St Edward's School (Oxford)
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| St Edward's School, Oxford |
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| Motto | Pietas Parentum (Filial Affection) |
| Established | 1863 |
| Type | Independent school |
| Headmaster | Andrew Trotman |
| Founder | Rev. Thomas Chamberlain |
| Students | 657 (427 boys, 230 girls) |
| Location | Oxford, Oxfordshire England |
| Colours | Blue and Yellow |
| Website | www.stedwards.oxon.sch.uk |
St Edward's School (also colloquially known as "Teddies") is a co-educational public school (that is, an independent, fee-charging secondary school) in North Oxford, England, on the Woodstock Road. It is a boarding school and has 11 boarding houses, 7 for boys and 4 for girls. There are 5 year groups ranging from 13 to 18 year olds. Since 1998, it has been fully co-educational. Prior to that there was a period where there were girls only in the last two year groups (the sixth form) and originally the school was for boys only.
The school was founded in 1863 by the Rev. Thomas Chamberlain, student of Christ Church, Vicar of St Thomas the Martyr, in Mackworth Hall then standing on this site. The school was moved to Summertown in 1873 by the Rev. A. B. Simeon, first Warden. The school remains on the site today, with the Woodstock Road separating the Quad from the playing fields.
In 2005, the school was involved in a fee fixing scandal and fined by the Office of Fair Trading. [1]
The school is also home to the Esporta Health and Raquets Club.
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[edit] Year groups
The year groups are as follows: (first column indicates the usual age of pupils)
- 13–14: Shells
- 14–15: 4th Form
- 15–16: 5th Form
- 16–17: Lower 6th
- 17–18: Upper 6th
[edit] Houses and Facilities
There are seven Boys Houses: Field House, Sing's and Kendall, located on the field side of the school, and Apsley, Tilly's, Segar's and Cowell's, on the quad side. These are largely named after ex-headmasters (or Wardens).
The four Girls Houses are: Avenue and Corfe on the field side and Macnamara's and Oakthorpe on the quad Side. Of the Girls Houses, Corfe and Macnamara's were originally home to boys but were changed in the late 1990s.
Each house is run by Housemaster or mistress who is a member of the teaching staff at the school and lives in the boarding house with their family. Each house also has a set of House Tutors who supervise Prep (homework) during the week and also tutor members of the house. A pastoral house matron also lives in each boarding house looking after pupils' medical (and often social) needs.
[edit] Alumni
Notable former pupils ('Old St Edwards / OSE') include:
- Group Captain Douglas Bader, flying ace and disability campaigner
- Arthur Banks, WWII pilot awarded GC
- John Berger, art critic, novelist, painter, and author
- Nicholas Budgen, Conservative MP
- Peter Carter-Ruck, lawyer
- Brian Cleeve, author and broadcaster
- John Davies, businessman and cabinet minister
- George Fenton, Oscar nominated film composer
- James Forrester, England rugby union international
- Guy Gibson VC, Dambusters hero
- Kenneth Grahame, author
- Pippa Bennett-Warner, actress
- Norman Miscampbell, Conservative MP
- Georgia Moffett, actress
- Laurence Olivier, Oscar winning Actor, Director and Producer.
- Hugh Padgham, record producer
- Georgina Rylance, actress
- Simon Nicholls, BBC comedy producer
- Jon Snow, Channel 4 newscaster
- Stephen Tumin, judge
- Adrian Warburton, DSO and Bar, DFC and Two Bars, highly decorated World War II British pilot
[edit] Trivia
- Former Head of Physical Education Ben Ryan is now head coach of the England Rugby Union Sevens Team.
- The school has links with a number of schools overseas, including The Gilman School and Roland County Park School in Baltimore, Maryland, USA and The Doon School in India.
