Repton School

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Repton School
Repton Preparatory School
Websitewww.repton.org.uk

Repton School is a 13–18 co-educational, private, boarding and day school in the public school tradition, in Repton, Derbyshire, England.

Sir John Port of Etwall, on his death in 1557, left funds to create a grammar school which was then established at the Repton Priory. For its first 400 years, the school accepted only boys; girls were admitted from the 1970s, and the school was fully co-educational by the 1990s.[4]

Notable alumni, also known as "Old Reptonians", include C. B. Fry, Christopher Isherwood, Jeremy Clarkson, Roald Dahl, Adrian Newey and Archbishop Lord Ramsey of Canterbury.

History

Brass of founder Sir John Port on his tomb in St Helen's parish church, Etwall, Derbyshire

The school was founded by a 1557 legacy in the will of Sir John Port of Etwall, leaving funds for a grammar school at Etwall or Repton, conditional on the students praying daily for the souls of his family:[5]

"And I will that the Scollers of the said Scoole everye mornynge at their comynge to the said Scoole, and also at the after nowne at and upon their departinge from the Schole to pray for my parentes soules, my soule..." - The Will of Sir John Port, 6th June 1557

Through Sir John Port's private endowment, Repton School was set up as a charity school, with early boarding pupils coming from Repton and the neighbouring villages.[6]

The social mix of the early school was very broad. Among the first twenty-two names on the register of Repton there are five gentlemen, four husbandmen, nine yeomen, two websters, or weavers, a carpenter and a tanner. During the 17th century, the school educated the sons of Earl of Chesterfield and Earl of Ardglass, Samuel Shaw, and John Woodward, who was apprenticed as a linen draper before he took up medicine, eventually being appointed Gresham Professor of Physic.[7]

Buildings at the site of Repton Priory were granted for the school in 1559 by Gilbert Thacker. Not long after this, relations between the school and the Thacker family began to deteriorate due to a conflict of interest in accessibility. In 1642, the school commenced an action against the Thacker family, and, in 1670, a wall was built to keep the two parties apart.[8] Within the first hundred years, student body numbers rose to 200, but they had fallen by 1681 to twenty-eight boys.[7]

18th and 19th centuries

lithograph by Hullmandel & Walton

In a letter from George Denman in the 1830s, there was a pupil-conferred role called "Cock of the School" within the pupil body. A boy would be identified as the holder of this office after competing against likely candidates; once a boy was incumbent in this role, the younger boys deferred to him to do his work; writing in 1907, G. S. Messiter described the practice as an "ancient custom."[9]

In 1865, a commission, presided over by the Earl of Taunton investigated all endowed secondary schools in England, including Repton. The Schools Inquiry Commission published its findings in 1868, and the research compiled helped aid the Education Act of 1870.[10]

When public schools were attempting to reform, Repton's headmaster at the time lamented the tension shared tensions from all schools between local boys and boarders, stating that despite a sincere attempt to break down the barriers between them, he had had little success, and a substantial number of applications from "persons of good standing... and good fortune" had been withdrawn when told the boys were "of all classes down to the sons of blacksmiths and washerwomen". Due to this conflict, local village boys stopped attending Repton, which the headmaster at the time said was "mainly for the sake of the village boys... [to mitigate a] constant fear of their being ill-treated."[7][11]

Repton School Chapel

The first Committee of the Headmasters' Conference, appointed in December 1870, included the headmaster of Repton.[7]

In 1858, a chapel was constructed on campus and later opened in 1859.[12]

20th century

Geoffrey Fisher (later to become Archbishop of Canterbury) became headmaster in 1914.[13][14]

Harold Abrahams, joined the school in 1914
Harold Abrahams, pictured here at the 1924 Olympics, joined the school in 1914

Harold Abrahams, the Olympic champion in the 100m sprint in the 1924 Paris Olympics, joined the school in 1914. Recalling his time at the school, Abrahams said he encountered antisemitism from other boys, often feeling bullied and alone.[15]

In 1907, a gymnasium was added. This building is now grade II listed.[16] In this decade, the chapel was enlarged, the Science Block, the Gymnasium, Armoury, Shooting Range and Swimming Bath were built, and the Priory 'Tithe' Barn turned into the Art School.[17]

In the early 1900s, a reforming master,

Alsace-Lorraine, and the Russian Revolution.” Repton was considered one of the first schools to offer civics classes in its curriculum. However, certain staff members opposed these classes, considering them as being radical. When H.J. Snape was invited to address the Civics Class on conservatism, the tension between Gollancz and Snape's opposing beliefs led to a “flaming row between them.” As a result of the affair, the War Office considered withdrawing its recognition of Repton's school Corps. This led to Fisher dismissing Gollancz and retaining Snape; yet, Fisher blamed Snape's misconduct as “a very discreditable campaign of personal abuse and violent language…against Mr. Gollancz.”[18]

In 1917, the writers Christopher Isherwood and Edward Upward began their time at Repton. They formed a friendship which continued when they both attended Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.[19] Around the same time, Arnold Cooke, Bunny Austin, and David Cochrane also attended Repton.

