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Kynaston School
Location: Quintin Kynaston School, St Johns Wood, City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom (51.5378°N 0.1770°W). (Marlborough Hill St John's Wood Greater London NW8 0NL England).
Quintin Kynaston School:
Quintin Kynaston Community Academy (QK) is a secondary school in the St John's Wood area of north London, England. It became a Specialist Technology College in 2001, and became an academy in November 2011, changing its name from Quintin Kynaston School. Quintin Kynaston was rated 'outstanding' by Ofsted in its two most recent inspections, in 2008 and December 2011.
History of Quintin Kynaston School:
The school was founded in 1886 by Quintin Hogg (grandfather of the mid-20th-century politician of the same name) as the Polytechnic Secondary School, part of Regent Street Polytechnic. It was named the Polytechnic Boys' Day School from 1886–1919. It was a voluntary aided school.
Grammar school
In 1944 the school became a grammar school, and in 1946 was renamed the Quintin School after Quintin Hogg, who founded Regent Street Polytechnic in 1882. It was a voluntary controlled school. A new building was built in 1956 in St John's Wood. It had around 550 boys.
Comprehensive
The school was renamed Quintin Kynaston School in 1969 after Sir Kynaston Studd OBE, a former president of the Regent Street Polytechnic, and Lord Mayor of London in 1928. It was a boys' comprehensive school when the school merged with the next-door Kynaston Technical School, known as the Paddington Secondary Technical School before 1956. It became 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 Nick Kemp. Jo Shuter continued his work.
In September 2003 the prime minister, Tony Blair, launched the 'Extended Schools' scheme at Quintin Kynaston.[3] Recently QK has become known for its Student Voice 'faculty.' This faculty consists of a Prefect team, a School Council, a Student Leadership Team, Peer Mentors, Community / Subject / Pastoral Leaders and Assistant Youth Workers and an SEN Student Forum. Blair visited the school again in 2006.
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, although this was strongly denied by Debbie Shuter.
Headteachers
In June 2013 the Headteacher, Jo Shuter, resigned following the publication of an Educational Funding Agency report detailing poor accounting and spending controls at the school, including payments for Shuter's fiftieth birthday party.[6] In September 2012 Shuter had been suspended pending an investigation into school finances.[7] Chris Sale was appointed Acting Headteacher.[8] Shuter was reinstated on 13 May 2013 and resigned on 3 June. A statement from the governors of the school at the time of her reinstatement said a "long and robust governors' disciplinary process" had resulted in her receiving a "formal final written warning".[9] Shuter had had the role of both headteacher and school accounting officer.[6] In 2010 Shuter was awarded a CBE in the in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
