:Barnard Castle School

The school can trace its origins to an endowment made by John I de Balliol, then Lord of Barnard Castle, in 1229. The school itself was established in 1883 when it occupied temporary premises in Middleton One Row, County Durham, whilst construction of the school was undertaken in Barnard Castle."Stately surroundings for 'merchant' school", The Northern Echo. Darlington. 5 May 2004. Initially there were 25 boarders and 10-day pupils, but by the end of 1884, there were 76 boarders. Originally known as the North Eastern County School, the main school building was completed on 2 February 1886 and initially housed 116 boarders and 12-day pupils.{{cite web |url= http://www.bentleybeetham.org/ |title=The Bentley Beetham Collection – Home |website= Bentleybeetham.org |access-date=7 May 2011}} The Bishop of Durham presided over the foundation ceremony.The Times Literary Supplement (London), 25 January 1934; pg. 61; Issue 1669. The building was designed by Clark & Moscrop of Darlington in the Jacobean style, and is a Grade II listed building built with local Yorkstone and Lakeland slate.{{NHLE |num= 1292093 |desc=Detailed Record |access-date=7 May 2011}}[http://www.marshalls.co.uk/select/_data/casestudies/barnard.pdf] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928052422/http://www.marshalls.co.uk/select/_data/casestudies/barnard.pdf|date=28 September 2011}} The school was built for the trustees of Benjamin Flounders and the trustees of St. John's Hospital, Barnard Castle, who managed the Baliol endowment, and was overseen by a University of Durham committee.{{cite web |url= http://www.heritage-explorer.co.uk/web/he/searchdetail.aspx?id=8100&crit=barnard+castle+school |title=Result Detail |publisher=Heritage Explorer |date=26 August 2001 |access-date=7 May 2011}} Flounders was a Quaker industrialist who had helped to fund the Stockton and Darlington Railway. The Flounders trustees financed the entirety of the construction of the school with a donation of £31,000.{{cite news |url= http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/archive/2008/05/30/Weekend+Times+Feature+%28dst_weekendfeature%29/2308682.A_man_of_considerable_wealth__expensive_tastes_and_great_generosity/ |title=A man of considerable wealth, expensive tastes and great generosity |work=The Northern Echo |location= Darlington |date=30 May 2008 |access-date=7 August 2011}} A further £20,000 was raised by subscription to cover initial running costs, £10,000 of which came from St John's Hospital. The gift from St John's was conditional on the school being situated in Barnard Castle, and this determined its location.

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The school's governance was inspired by the county school movement of Joseph Lloyd Brereton, who was largely inspired in turn by the example of Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby School. The object of the school was to provide a liberal education, with fees set at a fraction of those charged by the leading public schools. Tolerance of non-conformist denominations such as Methodism and Roman Catholicism informed the school's ethos, and the school has always remained independent of the Church of England.{{cite web |url=http://reports.isi.net/DownloadReport.aspx?s=6224&t=c |title=Archived copy |website=reports.isi.net |access-date=15 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326031050/http://reports.isi.net/DownloadReport.aspx?s=6224&t=c |archive-date=26 March 2012 |url-status=dead}} Brereton's son became the first headmaster of the school. In contrast to the largely classical education offered by many of the public schools of the time, the school always maintained a focus on scientific and technological education.{{cite news|title=Speech Day at The County School|url=http://46.32.255.219/pdf/1907/November-20/November-20-1907-08.pdf#search='County%20School'|access-date=8 November 2012|newspaper=Teesdale Mercury|date=20 November 1907}} A strong sporting programme was believed to build character. Extensions over the next few years included a sanatorium in 1890 (now the music school) and a swimming-bath block in 1896. In 1900 a £4,000 (£400,000 in 2010) science block was opened by Lord Barnard with Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham in attendance.[https://archive.org/stream/brookefosswestco02westuoft/brookefosswestco02westuoft_djvu.txt Full text of "Life and letters of Brooke Foss Westcott, D.D., D.C.L., sometime Bishop of Durham"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305183308/https://archive.org/stream/brookefosswestco02westuoft/brookefosswestco02westuoft_djvu.txt |date=5 March 2016 }} The building is now inhabited by Tees and Dale houses.

The school name was changed to Barnard Castle School in 1924, and it was by this time one of the largest public schools in the North of England.{{cite web|url=http://www.bentleybeetham.org/ |title=The Bentley Beetham Collection – Home |publisher=Bentleybeetham.org |access-date=7 May 2011}}{{cite news |title=New head of Barnard Castle School |work=The Manchester Guardian |date=29 March 1924 |page=10}} When Harold Birkbeck was appointed headmaster in 1935 there were 193 pupils.[https://archive.today/20120720134656/http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/nationonfilm/00114?size=4x3&bgc=C0C0C0&nbram=1&bbram=1 BBC Media Player] In 1942 the school was elected to the Headmaster's Conference, making it an "official" public school. Following the introduction of the Education Act 1944, from 1945 the school became a direct grant grammar school and the number of pupils enrolled at the school increased substantially.{{cite web|author= Lindsay, K. |url= https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1946/may/31/grammar-schools-direct-grant-status |title=Grammar schools (Direct grant status) (Hansard written answers) |date=31 May 1946 |work= Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) |access-date=7 May 2011}} In April 1961 a £65,000 (£1.1 million in 2010) appeal was launched for funding to build new science blocks and a library building.{{cite news |title=£65,000 Appeal For School Buildings |work=The Times |location =London |date=21 March 1961 |page=14 |issue= 55035}} By this time there were 470 boys at the school, more than half of whom progressed to universities or higher education. Birkbeck introduced squash to the school, and made it one of the best-known schools for the sport in the country in the 1960s and 1970s. The novelist Will Cohu described the school in 1974 as "popular with parents who were in the armed forces. It was cheap, did not have any reputation for abuse, and was strong on games".{{cite book|author=Will Cohu|title=The Wolf Pit: A Moorland Romance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=obuJywuq_icC&pg=PA61|access-date=26 September 2012|date=15 April 2012|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-0-7011-8485-8|page=61}} The direct-grant revenue stream was abolished in 1975, making the school reliant upon independent funding. An appeal was launched that year to ensure the school's survival, with £109,000 (£750,000 in 2011) raised within nine months.The Times, Thursday, 19 February 1976; pg. 16; Issue 59632; col E The school's first computer was installed in January 1978.{{cite web |url=http://ww2.durham.gov.uk/dre/pgDre.aspx?&SEARCH=By+Keyword&TERM=Men's+costume&ID=DRE10345 |title=Durham County Council – Durham Record |publisher=Ww2.durham.gov.uk |access-date=7 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110502194012/http://ww2.durham.gov.uk/dre/pgDre.aspx |archive-date=2 May 2011 |url-status = dead }}

