EDUCATION CORNER PODCAST
EDUCATION CORNER PODCAST INTERVIEW WITH HEADMASTER
Mr. Guy Sanderson AND THE LEAD ON REACH
Mr. Gideon Hammond FROM ELTHAM COLLEGE, SE LONDON
Mr. Guy Sanderson speaks about Eltham College’s history and some of the changes and challenges the school has addressed in the past ten years and Mr. Gideon Hammond speaks about how the college is addressing equality, diversity and inclusion and their recent ‘Every Name Matters’ initiative. Can you tell us a little about the history and aims of Eltham College? Guy: Thank you very much indeed for this
chance to talk to you, it’s great to be here. Eltham College has been here in the corner of South East London for 180 years – we’ve just celebrated 46 | EDUCATION CHOICES MAGAZINE | S P R I N G 2 02 3
our anniversary this year, so it feels great to be talking about our heritage and what we’re doing this year. We were set up as a school for the sons of missionaries, back in the Victorian day when missionaries went out across the globe, and you may have heard of some of our famous boys like Eric Liddell, who competed in the 1912 Olympics. We’ve changed a great deal since then: we’re much larger, more academically focused, we are now coeducational - whereas in Eric Liddell’s day we were an all-boys’ school - and we’ve moved just down the road from Blackheath to Mottingham, with a large set of playing fields behind the school.