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Westcliff High School

for Boys

Community

At WHSB we promote the same sense of belonging and community spirit outside the School as we do within it.

We value highly the links we have fostered and maintained with our local area: the interaction between WHSB and the wider community benefits those around us while broadening our students’ horizons and enhancing their educational outcomes.

Our Sixth Form students work in more than fifty local primary schools helping younger pupils to develop their reading skills and they give freely of their time to work with the elderly and disabled. We open our doors on a regular basis for primary school workshops and host conferences in a variety of subjects.

Our charitable work has raised over £100,000 for good causes locally and nationally in recent years. These endeavours place WHSB firmly at the heart of the community it serves and help to instil within our pupils a sense of civic responsibility and social conscience.

The Old Westcliffian Association helps us to maintain strong links with our former pupils.  We are proud of their many achievements and delighted that they choose to stay in touch.

How to Join

You can join the Old Westcliffian Association by completing the application form and returning it with payment to the Secretary.

OWA Application Form
OWA Data Privacy Notice
  • 1926

    The Opening of the School

    The core of the building in which you are now standing was designed by the Leicester-based architect H.H Thomson and built by J.C. Gray & Co of Coventry. A foundation stone, still visible to the left of the main entrance, was laid in October 1924 by the Chairman of the School’s Governors, William Miles, and work on the building was substantially complete by late 1925. Lessons at the newly-built school began in the spring of 1926, but the formal opening ceremony was not held for another three months. Southend Borough Council invited the government minister responsible for education, Lord Eustace Percy, to open the School, but the invitation was not taken up. The officials in Percy’s department had always been unwilling to give the go-ahead to plans to build a school on this site, and their relations with the Borough Council were poor. In these circumstances, the Mayor of Southend, Herbert Dowsett, was asked to perform the opening ceremony. It could scarcely have been a more appropriate choice, because Dowsett had been the driving force behind the project which led  to the building of the School.

  • 1937

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