Frank Macnamara became headmaster in 1980, described as "an affable enthusiast" in The Guardian."Rugby Union: School with the boys' own story – England were not the first to field Andrew and Underwood together". The Guardian (London), 16 March 1991. Under his tenure the school would develop its reputation for fostering world-class rugby talent. For the duration of its existence (1980–1997) the school took part in the Assisted Places Scheme.[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1996/mar/11/assisted-places-scheme#S6CV0273P0_19960311_CWA_88 Assisted Places Scheme (Hansard, 11 March 1996)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325132604/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1996/mar/11/assisted-places-scheme#S6CV0273P0_19960311_CWA_88 |date=25 March 2016 }} Girls were first admitted to the Sixth Form in 1981, and the school has been fully co-educational since 1993.[http://www.guidetoindependentschools.com/schools/view/28/Barnard-Castle/HMC-IAPS/Barnard-Castle-School-Barnard-Castle-Durham-DL12-8UN Barnard Castle | Junior and Senior Mixed Independent School | Durham | Guide to Independent Schools] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821224156/http://www.guidetoindependentschools.com/schools/view/28/Barnard-Castle/HMC-IAPS/Barnard-Castle-School-Barnard-Castle-Durham-DL12-8UN |date=21 August 2016 }} By 1992 there were around 610 pupils with an approximately 50:50 split between boarding and day pupils."Inquest into death of public schoolboy", Press Association, 22 September 1992. From 1993, as the result of a HMC initiative, Eastern European children were awarded scholarships to study at the school; by 1995, 8 per cent of the school's intake came from overseas.{{cite news |last=Munns |first=Maria |title=Eastern girls' top class opportunity |newspaper=The Northern Echo |location= Darlington |date=17 August 2012}} Michael Featherstone, a former England hockey international, was appointed headmaster in 1997, and the school enjoyed considerable academic success during his tenure.{{cite news|title=Public school head resigns|url=http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/archive/2004/04/06/The+North+East+Archive/6995391.Public_school_head_resigns/|access-date=17 September 2012|newspaper=The Northern Echo|date=6 April 2004}}

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One of the North East's most famous schools, Barnard Castle is set in 50-acre grounds on the outskirts of town. It is located in Teesdale, and is within the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Giles Deacon has said of the location that "you could just walk out and you were in the middle of the Pennines".{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/giles-deacon-king-of-london-435540.html | location=London | work=The Independent | title=Giles Deacon: King of London – Profiles – People – The Independent | date=10 February 2007}} The Bowes Museum is situated next to the school.{{cite book|last=Walsh|first=Mary|title=Waterfall Walks: Teesdale and the High Pennines|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_s9XIw-kUbEC&pg=PA119|year=1994|publisher=Cicerone Press|isbn=978-1-85284-158-4|page=119}} The school caters for pupils aged 4 to 18, with pupils younger than 11 being taught in a separate on-site preparatory school (Prep School). The original building is now used mainly for accommodation and administration and is described as "stately" by The Independent.{{cite web |url=http://www.guidetoindependentschools.com/schools/view/28/Barnard-Castle/HMC-IAPS/Barnard-Castle-School-Barnard-Castle-Durham-DL12-8UN |title=Barnard Castle | Junior and Senior Mixed Independent School | Durham |publisher=Guide to Independent Schools |access-date=7 August 2011 |archive-date=21 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821224156/http://www.guidetoindependentschools.com/schools/view/28/Barnard-Castle/HMC-IAPS/Barnard-Castle-School-Barnard-Castle-Durham-DL12-8UN |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-union/tait-gives-glimpse-of-the-future-487719.html |title=Tait gives glimpse of the future |location=London |work=The Independent}}{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} The school spire is known colloquially as "The Pepperpot".{{cite news|title=Chapel Centenary Celebration |url=http://www.attainmagazine.co.uk/news/story/2446/ |access-date=23 March 2013 |newspaper=Attain magazine |date=29 November 2012 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108133913/http://www.attainmagazine.co.uk/news/story/2446/ |archive-date=8 January 2014 }} It also contains the dining hall and "Main School", public school slang for the school hall. All teaching is undertaken in purpose-built classrooms. The school site contains tennis/netball courts, squash courts, a large sports hall and an AstroTurf pitch. A total of £3 million has been invested in the school's infrastructure since 2008, including a £1.5 million Physics and ICT block, a new hall for the Prep School and a new sports pavilion containing a gym and a dance studio.{{cite news|url=http://jobs.telegraph.co.uk/recruiter-directory/3931/barnard-castle-school |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110322141750/http://jobs.telegraph.co.uk/recruiter-directory/3931/barnard-castle-school |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 March 2011 |title=Recruiter profile for Barnard Castle School |publisher=Jobs.telegraph.co.uk |access-date=7 May 2011 |location=London}}{{cite news |url= http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/archive/2008/01/21/South+West+Durham+%28northernecho_swdurham_news%29/1980548.School_unveils_new___1_5m_science_block/ |title=School unveils new £1.5m science block |work=The Northern Echo |location=Darlington |date=21 January 2008 |access-date=7 August 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.milbankarchitects.net/2011/05/10/barnard-castle-school-a-block-3/ |title=Sports Pavilion |publisher=Milbank Architects |date=10 May 2011 |access-date=7 August 2011}} The school has been used as a filming location for the television sketch show The Fast Show.

