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'''Sir John Lawes School''' (also known as SJL) is a [[Mixed-sex education|mixed]] state [[secondary school]] with [[Academy (English school)|academy status]] in [[Harpenden]], United Kingdom. The school has close links to two other local secondary schools, [[Roundwood Park School]] and [[St George's School, Harpenden|St George's School]], and to the neighbouring Manland Primary School, and is active in the community and abroad.

==History==
Thanks to the effort of, and largely at the expense of, John Bennett Lawes, founder of [[Rothamsted Research]], work was begun to start educating Harpenden's youth in 1847. The "British School" was founded on Leyton Road (now Park Hall) in 1850.<ref name="Harpenden British Schools Origin and History">((Cite web|url=https://www.harpenden-history.org.uk/harpenden-history/topics-cms/education/first-schools-in-harpenden/harpenden_british_schools_origin_history_and_present_position_of_the_schools|title=History of Harpenden British Schools|access-date=2022-12-19|website=Harpenden History|language=en))</ref> The school soon began to outgrow this site. In 1894 the people of Harpenden elected a school board to manage the British School, now overcrowded and run-down. A site for a new school was bought for £725 on the corner of the newly built Victoria and Vaughan Roads. The building was completed in 1896 and opened on 12 January 1897, with room for 140 boys at the northern end, 120 girls at the southern end and 140 infants in the centre.<ref name="Victoria Road Schools">((Cite web|url=https://www.harpenden-history.org.uk/harpenden-history/street-by-street/high_street_and_villagetown_centre/victoria_road_schools_-_1897_-_1997|title=Victoria Road Schools|access-date=2022-12-19|website=Harpenden History|language=en))</ref>

In 1919, the Boys', Girls' and Infants' departments at Victoria Road School were reorganised into Senior Mixed School and Junior Mixed School. A campaign began for a new school and Hertfordshire County Council purchased land on Manland Common. Several new designs were considered for providing new senior and junior schools on the Manland sites.

In 1938, the building of the new schools began. Building was completed in the summer of 1939, but by September, when the schools were to open, the [[Second World War]] had been declared—the buildings' design, with reinforced basements and thick solid brick walls, reflects the public's wariness of the looming conflict. Arthur Watts took up duties as Headmaster of Manland Common Senior Elementary School, but the opening had to be delayed for a week until 21 September 1939 to arrange for accommodation of evacuees. When the new term began without ceremony, the Manland School senior pupils had to share the buildings with [[Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II|evacuees]] from the Hugh Myddleton School, [[London]].<ref name="Harpenden Evacuation Scheme">((Cite web|url=https://www.harpenden-history.org.uk/harpenden-history/topics-cms/wartime_-_second_world_war_wwii/evacuees/harpendens_evacuation_scheme_-_wwii|title=Harpenden Evacuation Scheme|access-date=2022-12-19|website=Harpenden History|language=en))</ref>

In 1982, the name of the school was changed from "Manland Secondary School" to "Sir John Lawes School" in honour of its founder.

== House system ==
The school is split into seven [[House system|houses]], Austen (Red), Britten (Yellow), Hepworth, (Green), King (Silver), Lawes (Orange), Newton (Blue) and Ryder (Purple), named for [[Jane Austen]], [[Benjamin Britten]], [[Barbara Hepworth]], [[Martin Luther King Jr.]], [[John Bennet Lawes]], [[Isaac Newton]] and [[Sue Ryder]] respectively.<ref name="Sir John Lawes School House System">((Cite web|url=https://www.sjl.herts.sch.uk/797/house-system|title=Sir John Lawes School House System|access-date=2022-12-19|website=Sir John Lawes School|language=en))</ref>

Each academic year the house cup is contested between the houses, in a variety of events, each house having one signature event amongst others. This culminates in the school wide sports day, where all results are fed into the house point system, before the overall winner is announced at the final assembly on the last day of the year.

==Grounds and facilities==
The school has a reasonably sized field, large enough for two football pitches and a cricket pitch, and extensive sports facilities, including a large gymnasium, six all-weather tennis courts, an all-weather hockey pitch and outdoor gym equipment. By virtue of its Media and Arts speciality the school has media and creative facilities comprising television and media studios, including virtual studios and location filming and recording equipment. The school also houses a well equipped dance studio, its own animal studies area, and theatre/cinema facilities as well as numerous computing suites.

==Values==
The Sir John Lawes ACE identifies the target values of the school;

* '''A'''chievement in academic, artistic, sporting, cultural and other forms with a focus on teaching and learning.
* '''C'''are for students, staff and others beyond the school community.
* '''E'''xcellent standards, manners, honesty, personal integrity and uniform

The school encourages international relations through links with partner schools in Zambia, The United States of America, Singapore, France and Germany.

