefactions produced about £550 per annum, which funded the instruction of more than one hundred boys, of which sixty were clothed. In 1811, Ann Wyatt, a widow from Hackney, willed her Navy Annuities for the construction and maintenance of a new school. The school-room was built in 1811 in accordance to her will.

The school did not take on Latymer's name for some centuries; when it finally did, it was known as Latymer's School. At some point, the apostrophe was dropped and the name modified to the Latymer School. It has been situated on its present site since 1910, when it also became coeducational.

The school motto, Qui Patitur Vincit ('Who endures wins'), was also adopted in 1910 by Richard Ashworth, then headmaster. Prior to this, the motto was Palmam Qui Meruit Ferat ('Let he who bears the palm (of honour) deserve it').

The school has formal links with St John's College, Cambridge (Edward Latymer's College) and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (the College of Edward Latymer's father, William Latymer) which have endowments which may be used for the furtherance of the studies of former Latymer pupils at those colleges.

In 1967 the school switched to a comprehensive intake as a result of Circular 10/65, a request from the Labour government to local education authorities to plan for conversion to a fully comprehensive education system. However, a certain amount of informal selection still took place in liaison with local primary schools.

In 1988, Latymer took advantage of the Education Reform Act 1988 to become a Grant-Maintained school with selective entrance exams once more. Grant-maintained status was abolished by the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 and Latymer reverted to voluntary aided status.

School site

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Much of the north end of the school (principally the Small Hall and surrounding rooms) was built in 1910 after the Old Latymer Schoolhouse (Built mainly by Ann Wyatt and extended in the time of Charles Dolbé) in Church Street was abandoned. The buildings on the present site were provided by Middlesex County Council at a cost of £6,782, and accommodated 150 pupils. Twelve classrooms built in 1924 in the North Block allowed pupil capacity to triple.

The Great Hall, science laboratories and South Block were opened in a ceremony in 1928 by the Duke and Duchess of York. Fully equipped with stage and seating for over 1,000 people, the hall is used for school assemblies, concerts, drama productions and other major events. It is home to the Davis organ, which was repaired and upgraded in 2005.

The gymnasia, art studios and technology block were opened in 1966 by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. The 12 science laboratories and 6 technology rooms (including facilities for graphic design, product design, textiles and cookery) were re-equipped and modernised in the late 1990s.

Much of the school was modernised in the time of Trefor Jones. The balconies were altered in the Great Hall so that the pillars were not so obstructive to the view of the stage and the balustrade removed and replaced with panels of fluted light oak. Dark green tiles adorned the walls below the dado rail in much of the older parts of the school which were removed and the walls refinished.

The sixth form common room was converted in 2000 from the Jones Lecture Theatre, which had itself been converted from a gymnasium to mark the retirement of Jones as Headmaster in 1970. The sixth form study area was built as the common room in 1984 to mark the retirement of headteacher Edward Kelly. Upon the conversion of the Jones Lecture Theatre to the common room, the 1984 building was made into a space for the sixth form to study in their free periods and a connecting building was built between the two, housing offices for the Head of the Sixth Form and a servery for sixth form students.

The 'Mills Building' (named after the former head Geoffrey Mills), a performing arts complex, was opened in the spring of 2000 to service the Music, Drama and Media Studies departments.

The school owns a residential outdoor pursuits centre in Snowdonia National Park, Wales. The centre, Ysgol Latymer, was established on the site of an old primary school situated in the small village of Cwm Penmachno (5 miles from Betws-y-Coed) in 1966, as a 'school away from school'. Since, the school has developed it into a residential centre, accommodating up to forty staff and pupils. It acts as a base of operations for week-long trips in the first year.

The school owns 12 acres (49,000 m) of playing fields laid out for football, hockey, rugby union, cricket, rounders and athletics according to season.

A new Sports and Dining Complex was opened in a ceremony by Princess Anne on 18 May 2006. The facility is a brownfield development, occupying only slightly more area than the previous catering facility from the 1940s. Various environmentally friendly measures are incorporated into its design, including solar panels providing hot water, sun pipes reducing the need for artificial lighting and wind catchers to provide ventilation.

In September 2022 a new 3G all-weather football pitch was opened on the playing field, built with funding from the Football Foundation.

Ofsted judgements

The school underwent its most recent Ofsted inspection on 24 March 2022, when it received an overall grade of 'Good', after having previously been graded 'Outstanding' on 25 January 2008.

League table results

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The school was awarded 'State Secondary School of the Year' in 'Parent Power', published by The Sunday Times newspaper in 2009. In that same year, 91.9% of GCSE examinations achieved grades A and A*, and 76.4% of entries gained A-grades at A-level (more than any other state school), while 93% obtained A or B grades.

In 2019, Latymer was listed in 'Parent Power' as the top co-educational state school in London and fifth co-educational state secondary school in the UK.

Notable former pupils

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In entertainment

• Evelyn Ankers, actress, known as "the Queen of the B movies"
• Clare-Hope Ashitey, actress
• Eileen Atkins, actress
• Ritchie Coster, actor
• Bruce Forsyth, entertainer
• Vivian Oparah, actress, "Tanya" in Class, spin-off of Doctor Who
• Tim Pope, director
• Mike Scott, television producer and presenter
• Leslie Welch, radio and television personality, the Memory Man
• Aubrey Woods, actor, best known for performing "The Candy Man" in the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

In politics

• Syed Kamall, Conservative MEP
• Albert Meltzer, anarcho-communist writer
• Ash Sarkar, British journalist and left-wing political activist
• David Walder, Conservative Party politician

In academia

• Mark Abrams, social scientist
• John Horlock, vice-chancellor, Open University, 1981–90
• Liz Jolly, Chief Librarian, The British Library (from 2018)
• John Prebble, historian and novelist
• Stephen Wheatcroft, economist and civil aviation expert influential in founding of British Airways
• Yorick Wilks, artificial intelligence pioneer

In sport

• Ted Blake, trampoline pioneer
• Johnny Haynes, former Fulham F.C. and England football captain
• Leslie Medley, former Spurs and England footballer.
• Arthur Sanders, footballer
• Mark Warburton, manager of Queens Park Rangers

In music

• James Blake, British electronic artist.
• Grace Chatto, cellist in British electronic music band Clean Bandit
• Richard Cook, music writer, former executive of PolyGram records
• B.J. Wilson, original drummer of Procol Harum

Other

• Nick Holtam, 78th bishop of Salisbury
• Philip John North, bishop of Burnley
• William Rolls, flying ace of the Second World War

References

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External links

• Official website
• A summary of Latymer's academic performance Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
• A detailed history of the Latymer schools at British History Online
• Profile at the Good Schools Guide

• Educational institutions established in the 1620s
• Grammar schools in the London Borough of Enfield
• 1624 establishments in England
• Voluntary aided schools in London
• Edmonton, London