The school's chapel was completed in 1911.{{cite web|url=http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=D13488 |title=Keys to the Past, Ref No D13488 |publisher=Keystothepast.info |access-date=7 May 2011 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320054010/http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=D13488 |archive-date=20 March 2012 }}{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=8tPVAAAAMAAJ&q=%22barnard+castle+school%22 |author=Freeman, Jennifer |title= W. D. Caröe, RStO, FSA: his architectural achievement |publisher=Manchester University Press |year=1990 |access-date=7 August 2011 |isbn=978-0-7190-2449-8}} It was designed by W. D. Caroe, and Nikolaus Pevsner described it as "impressive" both internally and externally.Pevsner, Nikolaus; Williamson, Elizabeth. County Durham, Volume 9. p.88. Somewhat unusually, it is oriented in a north–south direction. A large proportion of the funding to build the chapel was provided by Lord Barnard, the local nobleman and a leading freemason (with the remainder made up from public subscription), and accordingly the foundation ceremony was performed in full masonic regalia.{{cite web|url=http://www.netinfusion.co.uk/Strathmore/downloads/Strathmore%20History.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=28 April 2011 |url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323093728/http://www.netinfusion.co.uk/Strathmore/downloads/Strathmore%20History.pdf |archive-date=23 March 2012}} The Grade II* listed building contains a painting by Ary Scheffer and a Father Willis organ. It has stained glass windows commemorating John Balliol and Benjamin Flounders, the two founders of the school. A roll of honour in the chapel commemorates the 141 former pupils and 4 Masters who died in the First World War, the 55 former pupils who died in the Second World War and one who died in the Falklands War.[http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=6388 North East War Memorials Project] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160825204748/http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=6388 |date=25 August 2016 }}{{cite news |url= http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2011/11/12/the-region-remembers-war-dead-on-93rd-armistice-day-61634-29762554/ |title=The region remembers war dead on 93rd Armistice Day |work=The Journal |location=Newcastle |author=Lawson, Ruth |date=12 November 2011}} There is a roll of honour in the main school building for the former pupils who died in the Second Boer War.{{cite web|url=http://www.newmp.org.uk/sitedocs/Co.Durham%20Index%20%205Dec2011.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=7 January 2012 |url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160825210732/http://www.newmp.org.uk/sitedocs/Co.Durham%20Index%20%205Dec2011.pdf |archive-date=25 August 2016}}

The Prep School has access to all of the facilities of the senior school. It is situated in a separate area of the school grounds with its own organisation, staff and buildings. The school is sited around a main building called Westwick Lodge, "a sprawling Victorian villa with the modern dormitories and classroom block hidden at the rear. It [has] a long, sloping front lawn, thickly planted with shrubberies ... Round the back [is] a playground and a muddy hill with a few trees". Members of the Prep School are referred to throughout the school as "Preppies".

The school was founded in 1914 and was originally a girls' school, and independent from the County School.{{cite news|title=Sporting Tournament in Teesdale to mark school's 100th anniversary |url= http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/southdurham/barnardcastle/11476412.Sporting_Tournament_in_Teesdale_to_mark_school__39_s_100th_anniversary/|access-date=11 October 2014 |work=The Northern Echo |date=16 September 2014}} In 1989 there were just 65 pupils, all of them boys. By 2009 there were over 200 pupils, equally split between girls and boys.{{cite news |url= http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/archive/2009/07/13/South+West+Durham+%28northernecho_swdurham_news%29/4490121.Sad_farewells_at_school_speech_day/ |title=Sad farewells at school speech day |work=The Northern Echo |location =Darlington |date=13 July 2009 |access-date=7 August 2011}} School on Saturdays was abolished at the Prep School in 1999.

40 per cent of senior school intake comes from the state sector, and over 50 per cent come from the on-site Prep School. 25 per cent of Sixth Form pupil intake is from state schools. Day pupils commute from a wide catchment area that is predominantly rural in nature. These settlements are as far afield as Hurworth and Stanhope as well as larger settlements such as Kirkby Stephen, Durham, Bishop Auckland, Richmond and Darlington. Pupils are from a range of professional, managerial and farming backgrounds. There are 200 boarding pupils, significant numbers of whom have parents who are members of HM Forces, and many families are linked to nearby Catterick Garrison, Europe's largest military base.[http://www.bbsw.org.uk/lib/workshop-downloads/school-profiles/Mar11/Barnard_Castle.pdf Layout 1] {{webarchive |url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160417191819/http://www.bbsw.org.uk/lib/workshop-downloads/school-profiles/Mar11/Barnard_Castle.pdf |date=17 April 2016 }} 15 per cent of boarders have parents living overseas, particularly Hong Kong. An Open Day is held several times a year when the school welcomes prospective students and their families to tour the school.[http://www.isc.co.uk/school_42132.htm Barnard Castle School, Barnard Castle, Durham, Independent Schools] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720161005/http://www.isc.co.uk/school_42132.htm |date=20 July 2008 }}

Every weekday (except for Wednesday) begins with a chapel service. School is held on Saturday mornings, with many sporting fixtures taking place on Saturday afternoons. There is an exeat weekend every term when pupils get respite from Saturday school. The Sunday chapel service is compulsory for boarding pupils. Homework, which is always referred to as "prep" (short for preparatory work), is set for every day with the exception of Sunday. During weekdays there is a mid-morning coffee break for all pupils when refreshments are provided, a tradition from when many day pupils would arrive at that time from outlying settlements. The school uniform is traditional, including a navy blue blazer and a tie. Merits are given as rewards for outstanding work. Punishments include weekday afternoon detention and Saturday afternoon detention. Corporal punishment had to be phased out by 1987 in line with state schools, as it received public funding. The headmaster is aided in his running of the school by the monitor (prefect) system. As well as the standard subjects, Latin, Classics, Ancient History, Greek, German and Spanish are taught. The school has a strong reputation for sciences.{{cite news |work=The Northern Echo |location =Darlington |date=31 December 2011 |title= Finding formula for contest success |page=10}} In 2011 the Independent Schools Inspectorate described the school's ethos as "traditionally unpretentious".{{cite web|url=http://www.barnardcastleschool.org.uk/documents/Physics_Teacher.pdf |publisher=Barnard Castle School |title=Teacher of Physics: Information for applicants |year=2012 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130720191353/http://www.barnardcastleschool.org.uk/documents/Physics_Teacher.pdf |archive-date=20 July 2013 }}

