Graveney School
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Graveney School is a secondary school in Tooting in the London Borough of Wandsworth, United Kingdom. It is reputed to be the "one of the best (state) schools in London".
The current Headteacher at Graveney School is Keith Barbrook whilst Graham Stapleton is the principal. Whilst Graveney School can trace its origins back to a school set up in Battersea in 1669, the modern Graveney (which was established in 1986) is an amalgamation of Battersea Grammar School, Rosa Bassett Grammar School, Furzedown School and Ensham School.
The school occupies a pleasant site either side of Welham Road in Tooting. It has nine buildings, six of which surround a tree-lined campus. Furzedown House is Georgian, but the majority of the buildings were built immediately before and after the First World War. (Graveney School website)
It is also a Sixth Form school. It allows students who have not passed either Mathematics or English to retake one of the subjects with a normal 4 or 3 A Level courses, but only if they have passed 5 GCSEs at grades A*-C.
For students who have achieved below average, they can retake English and Mathematics with a Diploma in Digital Applications (DiDA) IT Course (Equivalent to 4 GCSEs). If students pass all of these requirements they will have a maximum Grade of English: B Highest Grade Mathematics: B Highest Grade DiDa: A Distinction (4 A Grades)
= 2 Bs, 4 A's. These grades will therefore take students onto full-time A Level courses.
[edit] Sports
Graveney recently competed in the Under 19s National Schools Basketball competition. They reached the group stage before being defeated by Sutton Grammar School 82-20. At the start of October the girl's netball team drove to Cardiff for a match against George Jones Girl's School, only to find out that their team had driven to Graveney.
