Silcoates School
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Silcoates School is a public (private) school in Wakefield, England. It was founded in 1820 as the Northern Congregational School at Silcoates House, for the board and education of the sons of non-conformist clergy; it was located close to Ossett and Horbury, which both had unusually large nonconformist populations. It was a boys' boarding school until 1995, boasting pupils from the far corners of the world. Girls were admitted in the sixth form from 1976, with female boarders accommodated in the 'Coach House'. The school now exists as a co-educational day school, with a large and attractive campus straddling the border between the West Yorkshire villages of Wrenthorpe and Alverthorpe. The Silcoates School Foundation has three schools under its name: Silcoates School, Sunny Hill House School, and St Hilda's School. Silcoates has the most pupils, around 750 in total. The foundation caters for pupils from infancy up to eighteen.[1]
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[edit] Motto
The school's motto is Clarior ex Ignibus - 'brighter out of fire' - commemorating the Great Fire of 1904 which forced the school to move into temporary exile in Saltburn, on the coast of North Yorkshire between Whitby and Middlesbrough.
[edit] Houses
The school has four houses, representing notable headmasters: Evans', Moore's, Spencer's and Yonge's.
[edit] Murder
In 2006 the school hit the news when it was the centre of murder enquiry after a local man's body was found on school premises. The man who died was Gavin Corden, and a local man was arrested soon after the murder.[2]
[edit] Notable alumni
- James Guinness Rogers (1822-1911), Nonconformist divine
- William Thomas Stead (1849-1912), journalist, campaigner, victim of RMS Titanic disaster
- J. S. Fletcher (1865-1935), historian, writer of historical and detective novels
- Sir William Peel (1875-1945), colonial governor of Hong Kong
- Maurice Yonge (1899-1986), zoologist, son of headmaster
- John Horam (1939-), Tory MP
- Tim Stimpson (1973-), England international rugby player
- David Stiff (1984-), County Cricketer
- Hugh Banton (1949-), Progressive rock icon, member of Van der Graaf Generator
- Baron Cocks of Hartcliffe, (1929-2001) Labour peer
[edit] References
- ^ Information about three schools in Silcoates School Foundation
- ^ Information about the murder at Silcoates School[1] [2]