Pastoral care is provided through the house system. Each pupil is assigned to a house. Each house has its own accommodation in the school and its own set of tutors to look after members of the house. There are eight vertically integrated houses in total, each with its own colour and heraldic-like shield: The two boys' boarding houses are York (red) and Northumberland (pale blue). The three day-boys' houses are Tees (dark green) and Dale (burgundy), both formed by splitting Teesdale House, the first day boys' house, and finally Durham (gold), which was converted from boarding to day when the school expanded in the 1990s. The boarding girls belong to the original Sixth Form girls' house, Longfield (dark pink), and the new houses formed for day girls when the school became co-educational are Marwood (purple) and more recently Bowes (pale green).{{cite web|url=http://www.barnardcastleschool.org.uk/documents/Uniform_Sixth_Form.pdf |publisher=Barnard Castle School |title=Sixth Form Uniform List |date=n.d. |access-date=31 March 2012 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317231845/http://www.barnardcastleschool.org.uk/documents/Uniform_Sixth_Form.pdf |archive-date=17 March 2012 }} The school considered abolishing its boarding facilities when, like many boarding schools, it suffered a significant drop in numbers during the 1990s. However, numbers unexpectedly improved around the turn of the millennium, and this turnaround has often been attributed to the positive image that boarding received from the Harry Potter series.{{cite web |url= http://www.boardingschoolsinfo.com/harry-potter-effect.html |title=The Harry Potter Effect – Boarding Schools |publisher=Boardingschoolsinfo.com |date=n.d.|access-date=7 August 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110719221634/http://www.boardingschoolsinfo.com/harry-potter-effect.html| archive-date= 19 July 2011 |url-status = live}}{{cite news |title=Harry makes boarding magic |work=The Northern Echo |location=Darlington |date= 30 November 2000}} The school is interdenominational, whilst maintaining its foundation in Christian principles and values.{{cite web

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The school is a charitable trust governed by a number of foundation and four nominated governors, the latter with links to Durham and Newcastle Universities, Durham County Council/Barnard Castle Town Council, and the Old Barnardians' Club. The school aims to offer the best independent education to children from the North East of England. According to information provided to the Charities Commission, the income of the school was £8.7 million in the 2017-18-year, with the vast majority of the revenue coming from school fees.[http://opencharities.org/charities/1125375 BARNARD CASTLE SCHOOL :: OpenCharities] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819021827/http://opencharities.org/charities/1125375 |date=19 August 2016 }} It has been a member of The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference since 1944.{{cite web|url=http://www.hmc.org.uk/schools/a-c.htm |title=HMC Schools A – C |publisher=Hmc.org.uk |access-date=7 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610224505/http://www.hmc.org.uk/schools/a-c.htm |archive-date=10 June 2011 |url-status = dead }}

The houses form the basis for much competition within the school. The first competition in the school year is the House Singing Competition in which every member of the school takes part. Thereafter, throughout the school year, the houses compete against each other in a variety of academic, artistic, and sporting events. An extensive range of almost 100 after-school activities are offered throughout the year, such as The Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme up to Gold level.[http://www.barnardcastleschool.org.uk/senior-activities.asp Barnard Castle School] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303223108/http://www.barnardcastleschool.org.uk/senior-activities.asp |date=3 March 2016 }}

Rugby for boys and hockey for girls are the major sports during the Autumn term. In the Spring Term the boys play football, hockey and squash whilst the girls play netball and lacrosse. Both boys and girls take part in cross country running and swimming. During the Summer term, cricket is the most important sport for boys. Teams have toured Majorca and the Caribbean in recent years. Members of the 1st XI often gain representative honours for their counties and the North of England. The school was described by The Daily Telegraph as "one of the premier cricketing schools of the north".{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/counties/3007610/Hampshire-fall-victim-to-Law.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | first=D J | last=Rutnagur | title=Hampshire fall victim to Law | date=20 June 2001}} Girls focus on rounders in the summer whilst both girls and boys partake in tennis and athletics. Sports Day is a major fixture in the school calendar.

The Barnard Run is a school competition, consisting of a cross-country trial over a hilly course. It is the most important sporting event in the school year.{{cite news|title=Celebration of Foundation Day|url=http://46.32.255.219/pdf/1905/November-08/November-08-1905-05.pdf#search='County%20School'|access-date=8 November 2012|newspaper=Teesdale Mercury|date=8 November 1905}} The course has varied considerably over the years.[https://archive.today/20120720171531/http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/nationonfilm/00116?size=4x3&bgc=C0C0C0&nbram=1&bbram=1 BBC Media Player] It dates back to 1892 when Lord Barnard donated and presented the trophy.[http://www.barnardcastleschool.org.uk/senior-cross-country.asp Barnard Castle School] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023335/http://www.barnardcastleschool.org.uk/senior-cross-country.asp |date=4 March 2016 }} The race takes place annually at the end of the first half of the Spring Term. The girls' and younger boys' race is 2¾ miles while the senior boys' is 4 miles.{{cite news|title=Thea races to record breaking victory |url= http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/9590108.Thea_races_to_record_breaking_victory/|newspaper=The Northern Echo|date=14 March 2012|access-date=8 November 2012 }}

Historically the Barnard Run was a seven-mile course which began at Towler Hill Farm, ran to Cotherstone suspension bridge, with an undetermined route back to the school. In 1898 a 4-mile junior Barnard Run was created for 11- to 14-year-olds. In 1904 it was decided that it would be easier for training purposes if the run began at the school, and a new course was developed.

