Chigwell School is an English co-educational public school in Chigwell, in the Epping Forest district of Essex. It was founded by Samuel Harsnett (a former Archbishop of York) in 1629. There are around 730 pupils aged between 7 and 18 years. A motto (from Italian) is a phrase or a short list of words meant formally to describe the general motivation or intention of an entity, social group, or organization. ... Educational institutions are often categorised along several dimensions. ... Public school in the United Kingdom is a label applied to certain fee-paying independent schools in England and Wales; in Scotland and Ireland it is heard less often in this sense (and indeed in Scotland the phrase has long been an alternative name for council schools in the state... Samuel Harsnett (June 1561 - May 1631) was an English writer on religion and Archbishop of York from 1629. ... Key Stage 2 is the legal term for the four years of schooling in maintained schools in England and Wales normally known as Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6, when pupils are aged between 7 and 11. ... England, Wales, Northern Ireland The sixth form, in the English, Welsh and Northern Irish education systems, is the term used to refer to the final two years of secondary schooling (when students are about sixteen to eighteen years of age), during which students normally prepare for their GCE A-level... Chigwell is a civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex. ... Essex is a county in the East of England. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem specific to England — the anthem of the United Kingdom is God Save the Queen. See also Proposed English National Anthems. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Coeducation is the integrated education of men and women. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Chigwell is a civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex. ... Epping Forest is a local government district of the county of Essex, England. ... Essex is a county in the East of England. ... Samuel Harsnett (June 1561 - May 1631) was an English writer on religion and Archbishop of York from 1629. ...

The school is situated between Epping Forest and Hainault Forest and ten miles away from London. It is represented on the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference (HMC) and the Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools (IAPS). The Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference (HMC) is an association of the headmasters or headmistressess of 242 leading day and boarding independent boys and coeducational schools in the United Kingdom, Crown dependencies and the Republic of Ireland. ... A preparatory school, or prep school in the United Kingdom, and previously in the British Empire and so the Commonwealth in current English usage, is an independent school designed to prepare a student for fee-paying, secondary independent school (public school). ...

The school motto is aut viam inveniam aut faciam, a Latin phrase which translates literally as Either I shall find a way or I shall make one, but is usually rendered as Find a way or make a way.

There are four day houses, named Caswalls, Lambournes, Penns, and Swallows. The boarding houses are Grange Court, Sandon Lodge, and Hainault House.

Examination Results 2006

A Levels: 100% pass rate, with 90% of all grades at A or B. The A-level, short for Advanced Level, is a General Certificate of Education qualification in the United Kingdom, usually taken by students during the optional final two years of secondary school (Years 12 & 13, commonly called the Sixth Form), or at a separate sixth form college or further education college...

GCSEs: 99% of grades were passed at grades A*-C, 89% at A*-B, and 27% of all grades at A*. GCSE is an acronym that can refer to: General Certificate of Secondary Education global common subexpression elimination - an optimisation technique used by some compilers This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Some Famous Old Chigwellians

• Douglas Ambrose OBE, chemist.
• Eric Bailey OBE, journalist, broadcaster and colonial administrator.
• George Baker OBE CBE, High Commissioner of Papua New Guinea (1974-1977).
• Ken Campbell, actor
• Edward Casall, classical scholar and writer of hymns, music master at Chigwell.
• Tim Collins, Conservative politician.
• William Cotton, Governor of the Bank of England, who famously set fire to th Headmaster’s garden.
• Frank Goodhart DSO, First World War submarine commander whose submarine bore the Chigwel crest and motto.
• Sir Arthur Grimble, colonial governor.
• Sir Austin Bradford Hill, pioneering medical researcher who discovered the link btween smoking and cancer.
• Sir Ian Holm, actor.
• Anthony Hossack (1882-1886) England Cricketer of the 1890s.
• William Penn, Quaker leader and founder of the American state of Pennsylvania.
• Horace Smith, nineteenth-century poet.*
• William Wilberforce, Anti Slavery advocate.
• Michael Marshall Smith, novelist.
• Ben Shephard, television presenter.
• Sir Bernard Williams, philosopher and Provost of King's College, Cambridge.
• Nicholas Williams, scholar of the Irish and Cornish languages.
• Timothy Williams, crime novelist.

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Notable masters

• Anthony Little, headmaster, 1990-1997 - now headmaster of Eton College

Anthony R. M. Little MA (Cantab) (born 1954), also known as Tony Little, is a leading English educationalist who was headmaster of Chigwell School and Oakham School before becoming headmaster of Eton College in 2002. ... The Kings College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, commonly known as Eton College or just Eton, is a public school (privately funded and independent) for boys, founded in 1440 by King Henry VI. It is located in Eton, Berkshire, near Windsor in England, situated north of Windsor...

Trivia

In 1979 an underground passage was discovered running underneath Chigwell high road linking the oldest school building to the cellar of the pub opposite, King's Head inn, although it is now blocked off. This was presumably a secret passage to allow an escape route for clergy in earlier times of religious persecution. Secret passages are sometimes concealed using large items of furniture, such as this reconstruction of the bookcase that covered the entrance to Anne Franks secret room. ...

External links

• Chigwell School website
• Old Chigwellians' website
• archive mentioning tunnel