Hazlegrove Preparatory School

Hazlegrove Preparatory School
Motto Deo Juvante (With God's Help)
Established 1519
Type Independent preparatory day and boarding
Religion Church of England
Headmaster Richard Fenwick[1]
Senior Warden of Governors Mrs E M McLoughlin CBE
Founder Richard Fitzjames
Location Hazlegrove
Sparkford
Somerset
BA22 7JA
England
Coordinates: 51°02′25″N 2°34′24″W / 51.040253°N 2.5733683°W / 51.040253; -2.5733683
Students ~380
Gender Coeducational
Ages 2–13
Houses Dover, Lyon, Norton and Tremlett
Colours Blue and Gold         
Website www.hazlegrove.co.uk

Hazlegrove Preparatory School is a non-selective co-educational preparatory school at Sparkford, Somerset in the south west of England. Hazlegrove is part of a foundation which also incorporates King's School, Bruton - a senior school located less than 10 miles away in Bruton. Around half of Hazlegrove pupils will progress to King's Bruton with the remainder going to other schools in the South West of England.

History

The school is part of a foundation created by Richard Fitzjames (Bishop of London) with his nephew John Fitzjames (later to become Chief Justice of the King's Bench) whose family crest incorporated the bearded dolphin which remains part of the school crest today.[2] After only twenty years of existence, the school was closed with the dissolution of the Monasteries resulting with the surrender of the Abbey including all the endowments of the school to Henry VIII until 1547, and then Edward VI, his son.[3] For ten years the school ceased to exist until a "humble petition" was presented to Edward VI requesting him to restore the endowments of the school.[3] This was granted with the school being called the Free Grammar School of King Edward the Sixth.[3] This Royal Foundation led to a crown being placed above the dolphin on the school crest. The original endowments of the school were re-granted to a Corporation that was to consist of twelve governors. This may be the first school ever to have a Governing Body with an unbroken record of the proceedings of the meetings of the Governors dating back to 1553.[3] Hazlegrove Preparatory School was created when the Junior School was moved to Hazlegrove House, after World War II in 1947, to be able to satisfy the increasing demand for places.

A new building for the school costing £1.6 million, designed by the architects Feilden Fowles.[4] is under construction.

Boarding

Approximately 1/3 of pupils aged 7 to 13 board full-time at the school with the majority staying in at weekends. A full programme of activities takes place evenings and weekends. There are three boarding houses: Blackford (girls), Lankester (junior boys) and School House (senior boys) the latter being in the historic Hazlegrove House itself.

Curriculum

All pupils participate in sport, music and drama. Forest School / Outdoor Education, Latin and Mandarin feature alongside traditional academic subjects. Able pupils are stretched to scholarship level and the school has a CReSTeD accredited Learning Support Unit[5] to help pupils with additional needs (e.g. dyslexia).

Notable former pupils

References

  1. ↑ "Hazlegrove Preparatory School" (PDF). Independent Schools Inspectorate. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  2. ↑ Wright, Basil. King’s Bruton Remembered. ISBN 0-905903-28-5, 1992, p.1.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Wright, Basil. King’s Bruton Remembered. ISBN 0-905903-28-5, 1992, p.2.
  4. ↑ "Hazlegrove Preparatory School by Feilden Fowles Architects". bdonline. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  5. ↑ "Schools in Category DU publisher=Council for the Registration of Schools Teaching Dyslexic Pupils". Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  6. ↑ "double trap (150 targets) men results – shooting – London 2012 Olympics". Retrieved 10 September February 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)

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