[2] However, in 1820 the trustees felt that this type of poor relief encouraged fecklessness and instead decided to found the Addey School in 1821 on Church Street, Deptford.

[3] 'A Topographical Dictionary of England' (1848) it is explained that the Addey School "by direction of the court of chancery, erected a spacious building containing two large schoolrooms, with houses for the master and mistress; the school is wholly supported by the endowment, from which also 48 aged persons are paid £2 each annually.".

Therewith was purchased a piece of ground on the east side of Church street in this town, the rents and profits arising therefrom and from the buildings thereon exceed on this present year 1862 six hundred and fifty pounds from this fund forty shillings was are annually given to one hundred poor parishioners of Deptford, and large schools for poor children of the town are maintained.

Additionally, several benefactions were left in the wills of a number of Deptford residents who made provision for the local poor.

His printed sermons are very numerous; they were much admired when delivered by himself from the pulpit, the purity of their diction being graced with the most happy elocution.

The cloaths, &c. are to be immediately returned on the removal or dismissal of any child: security to that effect must be given by parents, relations, or friends.

Children are not to take God’s Name in Vain; to swear, to lie, to steal, to cheat, to play truant, or to throw stones.

[9] Along with the statue of the schoolgirl, a tablet to John Addey was erected in 1906 in the entrance hall to commemorate the tricentenary of his death.

[12] Due to the threat of bombing, the School was evacuated in 1939 to a mansion in Burwash Common, East Sussex.

[13] On the afternoon of 25 November 1944, New Cross Gate suffered the single most devastating V-2 rocket attack on a civilian population in the entire war.

The rocket landed on a very busy Woolworths on New Cross Road killing 168 people and wounding 121;[14] among the dead were two Addey and Stanhope school pupils, Ronald James Kenwood and Norman Henry Wilkins, both aged 11.

Joan Ruddock, Member of Parliament for the local constituency said: I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all staff and students at Addey and Stanhope School on obtaining specialist technology status.

I am proud of the commitment Addey and Stanhope School is showing to raising standards in education...across the borough.

[18] A small school, Addey and Stanhope attempts to use its lack of size to develop an atmosphere of intimacy and inclusiveness for its pupils.

A service is held in St Alfege's Church, Greenwich, where the congregation receives readings, performances, sings hymns and the Addey and Stanhope School Song.

We give thanks also for all those teachers, parents and pupils who have given generously of their spiritual, mental and physical resources and hath handed to us the life and tradition of the school, for our safekeeping.