Malvern College
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| Motto | Sapiens qui prospicit (Wise is he who looks ahead) |
| Established | 1865 |
| Type | Independent school |
| Religious affiliation | Church of England |
| President | The Lord Bishop of Worcester |
| Incoming Headmaster | Antony Clark, MA (Cantab) |
| Chairman of the College Council | Ian MacLaurin, Baron MacLaurin of Knebworth |
| Location | Great Malvern Worcestershire England  |
| Staff | Circa 100 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 13 to 18 |
| Houses | 10 |
| School colours | Green & White
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| Publication | The Malvernian |
| Chaplain | The Rev. Andrew Law |
| School Song | Carmen Malvernense |
| Former Pupils | Old Malvernians |
| Website | www.malvern-college.co.uk |
Malvern College is a coeducational British Public School, founded in 1865. It is located in Malvern, Worcestershire. Malvern College is one of Britain's most expensive schools with boarding and tuition fees of £26,100 per annum.
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[edit] History
The school opened in January 1865 to two dozen boys and half a dozen masters. Initially, there were two Houses but expansion was rapid and by 1877 there were six Houses and 290 boys.
Further expansion of pupil numbers and buildings continued after the Great War, but during the Second World War the College suffered more than any other comparable independent school, being twice ejected and shrinking to half its former size. Required to make way for the Admiralty between October 1939 and July 1940, it found a temporary home at Blenheim Palace. The College underwent a further period of exile from May 1942 to July 1946. Ordered out at one week's notice, the school was housed with Harrow School. The College's premises were then occupied by the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE), and the modern QinetiQ and DSTL are still sited on former College land.
Until 1992, it was an all boys' school, taking boys from 13 to 18 years old. In 1992, it merged with Ellerslie Girls’ School and Hillstone prep school to become coeducational with pupils from 3 to 18 years old.[1] In September 2008, it will merge with The Downs prep school on The Downs' existing site in Colwall.[2]
[edit] Present-day
Malvern College is one of the only schools in the country to offer Debating as a subject to Foundation Year (year 9 pupils). The other being Dulwich College.
Malvern enjoys a friendly rivalry with Shrewsbury School.
Year Names
- Foundation Year or FY (traditionally Shell A and Shell B) -Year 9
- The Remove -Year 10
- The Hundred -Year 11
- Lower Sixth -Year 12
- Upper Sixth -Year 13
[edit] Houses
Malvern is unusual in that the names of houses are numbers (1-9) with the exception of School House. There are six boys and four girls houses. Nine are situated on the school's campus while House 7, uniquely lies further out close to the school's '9 acre' field.
- No.1- Red and white (boys)
- No.2- Blue and white (boys)
- No.3- Light Blue (girls)
- No.4- Maroon (girls)
- No.5- Black and white (traditionally Red and Black) (boys)
- No.6- Yellow (girls)
- No.7- Black and purple (boys)
- No.8- Pink (girls)
- No.9- Black and green (boys)
- School House (SH)- Black, Blue and Purple (boys)
Construction has begun on an additional two houses as well as a new sports hall. Planning permission has been granted for the College to build an all weather athletics track and another astro-turf at the Pitches.
[edit] School terms
- Aeger- sick in house
- Big School- School hall
- Chapel Prefect- Head of School
- Commendation- This is presented for a piece of outstanding work
- Distinction- For a piece of school work that is of an exceptionally high academic calibre.
- St. Edmonds Hall- A school hall usually reserved for informal concerts. The hall belonged to the chapel of the old monastery that is now the College music school.
- Ernie- punishment where pupils get up at 6.30am to help the porter with chores
- The Griffins- 2nd XI Football
- The Grub- tuck shop
- Hall- The College's name for prep. The name originates from when the boys did prep in the hall of Big School
- The Junior- The 2nd XI Cricket pitch
- The Longy- Sixth-form common room bellow St. Edmonds Hall
- Maincol- The main school building
- Mem lib - Memorial Library (Staff Common Room - former Library) The Mem Lib was built to commemorate the lives of over four hundred Malvernians who lost their lives in the Great War.
