Search the Community

Archbishop Tenison’s has a great history, one that goes right back to 1685. We are a small school and this means that we can offer the very best in pastoral and academic support. We try to ensure that a family atmosphere exists and that all students are known by staff. Our commitment is to provide all our young people with the best educational experience irrespective of starting points. Our focus is to enable them to understand that education is key in our changing world of work, and we teach that our core values of Compassion, Hard Work, Accountability, Respect, and Trust (CHART) are essential values for all successful relationships. Our vision is that “Together we aim for excellence, together we achieve and together we succeed”. We aim to be the school of choice for local families. We are committed to providing both the best pastoral care and the highest academic rigor for our students and seek to ensure that all of them leave the school with the best possible skills and qualifications. This is our fifth successive year with all our leavers now in education, employment, or training. Many of our recent students are now attending prestigious universities such as Warwick, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, and Camberwell School of Art. We are committed to raising standards and enabling all students to make rapid progress. We are confident that, with some excellent new staff, we will see attainment and rates of progress rise. The combination of academic success and excellent pastoral care allows all students to thrive and enables them to become independent young people. We are determined to follow through with our vision of excellence, achievement, and success. We will be relentless in ensuring that there are no gaps in our attainment and that no student is left behind. The systems and structures in the school have been reviewed and how we do things has been changed. There is significant support for the school both from the Local Authority and the Southwark Diocese. Archbishop Tension will become part of the Southwark Diocesan Board of Education Multi-Academy Trust and will convert to an academy by September 2018. The School has continued to provide a high-quality education for boys ages 11–19, with girls being admitted in the sixth form. The School’s first home was in Trafalgar Square on the grounds of the National Gallery. The School moved to its present location opposite the Oval cricket ground in 1928. Paintings of Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury currently hang in the National Portrait Gallery, and to this day the school still retains its historic links with both Canterbury and St. Martins-in-the-Fields. View full school

Archbishop Tenison’s Church of England High School exists to provide a Church of England education primarily for children of Anglican and other Christian families living within the Archdeaconry of Croydon. Archbishop Tenison's C of E High School is well regarded locally for its high academic standards, the presence of a large Sixth Form, the very high level of pastoral care provided for the pupils, and its Christian ethos. Assemblies are an important part of school life there is an annual Eucharist for each year group all students take Religious Studies at GCSE, with a good number continuing to A-Level. Many of our pupils stay on into the Sixth Form and students also join from other schools in the Borough and beyond. The Sixth Form offers a range of AS and A2 courses, together with some BTEC courses, based at other centers. Most of the Upper Sixth proceed to Higher Education each year, gaining entry to top universities, including Oxford and Cambridge. Archbishop Tenison’s aims to provide an education that is broad, balanced, relevant, and accessible to the diverse and close-knit community it serves. The school is well regarded in the area for its music, drama and sport, especially netball, football, and cricket. Students are active in debating and public speaking. The rewarding aspect of working at Archbishop Tenison's is reflected by how staff achieves very impressive results in National Mathematical Challenges. There is a wide range of extra-curricular activities with around 40 different clubs and societies. Charity support also features strongly in the life of the Sixth Form and the school. We have a particular link with RUSH in Kenya and each year collect shoeboxes for children at Christmas through the Biggin Hill Romania Group. Each year there are language exchanges, educational journeys abroad, residential field courses, Duke of Edinburgh, and Christian Union residential weekends. The school has featured in several guides to good state schools and was described as "Good" in our 2013 OFSTED Report. The school has both a strong sense of traditional values and a readiness to embrace new ideas which are of real benefit to the pupils and students. Archbishop Tenison’s Church of England School has a distinctive Christian ethos which gives the school its purpose and provides an inclusive environment where children can learn and flourish in a setting shaped by Christian values. We welcome applications from all members of the community and we ask all parents to respect the Christian ethos of the school. This Christian educational vision also informs the annual School Development Plan, which reviews the school’s work from seven different aspects, each of which is then the focus for a four-year cycle of planning, mostly gradual changes to the school, so that it can continue to fulfill this aim. The Development Plan for each new school year is published in September, with a summary available from the School Office. Our educational aims: to uphold Christian belief through worship and daily life and to enable students to grow in living faith. to develop the habit and skills of academic inquiry, intellectual integrity, and a love of learning for its own sake. to broaden the student's cultural experience by active involvement in and appreciation of the expressive arts and by examining the role that culture, including science and technology, plays in creating civilized societies. to develop an awareness and understanding of their physical capabilities in students through curricular and extra-curricular activities whilst fostering positive attitudes to health and safety and sportsmanship. to promote an understanding of different religions and ethnic origins and cultures to reduce intolerance and prejudice to promote the integration into the community of people of all ethnic backgrounds and to foster and develop a strong sense of moral values which are given practical expression in all aspects of the lives of those who make up this school community. to create in students an awareness of their abilities enabling them to realize their potential and to play their full part, as Christians, in the wider community in this country and overseas to prepare them for the world of work and to develop within them interests which they will find enriching and fulfilling. to encourage pupils towards an understanding of their feelings and the feelings of others, thus developing a friendly, supportive and caring community, in which every student is equally valued. The school aims to be a center of excellence in all that it does. It is a partnership involving students, staff, and parents, based on mutual respect and a common purpose. Everybody at the school is committed to these aims and is expected to play a full part in their realization. View full school