Sedbergh School is an independent boarding school in the town of Sedbergh in Cumbria, in northwest England. It consists of high school for children aged 4 to 13 years and main school. Founded in 1525.
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History
Roger Lupton was born in Cautley in the parish of Sedbergh, Yorkshire, in 1456 and he provided the Chantry School at Sedbergh in 1525 when he became Provost Eton. By 1528, the land had been purchased, the school built, probably on the school's library site, and the deed of establishment was signed. The generous Lupton gifts to students from a number of scholarships and scholarships to St. John's College, Cambridge successfully bundled the school to St. John's and gave Cambridge the power of campus over the appointment of the Principal of Sedbergh. Lupton's law states that if one of the four St. John's College scholarships last was left vacant for one year, except for reasons approved by King's Cambridge Provost and fellows, the land should be returned to Lupton's closest family. Lupton added that he was convinced that St. John's would not be found lax in such a pious work. This is a link to St. John's that probably saved Sedbergh in 1546-48 when most of the chantries were dissolved and their assets confiscated by the Henry VIII Commission.
Sedbergh was re-established and awarded a Grammar School in 1551 and the school's fortunes in the coming centuries seem to depend heavily on the character and abilities of the Principals with the number of students fluctuating and reaching as low as 8 days boys in the early century -19.
One of the most successful periods was during the leadership of John Harrison Evans (1838-1861) who restored the prestige and achievement of schools and also funded the construction of the Market Hall and Reading Room in the city. In 1857, scholarships and scholarships, which, from the time of Lupton, have established relationships between Sedbergh scholars and St. John's College, no longer deal specifically with Sedbergh. In 1860, the Lupton scholarship was merged and rearranged under the names Lupton and Hebblethwaite Exhibitions.
A more independent Governing Body was established in 1874 in a successful effort to defend the independence of Sedbergh (amalgamation with Giggleswick has been suggested) and the first meeting took place at The Bull Inn in Sedbergh in December.
In the 1870s there was a huge amount of development and development in Sedbergh, under the supervision of the Principal, Frederick Heppenstall. These include the Headmaster's House (now the Home School), the classroom, a chapel and four other boardinghouses.
Henry George Hart took over as principal in 1880 and his tenure saw a new chapel built in 1897, the founding of the Old Sedberghian Club in 1897/98, the creation of the prefectorial system, the inaugural Wilson Run and the confirmation of the School's motto. "Dura Virum Nutrix" (Stern Nurse of Men).
In 1989 the number of boys in schools exceeded 500 for the first time, during the leadership of Dr. R G Baxter. Two years later a new symbol was given to the school and it was visited by His Holiness Queen Elizabeth II and HRH Duke of Edinburgh.
In 2005 the school was one of the fifty prominent private schools in the country that were found guilty of running an illegal price-setting cartel that allowed them to raise fees for thousands of parents. Each school is required to pay a fine of  £ 10,000 and all agree to make an ex-gratia payment of three million pounds into credentials designed to benefit pupils attending school during the period in respect of sharing information.
The government agency decided to open a school for women in 1999 and the first girls were accepted in 2001. While the pupils are still predominantly boys, the number of women present has increased dramatically since moving to joint education. The previous headmaster, Christopher Hirst, brought a change to a joint education education of one sex. "
In January 2009, junior students moved from Bentham to join a secondary school in Sedbergh. SMP has accommodation for boys and girls ages 2 and 3-13. On February 26, 2013, it was announced that the School would join Casterton School.
Despite its long history, The Good Schools Guide notes how "Sedbergh has faced the demands of the 21st century but succeeds in maintaining traditional values ​​and ethics." The increasing number shows that parents strongly agree. maintaining a formidable reputation on the playing field but far from it, providing a happy and caring environment for all of its students regardless of sporting ability or prowess. "
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Junior High School
The junior high school opened in 2002. It was previously located on the site of the former Bentham Grammar School after it was closed and Sedbergh took over the building. In 2009 moved to a site next to the main school. The school was relocated again in September 2013 to the site of the former Casterton School for girls and is now known as Casterton, Sedbergh Preparatory School. Casterton is absorbed into Sedbergh, with senior girls moving into the main school and remaining junior students on the Casterton campus. Dormitory offered to junior high school students aged 8 years and over.
House System
Like most traditional public schools, home systems are combined with boarding programs and most students are boarders. Most students in Sedbergh live in boarding houses, where there are nine (six for boys, three for girls) chosen when applying to school. This is where he both slept and took their daily food. Day students are fully integrated into the program and participate in the activities. Houses compete against each other in school competitions such as debates, academic challenges (University Challenge quiz style) and 'House Unions' (traditional singing competitions), and especially in sports competitions, eg Senior Seniorly contested (Inter- House rugby) and Wilson Run. Every home has the official name, the most famous, Old Sedberghians or Headmasters.
Each house also has a set of house colors, which adorn the blazer boys and girls in the fifth and under shape as well as in various home sportswear. Students who throughout their school careers demonstrate great service to their homes are given the color of their home by their Housemaster/hostess. The people of Sedberghia take great pride in the colors of the houses that take the form of scarves and ties in the colors of their homes.
