Prendergast Hilly Fields College is a Comprehensive girls' secondary school, located on Hilly Fields, Brockley, in the London Borough of Lewisham. It has an independent board of governors. It has been awarded specialist status in Music and Languages. The Headteacher since 1998 is Erica Pienaar, BA, MBA, FRSA. The school motto is from Chaucer's Prologue to The Canterbury Tales: "Trouthe and Honour, Fredom and Curteisye". (In Middle English and in ...
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Prendergast Hilly Fields College is a Comprehensive girls' secondary school, located on Hilly Fields, Brockley, in the London Borough of Lewisham. It has an independent board of governors. It has been awarded specialist status in Music and Languages. The Headteacher since 1998 is Erica Pienaar, BA, MBA, FRSA. The school motto is from Chaucer's Prologue to The Canterbury Tales: "Trouthe and Honour, Fredom and Curteisye". (In Middle English and in this context, "fredom" is generosity, not liberty.)
Prendergast Grammar School was founded as a fee-paying grammar school in Rushey Green, Catford in 1890 under the will of the late Dr. Joseph Prendergast, DD (Cantab), 1791-1875, Headmaster of Colfe's School 1831-1857. His endowment was supplemented from several quarters, including some ancient charities associated with the parish of Lewisham.
In the first half of C20th the school accepted an increasing number of scholarship girls from LCC Elementary schools. Following the Education Act 1944,...
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