Mellow Lane School

Mellow Lane School was a comprehensive school, located in Hayes, in the London Borough of Hillingdon, Middlesex. It closed in 2011 and reopened in August of that year, as Hewens College.

Mellow Lane School
Address
Hewens Road

Hayes
,
Greater London
,
UB4 8JP

England
Coordinates51.5285°N 0.4395°W / 51.5285; -0.4395
Information
TypeComprehensive school
MottoPerseverando Vinces
Established1938
StatusClosed
Closed2011
Local authorityHillingdon
OfstedReports
GenderMixed
Age11 to 18
HousesDower, Manor, Park, Round

History

The school was opened in 1938. It housed two departments, run as separate entities: the Mellow Lane Senior Boys' School and the Mellow Lane Senior Girls' School.[1]

In 1948, Mellow Lane was established as a co-educational comprehensive school.[2] It was then one of only two experimental comprehensives in the UK permitted by the UK Government.[3] It was a grant-maintained school between 1 April 1992 and 31 August 1999, and became a foundation secondary comprehensive school on 1 September 1999.[4]

The architects of the building were Curtis and Burchett.[5] The building was extended in 1949 and 1963.[6]

Houses

There were four houses during much of the school's existence: Dower, which was red; Manor, which was blue; Park, which was green; and Round, which was yellow. These were named after local manor houses.

Notable alumni
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gollark: Generally, things the students in question actually want to learn, instead of whatever random junk they don't.
gollark: So... minarchism?
gollark: Yes, I feel like big organizations mostly end up wildly inefficiently managed and just make up for it with economies of scale.
gollark: In terms of actual political beliefs rather than random tests, I lean... libcenter, and agree with Georgism.

References
  1. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03057875480000161 Page 145, S.W.B. Watson (1954) Vocational training in a comprehensive school, The Vocational Aspect of Secondary and Further Education, 6:13, 144-150, DOI: 10.1080/03057875480000161 Retrieved on 6 March 2020
  2. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03057875480000161 Page 146, S.W.B. Watson (1954) Vocational training in a comprehensive school, The Vocational Aspect of Secondary and Further Education, 6:13, 144-150, DOI: 10.1080/03057875480000161
  3. https://www.tes.com/news/early-days-when-all-things-were-possible
  4. Mellow Lane Official Website, archive, The School. Retrieved on 6 March 2020
  5. http://www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/mellow-lane.html Modernist and Art Deco buildings of the Metro-Land area and era
  6. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol4/pp38-39 Diane K Bolton, H P F King, Gillian Wyld and D C Yaxley, 'Hayes: Education', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 4, Harmondsworth, Hayes, Norwood With Southall, Hillingdon With Uxbridge, Ickenham, Northolt, Perivale, Ruislip, Edgware, Harrow With Pinner, ed. T F T Baker, J S Cockburn and R B Pugh (London, 1971), pp. 38-39. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol4/pp38-39. Retrieved on 6 March 2020
  7. "Parmjit Dhanda", Biteback Publishing. Retrieved on 6 March 2020
  8. "Anne-Marie Duff - Bio, Kids, Family, Facts About James McAvoy's Ex-Wife", Answers Africa. Retrieved on 7 March 2020
  9. Interview Jonathan Sale, "Passed/Failed CLEO LAINE", The Independent, 10 June 1998.
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