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==Boarding==
==Boarding==
The boarding programme is open to boys and girls. Year 4 and 5 Choristers are weekly boarders. Year 6 to 8 Choristers are full boarders, with the option to spend Friday nights at home (until Saturday lunchtime), while other boarders return home for the weekend.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcs.cambs.sch.uk/about-kings/life-at-kings/boarding |title=Boarding |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=King's College School |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201005122922/http://www.kcs.cambs.sch.uk/about-kings/life-at-kings/boarding |url-status=live |archive-date=5 October 2020 |access-date=5 October 2020}}</ref>
The boarding programme is open to boys and girls. Year 4 and 5 Choristers are weekly boarders. Year 6 to 8 Choristers are full boarders, with the option to spend Friday nights at home (until Saturday lunchtime), while other boarders make their way home for the weekend.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcs.cambs.sch.uk/about-kings/life-at-kings/boarding |title=Boarding |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=King's College School |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201005122922/http://www.kcs.cambs.sch.uk/about-kings/life-at-kings/boarding |url-status=live |archive-date=5 October 2020 |access-date=5 October 2020}}</ref>


==Houses==
==Houses==

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Not to be confused with King's College, Cambridge.
For the school in Wimbledon, London, see King's College School.

King's College School
Location
Map
West Road

Cambridge
,
Cambridgeshire

England
Information
TypePrivate preparatory day and boarding
Choral foundation school
Religious affiliationChurch of England
Established1441; 584 years ago (1441)
FounderHenry VI of England
Department for Education URN110911 Tables
Chair of GovernorsThe Revd Dr Stephen Cherry
HeadYvette Day
GenderCo-educational
Age4 to 14
Number of students420[1]
Houses Burrells
 Grange
 Queens
 West
Colour Purple
PublicationThe Fleur De Lys (Annual)
Websitewww.kcs.cambs.sch.uk

King's College School is a coeducational private preparatory school for pupils aged 4 to 13 in Cambridge, England, situated on West Road off Grange Road, west of the city centre. It was founded to educate the choristers in the King's College Choir during the 15th century. Although no longer located on College grounds, it remains an integral part of the Chapel's musical tradition and is still governed by and receives some funding from the College. The school is part of the same historic foundation as Eton College. The most recent full integrated Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) inspection awarded the grade of "excellent" in all 9 categories.[2]

History

King's College was founded in 1441 by Henry VI. By 1447 the full complement of 16 choristers had been recruited to sing in the chapel. They were likely educated by a fellow until the appointment of the first Informator Chorustarum (Master over the Choristers) in 1456, Robert Brantham.[3] A Marian visitation of the University in 1557 documented dedicated school rooms, inspecting the 'chorusters chamber and schole' and removing books considered unsuitable.[4]

The location of the demolished brick building that housed the choir school in the 18th century

The school has shifted locations repeatedly from its start. By 1693 it was located in a building to the south-east of the chapel, adjacent to King's Parade.[4] In this year that building was demolished and replaced with what was known as the New Brick Building which continued to house the school through to the nineteenth century.[5][4][3] In the 1820s during the rebuilding by William Wilkins, the brick building and adjoining Provost's Lodge were demolished, opening up a view of the chapel from the street. The outline of the foundations of the brick building can be seen on the lawn during long periods of hot dry weather.[3]

When the Wilkins Building opened in 1828 on the court’s south side, opposite the chapel, it accommodated the school in its rooms.[3] By the 1870s in response to improving musical standards in other English choirs, it was decided to open a boarding house to accommodate choristers from outside Cambridge in order to widen the field from which selection of choristers could take place. This was opened on the current site in West Road in 1878, and by 1880 all 16 choristers were boarders, and there were also 8 non-chorister day pupils, a number that would gradually increase over the coming decades.[3] From 1976 girls were admitted, and as the school expanded, it opened a pre-preparatory department.[6]

Boarding

The boarding programme is open to boys and girls. Year 4 and 5 Choristers are weekly boarders. Year 6 to 8 Choristers are full boarders, with the option to spend Friday nights at home (until Saturday lunchtime), while other boarders make their way home for the weekend.[7]

Houses

Like many British schools, King's uses a house system. This is not a system related to boarding houses, of which there is only one at King's, but one of which pupils are placed into one of four houses, each named after a surrounding road or path. Throughout the year, houses compete in sports and academics, earning merits for good work; these are totaled and averaged each term, and the house with the highest score wins a party.

The school began a link project with a school in Sri Lanka in 2007 initially as a response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, after a visit there by the then headmaster, Nicholas Robinson, but the link quickly went beyond aid and became more of an academic link, with three yearly teacher exchanges and many more exchanges of work between the schools to learn more about each culture. King's often raises funds to help the school, and has sent musical instruments and sports equipment to the school in Sri Lanka as well.[8]

Alumni

Kings College Choristers 1882

Heads

The following headteachers have served since 1878 when the school relocated to its present site in West Road:[11]

  • Vincent Charles Reynell 1878–1887
  • Benjamin Benham 1887–1905
  • Trenham Candy Weatherhead 1905–1912
  • Charles Richard Jelf 1912–1927
  • Cedric Moulton Fiddian 1927–1950
  • Donald George Butters 1950–1958
  • Adam Sebastian Arnold-Brown 1958–1959 (interim)
  • David Briggs 1959–1977
  • Gerald Peacocke 1977–1993
  • Andrew Corbett 1993–1998
  • Nicholas Robinson 1998–2017
  • Tom Hales (acting) 2017[citation needed]
  • Yvette Day 2018–[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ "About King's". King's College School. Archived from the original on 5 October 2020. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  2. ^ "Integrated Inspection King's College School Cambridge" (PDF). Independent Schools Inspectorate. 2014. Archived from the original on 5 October 2020. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d e Henderson, RJ (1981). A History of King's College Choir School Cambridge. ISBN 978-0950752808.
  4. ^ a b c John Gray (1964). "King's College School in 1564" (PDF). Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. LVI–LVII: 88–102.
  5. ^ Robert Willis; John Willis Clark (1886). The architectural history of the University of Cambridge and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton: Volume 3. Cambridge University Press. p. 541.
  6. ^ "History of King's College School". King's College School. Archived from the original on 18 January 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  7. ^ "Boarding". King's College School. Archived from the original on 5 October 2020. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  8. ^ "Sri Lanka Twin Project". King's College School. Archived from the original on 5 October 2020. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  9. ^ Rothman, Philip (23 June 2015). "An interview with Ben Finn, co-founder of Sibelius [Part 1 of 2]". Scoring Notes. Archived from the original on 5 October 2020. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  10. ^ Burton, Andrew (15 May 2014). "Cellist Guy Johnston: "When music works it's magic and speaks to the soul"". Cambridge News. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  11. ^ Page, Anne. "Cambridge, King's College School". Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  12. ^ "King's School announces new Head". King's College, Cambridge. 10 March 2017. Archived from the original on 5 October 2020. Retrieved 5 October 2020.

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