- The Senior- The 1st XI Cricket pitch. The pitch in considered one of the finest in England. However, sixes cannot be hit at Malvern. The Master of Cricket, the 1st XI and the groundsmen are the only people permitted to set foot on the Senior.
- Red Book- A little booklet containing information on staff and pupils.
- Sinbin- 2 hour detention on a saturday night
- Tardy- punishment where pupils must sign a book at Maincol at 7.30am before breakfast and then return to their houses
- The Twenty two- 2nd XI Cricket
[edit] Events
- Commem
Commem (Commemoration Day) is the main social event of the school calendar. It is held on the Saturday of Half-term in the Summer Term to commemorate the founding of the school. Sunday dress is worn and following a service in the Malvern Priory speeches are made and prizes are awarded at the Malvern Theatres. The day is an opportunity to bid farewell to the Leavers, recognise academic achievemnts and for Old Malvernains and parents to visit the school. While lunches and drinks are served in the houses’ gardens the 1st cricket XI play their annual match against the Free Foresters. The inter-house Athletics competition and the Summer Concert take place on the Friday before Commem.
- The CVS Ball
This is a charity ball which takes place in the 5th week of every Autumn Term. The School Council is responsible for the Ball's preparation. It takes place in St. Edmunds Hall and the Longy bellow and is always lavishly decorated. Black Tie is worn. The theme for 2007 was ‘The Masked Ball’. There is a similar event for the Lower School (FY to Hundred) called The Autumn Ball. This takes place in The Rogers Theatre.
[edit] Innovations
The school has played a significant role in the development of educational projects. In 1963 it was the first independent school to have a language laboratory, it pioneered Nuffield Physics in the 1960s, Science in Society in the 1970s, and the Diploma of Achievement in the 1990s.
Also at the beginning of the 1990s, Malvern College became one of the first schools in Britain to offer the choice between the International Baccalaureate and A-Levels in the Sixth Form.
Each summer the staff and some older pupils run a summer school, Young Malvern, which incorporates many sports, activities and learning experiences.
[edit] Notable Old Malvernians
- James Jesus Angleton, spymaster
- Michael Arlen, author, playwright
- Francis William Aston, Physicist, 1922 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Charles Bambridge (1858 - 1935), England international footballer and captain
- Varyl Begg, First Sea Lord
- Humphry Berkeley, politician, humourist
- Benedict Carpenter, sculptor
- Aleister Crowley, occultist
- Denholm Elliott, actor
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, journalist
- Giles Foden, author of The Last King of Scotland
- Reginald Erskine Foster, the only man to have captained England at both cricket and football
- "Fostershire", the Foster brothers who played for Worcestershire County Cricket Club.
- J.F.C. Fuller, soldier, military historian, strategist, occultist
- Doctor Greenwood (1860 - 1951), Blackburn Rovers and England international footballer
- Prince Christian of Hanover, and Prince Ernst August of Hanover
- Godfrey Martin Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia
- Christmas Humphries, lawyer, Buddhist author
- Arnold Jackson, 1912 Olympic 1500m gold medallist, youngest ever British Army Brigadier-General, DSO with Three Bars.
- Rory Laing, contestant on The Apprentice
- C. S. Lewis, novelist, scholar, Christian apologist
- Ian MacLaurin, Baron MacLaurin of Knebworth, businessman
- James Meade, economist, 1977 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
- Jeremy Paxman, journalist, broadcaster, author
- Sir Ghillean Prance, Botanist
- Najib Tun Razak, Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
- James Rousseau, model
- Dominic Sandbrook, historian and author
- Oliver Selfridge, computer scientist
- George Simpson-Hayward, England cricketer
- Sydney Goodsir Smith, poet, artist
- Peter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-Morris, politician
- Meredith Thring, inventor and writer on energy conservation
- Roger Tolchard, England cricketer
- Bernard Weatherill, politician, Speaker of the British House of Commons
- John Wheeler-Bennett, historian
