History
After almost a century of attempts by the Church to found a church secondary school in Enfield, Bishop Stopford's was founded on St. Polycarp's Day 1967 and opened its doors to its first pupils on 7 September 1967. Its founder was the then Bishop Of London, the Very Reverend Robert Stopford. The school was founded to provide a Church school for the children of Enfield, who at that time had several Church primary schools but no Church secondary school. The school was established in the buildings of the old Suffolk's Secondary Modern School. The five heads of Bishop Stopford's have been the late Dr Geoffrey Roberts PhD, MA, BA, JP (1967 to 1988), Brian Robin Pickard M.A. (1988 to 2001), and Mrs Bridget Sarah Evans (2001 to 2009). Mrs Evans resigned and Mrs E. Kohler became acting head (May 2008 - July 2009). In May 2009 Jim Owen was appointed Head Master and took office in September 2009, Jim Owen resigned in July 2012 to take up the role of Headteacher at Winchmore School.
Mrs Tammy Day (Current Deputy Head Mistress/Senior Mistress) was appointed as Acting Head Mistress for a term until Mr Paul Woods could take up office in January 2013. During this time Mrs Sandra Melhuish (Assistant Head) was appointed as Acting Senior Mistress/Deputy Head and Mr Russell Dean (Assistant Head) was appointed Senior Master/Deputy Head and they both have the right to sign the School Roll again.
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