The boarders also each have their own home magazine, named after the home emblem (for example, Hart House magazine called The Jay ), written and edited by the students inside the house.
Sedbergh Junior School, now Casterton, Sedbergh Preparatory School, located in Casterton, near Kirkby Lonsdale, also has Cressbrook House for riding children and Beale for boarding girls.
Senior House
Junior House
- Cressbrook House (boy)
- Beale House (female)
- Thornfield House (Senior prep school girls)
Extracurricular activities
Club and community
Sedbergh offers a variety of outdoor activities as well as the academic community, especially 'The Headmaster's Society' aimed at Academic Scholars in Sixth Form and headed by the Principal. This is a forum for debates and discussions of topical issues based on papers submitted by students and also hosting talks provided by intellectuals and community leaders. In recent years, the public has been handled by geneticist and sociologist Sir Tom Shakespeare, David Starkey, Mr. Butler of Brockwell, Lord Bingham, Stephen O'Brien MP, David Lloyd (BBC foreign correspondent), Allan Little (BBC Special Correspondent) , Tim Hames (Times Columnist) and Nicholas Thomas Wright, Bishop of Durham. The junior academic community is known as the 'Phoenix Society'.
Another Sedbergh academic club is the 'Dinner Debating Society' which meets two times officially for a black tie dinner hosted by Housemasters. This is a formal and exclusive affair held during a three-course dinner, usually illuminated by candlelight. They consist of selected speakers drawn from each home; four debates occurred on every occasion, which were then judged by the three masters elected by the chairman. Points are awarded to the winning couple, and there is a grand final at the end of the summer where guests are invited to dinner and to listen to the debate; trophies awarded to the couple holding the most points by the end of the year.
The strongest and largest Sedbergh community is the Outdoor Chase Club which all of its students are encouraged to join. Activities organized in the local area by the Club include climbing, gill winding and potted-holing as well as mountain biking and falling runs. Students of all ages participate, learning new skills that are often useful for future engagement at The Duke of Edinburgh Award, Combined Cadet Force and all overseas expeditions held from the School. The club has in recent years run an expedition to Everest, Patagonia, Iceland, Norway, Baffin Island and Indonesia, and in 2009, to Nyasaland.
Sports
Sedbergh has a sporting tradition. Many Old Sedberghians have national hats and international tournament experience or have represented a school in an area or national level.
Sedbergh is famous for producing rugby players, including England captain Wavell Wakefield, John Spencer and Will Carling, and world cup winner Will Greenwood. Sedbergh is represented in the Guinness Premiership Rugby League at the time of writing by seven players at first or second team level in four different clubs. In November 2010 the school's rugby team was named "School Team of the Year" at the Telegraph Telegraph's Daily Telegraph's Daily Telegraph award after passing last season unbeaten.
The school has hosted Cumberland and Minor Counties cricket matches on several occasions.
Anti-Assassins Rugby Club
The Rugby Anti-Assassins Club (A-As) was founded in 1950 when Sedbergh Old Boys, Stewart Faulds, Geoff and Arthur Kenyon were invited to choose a Northern team to play against the masters and Old Boys (The Assassins) from Sedbergh School. Now the invited team plays the role of SpoonAAs (Spoon Anti-Assassins) for raising money for a Wooden Spoon charity.
Tradition
Like many British public schools, Sedbergh has developed its own unique tradition for schools.
The Wilson Run
One of the unique school traditions is the Wilson Run, also known as "Ten Mile" or "The Ten"; this is named after Bernard Wilson (the first housemaster of Sedgwick House). Race distance of more than 10 miles (10 miles 385 yards), about 7 miles across the tumbles surrounding with the rest walking along the road. Students must be eligible to take part in the race through an 11 mile training route that covers most of the race routes. The race is one of the longest, hardest and most tiring schools in the country and has been a tradition for over 100 years. Running has been canceled only three times, due to epidemics (1936), snow (1947) and foot and mouth epidemics. Timed by Charles Ernest Pumphrey for an unbroken stand at 1 hour, 10 minutes and 16 seconds for nearly a hundred years until dramatically broken by Charles "Chuck" Sykes in 1993 with a time of 1 hour, 8 minutes and 4.1 seconds. The record was again dramatically broken in 2016 when John "Dabmaster" Campbell shaved just two seconds off the record, coming home in 1 hour, 8 minutes and 2 seconds.
School songs
Winder is a school song for Sedbergh School, named after the fall that dominates the northern sky of the school. The hill is the gateway to Howgill Fells and the school tradition dictates that students must climb at least once during their time at Sedbergh.
The song is sung at all major school events like Wilson Run.
Building and features
Chapel
It was built in a perpendicular style in 1895-97, and was designed by architect Lancaster Austin and Paley.
