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Colfe's Grammar School

Colfe's School
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Motto Ad astra per aspera
"Through hardships to the stars"
Established 1568 (restablished 1652)
Type Independent day school
Headmaster Richard Russell
Headmaster (Preparatory) Sarah Marsh
Governors Leathersellers' Company
Founder John Glyn in 1568
Reestablished with Abraham Colfe's name in 1652
Location Horn Park Lane
Lee
London
SE12 8AW
England
Local authority Greenwich
DfE URN 100202 Tables
Staff 100 (approx.)
Students 1,043
Gender Coeducational
Ages 3–18
Houses Beardwood, Bramley, Norton, Prendergast
Colours

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Publication The Colfeian
Official Visitor HRH Prince Michael of Kent
Former Pupils Old Colfeians
Website www.colfes.com

Blue & Gold

Colfe's is a co-educational independent day school in Horn Park in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, in south-east London, England. The school is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. The official Visitor to the school is HRH Prince Michael of Kent.

Colfe's is one of the oldest schools in London. The parish priest of Lewisham taught the local children from the time of Richard Walker's chantry, founded in 1494, until the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII. Rev. John Glyn re-established the school in 1568 and it was granted a Charter by Elizabeth I in 1574. Abraham Colfe became a Governor in 1613 and the school was re-founded bearing his name in 1652.

Colfe declared that the aim of the school was to provide an education for the boys from "the Hundred of Blackheath". He invited the Leathersellers' Company, one of London's livery companies, to be the trustee of his will. Links between the school and the Leathersellers remain strong.

The school was originally built around Colfe's house with an entrance in Lewisham Hill. The site was progressively developed and extended until 1890, when it was completely rebuilt on the same site with its entrance now in Granville Park. During the Second World War the school was first evacuated to Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and then to Frome in Somerset. A period of inactivity on the Western front led about 100 boys to return to London, so the school was split for a few years. In 1944 a V2 (Flying bomb) almost totally destroyed the school.


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