The college is under the trusteeship of the Brothers of Christian Instruction. Their mission is that of their founder, Jean Marie de la Mennais, "To make Jesus better known and loved".
The school is a specialist school for mathematics and computing, and was the first school in Liverpool to gain specialist school status in that category.
The college had a rector from 1842 to 1844. It had two pupils.[4]
1843–1845: St. Anne Street
A year later, it had a dozen pupils. Father Francis Lythgoe moved the college to St. Anne Street where it stayed until 1845.[4]
1846–1877: Salisbury Street
In 1844 Father Johnson took over from Father Francis Lythgoe and moved his 24 pupils to the newly opened Presbytery on Salisbury Street. Father Collyns took over the college in 1853.
With more than 50 pupils the rector Father Collyns decided that a new premises was needed. By 1856 the college had its own building built alongside the Presbytery and in 1877 a new college was built on 6 Salisbury Street.[5]
Second college building
The newest Salisbury Street building was designed by Henry Clutton, a Catholicarchitect. He used the designs of Father Vaughan as the bases of his designs. The new college was completed in the summer of 1877 and cost £30,000.[5]
Move to Woolton
In 1961 the college was transferred as a grammar school to its present twenty-six-acre site at High Lee, Woolton. From 1984 to 1990 the Lower School site for Years 7, 8 and 9 was located on Queens Drive (Formerly Cardinal Newman RC) in Wavertree L15. Later, the Lower School was re-sited with the Upper School at High Lee. In 1990, the college opted out of local authority control, becoming a grant-maintained school. The college was granted Technology College status from April 1996. In September 1999 it became a Foundation School. In 1992, the college became co-educational in the sixth form and in September 2000 the De La Mennais Sixth Form Centre was opened.
School choir
The choir was formed in 1994 and has performed in front of Pope John Paul II. They have toured Europe and the United States, and gained a place in the Guinness Book of Records for singing at every cathedral in England and Wales.[6]
In December 2005, Keith Knowles, a music teacher at the school and choirmaster, was arrested by police on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children, and was bailed pending further enquiries.
Knowles was suspended from his teaching post at the school and in April 2006 was charged with 15 counts of making and 8 counts of possessing child pornography.[8]
In November 2006 he was found guilty at Liverpool City Magistrate's Court of all 15 counts of making child pornography and 6 out of the 8 counts of possessing it. The Liverpool Echo reported that the 15 images were of young boys downloaded from the internet, whereas the others were of an ex-girlfriend when she was much younger.[9]
In June 2007, Keith Knowles was cleared of his charges after an appeal to Liverpool's Appeal Court. He was released after nineteen months in prison and said of the experience: Justice has been done. It has been an horrific 19 months".[10]
The chief witness in his prosecution, Hayley Doyle, had a mental breakdown after Keith Knowles's release. She went as far as to threaten to kill the at-the-time headmaster of the school, Mr L D Rippon. Hayley Doyle was dismissed from the school and sent to live in a psychiatric clinic. She maintains her own innocence and Keith Knowles's guilt.[11]
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Bibliography
Heery, Pat (2002). The History of St. Francis Xavier's College Liverpool 1842 - 2001. Pat Heery. ISBN978-0-9535782-1-4.
External links
Official website
St. Francis Xavier's College Ofsted Reports
EduBase
May 03, 2023
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This article is about the college in Liverpool For other schools and colleges of the same name see St Francis Xavier College disambiguation This article uses bare URLs which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot Please consider converting them to full citations to ensure the article remains verifiable and maintains a consistent citation style Several templates and tools are available to assist in formatting such as Reflinks documentation reFill documentation and Citation bot documentation August 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message St Francis Xavier s College is a Roman Catholic secondary school and sixth form with academy status located in Woolton Liverpool England Year 7 to Year 11 are male only whereas the Sixth Form years 12 and 13 are coeducational St Francis Xavier s CollegeAddressWoolton Hill Road Woolton 1 Liverpool Merseyside L25 6EGEnglandCoordinates53 22 58 N 2 52 49 W 53 382662 N 2 880281 W 53 382662 2 880281 Coordinates 53 22 58 N 2 52 49 W 53 382662 N 2 880281 W 53 382662 2 880281InformationTypeAcademyMotto life in all its fullness Jn 10 10Religious affiliation s Roman CatholicEstablishedOctober 27 1842 180 years ago 1842 10 27 FounderSociety of JesusLocal