The Junior Officers' Training Corps was established at the school in 1909 following an invitation from Lord Haldane, then Secretary of State for War.[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1911/apr/11/officers-training-corps#S5CV0024P0_19110411_CWA_78 Officers' Training Corps. (Hansard, 11 April 1911)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315211144/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1911/apr/11/officers-training-corps#S5CV0024P0_19110411_CWA_78 |date=15 March 2016 }} By 1911 it had 103 cadets and 3 staff. In 1948 all OTCs were superseded by the Combined Cadet Force (CCF). As of 2012 it had almost 200 cadets and 10 staff, making it one of the largest contingents in the country.{{cite web

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|archive-date=29 October 2013 }} Facilities associated with the CCF include an armoury and an indoor shooting range. In 2012 the contingent won the Colts Canter competition, which saw it named the best force in the North of England.{{cite news|title=Military cadets hailed region's best|newspaper=The Northern Echo|date=25 October 2012}} The CCF offers a variety of trips ranging from shooting range days to summer camps and even visits to military bases. In 2021 three students were appointed to assist Lord Lieutenant of Durham Susan Snowdon in her duties.{{Cite news |date=6 April 2021 |title=By royal appointment- three cadets get role alongside Lord Lieutenant |url=

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/19209731.three-cadets-get-role-alongside-durhams-lord-lieutenant/ |access-date=19 March 2024 |website=The Northern Echo }}

Participation in the CCF is optional.

File:RAF Leeming - Barnard Castle School CCF visit.png

The CCF has an RAF contingent which has its own uniform and ranks, though parading alongside the army section. The RAF also attend memorial services such as the Teesdale Aviation Day,{{Cite web |date=26 September 2023 |title=28th memorial service for airmen killed in tragic crashes held in County Durham |url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/23814495.teesdale-aviation-day-memorial-service-barnard-castle/ |access-date=19 March 2024 |website=The Northern Echo |language=en}} as well as trips and flying experience opportunities at the nearby RAF Leeming airbase.

The school has produced 38 U19 international rugby players, leading The Times to comment that it has "a happy knack of producing some of England's finest rugby talents."[http://www.rfu.com/News/2012/March/NewsArticles/070312_Barnard_Castle_conveyor_belt_well_oiled.aspx Barnard Castle focus shifts back to England] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502225521/http://www.rfu.com/News/2012/March/NewsArticles/070312_Barnard_Castle_conveyor_belt_well_oiled.aspx |date=2 May 2014 }}{{cite news |work=Evening Gazette |location =Middlesbrough |date=29 October 2011 |title=Lions on prowl: Rugby |page=4}} The Observer commented on the rugby success in 2008, "Someone should analyse what they put in the food".{{cite news |work=The Observer |location =London |date=28 September 2008 |title= Focus: Youth on their side – Who's who of the early starters |page=12}} The most prominent are Rob Andrew, brothers Rory Underwood and Tony Underwood, and Mathew Tait who have all played for England at international level. Former headmaster David Ewart explained the school's rugby ethos: "We believe the game breeds important life skills in those who play it. It's a civilising game and you need to be a gentlemen on the pitch, as well as off."{{cite news |work=The Northern Echo |location =Darlington |date=20 October 2007 |title= I owe it all to Barney Army, says rugby star |page=4}} During the period 1970 to 1995 no other British school produced as many England international players.{{cite book |title= A social history of English Rugby Union |author= Collins, Tony |page=103}} In 2012 Tim Visser described his former school's rugby programme as "brilliant".{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-union/news-comment/flying-dutchman-who-makes-edinburgh-rock-7624865.html | location=London | work=The Independent | first=Simon | last=Turnbull | title=Flying Dutchman who makes Edinburgh rock – News & Comment – Rugby Union – The Independent | date=7 April 2012}}

The school is a prominent feeder institution for the Newcastle Falcons, with signings over the last decade including Lee Dickson, Tim Visser, Alex Tait, Ed Williamson and Rory Clegg. Recent signings to other premiership clubs include Calum Clark, Alex Gray and Ross Batty. Many Barnardians represent junior international sides, as well as the North of England, several northern county sides (such as Durham, Cumbria, Yorkshire and Cheshire) and the Independent Schools' Barbarians. The 1st VII have appeared in the final of the North of England Sevens and National Schools Sevens.

The School's 1st XV team reached the final of the national Daily Mail Cup for U18s three times in five seasons between 2002/03 and 2006/07.{{cite web|url=http://www.schoolsrugby.co.uk |title=Schools Rugby Home Page |publisher=Schoolsrugby.co.uk |access-date=2 June 2010}} Nicknamed the Barney Army, the team lost to Oakham School, Colston's School and Warwick School respectively in the 2002, 2003 and 2007 finals. In 2007/2008, the 1st XV were beaten in the semi-finals 19-16 by St Benedict's School. The school reached the finals of the National Schools Sevens in 2002 and 2005.{{cite news|title=Barney youngsters look to emulate former pupils|newspaper=The Northern Echo|date=9 March 2013}}

England caps

• Howard Marshall (1891–1893)[http://www.espnscrum.com/england/rugby/player/1006.html Howard Marshall | Rugby Union | Players and Officials | ESPN Scrum] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130707042324/http://www.espnscrum.com/england/rugby/player/1006.html |date=7 July 2013 }}
• James Hutchinson (1906)[http://www.espnscrum.com/england/rugby/player/1800.html James Hutchinson | Rugby Union | Players and Officials | ESPN Scrum] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130707051238/http://www.espnscrum.com/england/rugby/player/1800.html |date=7 July 2013 }}
• Tom Danby (1949)[http://www.espnscrum.com/england/rugby/player/5138.html Tom Danby | Rugby Union | Players and Officials | ESPN Scrum] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130707053948/http://www.espnscrum.com/england/rugby/player/5138.html |date=7 July 2013 }}
• Rory Underwood (1984–1996)
• Rob Andrew (1985–1997)
• Tony Underwood (1992–1998){{cite news |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/6408143.stm |work=BBC News |first=Mark |last=Barden |title=Underwood still an England flyer |date=5 March 2007}}
• Mathew Tait (2005–2010)
• Lee Dickson (2012–2014){{cite news |url= http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/saints/breaking_news_northampton_saints_dickson_living_the_dream_ahead_of_italy_clash_1_3501941 |title=Northampton Saints' Dickson "living the dream" ahead of Italy clash |work=Northampton Chronicle & Echo |date=9 February 2012}}

Scotland caps

• Tim Visser (2012–2017){{cite news|last=Reid|first=Alasdair|title=Tim Visser's two-try debut for Scotland against Fiji makes him an automatic selection for years to come|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/international/scotland/9337130/Tim-Vissers-two-try-debut-for-Scotland-against-Fiji-makes-him-an-automatic-selection-for-years-to-come.html|access-date=17 August 2012|newspaper=Daily Telegraph|date=17 June 2012}}

Cheers: If a school sports team is victorious the entire team will, on return to school, stand on Central Hall Table (Central Hall being the school's focal point) and the captain will lead three cheers for the school. For the 1st XV cheers also take place after home victories. The team gathers in what is known as Back Porch immediately after the match and three cheers are sounded.

