This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: "West Hatch High School" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) This article contains content that is written like an advertisement. Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view. (September 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
West Hatch High School
Address
Map
High Road

Chigwell
,
Essex
,
IG7 5BT

United Kingdom
Coordinates51°36′45″N 0°03′47″E / 51.612480°N 0.062933°E / 51.612480; 0.062933
Information
TypeAcademy
MottoThe Best That I Can Be - Manu et Mente (By Hand and By Mind)
Established1957; 66 years ago (1957)
Department for Education URN136758 Tables
OfstedReports
HeadteacherDaniel Leonard (2017 - present)
Deputy HeadAnthony Sinfield
Staff81 full time
GenderCoeducational
Age11 to 18
Enrolment1258
Websitehttp://www.westhatch.net

West Hatch High School is a secondary school located in Chigwell, Epping Forest, Essex (near Woodford Bridge). The area now occupied by West Hatch was previously the western gate (or hatch as it would have been known) into Hainault Forest; it is from these roots that the school derives its name. The school currently educates 1,300 students from the local catchment area, and nearly 200 sixth form pupils from north east London and west Essex.

History

The school was built in 1957 as a four-storied building with glazing on all sides on Chigwell High Road by Richard Sheppard & Partners with the Essex county architect, H. Conolly.[1] The grounds have been renovated on numerous occasions developing the many-acre site into seven main teaching buildings.

Facilities

West Hatch has undergone major renovations, including a Music Suite (2002), Maths Dining & Drama Block (1999), Ruby Theatre (2000 built by students attaining Gold The Duke of Edinburgh Award Status), Sixth Form Centre (2000), Business and Enterprise Block (2003) technology, Science block, Design and Technology block and the 4-storey classroom block.

Renovation of the ICT infrastructure has enabled evening classes and Microsoft Digital Literacy training for parents using a parent portal. A sports hall and classroom block were built as an extension to the school.[2]

Notable former pupils

References

  1. ^ Bettley, James; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1 January 2007). Essex. Yale University Press. p. 229. ISBN 978-0-300-11614-4.
  2. ^ Berrill, Lewis (20 April 2021). "New sports centre opened at West Hatch High School". Epping Forest Guardian. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
  3. ^ "Three former pupils to perform in BGT final". East London & West Essex Guardian. 11 May 2012. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  4. ^ "Interview with Vicki Michelle". Aspire Essex Magazine. March 2020. p. 24. Retrieved 8 June 2020. I went to West Hatch High School, in Chigwell...
  5. ^ Who's who on television : a fully illustrated guide to 1,000 best known faces on British television. London: Independent Television Books Ltd. 1980. ISBN 9780900727719 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ^ Knowles, Rachael (8 November 2013). "Sally Gunnell joins Sport England board". East London & West Essex Guardian. Retrieved 8 June 2020. Chigwell-born Sally Gunnell, who attended West Hatch High School in High Road...
  7. ^ Boyd, Milo (23 August 2018). "Strictly Come Dancing contestant Kate Silverton is from Waltham Abbey". East London & West Essex Guardian. Retrieved 8 June 2020. ... attended West Hatch High School in Chigwell.
  8. ^ Hardy, Clare (25 April 2013). "Chigwell artist Mark Wallinger, who attended West Hatch High School, sees his work Labyrinth on display at Tube stations on the London Underground". East London & West London Guardian. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  9. ^ O'Brien, Zoie (19 November 2013). "Chigwell educated Joey Essex has been the talk of TV since he entered 'I'm a celebrity, get me out of here!'". East London & West Essex Guardian. Retrieved 8 June 2020. West Hatch High School-educated Joey Essex...
  10. ^ "Charlotte Jaconelli". IMDb.
  11. ^ Flaig, Joseph (31 May 2016). "Former West Hatch High School student Richard Jones wins ITV's Britain's Got Talent". East London & West Essex Guardian. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  12. ^ Armstrong, Karen (25 November 2004). "Local support for celeb Nancy". East London and West Essex Guardian. Retrieved 11 August 2020. ...Nancy Sorrell, a former West Hatch High School pupil...
  13. ^ Earnshaw, Jessica (9 May 2012). "Redbridge band The Loveable Rogues through to Britain's Got Talent final". Ilford Recorder. Retrieved 27 June 2022. Band members Te Eugene, 18, from Ilford, Sonny Jay, 18, a former West Hatch High School pupil from Chigwell and Eddie Brett, 20, from Chingford wowed the judges on the live semi-final show…

External links

Schools in Essex
Authority control databases
Categories