Sherborne School
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| Sherborne School | |
| type of school | Boarding school |
| founding | 1550 |
| address |
Abbey Road |
| place | Sherborne |
| county | Dorset |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 56'57 " N , 2 ° 31'6" W |
| student | about 570 (as of January 2016) |
| Teachers | 96 |
| management | Ralph Barlow |
| Website | www.sherborne.org |
The Sherborne School is an independent boarding school in Sherborne , Dorset , England . It was founded by Edward IV in 1550 and houses around 570 boys aged 13 to 18 and 96 teachers (as of 2011). The incumbent rector has been Ralph Barlow since 2014. The school has a close partnership with the neighboring Sherborne Girls School and shares some activities and high school courses with its students.
history
The Sherborne School was re-established by Edward IV in 1550 on the walls of a convent school that had existed since the 8th century and was renamed King Edward's School . After the Protestant Reformation it was given its current name, Sherborne School. In 1977 the International College for the Education of Foreign Students was also established in Sherborne. In March 2005 a daughter school was founded in Doha , Qatar . The Sherborne School site was the location of the movie Scream in the Past in 1951, and in 1969 Goodbye, Mr. Chips was also filmed there. It was also mentioned in the books A First Class Murder by John le Carré and The Loom of Youth by Alec Waugh .
In 2005 it became known that Sherborne School was among 50 influential independent schools in the country to organize an illegal price cartel ; this had allowed them to increase their school fees enormously.
Boarding houses
The all-day students live in eight boarding houses, some of which are named after former headmasters. Both boarding school and day school students live in each house, a total of 70 boys. Day pupils are fully integrated in the afternoon activities (sports, music lessons) and the weekend program.
Inside the school, every house has a letter for identification:
- School House (a) (Location: Abbey Road)
- Abbey House (b) (Location: Abbey Road)
- The Green (c) (Location: Hospital Lane)
- Harper House (d) (Location: Hound Street)
- Wallace House (e) (Formerly: Elmdene, Location: South Street)
- Abbeylands (f) (Location: Abbey Road)
- Lyon House (g) (Location: Richmond Road)
- The Digby (m) (Formerly: Digby Hotel, Location: Digby Road)
Old Shirburnians
Former students are known as Old Shirburnians . Among them are the logician, mathematician and cryptanalyst Alan Turing , the writer John Cowper Powys , the actors Jeremy Irons and Charlie Cox and Chris Martin , co-founders of the band Coldplay . Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani of Qatar and King Mswati III. from Swaziland are also former students of the Sherborne School.
Web links
- Official website (English)
swell
- goodschoolguide (accessed January 23, 2011)
- BBC (March 6, 2009, accessed January 23, 2011)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Private Schools send papers to fee-fixing inquiry. Daily Telegraph, accessed August 16, 2016 .
- ^ Embassy of Qatar
- ↑ Biography at biography.jrank.org (English), accessed on September 2, 2015