Old Swinford Hospital

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Old Swinford Hospital
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Address
Old Swinford Hospital
Heath Lane

Stourbridge
,
West Midlands
,
DY8 1QX

England
Coordinates 52°27′03″N2°08′39″W / 52.4507°N 2.1442°W / 52.4507; -2.1442
Information
Type Voluntary aided comprehensive
Day and boarding school
Motto Ut prosim, vince malum bono
Religious affiliation(s) Church of England
Established1667;357 years ago (1667)
Founder Thomas Foley
Local authority Dudley
Specialists Business and Enterprise, Science
Department for Education URN 103870 Tables
Ofsted Reports
ChairMalcolm Wilcox
HeadmasterPaul Kilbride
Gender Coeducational
Age11to 18
Enrolment603
Houses7 Senior Boarding Houses, 1 Junior Boarding House, 1 Day Student House
Colour(s)   
PublicationThe Foleyan
Former PupilsOld Foleyans
Website http://www.oshsch.com

Old Swinford Hospital is a secondary boarding school in Oldswinford, Stourbridge, West Midlands, England [1] that has been in continuous operation since the 17th century. It is one of 36 state boarding schools in England, meaning school fees are funded by the LEA and pupils only pay boarding fees. Girls are admitted into the sixth form as day pupils. Girls will be admitted from year 7 onwards in 2021. [2]

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History

Old Swinford Hospital opened in the late summer of 1667. Originally called Stourbridge Hospital, [3] it was founded by Thomas Foley, an ironmaster and prominent local landowner, whose main estate was at Great Witley, west of Stourport in Worcestershire, but with strong Stourbridge connections. It was to educate 60 boys from "poor but honest" families nominated by specified parishes in Worcestershire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire. The school was sometimes named as Foley's blue coat school [4] or hospital, or Oldswinford Hospital Endowed School. [5] The school had increased to 70 boys by 1868. [6] [7]

Houses

As of 2024, the school consists of five active boarding houses

HouseColourBuiltNamesake
DudleyPurple1984the Earls of Dudley, the family who bought the Foley's estate of Witley Court
FoleyGreen1982Thomas Foley, the founder of the School
FosterRed1667A prominent local family (see James Foster)
PotterSky Blue2009Christopher Potter OBE, headmaster from 1978 until 2001
Prospect (Year 7)Prospect Hill, the house's location

Former houses include:

HouseColourBuiltNamesake
BaxterGrey1990 Richard Baxter, a 17th-century Puritan minister
Chance
LytteltonNamed after the Lyttelton family who built nearby Hagley Hall [8]
MayburyNavy Blue1845William Maybury, headmaster of the school from 1883-1928
Stone
WitleyYellow1983Witley Court, the Foley family mansion

Admissions

There is no catchment area and admission is non-selective except for Flexi-Boarders in Year 7. Boarding fees and day student facilities are charged but not tuition. [9]

Sixth Form

The school also offers a Sixth Form to which girls are admitted. Applications externally were subject to an entrance exam, which was dropped for students entering September 2015, and GCSE grades equivalent to 7 'A' grades. Boarding places are guaranteed for previous boarders. There is a minimum standard of 7 'C' grades at GCSE expected; this requirement can be waived if the pupil contributes to the school in other ways such as such as sport or music.[ citation needed ]

Academics

Old Swinford Hospital is a specialist Business and Enterprise School, a Specialist Science School and has recently[ when? ] been awarded an Artsmark and Sportsmark.

Foreign Language lessons are also compulsory and are offered as options to sixth form students as Spanish, French and German. Old Swinford Hospital has foreign language assistants, who come as native speakers of the language to teach and help at the school.[ citation needed ]

GCSEs are taken in Year 11. Lower Sixth take AS Levels, and Upper Sixth take A-Levels. Most Lower Sixth take 3 courses, and Upper Sixth take those same 3 Courses.