In September 1920, the poet Vernon Watkins was sent to Repton. His gentle character initially provoked bullying in his early years; yet, in a 1923 letter sent from Watkins to Eric Falk, he expressed his fondness for Repton as well as a school crush on poet Rupert Brooke: “I can’t think of anyone except Rupert Brooke.” Upward reflected that “everyone was homosexual, up to a point, at Repton.” While at the school, Watkins was granted the Howe Verse Prize, the Lancelot Sayes Prizes for French & German, and the Schreiber Prize for his writing. Upon his departure, Watkins stated: “Leaving Repton was what I had expected it to be; - a ghastly affair which left me in tears.” The school has claimed him as "perhaps the best poet Repton has had".[20][21]

1,912 former pupils of the school served in the

First World War, of whom 355 died in service.[22] A war memorial was unveiled on major general Sir John Burnett-Stuart, director of military operations and intelligence, and dedicated by Edwyn Hoskyns, Bishop of Southwell on 1 November 1922.[23][24]

In 1924, George Gilbert Stocks, a director of music at the school, set the hymn Dear Lord and Father of Mankind to the tune Repton for use in the school's chapel. He took the melody from Hubert Parry's 1888 contralto aria "Long since in Egypt's plenteous land" in his oratorio Judith.[25]

Roald Dahl gives accounts of his time at Repton in his book 'Boy'
Roald Dahl gives accounts of his time at Repton in his autobiography

The writer Roald Dahl attended in the 1930s. His experiences are related in his semi-autobiographical book Boy, in which he describes his negative experience with physical altercations between students. He later stated that he "couldn't get over it" and has "never got over it."[26] An account of a beating of a boy called Michael, in Roald Dahl's 1984 autobiographical book Boy,[note 1] was attributed by Dahl to Fisher. But Dahl's biographer, Jeremy Treglown, has pointed out he was mistaken: the beating was in May 1933, a year after Fisher had left Repton, and the headmaster concerned was John Christie, Fisher's successor.[28] In his 1984 autobiography, Dahl states that when he was a young fag, he was instructed to warm toilet seats for older boys at the school.[29] He was also, along with other boys at the school, used as a product tester for Cadbury chocolate bars. Dahl claims that this was the inspiration for his book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.[30]

Second World War and after

The headmaster from 1937 to 1943 was

Provost of Birmingham Cathedral.[31] He led the school during one of the most difficult periods of its history, when mounting debts and falling numbers, together with the effects of the war, led to questions as to the continuing viability of the institution; Clarke was obliged to close departments and two houses (The Cross and Latham).[32] The school owed £50,000 (around £3.5 million at today's prices) and, in 1941, the Board of Education said its "future is doubtful".[32]

In 1948, a tablet extension was commissioned for the Derbyshire WWI Memorial in order to include WWII casualties. The extension was inaugurated in a ceremony led on 10 July 1949, unveiled by lieutenant general Sir Charles Gairdner and dedicated by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury.[24]

Numbers attending the school recovered in the late 1940s, such that The Cross was able to reopen in 1945 and Latham House in 1947. By 1957, the school was in better health: full with 470 pupils.[33]

In the Second World War, 188 former members of the school died serving in the armed forces.[34] Airmen were billeted in Mitre House during the war.[35]

1957 saw the 400 year centenary of the school, celebrated with a royal visit from Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. A new chemistry block and workshops were added within the precinct, as well as extensive alterations to the science block. John Gammell took office as headmaster in 1968 and during his tenure girls began to be educated at Repton. It started with the arrival of two girls in 1970. By 1979, the first purpose-built girls' boarding house was opened.[36]

Jeremy Clarkson attended Repton in the 1970s.

naked from the waist down.[41]

In the 1980s, Chris Adams was at the school and subsequently observed, "The ingrained hierarchy whereby the older boys would subject the younger pupils to a lot of misery through the system of fagging. It was basically a system of slavery and I hated seeing the young lads literally trembling with fear".[42]

