• Source: Fox Primary School

      • Fox Primary School is a primary school in London for children between the ages of 4 and 11, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is located on Kensington Place, between Kensington Church Street and Notting Hill Gate.
      The school has a playground on each side. Prior to the 1960s the school was infants only, aged 5 – 7. The Junior School was adjacent, a Church of England school called St George's School. St George's had no playground and shared the Fox School playgrounds. During the Second World War, pupils from the school were evacuated and taught at Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. The school has a large new addition to its land, completed in 2017.


      History



      The school was founded in 1842, as a charity school "for the education of children of the labouring, manufacturing and other poorer classes" of Kensington by Caroline Fox. Fox was the only daughter of Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland, of Holland House, Kensington, sister of Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland, who owned most of the land within the manor of Kensington, and niece of the Whig statesman Charles James Fox.
      At the time of the school's establishment Fox was living at Little Holland House, on the west side of today's Holland Park, and the school was sited nearby. In 1876 the school was taken over by the London School Board and moved to a new site in Silver Street, today the northern end of Kensington Church Street. The school moved a third time in 1937 to its present site on Kensington Place.


      Notable former pupils



      Melissa Benn
      Nathaniel Parker
      Darcey Bussell
      Sophia Myles
      Miquita Oliver
      Shawn Emanuel
      Milton Mermikides


      Notable former teachers



      Ivor Cutler
      Honor Blackman


      Citations




      References


      "School Profile". Fox Primary School. 2008. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
      Ross, Alistair (1998). "Children becoming historians: an oral history project in a primary school". The Oral History Reader. Routledge. p. 432. ISBN 9780415133524. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
      Alive and Kicking - British Poets: Ivor Cutler and Friends, London Weekend Television, 1971, archived from the original on 29 January 2009, retrieved 5 July 2013
      Endowed Charities (County of London). Vol. IV. H.M. Stationery Office. 1901. pp. 471–2.
      Walker, Annabel; Jackson, Peter (1987). Kensington & Chelsea: A Social and Architectural History. London: John Murray. p. 10. ISBN 9780719543449. Retrieved 25 May 2024.
      Sheppard, F. H. W., ed. (1973). "The Holland estate: Since 1874". Northern Kensington. Survey of London. Vol. 37. London: British History Online. pp. 126–50. Retrieved 25 May 2024.


      External links


      School profile on Directgov
      2009 test scores
      2005 test scores
      OFSTED reports

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