Talk:Peter Symonds College

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[edit] The armed mutiny of 1957

No mention of the day in May 1957 when sixth-formers seized the armoury, armed themselves with rifles and dangled the acting headmaster out the window? See: "How the sixth form seized an armoury and shut a school," The Times, 24 January 1997

[edit] Buildings

"Neil Hopkins is now the only principal not to have a building in the college named after him, and instead the landfill site in front of the Northbrook building which was demolished has been affectionately called "Hopkins' Hump"."

I don't know of a Nicholls building, so he isn't the only one. Secondly, since John Shields was built, the hump has gone I believe

[edit] Gay Day

When exactly is 'Gay Day'? I've lived in Winchester for 15 years, and was at Peter Symonds, and I've never heared of it.

No, nor me. I'm currently at Peter Symonds and have never heard of it before. I doubt it would be allowed nowadays - suggest we remove it? --TDE 20:07, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Well there hasn't yet been a reply from whoever wrote it. I feel we should wait a bit to see what they say. But at the moment I'm in favour of removing it, that whole paragraph seems a little whimsical for an encyclopedia.

It has little to do with Peter Symonds and a Google search for "Gay Pirates Day Winchester" yields only this page as a match. I have taken the paragraph away for now. It can always be put back. --TDE 20:23, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

  • i did take place in a pirate day at symonds, but as far as i was aware

[edit] Famous Attendees

I see a list of famous people who went to PS has been added. Jack Dee certainly did but did Colin Firth? According to this site he went to Barton Peveril? --TDE 17:36, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Colin Firth did indeed go to Peter Symonds. His younger brother Johnathan also went to the same college after him. I also went to Peter Symonds but not at the same time. I know that Colin lived in Winchester because his father was and is a history professor at King Alfred's College. He may well have gone to Barton Peveril. He most probably did his A-levels at Peter Symonds and then moved on to BP. A lot of students did this. At the time Colin went to PS, it was already a 6th form college. To be honest, I'm not sure if Bernard Manning went to PS.

I don't think that Colin Firth did go to Peter Symonds ... I was in the year below his brother Jonathan (aka Jon) ... Colin went to Barton Peveril (Eastleigh's 6th Form) and did their Theatre Studies course (which was a 'double course' i.e. the equivelant of 2 'A' level courses in terms of the timetable). Jonathan Firth deserves a mention as an alumni as he is a pretty well established film and TV actor albeit not on the same scale as Colin ... Nice bloke too. --81.155.92.206 23:26, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Both John Christopher and Sam Youd are listed in the Former students, since they are the same person this should be one entry, but is it the pen name or the actual name that should be included?

[edit] Apostrophe

The college omits the apostrophe on Symonds. See Here --TDE 15:44, 24 May 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Bernard Manning

Removed the reference to him. I'll believe he went to PS when someone produces evidence. When they do, he should be described as "Outrageous standup comedian", not as "Child prodigy..."

Chris C 16:52, 20 October 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Latest vandalism

Warmest thanks to Thaines, Ryanpostlethwaite and everyone else battling the boneheads in defence of this article! Heaven knows I have mixed feelings about my old school, but it doesn't deserve the treatment it's been getting.

Chris C 17:35, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

No problem! Its on my watchlist now so I'll keep a look out for it :-) RyanPostlethwaiteSee the mess I've created or let's have banter 17:39, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment

This article has now been assessed. The feedback given was: A good article with plenty of information on the school provided. However, this article still needs to cover topics apart from history in more detail - such as current policies and uniform. An infobox with the logo integrated into it and perhaps more supporting pictures would also be a valid improvement. Though, the biggest weakness of this article is its lack of references, these need to be added or the factual accuracy of this article is disputable Camaron1 | Chris 18:15, 27 April 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Copy & Paste Fairy

Large chunks of this article are copied directly from the colleges website http://www.psc.ac.uk/college/history.php. I don't have time to sort it out now, but I will come and have a play with it some point in the next week or so if no-one beats me to it! (There are also various bits in the "Peter Symonds College" section which I'm sure are not true - being a local I'm sure I would have noticed some of them - so I will look for some supporting evidence, or remove if I can't find any!) -Ladybirdintheuk (talk) 23:41, 19 January 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Cheering you on ...

... there's too much of the PR release about the article as it stands.

Chris C (talk) 15:55, 30 January 2008 (UTC)