Summary
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 as a small private coaching establishment for boys hoping to enter Eton College.
| Sandroyd School | |
|---|---|
 Main building | |
| Address | |
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Rushmore Park , , SP5 5QD England | |
| Coordinates | 50°57′54″N 2°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 | 1888 |
| Founder | Louis Herbert Wellesley Wesley |
| Department for Education URN | 126521 Tables |
| Chairman of the Governors | Rhodri Thomas |
| Headmaster | Alastair Speers[1] |
| Age | 2 to 13[1] |
| Enrolment | Approx. 230 [1] |
| Houses | Wylye, Nadder, Ebble, Avon |
| Colour(s) | |
| Publication | The Sandroydian |
| Website | www |
In the latest Independent Schools Inspectorate report carried out in 2014, Sandroyd School was judged as 'excellent' in all nine inspected categories.[3]
Location edit
The school is in the south of Berwick St John parish, near the village of Tollard Royal and the county border with Dorset.
History edit
Sandroyd School was founded as a school for boys by L. H. Wellesley Wesley at his home, Sandroyd House in Cobham, Surrey in 1888.[4] He was a great-grandson of Charles Wesley.[5] The school’s original site is now occupied by Reed’s School. 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 and Hornby took his place, until his own retirement in 1931.
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]
Nursery and pre-prep school edit
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]
List of headmasters edit
- 1888–1898: L. H. Wellesley Wesley
- 1898–1920: C. P. Wilson
- 1920–1931: W. M. Hornby
- 1931–1955: H. ff. Ozanne
- 1955–1963: K. B. Buckland
- 1963–1981: D. C. Howes
- 1981–1982: T. R. Reynolds (acting)
- 1982–1994: D. J. Cann
- 1994–1995: T. R. Reynolds (acting)
- 1995–2003: M. J. Hatch
- 2003–2016: M. J. S. Harris
- 2016–: A. B. Speers
Old Sandroydians edit
- See also People educated at Sandroyd School
Former pupils, known as Old Sandroydians, include:[8]
- Anthony Eden, Prime Minister
- Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Peter II, King of Yugoslavia
- Faisal II, King of Iraq
- Peter Carington, politician
- John Whittingdale, politician
- Anthony Meyer, politician
- Ian Gow, politician
- Tim Sainsbury, politician and businessman
- John Sainsbury, businessman
- Alistair McAlpine, businessman and adviser to Margaret Thatcher
- Randolph Churchill, politician and son of Winston Churchill
- Antony Armstrong-Jones, photographer and husband of Princess Margaret
- Terence Rattigan, playwright
- Wynne Godley, economist
- Michael Dummett, philosopher
- Christopher Hawkes, archaeologist
- Gladwyn Jebb, diplomat
- Charles Madden, admiral
- Antony Read, general
- Ranulph Fiennes, explorer
- Justin Packshaw, explorer
References edit
- ^ a b c "Sandroyd School - 126521". Retrieved 17 July 2023.
- ^ "Sandroyd School, Salisbury". The Good Schools Guide. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
- ^ "Sandroyd School – ISI – Independent Schools Inspectorate". www.isi.net. Archived from the original on 2 March 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
- ^ a b "Sandroyd - 1888 to Present Day". Sandroyd School. Archived from the original on 27 July 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
- ^ The Sunday Magazine (Strahan & Company, 1869), p. 263 Archived 20 July 2023 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Historic England. "Rushmore Park (1000542)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
- ^ 'The Walled Garden' OFSTED report Publisher: OFSTED. Published: 5 June 2008. Retrieved: 8 January 2013.
- ^ "Old Sandroydians". Sandroyd School. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014.
External links edit
- Official website
- "Sandroyd School". Independent Schools Inspectorate. Archived from the original on 1 November 2010. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
- "Sandroyd School". Ofsted. Retrieved 5 June 2010.