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530:, but was rapidly moved from a site so close to Portsmouth that was needed for the military to Daventry. In 1942 the school returned to the Clapham Road site which it had to share with another school that had been bombed. It had been a fee-paying school but after the war it took up the Beveridge education plan and agreed to drop fees and take public school entrants. One result of this was that the demand that a deputy head be secular resulted in Vera Thorpe, the maths teacher, becoming deputy head. It then became a two form entry sixty students in all, the B class being the grammar entry and the A the rest. In 1945 as children returned to London there was considerable confusion of age and position. There were many families where the father was dead in the war and others where they were children of Polish free fighter who had stayed. The local Jewish community also saw the school as a reasonable place for their girls. The sixth form was, however, small as few families could or would afford the extra years for a girl who was welcomed as an employee by the local banks and business because of the school's reputation for well-behaved and ethical students. Those who completed their sixth form either went to university or to teachers colleges but some went to art school having been well taught by Miss Nicholson. 511:. There were eventually several other schools in England run by the order - one in Bristol and another in Burnham on Sea and in the post-war period there were attempts to open schools elsewhere in England. There were also schools in France (St Germain-en-Laye, Angers) with which all the nuns were in contact and nuns moved unpredictably from one school to another. By World War II, the school ran from primary to the end of secondary. The school had always been forward looking - it used Montessori methods in its primary school and encouraged physical education and dance. It had a reputation for theatre producing at least one play a year - more in the years when 1721: 1229: 165: 1709: 63: 1733: 22: 1763: 80: 35: 1758: 1298: 769: 1773: 288: 1358: 1077: 1323: 1303: 778: 1594: 1574: 41: 499:, an order started in Brittany to enable women to spend time in the catholic practice of 'retreat'. The nuns were called 'mother' and those who had traveled from 1034: 762: 1393: 1293: 1683: 1529: 1348: 973: 496: 1783: 1693: 1273: 562: 127: 1564: 1509: 99: 566: 1228: 1519: 1318: 1278: 755: 1534: 1778: 1653: 1086: 550: 503:
this time apparently aimed to establish a girls school in South London. The school later expanded into a house previously owned by the family of
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for a time in the 1990s and opened its sixth form. In 1999 it then returned to local authority control as a
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as programmes of study for pupils. Students in the sixth form have the option to study a range of
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