Foundation Day: Celebrated every 6 November. Initially the Barnard Run was held on this day. Before 1892 the tradition was to celebrate the day with a paper chase, but this was replaced after Lord Barnard donated the Barnard Cup.

Nailing Up: This occurs at every end of term school chapel service. Originally taking place in Central Hall, the captain of the house team which had won that term's major sporting event would climb up to his house shield displayed on the first floor balcony and nail the award to the shield. Nowadays the captain of the winning house team comes to the front of chapel and ceremonially taps the shield. "Jerusalem" is always sung at the last service of term.

Speech Day: Occurring on the final day of the Summer Term (usually a Saturday) the entire school community including parents, relatives and friends of the school, meet for Speech Day. The Chairman of the Governors, the Headmaster, an invited Speaker and the Head of School make speeches, and academic prizes are awarded to pupils. Past speakers have included Hensley Henson, Kenneth Calman, Kevin Whately and Angus Thirlwell.{{cite news |title=School Speech Days Bishop of Durham on Fascist Education |work=The Times |location =London |date=15 November 1935 |issue= 47222 |at= p. 7, col. A}}{{cite news |url= http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/archive/2005/07/28/The+North+East+Archive/7140630.Students_honoured_with_prizes_for_efforts/ |title=Students honoured with prizes for efforts |work=The Northern Echo |location=Darlington |date=28 July 2005|access-date=7 August 2011}}

