Sandroyd School
 One of the entrances to the school | |
| Motto |
Niti Est Nitere (Latin) To strive is to shine |
|---|---|
| Established | 1888 |
| Type |
Independent school Co-educational Day and boarding school |
| Head Master | A.B.Speers |
| Chairman of the Governors | R. Thomas |
| Founder | Revd. Louis Herbert Wellesley Wesley |
| Location |
Rushmore Park Tollard Royal Wiltshire SP5 5QD England |
| Students | 200 (approx.) |
| Ages | 3–13 |
| Houses | Wylye, Nadder, Ebble, Avon |
| Colours | |
| Publication | The Sandroydian |
| Website | 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 within Rushmore Park and occupies an area of approximately 60 acres. The school sits at the end of a long, winding drive and is surrounded by playing fields, woods and parkland.[1] 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.[2]
In the latest Independent Schools Inspectorate report carried out in 2014, Sandroyd School was judged as 'excellent' in all nine inspected categories.[3]
History
Sandroyd School was founded by the Revd. L. H. Wellesley Wesley, at his home, Sandroyd House in Cobham in Surrey (now the home of Reed's School) in 1888, although as the Times Digital Archive reveals, he had been tutoring boys there ad hoc at least since 1882. Wellesley Wesley was a great-grandson of Charles Wesley.[4] From 1898 the school owed its further development, and success, to two able 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 fully coeducational.[5]
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. The children are given a verbal reasoning test, are asked to write a story and also do some reading, enabling the school to identify each child's strengths and weaknesses.[6]
List of Headmasters
1888-1898 Revd 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 HM)
1982-1994 Mr D J Cann
1994-1995 Mr T R Reynolds (Acting HM)
1995-2003 Mr M J Hatch
2003-2016 Mr M J S Harris
2016- Mr A B Speers
Former pupils
- See also People educated at Sandroyd School
Former pupils of the school, known as Old Sandroydians, include the playwright Sir Terence Rattigan, former Foreign Secretary and NATO Secretary-General Lord Carrington, explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, industrialist Sir Timothy Sainsbury, Professor Michael Dummett, Lord Snowdon and King Peter II of Yugoslavia[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.
Nursery & Pre-Prep school
Sandroyd School has a Pre-Prep and Nursery school known as 'The Walled Garden' (opened in 2004) for children aged 3–7. This was described as 'excellent' in an ISI inspection report of 2014.[8]
References
- ↑ "Sandroyd School, Salisbury | The Good Schools Guide". The Good Schools Guide. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
- ↑ Sandroyd - History Publisher: Sandroyd School, Tollard Royal, Wiltshire. Retrieved: 8 January 2013.
- ↑ "Sandroyd School - ISI - Independent Schools Inspectorate". www.isi.net. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
- ↑ The Sunday Magazine (Strahan & Company, 1869), p. 263
- ↑ "History". www.sandroyd.org. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
- ↑ Sandroyd - FAQs Publisher: Sandroyd School, Tollard Royal, Wiltshire. Retrieved: 8 January 2013.
- ↑ Sandroyd - Old Sandroydians Publisher: Sandroyd School, Tollard Royal, Wiltshire. Retrieved: 8 January 2013.
- ↑ 'The Walled Garden' OFSTED report Publisher: OFSTED. Published: 5 June 2008. Retrieved: 8 January 2013.
External links
- "Sandroyd School". Independent Schools Inspectorate. Retrieved 2010-06-11.
- "Sandroyd School". Ofsted. Retrieved 2010-06-05.
Coordinates: 50°57′55″N 2°04′03″W / 50.96524°N 2.06748°W