Rendcomb College

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Rendcomb College is an HMC co-educational boarding and day school for 3- 18 year olds, 5 miles north of Cirencester in Gloucestershire, England.

Rendcomb College and Junior School states that it '...aims to provide a stimulating, challenging and exciting all-round education'. A recent Independent Schools Inspection found the school to be a “friendly and supportive community” where “the efforts of pupils are warmly encouraged, celebrated and rewarded”

Rendcomb College states in its prospectus that '...it is a close community, more of an extended family to which every pupil belongs, where every child matters as an individual.'

In 2005, pupils at the College achieved recording breaking exam results with a 100% pass rate at A Level and 93% at GCSE with 48% of the papers were graded A and A*.

The school motto is "Quo Lux Ducit (to where the light leads) "

[edit] Notable alumni

• Kojo Annan - Son of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. While at Rendcomb, he was a successful Rugby player.^[1]
• John Middleton Murry, Jr. - English writer who used the names Colin Murry and Richard Cowper. ^[2]
• Richard Dunwoody - Champion Jockey

[edit] References

1. ^ MacAskill, Ewen, "English public schoolboy turned businessman who 'disappointed' his father", The Guardian, March 30, 2005
2. ^ Priest, christopher "John Middleton Murry: Science-fiction writer who emerged from the shadow of his famous father" (obituary), The Guardian, May 3, 2002

[edit] External links

• Rendcomb College homepage
• The Old Rendcombian Web Site - Alumni web site
• Junior School
• Senior School