Richard Challoner School

Richard Challoner School is an all boys secondary school with a mixed sixth form that is federated with Holy [Cross School, New Malden]. It has academy status and is in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England. The school is named after Bishop Richard Challoner.

Headmasters

The Headmasters of the school since its founding in 1959 are:

Ordinal	Headmaster	Term start	Term end	Time in office	Notes
1	Oswald Jones	1959	1977	years	Died in 2011
2	John Gwynne	1977	1994	years	Died 9 October 2014
3	Tom Cahill	1994	2015	years
4	Sean Maher	2015	incumbent	years

Arts

The Richard Challoner Studio Theatre was officially opened by the Hungarian Ambassador in 2008. Various productions were first performed there, including Oliver, The Government Inspector, Antigone, Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes: And the Pearls of Death, Chaplin: The Early Years and Romeo and Juliet, and then performed, on tour, in various theatres in Hungary, such as the Kolibri Theatre in Budapest. Many of the plays are written by drama teacher Mr. Neil Zoladkiewicz, who retired at the end of the 2016–17 school year.
The school also performs musicals. The most recent was A Slice Of Saturday Night in 2017, with the previous performance of Grease Lightning having happened in partnership with Willson Academy of Performing Arts in 2016.

Notable former pupils

Jérémie Boga — footballer who plays for Chelsea
Jimmy Glass — former footballer, goalkeeper
Ben Hawkey — actor, HBO series Game of Thrones
Jaden Ladega — actor, BBC soap opera EastEnders
Charly Musonda — footballer who plays for Chelsea
Steven Reid — former international footballer who last played for Burnley F.C.
Archie Renaux — actor, Shadow and Bone
Ryan Sweeney — footballer who plays for Dundee FC