Bromsgrove School

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Bromsgrove School
Established 1693
Type Public School
Head Master Chris Edwards M.A. (Oxon)
Founder Sir Thomas Cookes Bart.
Location Worcester Road
Bromsgrove
Worcestershire
B61 7DU
EnglandFlag of England
Staff c.440
Students c.1,450
Gender Mixed
Ages 2 to 18
Houses 11 (Senior School)
6 (Preparatory School)
3 (Pre-Preparatory)
School colours Maroon

    
Former pupils Old Bromsgrovians
Website www.bromsgrove-school.co.uk

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[edit] History

Bromsgrove School, founded in 1553, is a co-educational independent school in the Worcestershire town of Bromsgrove, England. It was first recorded in 1476 as a chantry school and was re-established as a Tudor Grammar School between 1548 and 1553. The endowment of Sir Thomas Cookes in 1693 produced the first buildings on the present site and the historic link with Worcester College, Oxford which shares the same coat of arms and motto, based on those of Sir Thomas Cookes of Norgrove.
In 1869 Bromsgrove was one of the fourteen foundingschools of the Headmasters' Conference.
During the Second World War the School moved to Llanwrtyd Wells in Wales and its buildings were used by British Government Departments.
In 2002 the school established Bromsgrove International School Thailand (BIST) in Thailand.
In 2005 the school was one of fifty of the country's leading private schools which were found guilty of running an illegal price-fixing cartel, exposed by The Times, which had allowed them to drive up fees for thousands of parents.[1] Each school was required to pay a nominal penalty of £10,000 and all agreed to make ex-gratia payments totalling three million pounds into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared.[2]
In 2007, the school was granted the Freedom of Llanwrtyd Wells.[3]

Bromsgrove School has boarding and day students and consists of three schools, Pre-Prep Nursery School (ages 2–7), Preparatory School (ages 7–13) and the Senior School (13–18). The Senior School has 800 pupils, of whom 60% are male and 40% female, 60% boarding and 40% day. As well as British students, there are more than two hundred from other countries, especially Russia, Germany, China and Hong Kong. The school is to some extent a selective school and high A-Level and GCSE grades are achieved, with an A-Level pass rate (grade A*-C) of 96%.[4]. Bromsgrove School is in the top 20 of UK co-ed boarding schools by A-Level results.[5] An annual Rugby match against King Edward's School, Birmingham is thought to be the oldest continuous Rugby match between two schools.[who?]

[edit] Houses

  • Lower (Preparatory) School - All named after famous industrialists, shown in brackets:
  • Senior School:
    • Elmshurst (Boys Boarding)
    • Hazeldene (Girls Day)
    • Housman Hall (Sixth Form Girls & Boys) (Housman Hall was opened in 2003, after the school bought the Ramada Perry Hall Hotel.)
    • Lupton (Boys Day)
    • Lyttelton (Boys Day)
    • Mary Windsor (Girls Boarding)
    • Oakley (Girls Boarding & Day)
    • School (Senior House)(Boys Boarding & Day)
    • Thomas Cookes (Girls Day)
    • Walters (Boys Day)
    • Wendron Gordon (Boys Boarding)

[edit] Notable students


[edit] Victoria Cross holders

Five Old Bromsgrovians have won the Victoria Cross:[6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article588559.ece
  2. ^ http://www.oft.gov.uk/news/press/2006/182-06
  3. ^ Unique Honour For Town School (from Bromsgrove Advertiser)
  4. ^ Bromsgrove School
  5. ^ Best Schools, The Top 100 Co-Educational Senior Boarding Schools by A Levels
  6. ^ Nicholas Lovell , (1996), V.C.s of Bromsgrove School : : the stories of five Victoria Crosses won by old Bromsgrovians , (ISBN-10: 0-9521362-3-6 / 0952136236)

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