Vyners School
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Vyners School is a secondary school and sixth form in Ickenham within the London Borough of Hillingdon. Since November 2011 the school has academy status, and specialises in mathematics and computing. The Ofsted inspection in December 2013 agreed with the school’s self-evaluation at the time that we were a Good school with Outstanding Behaviour and Safety and Leadership and Management.The current headteacher is Mr James M Heale previously deputy headteacher at Sandringham School, St Albans, who took over in September 2012.HistoryThe grammar school was named after Sir Robert Vyner, a former Lord Mayor of London and goldsmith-banker who made the second St. Edward's Crown. He lived at the nearby Swakeleys House for a time, where he is said by Samuel Pepys to have kept the oven-dried body of a Black servant boy who died of consumption, showing the boy's body to visitors.Vyners School opened as a grammar school on 12 January 1960, under Headmaster Trevor Jaggar. He was - briefly - succeeded by Mr. R.B. Fox as temporary Head about 1967. A permanent Head was soon appointed - Mr. D.C. Best. The school later became a comprehensive. Delays in building work meant the first intake of pupils had been taught at St Mary's Grammar School in Northwood Hills and Eliots Green Grammar School in Northolt from 9 September 1959. The project received help from John Miles (the headmaster of Bishopshalt School at the time), and one of the houses is now named after him.
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