Fox Primary School

Fox Primary School
Address
Kensington Place Notting Hill , London , W8 7PP England
Coordinates	51.5072°N 0.197°W / 51.5072; -0.197
Information
Type	Community primary school
Motto	Loving Learning. Making A Difference.
Established	1842; 182 years ago (1842)
Department for Education URN	100482 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Head teacher	Paul Cotter
Gender	Coeducational
Age	4 to 11
Website	www.fox.rbkc.sch.uk

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.^[1] 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

1810 portrait of Caroline Fox, then aged 43, by James Northcote

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.^[2] 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,^[2][3] and niece of the Whig statesman Charles James Fox.^[4]

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.^[5] 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.^[2] The school moved a third time in 1937 to its present site^[6] 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

1. School profile (2008).
2. Survey of London (1973).
3. Endowed Charities (1901).
4. Walker & Jackson (1987), p. 10.
5. Walker & Jackson (1987), p. 25.
6. Ross (1998).

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