Chapel Organ
The school received consular organ delivery consisting of four manual organs in November 2015, replacing the organs obtained from St. Mary Magdalene, Hucknall. Two of these manual instruments were built by Nigel Church and transferred to school by David Wells in 1994. These instruments can now be found in a church in Lincolnshire.
War Cloisters
The Cloisters in Sedbergh is a monument to the elder sons and masters of the schools who were killed during the Great War and the Second War. The Cloisters were dedicated in 1924 and then again dedicated after the Second World War. The Cloisters were restored and partially rebuilt in 2005 and on the Re-Warning Day were rededicated after the appeal had raised more than Ã, £ 130,000 for the work required.
The school also has separate warnings for Old Sedberghians awarded Victoria Cross, of which there are four. Brigadier Jock Campbell who won the Military Cross in the First World War and the Victorian Cross at the battle of Sidi Rezegh in Second and became a member of Evans House. Three of the Old Sedberghian winners from Victoria Cross were Old Sedgwickians, RJT Digby-Jones at Wagon Hill in 1900 in the Boer War, George Ward Gunn in Sidi Rezegh in 1941 and Kenneth Campbell over Brest Harbor, also in 1941.
A former school teacher is Henry Watson Fowler, author of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
Science and exploration
- Peter Addyman, English archaeologist
- Wilfred Eade Agar, Anglo-Australian zoologist
- Anthony Askew, Doctor and book collector
- Peter Barwick, English doctor and author
- George Birkbeck, physician, academician, philanthropist and early pioneer in adult education
- Christopher Chippindale, archaeologist Stonehenge
- John Cranke, mathematician and mentor
- John Dawson, Surgeon and mathematician
- G. M. B. Dobson, Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the Royal Meteorological Society
- Anthony Fothergill, Doctor
- John Fothergill, Doctor, crop collector, philanthropist
- Thomas Garnett, English physician and natural philosopher
- Thomas Gaskin, Pastor, and academic, now known for his contributions to mathematics
- John Hammersley, English mathematician
- John Haygarth, a physician who found the benefit of separating/quarantining a sick patient
- John Hymers, English mathematician, Fellow of The Royal Society and founder of Hymers College
- John Walter Guerrier Lund, CBE FRS, an English psychologist
- Dr Digby McLaren, Geologist, and paleontologist
- Edward Max Nicholson, Founder of World Wildlife Fund
- George Peacock, English mathematician
- Sir Isaac Pennington, Doctor
- James Hogarth Pringle, Pioneer in surgical practice
- Adam Sedgwick, founder of modern geology
- Edmund Sharpe, Architect and engineer
- Robert Swan OBE, Polar explorer: the first man in history to walk to the North and South Pole
- Roger Cuthbert Wakefield, Surveyor
- Robert Willan, the father of modern dermatology
- Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth, Lepidopterist and principal
- Professor Ian Young OBE, Engineering Innovator in medicine
Sports
- David Barnes, Chair of the Professional Rugby Players' Association
- Mike Biggar - Rugby National Team Captain in Scotland
- Alistar Biggar - Scottish Union Rugby Union captain
- John Bruce Lockhart, Scottish cricketer and principal
- Logie Bruce Lockhart, Scottish rugby union player and principal of Gresham's School
- Will Carling OBE, the English rugby captain
- Jordan Clark, the professional cricket player - the fifth ever to score six cents in more time than
- Simon Cross rugby union
- Arthur Dorward, Scottish rugby captain
- Ewan Dowes rugby league
- Phil Dowson English rugby union player
- Rob Elloway, the international German rugby union
- Carl Fearns, rugby union
- Tomas Francis, Wales Rugby Union international
- Will Greenwood MBE, British rugby union player
- Jamie Harrison, cricketer
- Peter Kininmonth, Scottish rugby captain
- Mike McCarthy Irish Rugby Union international
- Mandy Mitchell-Innes, England cricket player
- James Simpson-Daniel English rugby union player
- John Spencer, England rugby captain
- David Tait, rugby union
- Freddie Tait, golfer
- Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal England rugby captain
Religion
- John Barwick, the royal church and Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral
- Francis Blackburne, Archdeacon
- Henry Lowther Clarke, Archbishop of Melbourne first
- Ingram Cleasby, Dean of Chester
- John Duckett, Catholic priest and martyr
- George Fleming, Bishop Carlisle
- Thomas Kipling, Church and early academics
- Christopher Charles Luxmoore, Bishop of Bermuda
- William Stuart MacPherson, Dean of Lichfield
- Christopher John Mayfield, Bishop of Wolverhampton and Bishop of Manchester
- Richard Parkinson, the Canon of Manchester Cathedral, principal, theologian, and antiqueist
- Michael Peck, Dean of Lincoln
- Reginald Richard Roseveare, Anglican bishop
- James Wilson, Theologian, and Astronomer
- Tom Wright, Bishop of Durham and a leading British New Testament scholar.
References
External links
- School Sites
- Old Sedberghian Club
- Profile on the ISC website
- Inspection Report of ISI - Junior High School and Junior High School
- School League Table for Cumbria - Daily Telegraph Website
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