Cottesmore School
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{{Use British English|date=February 2023}}
{{Infobox school
| name = Cottesmore School
| image = Cottesmore school - geograph.org.uk - 1564715.jpg
| image_size = 220px
| coordinates = {{coord|51.08758|-0.21605|type:edu_region:GB_dim:100|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| motto =
| established = 1894{{citation |url=http://reports.isi.net/DownloadReport.aspx?s=260&t=h&r=0260_08.pdf |title=Cottesmore School |publisher=Independent Schools Inspectorate |year=2008 |author=Margaret Smallwood}}
| type = Private preparatory school
Boarding school
| religious_affiliation = Church of England
| president =
| head_label = Headmaster
| head = Tom Rogerson
| r_head_label =
| r_head =
| chair_label =
| chair =
| founder = Geoffrey Davison Brown
| specialist =
| address = Buchan Hill
| city = Pease Pottage
| county = West Sussex
| country = England
| postcode = RH11 9AU
| local_authority =
| ofsted =
| dfeno =
| urn = 126106
| staff =
| enrolment = 200
| gender = Coeducational
| lower_age = 4
| upper_age = 13
| colours = Blue and pink
| publication =
| website = https://www.cottesmoreschool.com
{{Infobox designation list
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| designation1_offname = Main building to Cottesmore School
| designation1 = Grade II
| designation1_date = 28 November 1980
| designation1_number = {{Listed building England|1027012}}
}}
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Cottesmore is a boarding preparatory school in the United Kingdom, founded in 1894.{{cite web|url = https://www.boardingschoolsadvice.com/boarding-schools/south-west-england-boarding-schools/cottesmore-school|title = Cottesmore School|access-date = May 20, 2023}}
History
Cottesmore was founded by Geoffrey Davison Brown in 1894 in Hove, East Sussex. He named the school after Cottesmore, Rutland, where he was born. The new buildings for the preparatory school were officially opened on 19 June 1897.The Morning Post (London, England), Monday, March 29, 1897; pg. 5; Issue 38941. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II. Davison Brown served as headmaster until his death in 1929, aged 60.
In 1940 the school was evacuated from the south coast of England, to Wales, initially to the Oakeley Arms Hotel, Tan-y-bwlch, Merioneth, and later to a former workhouse in Cors-y-Gedol Hall, near Barmouth, until the end of the war.
The school moved to its present site at Pease Pottage after World War II in 1946. The school is housed in a Grade II-listed{{NHLE|num=1027012 |desc=|accessdate=11 May 2012}} Victorian mansion known as Buchan Hill that was built in 1882–3 by Philip Felix Renaud Saillard.{{citation |page=8 |author=Mark Girouard |title=The Victorian Country House |publisher=Clarendon Press |year=1971}}{{citation |title=The Gentleman's Country House and its Plan, 1835-1914 |author=Jill Franklin |year=1981 |publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul |page=257}} The building is a large Elizabethan-style house, designed by the architects Ernest George and Harold Peto.{{NHLE |num=1027012 |desc=Main building to Cottesmore School |accessdate=11 May 2012}} Buchan Hill had been purchased in the early 19th century by Thomas Erskine (Lord Chancellor 1806–1807), son of the Earl of Buchan.
In 2023, Cottesmore appointed the first AI headteacher, which they named Abigail Bailey, to assist the human headmaster. Bailey answers questions in the same manner as an AI chat bot like ChatGPT, with answers often found online. Additionally, students 4 to 13 were given their own individual AI teachers to help with their personal education and needs.{{Cite web |date=2023-10-16 |title=Would you want an AI robot headteacher? |url=https://www.bbc.com/newsround/67124726 |access-date=2023-10-17 |website=CBBC Newsround |language=en-GB}}
Notable alumni
File:Cottesmore School, Buchan Hill, near Pease Pottage, West Sussex - geograph.org.uk - 27091.jpg
- Gordon Chater, actor and comedian{{citation |title=The Almost Late Gordon Chater |year=1996 |publisher=Bantam Books |isbn=9781863597975}}{{citation |url=http://www.educatedschoolguide.com/school/cottesmore-school/ |title=Cottesmore School |publisher=Educated School Guide |access-date=9 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141209181119/http://www.educatedschoolguide.com/school/cottesmore-school/ |archive-date=9 December 2014 |url-status=dead }}
- Robert Hanbury Brown, astronomer {{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
- Robin Niblett, director of Chatham House {{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
- Thomas Sopwith, aviation pioneer{{citation |title=The Encyclopædia Britannica |volume=20 |year=1929}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.cottesmoreschool.com Official school website]
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Category:Preparatory schools in West Sussex
Category:Grade II listed buildings in West Sussex
Category:Grade II listed houses