Age Range: Number of pupils: Number of boarders: Amidst striking architecture, on a generous acre campus, boys and girls aged are nurtured in a safe, secure and supportive environment. Our pupils are truly outstanding individuals — the extraordinary success of this community is reflected in our confident, accomplished, courageous, aspirant, compassionate and fun-loving young people. There is no doubt that all of our pupils benefit from being part of an intellectually exciting and culturally dynamic community.
They have countless opportunities to explore their interests and to develop their skills. In the Junior School, a broad curriculum is delivered that supports the development of independent learning, skills, curiosity and creativity, alongside subject specific rigour. Rossall is also proud to be one of the only schools in the country with an on-site astronomy centre.
In addition, there are performance rooms for music, drama and dance, including a seater venue. Rossall also has an impressive Gothic-style chapel, home to the internationally renowned school choir. Boarding from age 7. Rossall provides hour care to enable pupils to settle in to life at a boarding school in a new country. Set cookie preferences. Home Discovery Rossall School Archive. Start new search Print Discovery help Bookmark.
Rossall School Archive Browse repositories. Open: Thursday-Friday 9. The largest section of wood panelling behind the headmaster's table in the dining hall is made from an oak tree that grew in the back garden of George Mallory. Webster in his book Our Great Public Schools as, "one of the most splendid in the country. There are four coats of arms attached to the exterior of the dining hall to commemorate the various families associated with Rossall over the years; The Allen Family for the medieval and renaissance owners of the site, The Hesketh Family for the Anglican family who acquired the sequestered property of the Roman Catholic Allens during the English Reformation , The Fleetwood Family who intermarried with the Heskeths and became the most recent owners of the site prior to the original loan of Rossall Hall for the opening of the school by their last representative, Sir Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood and The Beechey Family for the founder of the school, The Revd.
Vincent Beechey. Over the doors to the Dining Hall are some carvings by Alan Durst [ 26 ]. There are 64 clubs and societies currently in operation at Rossall. Amongst them are the more traditional such as Rugby , football , Fives and Hockey. There are also numerous other unique clubs such as the Croquet Club.
As well as competing in sporting competitions around the country, Rossall plays host to a number of inter-school tournaments throughout the year. In recent years these have included hockey, preparatory school rugby and basketball. The most notable tournament is the fives competition which attracts the likes of Lancing College , Malvern College , Uppingham School and Shrewsbury School. Rossall has numerous school choirs including the Beecham Singers , a choir principally for those in the local community to join.
They give regular recitals throughout the year, often for charity. In the summer of the choir went on a tour of Paris culminating in a performance at Notre Dame and Chartres Cathedral. In , they went on a tour of Barcelona and in , they went on a tour of Venice.
Other schools such as Eton College formed their corps a few months after Rossall. The institution is still present in the school today with around cadets currently enlisted. Other societies include the Astronomy club which makes use of the school's telescope and planetarium [ 34 ] and the Literary Society, which meets on Friday evenings to discuss different genres of literature.
Like many independent schools Rossall adopted a house system early on, with each pupil belonging to a house. It forms an integral part of life at the school and there are frequent inter-house events in sports as well as the arts. The middle school houses are used simply as a means to compete in competition. The senior school house have this purpose too but are also physical entities with their own buildings.
The current houses are:. The school alumni society is called the Rossallian Club. The Rossallian Club has numerous gatherings every year all over the UK and, with the advent of a large international boarding contingent in recent years, all over the world - the first ever OR meal in Germany took place in The school also has its own masonic lodge , founded in , that meets three times a year at Freemasons's Hall in London.
Rossall's alumni are one of only nine schools to have won the Halford Hewitt Public Schools Golf Tournament more than twice. Rossall is also positioned 8th overall in the Anderson Scale of past performances in the competition. Rossall is also home to the Lawrence House Astronomy and Space Science Centre - the only centre dedicated solely to the teaching of Astronomy. The telescope is of particular note - being 12 feet 3.
Nick Lister, originally the head of D. He is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and was recently appointed as vice-president of the Association for Astronomy Education , where he succeeded Dr Robert Massey of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich , who has now become president of the organisation.
When initial assessments were being made for the feasibility of restoring the observatory, both the telescope and observatory were in a poor condition as a result of years of neglect and an arson attempt by some local children. However, the telescope is made predominantly from brass and thus suffered minimal corrosion and damage.
Most importantly the lens of the telescope survived unscathed allowing for restoration. Soon after the basic restoration ideas were raised for a larger project allowing the teaching of astronomy on a larger scale. After getting clearance from the original owners of the telescope to go ahead with the project, Rossall was given funds from the Lawrence House Trust, an educational charity, to go forward with their plans.
Courses also range from beginner to advanced to ensure that anybody who wishes to study Astronomy can do so. Possibly because of its emphasis on practical astronomy as a subject, Rossall School was depicted as the school attended by Dan Dare , the fictional space hero in The Eagle comic who was a favourite character of boys of the s—60s.
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Initial problems were not unusual for boarding schools of the time, though Rossall nearly shut down in its infancy because of huge outbreaks of scarlet fever. The foundation stone to the school chapel, now the Sumner Library, was laid in by the first ever Bishop of Manchester, James Prince Lee - the diocese having only been created that same year.
Rossall's swift and successful development can be seen by its inclusion in the book The Great Schools of England The current chapel was constructed in the s and the school underwent further development from the s to to accommodate more students and to create further facilities such as the gym which still stands.
In Rossall became the first Church of England school to play a Catholic school in an inter-school sports fixture, at cricket, leading Protestant newspapers to warn against such activities and advise Rossall parents to be wary of encroaching papism the school in question was Stonyhurst College. Two decades later, roughly one hundred O. Seventeen old boys died in active service, all of whom are now commemorated in the stalls of the school chapel. Rossall was widely considered to be in top 30 public schools in the UK by the end of Queen Victoria's reign also earning itself a place in the Public Schools Yearbook and the Public School News section of the Cambridge Review.
Despite some financial difficulties as a result of fund embezzling by a bursar, by the end of the s Rossall's academic results were amongst the best in the country with record numbers achieving scholarships to Oxbridge and attaining distinctions in the Higher Certificate examinations.
During the world wars large numbers of Old Rossallians lost their lives in combat, in World War I alone - the majority of whom are now commemorated in the extension memorial chapel. Before the outbreak of the Second World War Rossall had made plans to accommodate Westminster School however these plans were scrapped when the government requisitioned the campus for several departments of the Office of Works, the Board of Education and the Ministry of Pensions.
As a result, the school moved to Naworth Castle. Benjamin Britten gave a concert in Big School in In the s, in a bid to ensure the highest standards during a period of declining boarding, girls were allowed to enrol. Throughout the s and s the school pushed on with a development programme and had royal visits including from the Queen in to celebrate the th anniversary of its foundation.
The school went through great financial difficulty at the turn of the millennium.
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