In the early 1980s, the old Sanatorium was converted into a Music School.[43] Due to increasing numbers of female pupils in the 1990s, headmaster Graham Jones spearheaded the construction of girls' houses. Two boys boarding houses (Brook House and The Hall) were closed and their occupants were reconfigured into a single new house, School House.[44]

21st century

Repton School Business Centre and Gallery, in a former shop

The school marked its 450th anniversary in 2007 with a royal visit from

Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex. Celebrations also included concerts featuring Michael Ball and Bryan Ferry.[45]

In 2011, the 400 Hall theatre (originally built in 1957) was remodelled by

Avery Associates Architects,[46] following a £3.3 million upgrade.[47] In 2013, a £9 million science block was built. During the preparations for the building work, archaeological digs were undertaken which indicated the site had been occupied in the Roman period.[48] Around this time, the old Squash Courts were made into a new gallery and textiles studio for the Art department.[49]

A new teaching block, the Lynam Thomas Building, in the precinct and a major refurbishment programme was being undertaken. In November 2019, Adam Peaty opened a newly redeveloped £6 million sports centre at the school.[50] Alastair Land was headmaster from 2016 to 2019 and was succeeded as headmaster by Mark Semmence. The sport centre building has since been nominated for Excellence in Design by the East Midlands Bricks Awards.[51]

In September 2019, the school began using an AI service called AS Tracking in order to monitor students' mental health. The software was also used in 150 schools, assessing over 50,000 students' wellbeing.[52][53] In November 2019, Libby Lane, Lord Bishop of Derby was appointed visitor of Repton School.[54][55]

Co-curricular

Bunny Austin attended Repton School.

The school has a Combined Cadet Force and a music school, as well as various after-school clubs.[56] All pupils are enrolled in CCF for one year; involvement thereafter is voluntary. Pupils can also choose to participate in the Duke of Edinburgh Award.[57]

Sports

The school competes in various sports. Main sports are: men's football, hockey and cricket; women's hockey, netball and tennis.[58] Repton School has produced more than 150 first-class cricketers, 11 internationals, and three Test captains.[59] Notable sporting former pupils include the 1932 Wimbledon tennis finalist, Bunny Austin, and several first-class cricketers.[60] The Olympic gold medalist and world record holder Adam Peaty used Repton's swimming pool as a training facility. His coach, Melanie Marshall, taught swimming at the school.[61]

In 2013, six former pupils played together in an international hockey match.[62]

In October 2018, Repton announced a complete £6 million renovation of the school's sporting facilities, including a new sports hall and a new strength and conditioning gymnasium.[63] Repton's football team also won The 2018 ISFA Barry Burns Northern Eights Competition.[64][65]

In January 2019, Repton announced Chris Read, former England cricketer, as the school's director of cricket.[66] In 2019, the first all-girls Lord's Taverners "Wicketz Festival", three days of celebration, education and cricket was held at the school.[67][68][69] The U18 girls (outdoor), U16 girls (outdoor and indoor), U16 boys (outdoor), and U14 girls (outdoor) won national titles that same year.[70][71][72]

In February 2020, Repton announced Scott Talbot, former Olympian and coach for the New Zealand and Australian national swim squads, as the school's director of swimming.[73][74]

Fine arts

Repton's art programme currently features two artists-in-residence: visual artist Louisa Chambers, and fine art media specialist Maria Georgoula.[75]

Repton opened their 400 Hall theatre in 1957.[46] In 2011, the theatre reopened after a £3.3 million renovation.[47] A studio theatre was added in 2003 and the complex extended and fully refurbished in 2011 by architect Bryan Avery.[76]

The school has been hosting a literary festival in October for some years.[77] There is an annual Plowright lecture, with the 2020 lecture being on serial killers.[78] One of the students won Ayn Rand Essay Competition prizes in consecutive years.[79] In 2022, this event was branded "a flop", with organisers stating "audience for many of the speakers were woefully small...Everywhere was completely thin. It was such a shame".[80][81]

The school's theatre was used for various performances during a time of closure of a theatre space in the Derby Guildhall, operated by the local authority in Derby.[82]

Houses and pastoral arrangements

Repton School offers traditional boarding only, with no flexi or weekly options available.[83] Approximately 70 per cent of pupils are boarders.[84]

The school also has an on-site tuck shop called 'The Grubber'.[85]

Fees and inspection

In 2019/2020, fees were £36,783 for boarders and £27,207 for day pupils per year.[86]