Old Swinford Hospital is placed in the top 5% of all schools at GCSE and with a strong record at A level.[ citation needed ] In October 2006, OFSTED rated the school as Outstanding. The most recent judgement, in 2017, judged the school as Good. [10]

Upon publication of the 2007/2008 academic year results tables, Old Swinford Hospital were the best school in the Dudley local area for pass and success rates in GCSEs with 89% of pupils gaining 5 or more A*-C grades.[ citation needed ] A Level students also performed well with 99% of examinations taken passed, and an average point score per pupil of 805.8; significantly higher than the Dudley local average of 733.1 [11] [12] For 2010, it remained the highest performing school in the Dudley borough with 94% of GCSE students gaining 5 or more GCSEs at grade C or above. [13]

Sport

The main school sport is rugby; the school has reached the Semi-Finals in the U15 and U18 Daily Mail Cup, reaching the final in the U18 cup in 2012, and winning many other cups.[ citation needed ] From Michaelmas term the sport is played, with Sevens being played late in the Lent term. Other top level sports include hockey, and cross country. Cross country had a successful 2007/2008 season, winning trophies in both 1st and 2nd team categories. The school runs 3 senior football teams which are coached by former professional footballer Dale Rudge.

In Summer the main school sport is cricket. David Banks, the former Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Staffordshire cricketer is a member of the teams coaching staff.

In 2011-2012 the Basketball team suffered only 2 defeats in the entire season. The juniors are coached by Barrie Mann.

Other sports include Golf (Old Swinford Hospital owns Stourbridge Golf Club), Squash, Tennis, Rounders, Athletics, Volleyball, hockey and Mountain Biking.

Shooting is a sport also offered at the school.[ citation needed ]

Old Swinford Hospital has international links with schools and educational establishments abroad.[ citation needed ] The three most notable are in the table below. Old Swinford has a history of raising money, and assisting in many ways with St. John's Secondary School in Nandere, Uganda through various charitable events and days and through the Uganda Link society. When the school had power issues in 2007, Old Swinford managed to raise the money needed to get power supplies back within one day.[ citation needed ]

SchoolCity
Flag of Uganda.svg St. John's Secondary Senior School [14] Nandere
Flag of Argentina.svg St. George's College North [14] Buenos Aires
Flag of Australia (converted).svg St. Joseph's Nudgee College [14] Brisbane

Old Foleyans

Former students of the school are called Old Foleyans after the founder of the school, Thomas Foley.

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Headmasters since 1667

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References

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  2. ↑ "State Black Country boarding school to admit 11-16 girls for first time in 350-year history". expressandstar.com. Wxpress and Star. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
  3. ↑ "Thomas Foley after William Trabute, line engraving, late 18th to early 19th century". Home / Collections / Large Image - NPG D30030; Thomas Foley. National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  4. ↑ The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales Volume 4. A. Fullarton and Company. 1843. p. 274. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
  5. ↑ The lancet London: a journal of British and foreign medicine, surgery, obstetrics, physiology, chemistry, pharmacology, public health and news, Volume 2. 1852. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
  6. ↑ OLD SWINFORD - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868
  7. ↑ Hopkins, Eric (June 1969). "A Charity School in the Nineteenth Century: Old Swinford Hospital School, 1815-1914". British Journal of Educational Studies. 17 (2): 177–192. doi:10.1080/00071005.1969.9973249. JSTOR   3119259.
  8. ↑ British History Online: History of the parish of Old Swinford
  9. ↑ "Admissions and Fees". Old Swinford Hospital.
  10. ↑ Owen, Dan. "Short inspection of Old Swinford Hospital" (PDF). Ofsted. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  11. ↑ http://www.oshsch.com/2009/01/old-swinford-hospital-top-of-league-table/ Old Swinford Hospital Top of League Tables
  12. ↑ http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/cgi-bin/performancetables/group_08.pl?Mode=Z&Type=LA&Begin=b&No=332&Base=g&Phase=1&F=1&L=50&Year=08 DSCF Dudley KS4 result tables
  13. ↑ "Secondary schools in Dudley". BBC News. 12 January 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  14. 1 2 3 "Housemaster Job Description". Old Swinford Hospital. Retrieved 13 December 2008.
  15. ↑ Sheppard, L W (1953). "From charity foundation to residential technical school". The Vocational Aspect of Secondary and Further Education. 5 (10): 37–42. doi:10.1080/03057875380000041.
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