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Sandroyd School

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{{Infobox school

| name = Sandroyd School

| image = Sandroyd School front.jpg

| caption = Main building

| pushpin_map = Wiltshire

| pushpin_label_position = top

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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Wiltshire

| motto = Niti Est Nitere (Latin)
To strive is to shine

| established = 1880

| closed =

| type = Independent school
Co-educational
Day and boarding school

| president =

| head_label = Headmaster

| head = Alastair Speers

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| chair_label = Chairman of the Governors

| chair = Rhodri Thomas

| founder = Louis Herbert Wellesley Wesley

| specialist =

| address = Rushmore Park

| city = Tollard Royal

| county = Wiltshire

| country = England

| coordinates = {{Coord|50.9650|N|2.0673|W|type:edu_region:GB|display=title,inline}}

| postcode = SP5 5QD

| dfeno = 865/6004

| urn = 126521

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| enrolment = Approx. 230 {{Cite web|url=https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments/Establishment/Details/126521|title=Sandroyd School - 126521|accessdate=17 July 2023}}

| lower_age = 2

| upper_age = 13

| houses = Wylye, Nadder, Ebble, Avon

| colours = {{colour box|purple}} {{colour box|white}}

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| website = {{Official URL}}

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Sandroyd School is an independent co-educational preparatory school for day and boarding pupils aged 2 to 13 in the south of Wiltshire, England. The school's main building is Rushmore House, a 19th-century country house which is surrounded by the Rushmore Estate, now playing fields, woods and parkland.{{Cite web|title=Sandroyd School, Salisbury|url=https://www.goodschoolsguide.co.uk/schools/160146/sandroyd-school#tab_review|access-date=2016-01-03|website=The Good Schools Guide|language=en-GB|archive-date=5 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305231736/https://www.goodschoolsguide.co.uk/schools/160146/sandroyd-school#tab_review|url-status=live}} Sandroyd School was originally established by Louis Herbert Wellesley Wesley.

In the latest Independent Schools Inspectorate report carried out in 2023, Sandroyd School was judged as 'excellent' across all areas.{{Cite web|title = Sandroyd School – ISI – Independent Schools Inspectorate|url = https://www.isi.net/institutions/school/sandroyd-school-6877}}

Location

The school is in the south of Berwick St John parish, near the village of Tollard Royal and the county border with Dorset.

History

Sandroyd School was founded as a school for boys by L. H. Wellesley Wesley at Sandroyd House, Fairmile, in Cobham, Surrey in 1880.{{Cite web|title=Sandroyd - 1888 to Present Day|url=https://www.sandroyd.org/1888-to-Present-Day/|access-date=2020-07-27|website=Sandroyd School|archive-date=27 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727104526/https://www.sandroyd.org/1888-to-Present-Day/|url-status=live}} He was a great-grandson of Charles Wesley.The Sunday Magazine (Strahan & Company, 1869), [https://books.google.com/books?id=lOxMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA263 p. 263] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230720090104/https://books.google.com/books?id=lOxMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA263 |date=20 July 2023 }}

In 1939, in anticipation of the Second World War, the school moved to Rushmore House, home of the Pitt-Rivers family. The house lies in the centre of Cranborne Chase on the borders of Wiltshire and Dorset. A link between the two sites is that Sandroyd House was built in 1860 for the pre-Raphaelite painter John Roddam Spencer Stanhope by the architect Philip Webb (1831–1915), the friend of William Morris, and it was Webb who remodelled the interior of Rushmore for General Pitt Rivers twenty years later.{{National Heritage List for England|num=1000542|desc=Rushmore Park|access-date=27 July 2020}}

In the 1960s the school purchased the freehold of the school site. In 1995 the school started to accept day pupils, and in 2004 it became coeducational.

Nursery and pre-prep school

Sandroyd School has a pre-prep and nursery which was opened in 2004, for children aged two to seven. This was described as 'excellent' in an ISI inspection report of 2023.

List of headmasters

  • 1880–1898: L. H. Wellesley Wesley
  • 1898–1920: C. P. Wilson
  • 1920–1931: W. M. Hornby
  • 1931–1955: H. ff. Ozanne
  • 1955–1963: K. B. Buckland
  • 1963–1981: D. C. Howes
  • 1981–1982: T. R. Reynolds (acting)
  • 1982–1994: D. J. Cann
  • 1994–1995: T. R. Reynolds (acting)
  • 1995–2003: M. J. Hatch
  • 2003–2016: M. J. S. Harris
  • 2016–: A. B. Speers

Old Sandroydians

:See also People educated at Sandroyd School

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Former pupils, known as Old Sandroydians, include:{{Cite web |title=Old Sandroydians |url=http://www.sandroyd.org/parents-friends/old-sandroydians.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202103841/http://www.sandroyd.org/parents-friends/old-sandroydians.html |archive-date=2 February 2014 |website=Sandroyd School}}

References

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External links

  • {{Official website}}
  • {{cite web |url=http://www.isi.net/School.aspx?s=6877 |title=Sandroyd School |publisher=Independent Schools Inspectorate |access-date=2010-06-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101101092237/http://isi.net/School.aspx?s=6877 |archive-date=2010-11-01 }}
  • {{cite web|url=http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxcare_providers/full/%28urn%29/SC036736/%28type%29/16/%28typename%29/Boarding%20schools |title=Sandroyd School |publisher=Ofsted |access-date=2010-06-05}}

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Category:Preparatory schools in Wiltshire

Category:Educational institutions established in 1880

Category:1880 establishments in England