This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
|
Sandroyd School | |
---|---|
Address | |
Rushmore Park , , SP5 5QD England | |
Coordinates | 50°57′54″N2°04′02″W / 50.9650°N 2.0673°W |
Information | |
Type | Independent school Co-educational Day and boarding school |
Motto | Niti Est Nitere (Latin) To strive is to shine |
Established | 1880 |
Founder | Louis Herbert Wellesley Wesley |
Department for Education URN | 126521 Tables |
Chairman of the Governors | Rhodri Thomas |
Headmaster | Alastair Speers [1] |
Age | 2to 13 [1] |
Enrolment | Approx. 230 [1] |
Houses | Wylye, Nadder, Ebble, Avon |
Colour(s) | |
Website | www |
Sandroyd School is an independent co-educational preparatory school for day and boarding pupils aged 2 to 13 in the south of Wiltshire, England. The school's main building is Rushmore House, a 19th-century country house which is surrounded by the Rushmore Estate, now playing fields, woods and parkland. [2] Sandroyd School was originally established by Louis Herbert Wellesley Wesley.
In the latest Independent Schools Inspectorate report carried out in 2023, Sandroyd School was judged as 'excellent' across all areas. [3]
The school is in the south of Berwick St John parish, near the village of Tollard Royal and the county border with Dorset.
Sandroyd School was founded as a school for boys by L. H. Wellesley Wesley at Sandroyd House, Fairmile, in Cobham, Surrey in 1880. [4] He was a great-grandson of Charles Wesley. [5]
In 1939, in anticipation of the Second World War, the school moved to Rushmore House, home of the Pitt-Rivers family. The house lies in the centre of Cranborne Chase on the borders of Wiltshire and Dorset. A link between the two sites is that Sandroyd House was built in 1860 for the pre-Raphaelite painter John Roddam Spencer Stanhope by the architect Philip Webb (1831–1915), the friend of William Morris, and it was Webb who remodelled the interior of Rushmore for General Pitt Rivers twenty years later. [6]
In the 1960s the school purchased the freehold of the school site. [6] In 1995 the school started to accept day pupils, and in 2004 it became coeducational. [4]
Sandroyd School has a pre-prep and nursery which was opened in 2004, for children aged two to seven. This was described as 'excellent' in an ISI inspection report of 2023.
Former pupils, known as Old Sandroydians, include: [7]
Haileybury and Imperial Service College is an English co-educational public school (fee-charging boarding and day school for 11- to 18-year-olds] located near Hertford in England. It is a member of the Rugby Group and enrols pupils at the 11+, 13+ and 16+ stages of education. Over 890 pupils attend Haileybury, of whom more than 550 board. The campus occupies over 500 acres of Hertfordshire countryside, approximately 20 miles from London.
Dauntsey's School is a public school for pupils aged 11–18 in the village of West Lavington, Wiltshire, England. The school was founded in 1542 in accordance with the will of William Dauntesey, a master of the Worshipful Company of Mercers.
King Henry VIII School is a coeducational private day school located in Coventry, England, comprising a senior school and associated preparatory school. The senior school has approximately 574 pupils. The current senior school fees stand at £15,150 per year, with bursaries and scholarships available.
Tollard Royal is a village and civil parish on Cranborne Chase, Wiltshire, England. The parish is on Wiltshire's southern boundary with Dorset and the village is 6 miles (10 km) southeast of the Dorset town of Shaftesbury, on the B3081 road between Shaftesbury and Sixpenny Handley.
Berwick St John is a village and civil parish in southwest Wiltshire, England, about 5 miles (8 km) east of Shaftesbury in Dorset.
Leehurst Swan School is a co-educational independent day school in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, for children between the ages of four and sixteen. Its site is near the city centre, about 3⁄4 mile (1.2 km) northeast of Salisbury Cathedral.
Northampton High School is a private day school for girls in Hardingstone, Northampton, England and is part of the Girls' Day School Trust
St Mary's School was a private Roman Catholic day and boarding school for girls, founded in 1945 in a rural setting near Shaftesbury, England. The school had a sixth form and was a member of the Girls' Schools Association. After operating at a loss for some time, the school closed in July 2020.
The Ladies' College is an independent day school for girls in Saint Peter Port, Guernsey. The school was founded on 10 October 1872 in order to provide academic education to girls on the island and was modelled after Cheltenham Ladies' College. As a member of the Girls' Schools Association (GSA), it is a public school in the British sense of the term.
Amesbury School is a co-educational independent prep school in the Hindhead/Haslemere area of Surrey, England, educating pupils between the ages of 9 months and 13 years. It was founded in 1870. The Grade II*-listed main building was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and stands on a 34-acre (140,000 m2) estate.
Sherborne Girls, formally known as Sherborne School for Girls, is an independent day and boarding school for girls, located in Sherborne, North Dorset, England. There were 485 pupils attending in 2019–2020, with more than 90 per cent of them living on campus in the seven boarding houses. Recognition for Sherborne Girls has included a double "excellent" rating in its Independent Schools Inspectorate Report and the title of Best Public School of The Year at the Tatler Schools Awards 2017/2018.
Salisbury Cathedral School is a co-educational private school in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, which was founded in 1091 by Saint Osmund. The choristers of Salisbury Cathedral are educated at the school.
Abingdon Preparatory School, is an independent preparatory school in the rural setting of Frilford, near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England.
George Pitt, 2nd Baron Rivers was a French-born English politician, military officer and peer who sat in the British House of Commons from 1774 to 1790.
The Larmer Tree Gardens near Tollard Royal in south Wiltshire, England, were created by landowner Augustus Pitt Rivers in 1880 as pleasure grounds for "public enlightenment and entertainment". They were the first private gardens opened for public enjoyment in the United Kingdom, and were free to enter. The 11-acre (4.5 ha) Grade II* listed gardens are within the Rushmore Estate in Cranborne Chase, an ancient royal hunting ground and now an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Moyles Court School is a private school located in Rockford, Hampshire, for children aged 2 to 16 years. Its Headmaster is Richard Milner-Smith.
Durham High School is a single-sex independent day school for girls aged 3 to 18 years old in Durham, United Kingdom.
Wellesley Haddon Dene School is a private day and boarding preparatory school in the coastal town of Broadstairs in the English county of Kent. Founded in 1866, it educates boys and girls aged 3 to 13. The merger of Haddon Dene School with Wellesley House School to form the newly named Wellesley Haddon Dene School in 2022, was associated with plans to expand. The school also includes a number of pupils with Special educational needs and disability (SEND).
Garden House School is a co-educational day private school located in Chelsea in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England, consisting of two major preparatory schools, two pre-prep schools and a Kindergarten. The girls' and boys' schools are separately taught within the same building, but share extra-curricular activities. Children are educated from the ages of three to eleven, but many boys transfer to other preparatory schools from the age of eight. Garden House School is reported to send a larger proportion of girls to leading boarding schools than other pre-preps in London. The school also has locations in the US, in New York State: the suburban village of Briarcliff Manor and New York City.
Appleford School is a private specialist dyslexia school near Shrewton in Wiltshire, England.