Duke of York's Royal Military School

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Location
Duke of York's Royal Military School
Guston
,
Kent
,
CT15 5EQ

England
Information
TypeSelective academy
state boarding school
Mottoes"Looking Forward with Confidence, Looking Back with Pride"
Former: "Sons of the Brave"
Religious affiliation(s)Protestant
Established1803;221 years ago (1803)
Department for Education URN 136177 Tables
Ofsted Reports
President Prince Edward Duke of Kent
HeadmanAlex Foreman
GenderCo-Ed
Age11to 18
Enrolment500
Houses11
Colour(s)Navy, maroon and white      
Former pupils Dukies [1]
Website http://www.doyrms.com

The Duke of York's Royal Military School, in Guston, Kent, commonly known as the Duke of York's, is a co-educational academy with military tradition for students aged 11 to 18. [2] [3] In 2010 the school became an academy under the aegis of the Ministry of Defence and accepts applications from any student wishing to enrol, thus altering its former status wherein only students with veteran or still serving parents in the armed forces were eligible to apply. [4]

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This transition of status, actually transformed the institution to state boarding school and offered it a membership in the State Boarding Forum and Boarding Schools Association. The latter development yet once again changed the school's oversight and transferred it from the Ministry of Defence to the Department for Education. [5]

The Duke of York's educational apparatus includes some traditions that are rather cogently military, such as ceremonial parades or the use of uniforms. [6] It has a monitorial style of education modelled on the English public school system. [7]

Notable alumni include senior generals (e.g. Sir Archibald Nye, Gary Coward and David Mark Cullen), musicians (Henry Lazarus), athletes (Maurice Colclough), scientists (e.g. Professors Paul Shaw, Timothy Foster, Kevin Allmark and Mark Gardiner) and clergymen (James Jones and Bill Ind).[ citation needed ]

History

Founded in 1803 by royal warrant in 1801, the school was called the Royal Military Asylum until 1892. The school's primary purpose was to educate the orphans of British servicemen killed in the Napoleonic Wars of 1793–1815. Between 1803-1909 the Royal Military Asylum was located at what is now known as the Duke of York's Headquarters in Chelsea, London. [8] The school was co-educational; this makes the Duke of York's the second co-educational boarding school in the United Kingdom. The first co-educational institution was the Royal Hibernian Military School in Dublin which was relocated and merged with Duke of York's after Ireland declared independence. [9] Today, the Chelsea site is home to the Saatchi Gallery.

The school adopted the "Madras system of education" developed by Dr. Andrew Bell, to which Joseph Lancaster made certain improvements. In 1812, three African youths attended the school as teachers at the invitation of the Duke of Gloucester. They were then sent by the African Institution to Sierra Leone where they were employed as teachers by the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, the Earl of Liverpool. [10]

The school's original site in Chelsea. SaatchiGallery.jpg
The school's original site in Chelsea.

Between 1816-1840, the Asylum had a branch in Southampton which provided schooling for up to 400 military orphans and children serving soldiers of both sexes until 1823, after which the boys were transferred to Chelsea with the girls going to Southampton. A decline in the school numbers resulted in its closure in 1840. Starting in 1841, the building were taken over by the Ordnance Survey. [11]

Peter Brown, a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, and Major General served as Commandant of the Royal Military Asylum. [12] Brown's promotion from colonel to major general occurred while an incumbent Commandant [13] [14] , a development that possibly could be seen as a break given that it was non-active command and it lacked precedence.

Many of the school's pupils performed acts of gallantry in the wars in which the British Army was involved. One such individual was John Shaul, who in the Boer War individuated himself for his bravery and was awarded the Victoria Cross. [15]

It was in 1892 that the Royal Military Asylum was renamed as "The Duke of York's Royal Military School" and ultimately became an all-boys school. In 1909, the school relocated to a new siting on the cliffs above Dover in Kent. For the duration of World War I (1914–1918), the school was evacuated to Hutton, near Brentwood, Essex. This provided the military authorities with a transit point in Dover for troops moved to and from the Western Front. In 1940, the school was evacuated to the Saunton Sands Hotel, Braunton, North Devon. It finally returned to Dover by 1946.

In 1994, the school re-admitted girls and returned to co-education.

The school's first civilian students were accepted in 2010 after the school was granted academy status. [16] [17]

Academic ratings

Between 2007-2009 more than 90% of the pupils gained 5 or more GCSEs at grades A*-C (including English and Mathematics). More than 13% of grades were A*/A during the same period.

During this period (2007–2009) 19% of grades gained were A/B at AS level and 12% of grades were A/B at A2 level. A total of 32% of grades gained were passed at A2 level. [18]

Exchanges with NATO member military schools

The Duke of York's runs student exchange programmes with military schools within the umbrella of NATO.The exchange programme with the Lycée Militaire, in Aix-en-Provence, its French equivalent is a case in point. The Duke of York's has also connections with some USA military academies, e.g. the Missouri Military Academy, or the Valley Forge Military Academy and College in Wayne, Pennsylvania, but also with further afar as the Faujdarhat Cadet College, in Chittagong, Bangladesh. [19] Placements for recent school leavers from respective military schools to assume assistant teaching posts at corresponding schools are also within the academy's purview.

Boarding houses

The school is currently divided into twelve Houses, nine of which are named after famous British generals, one after a famous admiral of the Royal Navy, and another after a famous marshal of the Royal Air Force: [20]

Junior houses (year 7)

Senior houses (years 8-11)

Years 12-13

Notable alumni

Notable masters

Dukies' Corner in Guston Churchyard

Some pupils of the school are buried in the churchyard of St Martin of Tours church in the nearby village of Guston. [37]

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