The Elms School, Colwall

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The Elms School
Address
The Elms School, Colwall
Walwyn Road, Colwall

Malvern
,
Worcestershire
,
WR13 6EF

England
Coordinates 52°04′26″N2°21′54″W / 52.074°N 2.365°W / 52.074; -2.365
Information
Type Independent preparatory school
MottoGod Grant Grace
Religious affiliation(s) Christian
Established1614;410 years ago (1614)
FounderHumphrey Walwyn
Ofsted Reports
Chairman of governorsJames Rose
Headmaster (2023)Ed Lyddon [1]
Staff55 (2022) [2]
Gender Coeducational
Age3to 13
Enrolment166 (2022) [1]
Colour(s)  Maroon   Black
Website http://elmsschool.co.uk/

The Elms School is a co-educational private boarding prep school located in Colwall, Herefordshire, England. Including the early years and pre-prep departments, it educates children from 3 to 13 years old (with boarding and flexiboarding available from Year 3 upwards). The headmaster is Ed Lyddon, who is a member of the Boarding Schools Association and the Independent Association of Prep Schools (IAPS); The Elms was one of the IAPS' founding schools.

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History

The Elms was founded in 1614 by Humphrey Walwyn of the Worshipful Company of Grocers, and is the oldest prep school still on its original site. The original school house was based on a farmhouse, built in the 1550s, on the edge of the village of Colwall in the lee of the Malvern Hills.

it is the oldest prep school in the United Kingdom still located on its original site. [3] [4] According to The Rise of the English Prep School, the official inception date of The Elms as a prep school dates back to 1867. [5]

In 2014 The Elms School celebrated its 400-year anniversary, and named a new dormitory after the late former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. [6] It maintains close links with the Grocers' Company, and receives financial assistance from the company's charitable arm.

Facilities

The school has 40 acres of land, including a farm and a large outdoor arena for riding. [7] [8] As of 2013, The Elms was one of 98 schools in the UK with its own farm. [9] The Elms has herds of Hereford cattle and Gloucester Old Spot pigs, and Shropshire Sheep, which pupils help to tend, [9] and show at county agricultural shows. [10] Meat from the farm is served in the school dining hall and sold to parents. [9] Each class is responsible for tending a garden, and fruits and vegetables they grow are also used in the school kitchens. [7] The school also has free range chickens, ducks, geese and pygmy goats.

Pupils may stable their own ponies at the school, and puls can have riding lessons and also enjoy weekend hacks. Competitive riders enter numerous events such as Hickstead.

The school also has a sports hall, theatre, swimming pool, astroturf, and science laboratories, as well as sports fields. [11]

Academic life

The Elms is a preparatory school, preparing pupils for Common Entrance and senior school Scholarship examinations, mainly at 13+. Pupils from the school have moved onto such schools as Ampleforth College, Cheltenham College, The Cheltenham Ladies' College, Dean Close, Eton, Winchester, Gordonstoun, Harrow, Marlborough College, Radley, Rugby, St Mary's Calne, Sherborne School and Sherborne School for Girls, Shrewsbury, St Marys, Calne and Tudor Hall.

Despite being non-selective, over 50 percent of pupils go on to senior school with a scholarship or award.


Pupils study all the subjects of a standard curriculum, with the addition of Greek (for some pupils), Latin and Rural Studies. Pupils are largely taught by a form teacher in the early years, but there is an increasing degree of specialist subject teaching as they move up the school. [11]

Sport

Pupils play association football, rugby football, cricket, hockey, netball, rounders, athletics, triathlon and heptathlon. School teams have been successful in county and national level competitions. [11]

Notable alumni

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