authorityLiverpool City CouncilSpecialistMathematics and Computing CollegeDepartment for Education URN138463 TablesOfstedReportsChairLisa Riccio Jones 2 HeadteacherDavid HayesStaff130GenderBoys Coeducational in the 6th formAge11 to 18Enrolment1297HousesAlmond Bryant Campion Kemble Mayne Lewis Owen RigbyColour s Year 7 11Maroon amp Blue Year 12 13Black amp Blue PublicationSFXtra and ProspectusWebsitewww wbr sfx1842 wbr orgThe college is under the trusteeship of the Brothers of Christian Instruction Their mission is that of their founder Jean Marie de la Mennais To make Jesus better known and loved The school is a specialist school for mathematics and computing and was the first school in Liverpool to gain specialist school status in that category Contents 1 Origins and history 1 1 1842 1843 Soho Street 1 2 1843 1845 St Anne Street 1 3 1846 1877 Salisbury Street 1 4 Second college building 1 5 Move to Woolton 2 School choir 3 Controversy 4 Head Teachers 5 Notable former pupils 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksOrigins and history EditThe college was founded in 1842 in association with Stonyhurst College Lancashire by the Society of Jesus which is a Roman Catholic religious order 3 1842 1843 Soho Street Edit The college had a rector from 1842 to 1844 It had two pupils 4 1843 1845 St Anne Street Edit A year later it had a dozen pupils Father Francis Lythgoe moved the college to St Anne Street where it stayed until 1845 4 1846 1877 Salisbury Street Edit In 1844 Father Johnson took over from Father Francis Lythgoe and moved his 24 pupils to the newly opened Presbytery on Salisbury Street Father Collyns took over the college in 1853 With more than 50 pupils the rector Father Collyns decided that a new premises was needed By 1856 the college had its own building built alongside the Presbytery and in 1877 a new college was built on 6 Salisbury Street 5 Second college building Edit The newest Salisbury Street building was designed by Henry Clutton a Catholic architect He used the designs of Father Vaughan as the bases of his designs The new college was completed in the summer of 1877 and cost 30 000 5 Move to Woolton Edit In 1961 the college was transferred as a grammar school to its present twenty six acre site at High Lee Woolton From 1984 to 1990 the Lower School site for Years 7 8 and 9 was located on Queens Drive Formerly Cardinal Newman RC in Wavertree L15 Later the Lower School was re sited with the Upper School at High Lee In 1990 the college opted out of local authority control becoming a grant maintained school The college was granted Technology College status from April 1996 In September 1999 it became a Foundation School In 1992 the college became co educational in the sixth form and in September 2000 the De La Mennais Sixth Form Centre was opened School choir EditThe choir was formed in 1994 and has performed in front of Pope John Paul II They have toured Europe and the United States and gained a place in the Guinness Book of Records for singing at every cathedral in England and Wales 6 The school sang on the reworked version of The Farm s 1990 hit Alltogethernow remixed by BBC Radio 1 s DJ Spoony The single which reached number 10 in the UK Singles Chart was the official song for the England football team at the UEFA Euro 2004 competition It was performed by the choir on Top of the Pops in 2004 7 Controversy EditIn December 2005 Keith Knowles a music teacher at the school and choirmaster was arrested by police on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children and was bailed pending further enquiries Knowles was suspended from his teaching post at the school and in April 2006 was charged with 15 counts of making and 8 counts of possessing child pornography 8 In November 2006 he was found guilty at Liverpool City Magistrate s Court of all 15 counts of making child pornography and 6 out of the 8 counts of possessing it The Liverpool Echo reported that the 15 images were of young boys downloaded from the internet whereas the others were of an ex girlfriend when she was much younger 9 In June 2007 Keith Knowles was cleared of his charges after an appeal to Liverpool s Appeal Court He was released after nineteen months in prison and said of the experience Justice has been done It has been an horrific 19 months 10 The chief witness in his prosecution Hayley Doyle had a mental breakdown after Keith Knowles s release She went as far as to threaten to kill the at the time headmaster of the school Mr L D Rippon Hayley Doyle was dismissed from the school and sent to live in a psychiatric clinic She maintains her own innocence and Keith Knowles s guilt 11 Head Teachers EditD Hayes 2021 PresentP Evans C Flaherty 2020 2021P Halliwell 2019 2020P Ferguson K Maddocks 2019 2019D Yates 2018 2019G Flowers 2016 2018L D Rippon 2004 2016Brother Francis Patterson 1979 2004Brother Robert Power 1974 1979Father Doyle 1962 1974Father Edward James Warner 1953 1961Father Neylan 1939 1953Father Brinkworth 1937 1938Father