St. Bartholomew's School
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- This article is about the Berkshire school. See St. Bartholomew's School (Eynsham) for the school in Eynsham, Oxfordshire
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| Ad Lucem | |
| (Towards the Light) | |
| Established | 1466 |
| School type | Comprehensive |
| Head teacher | Stuart Robinson |
| Location | Newbury, Berkshire, United Kingdom |
| LEA | West Berkshire |
| Enrolment | 1,630 |
| Specialism | Business & Enterprise |
| Website | www.stbarts.co.uk |
St. Bartholomew's School (commonly shortened to just St. Bart's) is a comprehensive school founded in 1466 in Newbury, Berkshire. The motto of the school is Ad Lucem, Latin for "towards the light".
St. Bartholomew's School is now an 11-18 comprehensive school of approximately 1600 students with a sixth form of around 400. The school serves Newbury, a wide area of West Berkshire and the Hampshire/Wiltshire borders.
It is one of only a few comprehensive schools to participate in the Combined Cadet Force, with around two hundred cadets between the ages of fourteen and eighteen taking part in weekly training sessions and annual residential trips.
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[edit] House System
The school operates a house system, whereby students are divided up into four houses, each of which is named after a former pupil who was killed in World War I:
- (George) Curnock - Green
- (Alexander) Davis - Red
- (Bertram) Evers - Blue
- (Robert) Patterson - Yellow/Gold/Purple (see below)
Patterson house also uses the colour purple, but only in the senior house colours tie and occasionally as a contrast to yellow on house literature. The fourth house in the boys' school formerly always used purple, but switched to the yellow of the girls' school's fourth house when the schools merged in 1975.
Each house enters into annual competitions in sports, music and drama versus the other houses. The winning house in each competition is awarded a certain number of points, which are accrued during the academic year. The house with the most points at the end of the year will win the House Championship. House colours, in the form of ties for boys and sashes for girls, are awarded at the end of Years 10 and/or 12 to students who excel in a certain field, either academic or extra-curricular.
[edit] Facilities
- St. Bart's is based on two sites: The Luker site, at one end of Buckingham Road was formerly Newbury County Girls' Grammar School; The Wormestall site, at the opposite end of Buckingham Road, was the site for St. Bartholomew's when it was a boys' school. The two separate schools merged in 1975.
- Both sites have large playing fields.
- On the Wormestall site, there is a 25m indoor swimming pool, shared between local schools and the Newbury Swimming Club.
- Across the Luker site, there are five dedicated ICT suites, as well as computer terminals in the library and other classrooms.
- Each site has a large hall with stage.
- Wormestall Hall houses an indoor rock climbing wall.
- St. Bart's is one of around 55[1] schools in England with facilities for playing Eton Fives.
[edit] Location
The school is located in a residential area in the south of Newbury, Berkshire, part of the West Berkshire local education authority.
The school is split between two sites, Luker and Wormestall, located 200 m from each other. The former was named after the first headmistress Jane Luker, and the latter after its founder, Henry Wormestall. There is also an administration site, situated in between the two, called Digby Croft. Years 7-11 are based mainly at Luker, (the former site of the Newbury County Girls' Grammar School), and the Sixth Form mainly at Wormestall (previously the site of the Boys' Grammar School).
[edit] History
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The School was founded in 1466 from the legacy of Henry Wormestall who set aside £12 2s 4d annually for
"teching gramar scole of the whiche that toune hath grete nede" 1
| Date | Event |
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| 1466 | Male-only St. Bartholomew's Grammar School founded at the Wormestall site. |
| 1904 | Female-only Newbury County Girls Grammar School founded at the Luker site. |
| 1966 | School Celebrates Quincentenary. |
| 1972 | Visit by H.M. The Queen, May 26. |
| 1975 | Newbury County Girls Grammar School and St. Bartholomew's Grammar School merge to form the present-day state school |
| September 2002 | School designated as a Business & Enterprise College, specialist school status |
[edit] Alumni
The alumni of St. Barts are referred to as Old Newburians.
- Robert Newton - actor
- Charles Neufeld - inventor[citation needed]
[edit] Sixth Form
St. Bartholomew's Sixth Form Students are based in the Wormestall site between Buckingham and Enborne Roads, with their own Tutors and House staff. Sixth Form membership allows students to mentor younger pupils in subject lessons, music, and drama activities. Sixth Form students have their own dedicated study area in the library, computer facilities, careers services, common rooms, and canteen.
[edit] The Lifelong Learning Centre
The Lifelong Learning Centre, built in the summer of 2002, is a purpose-built library, conference and training facility, which includes two large information technology suites.
The two technology classrooms are situated on the ground level, on opposite sides of the building. There are around 30[citation needed] computers in each room, as well as an interactive whiteboard in each. Situated in the centre of the ground floor is a conference room, used to display artwork and hold meetings in the school day, and rentable at other times.
On the 1st floor is a library, with a range of books as well as 16 computer terminals, some reserved for sixth form. On the southeastern end of the libraries is a sixth form study area, as well as a small careers room.
[edit] Prospective Rebuild
On 23 November 2006 St. Bartholomew's was awarded a government grant to be used to rebuild its premises. The school was chosen ahead of three other schools in Berkshire: Kennet School, Theale Green Community School and John O'Gaunt Technology College. The rebuild project must be completed by September 2009.[1]
[edit] See also
- List of schools in the United Kingdom
- List of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom
- Specialist school
[edit] External links
- Official Homepage
- Old Newburians' Association
- History of the grammar school - written in 1958
- BBC News: Latest league tables
- A 1956 Memoir of the school.
[edit] References
- ^ Council vote for Newbury school to get government grant to help rebuild premises, newburytoday.co.uk, November 23, 2006
| Berkshire Secondary Schools |
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| Comprehensive: The Bulmershe School | Denefield School | Desborough School | Kennet School | Little Heath School | Newlands Girls' School | St. Bartholomew's School | St Crispin's School | The Downs School | Trevelyan School | Waingels |
| Grammar: Herschel Grammar School | Kendrick School | Langley Grammar School | Reading School | Slough Grammar School | St Bernard's Convent School |
| Independent: The Abbey School | Cheam School | Claires Court School | Crosfields School | Dolphin School | Downe House | Lambrook Haileybury | Leighton Park School | Ludgrove School |
| Public: Bearwood College | Bradfield College | Eton College | Heathfield St Mary's | Pangbourne College | Reading Blue Coat School | St. George's School, Ascot | St. Piran's | Wellington College, Berkshire |
Categories: Cleanup from November 2006 | All pages needing cleanup | NPOV disputes from August 2006 | Articles with sections needing expansion | Articles with unsourced statements | Comprehensive schools in Berkshire | Educational institutions established in the 15th century | Newbury, Berkshire | Schools with Combined Cadet Forces | West Berkshire | 1466 establishments