The school has an Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Global Dimension Action Plan in which there are clearly defined actions and responsibilities and a section of the School Development Plan is also dedicated to sustainability.

==Achievements==

===Academic===
Sir John Lawes School is classed as ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted and holds 3 specialisms; [[Arts College|Media & Arts]],<ref name="Ofsted Report">[http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxedu_providers/full/(urn)/117511 Ofsted Report]</ref> [[Science College|Science]] and Training school status. Over 90% of students achieve the expected national curriculum level or higher in English, Maths and Science by the end of Key Stage 3, with all students achieving five or more GCSE passes or equivalent, and over 80% of students achieve five or more GCSE passes at grades A*-C.

===Other===
The school is part of the Scholars’ Education Trust which consists of Sir John Lawes, [[Samuel Ryder Academy]], [[Robert Barclay Academy]], Harpenden Academy and Priory Academy, Dunstable.<ref name="Scholars Education Trust">((Cite web|url=http://www.scholarseducationtrust.co.uk/|title=Scholars Education Trust|website=www.scholarseducationtrust.co.uk|access-date=2019-07-28))</ref>

Sir John Lawes also supports other schools as a National Support School. National Support Schools are outstanding schools that have been asked by the National College for Leadership to use their knowledge and experience of teaching to provide additional capacity to schools in challenging circumstances.

They first worked as a support school for Bushey Hall School in Hertfordshire as it became Bushey Academy and since Easter 2011 the school has been the official sponsors of the Samuel Ryder Academy in St Albans, Hertfordshire's first all-through school and, more recently, Sheredes School in Hoddesdon, now the Robert Barclay Academy.

Sir John Lawes has also received a number of awards including the International School Award, Artsmark Gold Award, Eco-Schools Green Flag Award, SSAT Educational Outcomes Award, Inspiring Hertfordshire Award and the Secondary Geography Quality Mark.

The senior football team won the St Albans District Cup in 2007, 2010 and 2011, and the County Cup in 2008.

The Science Organic Vegetable Garden has won Second Prize in [[Britain in Bloom|Harpenden in Bloom]].<ref name="SJL Newsletter 331">[http://www.sjl.herts.sch.uk/newsletter/archive/331.html SJL Newsletter 331] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080920130907/http://www.sjl.herts.sch.uk/newsletter/archive/331.html |date=20 September 2008 ))</ref>

In 2008, a team of students participating in the Engineering Education Scheme were selected by a panel of judges to represent The Eastern Region in the February 2009 National level of the [[British Association for the Advancement of Science|BA CREST Awards]], with their work on the [[Eurofighter Typhoon]] in partnership with [[SELEX Galileo]].<ref name="SJL Newsletter 331"/> On 6 March 2009, the team was presented with an award for being Highly Commended at the Big Bang 2009.<ref name="The Big Bang 2009">[http://www.thebigbangfair.co.uk/competitions/winners_-_national_science_competition.cfm "National Science Competition Highly Commended winners"] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312053354/http://www.thebigbangfair.co.uk/competitions/winners_-_national_science_competition.cfm |date=12 March 2009 ))</ref>

== Alumni ==
Past students of the school include:
* [[Sigma (duo)|Sigma]], musical duo
* [[Richie Driss]], children's television presenter, including ''[[Blue Peter]]''<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.hertsad.co.uk/news/blue-peter-presenter-richie-driss-studied-a-level-media-at-sir-john-lawes-school-harpenden-1-6017804|title=Former Sir John Lawes boy is new Blue Peter presenter|last=Bill|first=Laura|date=2019-04-26|website=Herts Advertiser|language=en|access-date=2019-07-28))</ref>
*Jonathan Vernon-Smith - Presenter, [[BBC Three Counties Radio]] & [[BBC Radio Northampton]].

==International Relations==

The school is internationally recognised and holds many links with foreign schools and institutions. Most notable of these are the annual exchange programmes with the [[Upper Dublin High School]] in Pennsylvania, and the exchange trips with the ''Elizabeth-Langasser-Gymnassium'', [[Alzey]] Germany, and the ''École-Jules-Ferry'', [[Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire]], France, due to [[List of twin towns and sister cities in England#Hertfordshire|Harpendens own connections with the relative towns]]. The school also has close ties with the Ndeke High School of [[Zambia]], regularly sending students to experience how education in Zambia differs to education in Britain.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.sjl.herts.sch.uk/825/sjl-in-the-community|title=SJL in the Community|website=Sir John Lawes School|language=en|access-date=2022-12-19))</ref>

==External links==
*[http://www.sjl.herts.sch.uk/ School website]

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