Richard Challoner School

Richard Challoner School is an all boys secondary school^[9] with a mixed sixth form^[9] that is federated with Holy Cross School, New Malden.^[9] It has academy status^[2][9] and is in Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, England. The school is named after Bishop Richard Challoner.

Richard Challoner School
Address
Manor Drive North New Malden , Greater London , KT3 5PE[1] England
Coordinates	51°23′07″N 0°15′54″W
Information
Type	Academy[2]
Motto	Keep Faith[3]
Religious affiliation(s)	Roman Catholic[2]
Established	1959; 66 years ago (1959)[4]
Founder	Richard Challoner
Department for Education URN	137299 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Chair of Governors	Francis Corrigan[5]
Head Teacher	Sean Maher [2]
Gender	Year 7–11: Boys Sixth Form: Mixed
Age	11 to 18[2]
Houses	Augustine Becket Columba Dunstan Fisher More[6]
Colour(s)	Green and Yellow
Alumni name	Old Challonians
School Song	Non Nobis Domine[7]
Diocese	Southwark[2]
ESFA Champions	2010[8]
Website	www.richardchalloner.com

Headmasters

The Headmasters of the school since its founding in 1959 are:^[4]

Ordinal	Headmaster	Term start	Term end	Time in office	Notes
1	Oswald Jones	1959	1977	17–18 years	Died in 2011[10]
2	John Gwynne	1977	1994	16–17 years	[11] Died 9 October 2014[12]
3	Tom Cahill	1994	2015	20–21 years	[13][14]
4	Sean Maher	2015	incumbent	9–10 years	[9][14]

Arts

The Richard Challoner Studio Theatre was officially opened by the Hungarian Ambassador in 2008.^[15] Various productions were first performed there, including Oliver,^[16] The Government Inspector, Antigone, Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes: And the Pearls of Death, Chaplin: The Early Years and Romeo and Juliet, and then performed, on tour, in various theatres in Hungary, such as the Kolibri Theatre in Budapest.^[17] Many of the plays are written by drama teacher Mr. Neil Zoladkiewicz, who retired at the end of the 2016–17 school year.^[18][19]

The school also performs musicals. The most recent was A Slice Of Saturday Night in 2017,^[20] with the previous performance of Grease Lightning^[21] having happened in partnership with Willson Academy of Performing Arts in 2016.

Notable former pupils

• Jérémie Boga — footballer who plays for Chelsea
• Jimmy Glass — former footballer, goalkeeper
• Ben Hawkey — actor, HBO series Game of Thrones
• Tom Holland — actor, Spider-Man in the Marvel cinematic universe^[22]
• Jaden Ladega — actor, BBC soap opera EastEnders
• Charly Musonda — footballer who plays for Chelsea
• Steven Reid — former international footballer who last played for Burnley F.C.^[23]
• Archie Renaux — actor, Shadow and Bone
• Declan Rice — footballer who plays for Arsenal and England
• Ryan Sweeney — footballer who plays for Dundee FC