Gresham's School
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| type of school | Public school |
| founding | 1555 |
| address |
Cromer Road |
| place | Holt , Norfolk |
| county | Norfolk |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 54 '36 " N , 1 ° 6' 13" E |
| student | about 760 |
| Teachers | about 90 |
| management | Douglas Robb |
| Website | www.greshams.com |
The Gresham's School is a traditional private school ( Public School ) for about 760 boys and girls aged 8 to 18 years in the county of Norfolk in eastern England . The school is financed through school fees and donations . School fees are among the highest in England at around £ 36,000 per school year.
The school is one of the most prestigious schools in Great Britain academically. It was founded in 1555 by Sir John Gresham, then Lord Mayor of London , as a charity school with the purpose of providing free education for forty poor students. These scholarship holders still exist as Holt Scholars . Former students (alumni) are called Old Greshamians .
education
The strongly humanistic-oriented training includes subjects such as languages (including Latin, ancient Greek, French, Russian, Spanish, German, Japanese), classical studies, history, science (physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics), design technology, literature, art / Art history, drama / theater studies, economics / trade, music and religious studies.
Class system
The school uses the traditional English way of counting school years. There are grades 3 to 5 and the sixth form, which is composed of the lower sixth form (Lower Sixth) and the upper sixth form (Upper Sixth) . This corresponds to grades 6 to 12 in Germany.
Houses
The school is supported by most students as a boarding school ( boarding used). The students live (as is customary at English private schools) in seven boarding houses . Sports competitions, among other things, are held between these houses .
Today the school comprises the following houses:
- Howson's (1903)
- Woodlands (1905)
- Farfield (1911)
- Tallis (1961)
- Oakeley (1971)
- Edinburgh (1984)
- Britten (1992)
Known students
- WH Auden (1907–1973), poet, writer
- Richard Austin (1903–1989), conductor
- Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925), writer
- Lennox Berkeley (1903–1989), composer
- Eric Berthoud (1900–1989), industrialist and diplomat
- Tom Bourdillon (1924–1956), mountaineer
- Robert Bray (1908–1983), British Army general
- Peter Brook (* 1925), theater director
- Benjamin Britten , Baron Britten (1913–1976), composer, conductor and pianist
- Martin Burgess (* 1931), watchmaker
- Erskine Childers (1905–1974), President of Ireland
- Sir Christopher Cockerell (1910–1999), engineer and inventor of the hovercraft
- Norman Cohn (1915-2007), historian
- Weldon Dalrymple-Champneys (1892–1980), public health doctor
- Antony Copley (1937-2016), historian
- John Daly (1901–1985), Anglican bishop in Africa and Asia
- Henry Daniell (1894–1963), actor
- James Dyson (* 1947), inventor and entrepreneur
- Ralph Firman (* 1975), racing driver
- Stephen Frears (* 1941), film director
- Stephen Fry (* 1957), actor and director
- Sienna Guillory (* 1975), film actress, producer and model
- Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1914–1998), biochemist honored with the Nobel Prize
- George Evelyn Hutchinson (1903-1991), limnologist and ecologist
- David Kenworthy (1914-2010), politician
- David Lack (1910–1973), biologist and ornithologist
- Donald Maclean (1913–1983), secret agent and member of the Cambridge Five
- Michael Lindsay (1909-1994), peer
- Ben Nicholson (1894–1982), painter and object artist
- Miranda Raison (born 1977), actress
- John Reith (1889–1971), founding father and first director general of the BBC
- Wilfrid Roberts (1900–1991), politician
- Sebastian Shaw (1905–1994), actor, theater director, poet
- Jocelyn Simon (1911-2006), peer and lord judge
- Stephen Spender (1909-1995), poet
- Christopher Strachey (1916–1975), computer scientist
- Pat Symonds (* 1953), chief engineer at Renault F1
- John Tusa (* 1936), radio and television journalist
- Paul Wilson (1908–1980), hydraulic engineer and politician
- Robin Woods (1914–1997), clergyman and member of the House of Lords
- Percy Wyn-Harris (1903–1979), mountaineer, governor of the British colony of Gambia