{{see also|Category:People educated at Barnard Castle School}}

{{alumni|date=September 2022}}

• Rob Andrew, former England and British & Irish Lions rugby union player and current Rugby Operations Director at the Rugby Football Union{{cite news |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-union/tait-wins-first-tackle-with-media-scrum-at-entrance-to-red-rose-gallery-of-fame-483996.html |title=Tait wins first tackle with media scrum at entrance to red rose gallery of fame|work=The Independent |date=2 February 2005 |access-date=7 May 2011 |location=London |first=Paul |last=Newman}}
• Ross Batty, former professional rugby union player with Bath[http://www.bathrugby.com/team/first-fifteen-squad/ross-batty Bath Rugby Official Website | 1st XV squad | Ross Batty] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905185106/http://www.bathrugby.com/team/first-fifteen-squad/ross-batty |date=5 September 2015 }}
• Bentley Beetham, ornithologist, photographer and member of the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition
• David J. Bodycombe, puzzle author{{cite news |title=Brain-teasers brought to book |work= The Northern Echo |location =Darlington |date=19 February 1996 |page=21}}
• George Nicholson Bradford, Victoria Cross recipient{{cite news |url=http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/archive/2005/02/16/The+North+East+Archive/6961431.Men_who_paid_the_ultimate_sacrifice/ |title=Men who paid the ultimate sacrifice |work=The Northern Echo |location =Darlington |date=16 February 2005 |access-date=7 August 2011}}
• Joshua Harold Burn, pharmacologist[http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090627225203/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=483-csac107485&cid=0 The National Archives | Access to Archives]
• Andrew Cantrill, organist[http://andrewcantrill.com/biography/ Biography | Andrew Cantrill] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160421235910/http://andrewcantrill.com/biography/ |date=21 April 2016 }}
• Sam Carling, Labour MP{{cite web |last=Carling |first=Sam |title=Sam Carling - LinkedIn Profile |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-carling-aa139a215 |website=LinkedIn |access-date=6 July 2024}}
• Scott Carpenter, international water polo player{{cite news|last=Chowdhury |first=Saj |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/swimming/7438565.stm |title=Polo king Carpenter targets 2012 |work=BBC Sport |date=9 June 2008 |access-date=7 August 2011}}
• Ian Carr, musician and broadcaster'CARR, Ian Henry Randell', Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2009; online edn, Nov 2009 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U10243, accessed 21 March 2012]{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• Mike Carr, jazz musician[https://archive.today/20120913045958/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Supremo+returns.-a0108902720 Supremo returns. – Free Online Library]
• Calum Clark, rugby union player with Northampton Saints{{cite news |url= http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/9468030.Barney_boys_in_England_squad/ |title=Barnard Castle School boys in England squad |work=The Northern Echo |location =Darlington |date=12 January 2012}}
• Rory Clegg, rugby union player with Newcastle Falcons{{cite web|url=http://www.rfu.com/SquadsAndPlayers/EnglandSaxons/RoryClegg.aspx |title=Rory Clegg – Official RFU England Profile |publisher=Rugby Football Union |access-date=7 August 2011 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004132656/http://www.rfu.com/SquadsAndPlayers/EnglandSaxons/RoryClegg.aspx |archive-date=4 October 2011 }}
• Andrew Critchlow, business news editor at the Telegraph Media Group
• Tom Danby, international rugby union and rugby league player{{cite press release |url= http://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=3659 |title=Hockey and Rugby veterans receive sporting honour |publisher=Durham University |date=10 June 2004 |access-date=7 August 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110623230522/http://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=3659| archive-date= 23 June 2011 |url-status = live}}
• Giles Deacon, fashion designer
• Karl Dickson, rugby union player with Harlequins{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/international/england/9129258/Six-Nations-2012-Karl-and-Lee-Dicksons-England-brotherhood-built-on-sheer-hard-graft-and-determination.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | first=Mick | last=Cleary | title=Six Nations 2012: Karl and Lee Dickson's England brotherhood based on sheer hard graft and determination | date=7 March 2012}}
• Lee Dickson, international rugby union player for England{{cite news |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/13332802.stm |work=BBC News |title=Dickson signs new Saints contract |date=9 May 2011}}
• Robert Dinwiddie, professional golfer{{cite web|author=The PGA |url=http://www.pga.info/PGAFeatures/40883912.htm |title=Teenage Kicks As Dinwiddie Comes Up Trumps |publisher=Pga.info |date=12 April 2011 |access-date=7 August 2011}}
• Barrie Dobson, historian{{cite news|title=Professor Barrie Dobson|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10018744/Professor-Barrie-Dobson.html|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=25 April 2013|access-date=8 September 2022}}
• Lionel Fanthorpe, priest, entertainer, television presenter, author and lecturer[http://www.literaturewales.org/writers-of-wales/i/129650/ Fanthorpe on The Writers of Wales Database] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304044638/http://www.literaturewales.org/writers-of-wales/i/129650/|date=4 March 2016}}
• Nigel Farndale, journalist and novelist{{cite web |url=http://blog.spu.edu/sot/2011/01/12/book-review-the-blasphemer/ |title=Book Review: The Blasphemer | School of Theology |publisher=Blog.spu.edu |date=12 January 2011 |access-date=7 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110129081000/http://blog.spu.edu/sot/2011/01/12/book-review-the-blasphemer/ |archive-date=29 January 2011 |url-status=dead }}
• Peter Gilliver, lexicographer and OED historian, and TV presenter
• Patrick Grant, fashion designer{{cite web|url=http://www.emapconferences.co.uk/fashionsummit/whos-speaking/patrick-grant |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120729201253/http://www.emapconferences.co.uk/fashionsummit/whos-speaking/patrick-grant |url-status = dead|archive-date=29 July 2012 |title=Drapers Fashion Summit – Programme – Patrick Grant |publisher=Emapconferences.co.uk |access-date=7 August 2011 }}
• Alex Gray, rugby union player with England Sevens, and former England U20s captain[http://www.london-irish.com/playerdisplaySS.ink?skip=14&season=10/11&seasonl=2011/2012&playertype=P Alex Gray: 2011/2012 Biography & Statistics – London Irish] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502105822/http://www.london-irish.com/playerdisplaySS.ink?skip=14&season=10%2F11&seasonl=2011%2F2012&playertype=P |date=2 May 2014 }}
• Nicholas Hatch, former first class cricketer with Durham
• Glenn Hugill, television producer and presenter{{cite web|url=http://www.glennhugill.com/glennflash.html |title=glenn hugill : the official site |publisher=glennhugill.com |access-date=7 May 2011}}
• Ben Jones, former rugby union player with Worcester Warriors[https://archive.today/20120906174712/http://www.newcastlefalcons.co.uk/news/story/14-04-2005-saints-name-side-for-friday Saints Name Side For Friday – Newcastle Falcons]
• George Macaulay, test match cricketer{{cite news |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket/on-the-front-foot-no-rhyme-or-reason-but-sladen-verse-is-just-the-ticket-for-oval-1772792.html |title=On the Front Foot: No rhyme or reason but Sladen verse is just the ticket for Oval |work=The Independent |date=16 August 2009 |access-date=7 May 2011 |location=London}}
• Howard Marshall, international rugby union player{{cite web |url=http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search.pl?sur=&suro=c&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&tex=MRSL888H&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 |title=Archived copy |website=venn.lib.cam.ac.uk |access-date=15 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503104621/http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search.pl?sur=&suro=c&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&tex=MRSL888H&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 |archive-date=3 May 2012 |url-status=dead}}
• Edward Mellanby, discoverer of Vitamin D{{cite web|url=http://www.faqs.org/nutrition/Biographies/Mellanby-Edward.html |title=Mellanby, Edward – food, nutrition, deficiency, body, diet, vitamin |publisher=Faqs.org |date=30 January 1955 |access-date=7 May 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110604113149/http://www.faqs.org/nutrition/Biographies/Mellanby-Edward.html| archive-date= 4 June 2011 |url-status = live}}
• Kenneth Mellanby, ecologist{{cite news |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-kenneth-mellanby-1406138.html |title=Obituary: Kenneth Mellanby |work=The Independent |date= 11 January 1994|access-date=7 May 2011 |location=London |first=Franklyn |last=Perring}}
• Percy Mills, 1st Viscount Mills, Cabinet member and industrialist, Director of EMI and Chairman of its electronics subsidiaryHalsbury, 'Mills, Percy Herbert, first Viscount Mills (1890–1968)', rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35028, accessed 2 May 2011]{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• Jack Ormston, speedway pioneer{{cite news |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1555627/Jack-Ormston.html |title=Jack Ormston |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=26 June 2007 |access-date=7 May 2011 |location=London}}
• Jon Paul Phillips, actor{{cite news|title=Vanity Fair's Exclusive Tribeca Film Festival Portraits|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/photos/2014/04/tribeca-film-festival-portraits-2014#33|publisher=Vanity Fair|date=1 June 2014}}
• Craig Raine, poet{{cite book|last=Head|first=Dominic|title=The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n8jd8b5OGboC&pg=PA914|year=2006|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-83179-6|page=914}}
• Walter Raine, Conservative MP
• Neil Riddell, former captain of Durham County Cricket Club[https://archive.today/20130203212508/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Celebrations+for+school;+Hundreds+turn+out+for+125th+anniversary.-a0189043171 Celebrations for school; Hundreds turn out for 125th anniversary. – Free Online Library]
• Geoffrey Smith, horticulturalist and broadcaster{{cite news |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4903981/Geoffrey-Smith.html |location=London |work=The Daily Telegraph |title=Geoffrey Smith |date=1 March 2009}}
• Mark Sowerby, Bishop of Horsham'HORSHAM, Area Bishop of', Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011; online edn, Nov 2011 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U250116, accessed 21 March 2012]{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• Alex Tait, rugby union player with Newcastle Falcons{{cite news |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/club/7270378/Newcastle-Falcons-Alex-Tait-concentrates-on-day-job-and-side-steps-international-questions.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph |first=Rob |last=Stewart |title=Newcastle Falcons' Alex Tait concentrates on day job and side steps international questions |date=19 February 2010}}
• Mathew Tait, international rugby union player for England{{cite news |author= Rees, Paul |url= https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/jan/28/mathew-tait-sale-leicester |title=Sale's Mathew Tait agrees terms with Leicester | Sport |work=The Guardian |date= 28 January 2011 |access-date=7 August 2011 |location=London}}
• RJ Thompson, singer-songwriter{{cite news |title=RJ Thompson returns to school to perform charity concert for the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation |work=Barnard Castle School Bulletin |url=http://www.barnardcastleschool.org.uk/documents/Barney_Bulletin.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213001917/http://www.barnardcastleschool.org.uk/documents/Barney_Bulletin.pdf |archive-date=13 December 2014}}
• Andrew Thornton, jump jockey{{cite news |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/andrew-thornton-i-feel-privileged-im-riding-one-of-the-best-horses-in-the-country-528273.html |title=Andrew Thornton: 'I feel privileged. I'm riding one of the best horses in the country' |work=The Independent |access-date=7 August 2011 |location=London}}{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
• Richard Tomlinson, former MI6 officerTomlinson, Richard. The Big Breach. p.5. {{ISBN|1-903813-01-8}}
• Rory Underwood, former rugby union international
• Tony Underwood, former rugby union international
• Tim Visser, international rugby union player for Scotland
• Kevin Whately, Inspector Morse and Lewis actor[http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/kevin-whately-nearly-turned-down-1351436 Kevin Whately on why he nearly turned down Lewis – Chronicle Live] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303215603/http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/kevin-whately-nearly-turned-down-1351436 |date=3 March 2016 }}
• Guy Wilks, rally driver{{cite web|url=http://www.frenchandlammingmedia.com/sectornews.php?newsKey=301§orKey=2 |title=Home |publisher=Frenchandlammingmedia.com |access-date=7 August 2011 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326194611/http://www.frenchandlammingmedia.com/sectornews.php?newsKey=301§orKey=2 |archive-date=26 March 2012 }}
• Ed Williamson, former rugby union player with Newcastle Falcons[http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/4229879.Falcons_flanker_signs_new_deal_at_Kingston_Park/ Falcons flanker signs new deal at Kingston Park (From The Northern Echo)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304033723/http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/4229879.Falcons_flanker_signs_new_deal_at_Kingston_Park/ |date=4 March 2016 }}
• Ella Bowen, Professional netballer with Leeds Rhinos
• Duncan Lorimer is a British-born American astrophysicist. He is a professor of physics and astronomy at West Virginia University, known for the discovery of radio burst in 2007.

