Truro School

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Truro School
Truro-school-logo.svg
Address
Truro School
Trennick Lane

Truro
,
Cornwall
,
TR1 1TH

England
Information
Type Public school
Private
Day and boarding
Motto Esse quam videri (Latin)
To be, rather than to seem to be
Religious affiliation(s)Methodist
Established1880
HeadmasterAndy Johnson
GenderCoeducational
Age3to 18
Enrolment1050~ (2011)
Houses4
Former pupilsOld Truronians
Website http://www.truroschool.com/

Truro School is a coeducational private boarding and day school located in the city of Truro, Cornwall, England. It is the largest coeducational independent school in Cornwall with over 1050 pupils from pre-prep to sixth form. It is a member school of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.

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History

Truro Wesleyan Middle Class College (referred to as Truro College) was founded by Wesleyan Methodists in November 1879, and on 20 January 1880 lessons began at sites in River Street and Strangways Terrace, Truro. [1] The present site was completed in 1882. The school was founded as an alternative to the Church of England's ancient Truro Grammar School. The name Truro College was changed to Truro School in 1931 when it was considered that it was "pretentious...to claim the style of "College" if its pupils are for the most part below the age of 18". [2] The preparatory department was opened in 1936. Girls were admitted into the sixth form in 1976, [3] and it became fully co-educational in 1990. [4] In 2005, a history of the school entitled High on the Hill was produced by Joanna Wood to commemorate its 125th anniversary.

There have been 12 headmasters appointed since the foundation of the school 141 years ago:

Admission and fees

Pupils must sit an entrance exam, the equivalent of an 11+ exam, although some pupils take the equivalent 13+ exam as certain local schools still teach up to year 9 (year 3). Academic, and occasionally music, artistic or sports scholarships, are also awarded as well as are means-tested bursaries. Current fees per term range from £3,200 - £4,500 at the Prep School for Nursery and Prep day pupils [6] to £4,900 for senior school day pupils and £9,700 - £10,600 for full boarders. [7]

In November 2005 the school was one of 50 private schools found guilty of running an illegal price-fixing cartel, exposed by The Times , which had resulted in them increasing fees for thousands of parents. [8] Each school was required to pay a nominal penalty of £10,000, and all agreed to make an ex-gratia payment, collectively totalling £3 million, into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period where the fee information was shared. [9] Headmaster Paul Smith said that the school had acted "unwittingly". [10] "This ... systematic exchange of confidential information as to intended fee increases was anti-competitive and resulted in parents being charged higher fees than would otherwise be the case," the Office of Fair Trading said. [11]

Houses

Each pupil is placed into a school 'house' used for inter-school competitions and sports matches: [12]

The four houses compete for the Opie Shield over many sporting events for boys, girls and mixed teams across all year groups.

Boarding

Though the majority of students are day-pupils, there are also some 80 boarders, of whom half are from overseas, including German exchange students who spend up to three terms in the Lower Sixth.

The school has three boarding houses, [13] one for boys and two for girls:

Trennick is the only boarding house situated in the school's original main building, although the other two are on the campus. They are family-run communities with married resident house staff and other teachers who live on site. Temporary and 'flexi-boarding' are also available. [14]

Preparatory and pre-preparatory school

Truro School has its own feeder co-ed school for the age group 3–11. Originally named Treliske School, it was founded in 1936 and is situated within the grounds of Truro Golf Course, and is adjacent to Treliske Hospital. It was now called Truro Prep School. [15] Originally a boys school, it became co-educational in 1989. The building to accommodate Willday House, the Pre-Preparatory School originally located in Trennick Lane, was added in 1991. In 2010 an extension to double the size of the Willday House was completed to accommodate an increased demand for Pre-Prep pupils. Entry is academically selective [16] and there were 240 pupils (135 boys, 105 girls) in the 2008–09 academic year. 2018 fees range from £2965to £4330 per term. [17] There have been 6 head teachers in 88 years since the school was established in 1936: Tommy Stratton: 1936 – 1960, Alan Ayers: 1960 – 1989, Russell Hollins: 1989 – 2004, Matthew Lovett: 2004 – 2016, Sarah Patterson: 2016 – 2023 and Robert Morse: 2023 - present

Notable alumni

Notable alumni of Truro School include:

Notes

  1. ↑ Wood (2005), 9–10
  2. ↑ Wood (2005), 81
  3. ↑ Wood (2005), 136
  4. ↑ Wood (2005), 163
  5. ↑ Mills, Richard (4 June 2019). "Bath school appoints new headmaster for 2020". Somerset Live. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  6. ↑ "Truro School website fee information". Archived from the original on 4 November 2014.
  7. ↑ "Truro School website fee information".
  8. ↑ Halpin, Tony (10 November 2005). "Independent schools face huge fines over cartel to fix fees". The Times. London. Archived from the original on 10 March 2007. Retrieved 26 May 2010.
  9. ↑ "The Office of Fair Trading: OFT names further trustees as part of the independent schools settlement". www.oft.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 10 June 2008.
  10. ↑ "Truro School fined £10,000". The Truro Packet. 2 March 2006. Retrieved 22 April 2009.[ dead link ]
  11. ↑ Taylor, Matthew (10 November 2005). "Top 50 independent schools found guilty of price-fixing to push up fees". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 26 May 2010.
  12. ↑ "Truro School Information for new boarders" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016.
  13. ↑ "Truro School Boarders Handbook Feb 2022" (PDF). www.truroschool.com.
  14. ↑ "Ways to Board at Truro School | Boarding School, Cornwall, UK".
  15. ↑ "Truro School Prep | Independent School, Cornwall, UK" . Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  16. ↑ "page 3" (PDF). Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  17. ↑ "Fees for Truro School | Independent School, Cornwall, UK" . Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  18. ↑ "The 'Spirit of Truro' – When Truro School Built an Aeroplane". Truro School. 11 June 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  19. ↑ "Old Truronian is UK Government Chief Scientific Advisor". Truro School. 18 March 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  20. ↑ "Truro School Speech Day 2020 (guest speaker)". Truro School. Retrieved 3 November 2020.

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