Sandroyd School
Sandroyd School is an independent co-educational preparatory school for both day and boarding pupils located on the Wiltshire/Dorset border, near the village of Tollard Royal in Wiltshire. The school is located in the centre of Rushmore Park and is surrounded by playing fields, woods and parkland.[2] Sandroyd School was originally established by the Reverend Louis Herbert Wellesley Wesley as a small private coaching establishment for boys hoping to enter Eton College.[3]
Sandroyd School | |
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Rushmore Park , , SP5 5QD England | |
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Type | Independent school Co-educational Day and boarding school |
Motto | Niti Est Nitere (Latin) To strive is to shine |
Established | 1888 |
Founder | Revd. Louis Herbert Wellesley Wesley |
Department for Education URN | 126521 Tables |
Chairman of the Governors | R. Thomas |
Headmaster | Alastair Speers[1] |
Age | 2 to 13[1] |
Enrolment | Approx. 200 [1] |
Houses | Wylye, Nadder, Ebble, Avon |
Colour(s) | |
Publication | The Sandroydian |
Website | http://www.sandroyd.org |
In the latest Independent Schools Inspectorate report carried out in 2014, Sandroyd School was judged as 'excellent' in all nine inspected categories.[4]
History
Sandroyd School was founded by the Revd. L. H. Wellesley Wesley, at his home, Sandroyd House in Cobham in Surrey in 1888. Wellesley Wesley was a great-grandson of Charles Wesley.[5] From 1898 the school was governed by two men, until then assistant masters at Elstree School, Charles Plumpton Wilson (1859 - 1938) and William Meysey Hornby (1870 - 1955), who took over from Wesley that year, as Headmaster and Deputy Headmaster respectively. Wilson retired in 1920, Hornby then took his place, until his own retirement in 1931. In 1939, the School signed a lease on Rushmore House and the surrounding Rushmore Park, home of the Pitt-Rivers family, lying in the centre of Cranborne Chase on the borders of Wiltshire and Dorset. In 1939, with the threat of the Second World War, the school moved there, where it has remained ever since. (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. He also designed an arched gateway for the Park, the drawings for which are in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
In 1995 the school started to accept some day pupils and in 2004 Sandroyd School became coeducational.[6]
Nursery & pre-prep school
Sandroyd School has a pre-prep and nursery school known as the Walled Garden, opened in 2004, for children aged two to seven. This was described as 'excellent' in an ISI inspection report of 2014.[7]
The Sandroydian
The Sandroydian is the school magazine, published and distributed three times a year. The magazine contains an editorial by the Headmaster, reports by staff and pupils of the many activities, outings and special events which have taken place in the course of the term and full sports results. In addition there is a section reserved for some of the pupils' creative work - art, stories and poetry.
Admissions
Before entry to Sandroyd, all prospective pupils are invited to an assessment morning or afternoon in the year before they are due to start at the school.[8]
List of Headmasters
- 1888-1898: Rev. L. H. Wellesley Wesley
- 1898-1920: Mr C. P. Wilson
- 1920-1931: Mr W. M. Hornby
- 1931-1955: Mr H. ff. Ozanne
- 1955-1963: Mr K. B. Buckland
- 1963-1981: Mr D. C. Howes
- 1981-1982: Mr T. R. Reynolds (acting)
- 1982-1994: Mr D. J. Cann
- 1994-1995: Mr T. R. Reynolds (acting)
- 1995-2003: Mr M. J. Hatch
- 2003-2016: Mr M. J. S. Harris
- 2016- Mr A. B. Speers
Old Sandroydians
- See also People educated at Sandroyd School
Former pupils, known as Old Sandroydians, include
- Sir Terence Rattigan, playwright[9]
- Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Foreign Secretary and Secretary-General of NATO[9]
- Sir Ranulph Fiennes, explorer[9]
- Sir Timothy Sainsbury, industrialist[9]
- Professor Michael Dummett[9]
- Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon[9]
- King Peter II of Yugoslavia[9]
- Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia
References
- Edubase
- "Sandroyd School, Salisbury | The Good Schools Guide". The Good Schools Guide. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
- Sandroyd - History Publisher: Sandroyd School, Tollard Royal, Wiltshire. Retrieved: 8 January 2013.
- "Sandroyd School - ISI - Independent Schools Inspectorate". www.isi.net. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
- The Sunday Magazine (Strahan & Company, 1869), p. 263
- "History". www.sandroyd.org. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
- 'The Walled Garden' OFSTED report Publisher: OFSTED. Published: 5 June 2008. Retrieved: 8 January 2013.
- Sandroyd - FAQs Publisher: Sandroyd School, Tollard Royal, Wiltshire. Retrieved: 8 January 2013.
- Sandroyd - Old Sandroydians at Sandroyd.org, Retrieved: 8 January 2013
External links
- "Sandroyd School". Independent Schools Inspectorate. Archived from the original on 1 November 2010. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
- "Sandroyd School". Ofsted. Retrieved 5 June 2010.