Sevenoaks School; Motto: Servire Deo Regnare Est (Latin for To serve God is to rule) Established: 1432: Type: Independent day and boarding school: Head: Katy Ricks.
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Motto. Servire Deo Regnare Est(Latin for To serve God is to rule)Established. Type. Independent day and boarding school. Head. Katy Ricks. Chairman of the Governors. Anthony Evans. Founder. William Sevenoke.
Location. Sevenoaks. Kent. England. Df. E URN1. 18. 95. 2Tables. Students. 10. 23. Gender. Mixed. Ages.
Houses. 7Colours. Blue, red and white Former pupils. Old Sennockians. Websitesevenoaksschool. Sevenoaks School is a highly selective coeducationalindependent school in Sevenoaks, Kent. It is the second oldest non- denominational school in the United Kingdom, dating back to 1.
Oswestry (1. 40. 7). Over 1,0. 00 day pupils and boarders attend, ranging in age from 1. There are approximately equal numbers of boys and girls.
The current headteacher is Katy Ricks. During the 1. 96.
In 2. 00. 6 it became the first major UK school to switch entirely from A level exams to the International Baccalaureate. The school is a member of the G2.
Schools group. In 2. Independent review of A level and IB results, based on government issued statistics, ranked Sevenoaks School 1st in the UK, ahead of Westminster (1. St Paul's (2. 2nd), Harrow (3. Winchester (7. 3rd) and Eton (8.
Over a third of the year- group gained ten A*s or more each, and 1. A* or A grades. All but seventeen results out of 1. B or above. Thirteen students achieved the maximum 4.
Additional early buildings, previously private houses, include Park Grange (mid- 1. The Space was designed by Tim Ronalds Architects with Price & Myers acting as consulting engineers and has won several awards: the Commercial & Public Access category in the 2. Wood Awards, Best Education Building in the 2. Brick Awards, and an RIBA Award (South East Region) in 2. Sevenoke's will also provided for almshouses for poor men and women. Sevenoke was Mayor of London and, as a friend of Henry V, may have been influenced by the MP for Shropshire and King's pleader, David Holbache, who founded Oswestry in 1.
According to William Lambarde and Richard Johnson (Nine Worthies of London), Sevenoke was a foundling, whose decision to establish the school and almshouses may have been inspired by his early history. In 1. 56. 0, in response to a petition by Ralph Bosville and Sevenoaks parishioners, Elizabeth I issued letters patent incorporating the school, giving it the right to use her name, and changing its governance. A seal was issued bearing Bosville's initials and the motto Servire Deo Regnari Est. Ralph Bosville was Clerk of the Court of Wards and Liveries, a JP and owner of the Manor of Bradbourne near Sevenoaks, and under the conditions of the letters patent, he and his heirs were to serve on the governing body as long as they lived in Kent. He has been described as the school's 'second founder'.
The school also received a number of bequests during the sixteenth century and during this period was brought to wider attention by William Lambarde's A Perambulation of Kent (1. The school is thought to have been initially housed in small buildings near the present site, before a school house was built. Rebuilding took place in 1. Thomas Pett. It was again rebuilt in 1. Lord Burlington, a friend of the headmaster of the time, Elijah Fenton.
Building work was completed in 1. During this period the Master and scholars were housed outside the town.
The school remained small until the late 1. School records show that between 1. Revd Simpson, school numbers dropped from 'a great many scholars' to only four boys. Simpson resigned and was replaced by Edward Holme, a distant relative of Sir Richard Burton. By 1. 77. 8 there were around 6. School Inquiry Commission of 1. In 1. 88. 4 the governors appointed Daniel Birkett as headmaster.
It was Birkett's vision to elevate the school's status to that of a First Grade Classical School. He started this revolution, reducing the number of free places to the townfolk and expanding boarding.
When he resigned in the 1. Birkett's revolution was continued by George Heslop who increased the size to a peak of 1. First World War (during which 3.
Old Sennockians enlisted). Geoffrey Garrod followed Heslop in 1. In the same year, the headmaster's wife, Mrs Garrod, started a new school for younger boys; Sevenoaks Prep School started with six pupils in the school Cottage Block. An element of selection entered the admissions process in the early 1. James Higgs- Walker succeeded Garrod in 1.
Higgs- Walker, or . Johnson donated many gifts to the school with his brother, Edward: *The Flagpole, 1. Thornhill, 1. 92. Johnson's House), *Johnson's Hall, 1. Now Johnson's Library), *The Sanitorium, 1.
Park Grange and the surrounding estate, 1. Jewish Guy Dating A Black Christian here. Higgs- Walker led the school until 1. L. C. Taylor's headship was something of a 'golden age', when the school became more prominent nationally through Taylor's introduction of a number of innovative teaching methodologies, .
Taylor, the Headmaster,has built so successfully on the work of his predecessor that in the ten years he has been at Sevenoaks it has changed from an old- established minor public school .. Pupils were engaged in a variety of activities outside the school: visiting the elderly, giving assistance to the disabled, working with the mentally handicapped in local institutions, hearing children read in local primary schools, etc.
The International Centre. This innovation made the school one of the first to actively seek pupils from overseas, for the sixth form years. The IC functioned as one of the school's several boarding houses, and included British as well as overseas students. Predicament, Experience, Belief (PEB). Geography, History and Religious Studies were integrated into PEB, which stressed the relationships between environment, human history and the spiritual response; for example, the deserts of the Middle East might be studied, followed by the rise of Islam and the Arab Empire. Mathematics. The school was a pioneer in the introduction of the 'The New Maths', an approach to teaching the subject which made it less abstract, and more engaging for pupils. The school adopted the textbooks and examination regime of the School Mathematics Project(SMP) which had been pioneered at a number of other private schools.
Traditional grammar, textual analysis, and the classical canon were dropped and replaced with teaching that focused on more everyday language sources, contemporary literature and creative writing. Art. A focus on contemporary art, which taught through a series of themed projects aimed at allowing the expression of creativity. The traditional systematic teaching of drawing skills was dropped, although new skills added for those who chose to specialise could work in ceramics and silk- screen printing. Technology. The Technical Activities Centre was the 'jewel in the crown'; the most genuinely innovative of Taylor's projects, getting the school numerous television appearances for the boys' inventions during the 1. A series of technical skills courses were offered in mechanics and electronics; those who completed these could then go on to construct their own machines.
An after- school club (Vista) enabled boys to experiment with constructing a wide variety of devices, including early computational devices. Wednesday Eight. The final period of every Wednesday was set aside for the sixth form to attend lectures, usually with a current affairs theme. Run by Casey Mc. Cann, a flamboyant teacher of economics, a remarkable number of public figures visited the school and were often rigorously grilled. They included trade union leaders such as Ray Buckton (ASLEF), Hugh Scanlon (AEU), boxer Henry Cooper and astronomer Patrick Moore. Jonathan Bate would appear to support this (The Genius of Shakespeare, 1. William Sevenoke is one of Richard Johnson's Nine Worthies of London (1. John Stow refers to William Sevenoke's civic roles and the founding of the school and almshouses in his Survey of London (1.
Anthony Munday in A Brief Chronicle (1. Daniel Defoe refers to the school in A tour through the whole island of Great Britain (1. John Wesley preached 'at an open place near the Free- School', on Saturday 4 October 1. The Independent. Retrieved 2. Retrieved 2. 01. 7- 0.
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