Woodlock 1919 1937Father J Sponson 1902 1919Father Thomas Poter 1870 1902Father Collyns 1853 1870Father West 1851 1853Father Johnson 1844 1853Father Francis Lythgoe 1842 1844Notable former pupils EditMain page Category People educated at St Francis Xavier s College Liverpool James Clement Baxter Liberal politician and former chairman of Everton FC 12 Piaras Beaslai Percy Beazley Irish revolutionary and writer 13 14 Charles Brabin American film director 15 Keith Briffa climatologist Denis Cosgrove former professor of geography at the University of California Los Angeles Elvis Costello musician singer and songwriter 16 Gabriel George Coury recipient of the Victoria Cross 17 Chris Crookall actor 18 Walter Bryan Emery former Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology at University College London Jon Flanagan footballer Paul Gallagher Roman Catholic cleric and diplomat titular archbishop of Hodelm John Gregson actor Franny Griffiths musician Augustine Harris Catholic Bishop of Middlesbrough from 1978 to 1992 prison chaplain at HM Prison Liverpool from 1952 to 1965 George Hartland Conservative MP for Norwich from 1931 to 1935 Paul Aloysius Kenna recipient of the Victoria Cross Lancelot Lawton British historian military officer scholar of Ukrainian studies Sammy Lee former footballer and assistant manager of Liverpool FC 19 George Lynskey High Court judge on the former King s Bench Vincent Malone bishop Jimmy McGovern screenwriter 20 Brian Nash musician Mike Newell footballer 21 Laurence O Keeffe UK ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1988 to 1991 and to Senegal from 1982 to 1985 Edward J Phelan director general of the International Labour Organization 22 Paul Raymond publisher of pornographic magazines Peter Serafinowicz actor writer comedian 23 Leslie Stuart composer of Edwardian musical comedies 24 Tony Warner footballer Michael Xavier musical theatre actorSee also EditSt Francis Xavier St Francis Xavier Church Liverpool Secondary school Foundation school List of Jesuit sitesReferences EditNotes http www sfx1842 org Contact Us St Francis Xavier s College Archived from the original on 5 October 2011 Retrieved 21 July 2009 College History St Francis Xavier s College Archived from the original on 5 October 2011 Retrieved 21 July 2009 a b Heery Pat Bewley Bill 2002 Chapter 2 The College Premises The History of St Francis Xavier s College Liverpool 1842 2001 p 30 ISBN 978 0 9535782 1 4 Archived from the original on 28 September 2011 Retrieved 25 January 2009 a b Heery Pat 2002 Chapter 2 The College Premises The History of St Francis Xavier s College Liverpool 1842 2001 p 32 ISBN 978 0 9535782 1 4 Archived from the original on 28 September 2011 Retrieved 25 January 2009 Liverpool choir s Number One goal Liverpool City Council May 2004 Archived from the original on 28 June 2008 Retrieved 21 July 2009 Gold disc for Euro anthem choir BBC June 2004 Retrieved 21 July 2009 Choirmaster in child porn arrest 6 January 2006 Retrieved 5 January 2023 Choirmaster is charged over porn 10 April 2006 Retrieved 5 January 2023 Echo Liverpool 22 June 2007 Ex choirmaster wins appeal in porn case Liverpool Echo Retrieved 5 January 2023 Turner Ben 18 June 2007 New twist in school child porn case Liverpool Echo Retrieved 5 January 2023 The History of Everton Football Club Dr James Baxter www efchistory co uk 7 December 2008 Archived from the original on 22 July 2011 Retrieved 26 August 2009 Beaslai Piaras Dictionary of Irish Biography www dib ie Piaras Beaslai the writer who became a rebel 9 August 2020 via www rte ie a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help Charles Brabin Bio connect in com 26 August 2009 Archived from the original on 23 July 2011 Retrieved 26 August 2009 The Merseyside Roots of Elvis Costello Merseysider MagazineMerseysider Magazine Gabriel Coury from Catholic Herald Archived October 16 2009 at the Portuguese Web Archive Grange Hill back for Series no 27 from Liverpool Echo 2 February 2004 retrieved 18 December 2014 Sammy Lee Archived 2009 04 06 at the Wayback Machine from BobPaisley com retrieved 18 December 2014 Rampton James 30 November 1996 Profile Jimmy McGovern TRUTH WILL OUT The Independent London Retrieved 24 May 2010 dead link Students looking to Ferry elite cup across the Mersey from Liverpool Echo 14 May 2003 retrieved 18 December 2014 Edward J Phelan The Irish Times Peter Serafinowicz The Sunday Telegraph September 2007 Retrieved 2 August 2009 dead link Lamb Andrew Barrett Thomas Augustine 1863 1928 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 online edition May 2007 accessed 26 May 2012 subscription required BibliographyHeery Pat 2002 The History of St Francis Xavier s College Liverpool 1842 2001 Pat Heery ISBN 978 0 9535782 1 4 External links EditOfficial website St Francis Xavier s College Ofsted Reports EduBase Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title St Francis Xavier 27s College Liverpool amp oldid 1152602978, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