• The Rev Francis Lloyd Brereton 1883–1887, 1893–1924
• Edward Henry Prest 1887–1893[https://archive.org/stream/reptonschoolregi00messuoft/reptonschoolregi00messuoft_djvu.txt Full text of "Repton School register : supplement to 1910 edition"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610042442/https://archive.org/stream/reptonschoolregi00messuoft/reptonschoolregi00messuoft_djvu.txt |date=10 June 2016 }}
• Arthur George Coombe 1924–1935
• Harold Edward Birkbeck 1935–1965'BIRKBECK, Harold Edward', Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U152345, accessed 21 March 2012]{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• Sidney D Woods 1965–1980
• Frank MacNamara 1980–1997
• Michael David Featherstone 1997–2004{{cite web|title=Michael Featherstone, Esq|url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/f/20064/Michael%20David+FEATHERSTONE.aspx|publisher=Debretts|access-date=17 September 2012}}
• David Ewart 2004–2010
• Alan Stevens 2010–2017
• Tony Jackson 2018-2024 (incumbent until July 2024)
• David Creswell 2024-Current (to assume duties in September 2024)

Current staff include the former first-class cricketer John Lister and former List A cricketer Benjamin Usher.[http://www.barnardcastleschool.org.uk/staff.asp Barnard Castle School] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303211051/http://www.barnardcastleschool.org.uk/staff.asp |date=3 March 2016 }} Notable former staff have included the educationalist George Graham Able, Bentley Beetham and cricketer Martin Speight.{{cite web |url=http://www.teesdalemercury.co.uk/Articles/School-plans-multi-million-pound-investment |title=School plans multi-million pound investment |work=Teesdale Mercury |date=4 February 2009 |access-date=7 August 2011 |location= Barnard Castle |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131029194029/http://www.teesdalemercury.co.uk/Articles/School-plans-multi-million-pound-investment |archive-date=29 October 2013 |url-status=dead}} Past governors include Joseph Langley Burchnall, who served on the board for twenty years, rising to the level of chairman.[http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Search/historysearch.cgi?SUGGESTION=Edinburgh&CONTEXT=1 Search Results for Edinburgh] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304082816/http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Search/historysearch.cgi?SUGGESTION=Edinburgh&CONTEXT=1 |date=4 March 2016 }}

• Benjamin Flounders – founder of the school
• John Balliol – founder of the school
• List of direct grant grammar schools

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• "Barnard Castle School, a Centenary Book", published by the Old Barnardians' Club in 1983. {{ISBN|0-9508622-0-7}}
• "The History of Barnard Castle School 1883–1933" compiled by R C Hitchcock M.A. (Publ.1933)

• [http://www.barnardcastleschool.org.uk/ School Website]
• [http://www.isc.co.uk/schools/england/durham/barnard-castle/barnard-castle-school Profile] on the ISC website
• [http://www.goodschoolsguide.co.uk/schools/102386/barnard-castle-school/ Good Schools Guide entry]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120126090413/http://www.guidetoindependentschools.com/schools/view/28/Barnard-Castle/HMC-IAPS/Barnard-Castle-School-Barnard-Castle-Durham-DL12-8UN Guide to Independent Schools entry]
• [https://www.bbc.co.uk/nationonfilm/topics/school/ 1947 footage of the school]
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