Brentwood School (Brentwood)
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| Brentwood School | |
|---|---|
| Motto | Incipe |
| Established | 1557 |
| Type | Public School |
| Founder | Sir Antony Browne |
| Headmaster | Ian Davies |
| Faculty | 114 full time, 23 part time |
| Students | 1,121 |
| Grades | Reception - Sixth Form |
| Location | Brentwood, Essex, England |
| Website | brentwoodschool.co.uk |
| Image:Brentwood School (Essex).jpg | |
Brentwood School is a public school in Brentwood, Essex, England. It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and of the Haileybury Group of independent schools.
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[edit] History
The school was founded in 1557 by Sir Antony Browne on the site where William Hunter, a young man of only nineteen years of age, was burned to death for refusing to accept the transubstantiation of bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
Browne had sentenced Hunter when Justice of the Peace for the area under Queen Mary, and founded the school as penance for Hunter's martyrdom when Queen Elizabeth I came to the throne.
In the 1960s and early 70s the school was a Direct Grant school, becoming independent on the abolition of the scheme in the mid 1970s
The FoBS (Friends of Brentwood School) was founded in 1982 to help raise funds within the school, mainly via large events and excursions for pupils.
[edit] Today
The school is separated into three main sections: Senior School (ages 11 to 18), Preparatory School (ages 7 to 11) and Pre-Preparatory School (ages 3 to 7).
Originally the whole school was for boys, but in 1974 the Governors took the decision to allow a small number of girls to enter the Sixth form. The Girls School opened in 1986, admitting girls from ages 11 to 18, with the Preparatory School following suit in 1998.
The school has two mottos, Virtue, Learning and Manners and Incipe, the latter being a Latin motto (roughly meaning "to begin" or "to start") added in the 19th century.
The school is considered in terms of Independent Schools' A-Level results to be third division[1] (with there being five divisions of which Premier League is the highest).
[edit] Sport
The School is notable for its sporting achievements, particularly in football and fencing. The school has consistently performed well as part of the Independent Schools Football Association (ISFA), winning the national Boodle and Dunthorne ISFA cup in 2002. It has also been historically successful in the prestigious Public Schools Fencing Championships, winning the overall title 32 times since 1962, with the last team victory coming in 2006. The school has had students and teachers win medals for fencing at the World and Commonwealth Games. Additionally, Brentwood has produced national and international standard squash, cricket and netball players, among others. A number of improvements in sporting facilities have been made in recent years. These include a 25 metre indoor swimming pool and learner pool, a fitness suite, 4 additional glass-backed squash courts and an indoor rifle range. The school is set in 70 acres of grounds and has two playing fields, one situated directly on the school site and another, the Heseltines, adjacent to the school. These contain many football, rugby, cricket and hockey pitches, an all-weather pitch, tennis and netball courts and an athletics track and field as well as a woods used for cross-country runs.
[edit] Senior School
Between the ages of 11 and 16 (up to GCSE level), boys and girls are taught separately. After this, in the Sixth Form, teaching is co-educational.
- Age range: 11 - 18
- Day pupils: 649 male, 399 female, £12,144 to £12,144 (min/max annual fees)
- Full boarding: 46 male, 27 female, £21,426 to £21,426 (min/max annual fees)
- Total Pupils: 695 male, 426 female
- Including 6th form/FE: 179 male, 116 female
- Staff numbers: 114 full time, 23 part time
- Method of entry: Common Entrance, School exam or test and/or Interview
- Professional affiliations: HMC, IAPS, ISC, AGBIS (formerly GBA and GBGSA)
- Religious affiliation: Church of England
Entrance in to the school at Year 7 is by an Entrance Examinaton, testing students' skills in Arithmetic, Writing and General Problem Solving, Verbal Reasoning. Scholarships can be offered to entrants based on five aspects:
- Academic Merit in the Entrance Examination
Talent in:
- Music
- Sport
- Art
- Drama
Bursaries are also offered to entrants under special conditions.
[edit] Houses
There are five day houses named North Town, South Town, East Town, West Town and Weald, together with two boarding houses, Mill Hill for girls and Hough for boys. These together make up a sixth house, School house. Prior to the mid-1960s, the school was entirely boarding but, as Brentwood grew into the large commuter town that it is now, demand for day education increased and accordingly the number of boarding houses were reduced. It remains one of only a select few schools in the country in which boarding students have their own rooms rather than shared dormitories. The boarding house consists of mainly academic individuals from other countries, namely China, Russia and India, who must pass an internal exam to gain entrance.
Each House has its own tie in House colours; competitions in sports, music, drama, debating and various other activities are held on a regular basis. The North town colour is yellow, the South town colour is red, the East Town colour is light blue, the West Town colour is dark blue, the Weald colour is burgundy and the School House colour is green.
[edit] Notable Old Brentwoods
- Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain (1856–1944), army officer, Inspector-General of the Royal Irish Constabulary and inventor of snooker
- Prof. Sir Roderick Floud, academic, Vice-President of the European Universities Association
- Peter Allen, BBC broadcaster and journalist, [1]
- Hugo Drayton, former Managing Director of The Daily Telegraph newspaper
- Sir Frank Lee (1903–1971), civil servant and Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
- Sir Ralph Murray, diplomat
- Sir Hardy Amies (1909–2003), Couturier and Dressmaker by Appointment to Her Majesty The Queen
- Vivian Rosewarne (1917-May 1940) reported in December[2]), Wellington bomber pilot memorialised in the film 'An Airman's Letter to His Mother', 1941
- Sir Robin Day (1923–2000), broadcaster
- Philip Arthur William Collins (1923-2007), Dickensian scholar and emeritus professor of English, Leicester University
- Keith Hopkins (1934-2004), Influential historian and sociologist, professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge
- David Irving (born 1938), controversial historical writer
- Roger Cowley (born 1939), academic
- Sir Nick Scheele (born 1943), former President of the Ford Motor Company
- Jack Straw (born 1946), former Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary
- Howard Flight (born 1948), politician
- David Acfield (born 1947), cricketer
- Noel Edmonds (born 1948), disc jockey and broadcaster
- Michael Willis (born 1949), political scientist and historical author
- Sir Peter Stothard (born 1951), Former editor of The Times
- Ralph Dellor, (born 1952), cricket broadcaster and journalist
- Douglas Adams (1952–2001), author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Paul Neil Milne Johnstone (1952–2004) poet and butt of Douglas Adams' jokes in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Keith Allen (born 1953), comedian, actor, singer and writer (father of the singer Lily Allen)
- Charlie Bean (born 1953), Executive Director and Chief Economist of the Bank of England
- Griff Rhys Jones (born 1953), comedian and actor
- Charles Thomson (born 1953), founder of the Stuckists art movement
- Fabian Hamilton (born 1955), politician
- Andrew Lansley (born 1956), politician
- Stewart Robson (born 1964), footballer
- Guy Black (born 1964), former Press Secretary to Michael Howard, and Director of PCC
- Chris Jarvis (born 1969), television presenter
- David Eldridge (born 1973), playwright
- Hal Ozsan (born 1976), actor
- Neil Harris (born 1977), footballer
- Frank Lampard (born 1978), footballer
- Jodie Marsh (born 1978), glamour model
- Peter Barker (born 1983), squash player and influential member of winning English team in European Team Championships 2006[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Telegraph Independent Schools A-Level Results
- ^ see http://www.airmuseum.ca/mag/exag0311.html
- ^ http://psa-squash.com/entry/ranking.php?player=T02982&page=biog
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