Bournemouth Collegiate School

Bournemouth Collegiate School
Established 1895 (Uplands School)
1899 (Wentworth College)
2009 (merger)
Type Independent day and boarding school
Headmaster Russel Slatford
Location College Road
Bournemouth
Dorset
BH5 2DY
England
50°43′26″N 1°49′30″W / 50.7240°N 1.8251°W / 50.7240; -1.8251Coordinates: 50°43′26″N 1°49′30″W / 50.7240°N 1.8251°W / 50.7240; -1.8251
DfE number 837/6002
DfE URN 113937 Tables
Students 540~
Gender Co-educational
Ages 3–18
Houses Purbeck (Red) House,
Studland (Yellow) House,
Brownsea (Green) House,
Solent (Blue) House
Colours Blue     
Website www.bournemouthcollegiateschool.co.uk

Bournemouth Collegiate School is a co-educational independent day and boarding school based on two sites in Poole and Bournemouth, Dorset on the southern coast of England. The prep school (ages 2-11) is located at Poole and the senior school (ages 11-18) is located in the Bournemouth suburb of Southbourne.[1] The schools are only coeducational independent school in the Bournemouth and Poole area.

The school operates on split sites as a result of a merger between two independent schools: Wentworth College (Bournemouth) and Uplands School (Poole).[2] The prep school is situated at the old Uplands site and the senior school at Wentworth. This new school is owned and operated by the United Church Schools Trust, which also owned its predecessor schools.

History

Bournemouth Collegiate School was created in September 2009 through the merger of Wentworth College in Bournemouth and Uplands School in Poole. Wentworth College had joined the United Church Schools Trust in August 2008, and Uplands School in June 2009 – it was UCST that brought the two together to create a new school.[3]

Uplands School

Uplands was an independent school in Poole founded in 1895 as Bourne School for Girls. It moved to various places before and after World War II and later became coeducational.

Wentworth College

Wentworth College was previously an independent day and boarding school for girls. It took its name from Wentworth Lodge, the building it occupied. The school itself was founded by a merger of two schools during the 1960s. Milton Mount College, founded in 1871, originally sited near Gravesend, Kent and then relocated to Worth Park near Crawley. The second, Bournemouth Collegiate School, was established in 1899 in the town centre and moved to Wentworth Lodge in 1923. Due to falling pupil numbers, Wentworth became coeducational in 2008.[4] It went into administration in July 2008, which prompted the UCST to propose the merger.[2]

Prep School

Bournemouth Collegiate Preparatory School
Type Preparatory day school
Head of School Kay Smith
Location 40 St Osmund's Road
Poole
Dorset
BH14 9JY
England
50°43′12″N 1°56′16″W / 50.7201°N 1.9377°W / 50.7201; -1.9377
DfE URN 113929 Tables
Gender Co-educational
Ages 3–11
Website Prep School website

The preparatory department is located at the former Uplands School site in Poole.

Boarding

The boarding facilities are built around the old Wentworth Lodge, where Wentworth College was housed in, which were once part of the Portman Estate. The house, built in 1872, was used by Viscount Portman as a summer residence for around six weeks every year.[5]

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