There are scholarships available for drama, sport, art, music, academic capacity and "all-rounder talent"; these do not exceed 20% of the school's fees.[87] There is also some bursary assistance.[88]

The school is inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate. An integrated inspection took place in March 2014, finding the school to be "exceptionally successful in achieving its aims... the quality of the pupils' achievements is excellent".[89]

An emergency inspection in January 2015 was ordered by the Department for Education reviewing welfare and safeguarding compliance under the Independent School Standard Regulations (ISSRs) and the National Minimum Standards for Boarding (NMSB). The school failed to meet a number of the regulations, namely those dealing with pupil safeguarding; the promotion of good behaviour; suitability of staff and governance, leadership and management of the school.[90]

A regulatory compliance inspection took place in 2018 which found that the school met all of the minimums and associated requirements.[91] The subsequent integrated regulatory compliance and educational quality inspection in 2020 found that Repton met all regulatory compliance standards and was awarded the highest rating in each area.[92]

The old priory

Repton Priory was a 12th-century Augustinian foundation. It was dissolved in 1538. After dissolution, the Thacker family lived at the priory until 1553. One of this family, Gilbert Thacker, destroyed the church, almost entirely in a day; he did this during the time of Queen Mary, fearing the priory would be recommissioned as part of the Counter-Reformation.[93][94]

The School Arch, formerly part of Repton Priory, was moved to its current site in 1906.[95]

Only parts of the original buildings remained when the school was established. These comprised:[95][96] the footings of areas of the priory remain in some areas, uncovered during construction work in 1922; the bases of a cluster of columns of the former chancel and chapels; fragments of an arch belonging to the former pulpitum, moved to their current position in 1906;[95] fragments of the door surrounds of both the chapter house and warming room.[96][97] and largest surviving portion of the priory known as "Prior Overton's Tower", which is post 1437; largely altered, it has been incorporated into a 19th-century building.[98]

  • New House
    New House
  • The Arch
    The Arch
  • The Old Priory and Garth
    The Old Priory and Garth
  • Pears School
    Pears School

Affiliate schools

The school set up Repton International Schools Ltd (RISL) in 2013 to establish, develop and maintain British international schools.[99] The overseas schools are owned and funded by local investors, which can be education businesses, real estate corporates, private equity firms or wealthy philanthropists. They are licensed to use the Repton School "brand" and enter into a services agreement with RISL, which provides a full range of educational services and academic oversight.[100] RISL remits its profits to Repton School Trust in the UK, which helps fund capital projects and bursaries. Repton has partnerships with John Port Spencer Academy, Etwall, and Repton Primary School.[101]

The portfolio of overseas schools comprises:

  • Repton School Dubai (opened in September 2007), situated on a site in Nad al Sheba[102][103]
  • Repton School Abu Dhabi, which has two campuses on Al Reem Island, Abu Dhabi (2013 and 2017)[103][104]
  • Foremarke Dubai (2013), located in Al Barsha South and recently re-branded as Repton Al Barsha[105][106]
  • Repton International School (Malaysia) (2020)[107]
  • Chiway-Repton School, located in Xiamen, Fujian Province, PRC (2020)[108]
  • Repton Cairo opened in September 2020 as part of the Mivida development in New Cairo [108][109]
  • Repton Doha will open in 2021, with Repton New Giza and Repton Sofia to follow in 2023[108][110]

Preparatory school

Repton has a junior school, named Repton Prep, which was founded in 1940.[111]

In early 2020, it was announced that Repton School would be merging with Foremarke Hall School from September 2020 into a single school called Repton Prep.[111] Shortly after, St Wystan's School joined the Repton group of schools.[112]

Culture and cultural references

Alexander Wilson, novelist, a spy and serial bigamist with four wives, lied about being an alumnus of Repton School, which he was not;[113] Fred Perry also lied about having attended Repton School, which he did not do either.[114]

The "Stig" character in Top Gear is said to have been named after the school's pejorative slang term for new boys, a private reference with the producer Andy Wilman, who attended Repton with Clarkson.[115][116][117]

1930s steam locomotive named after the school
1930s steam locomotive named after the school

There is also a steam locomotive called "Repton" named after the school in 1934: Southern Rail, class V, Schools No 926, today based at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.[118]

The school's motto, Porta Vacat Culpa ("the gate is free from blame"), is a quotation from Ovid's Fasti.[119] "The gate" (Porta) refers to the school's arch and, by a synecdoche of pars pro toto, the school itself, whilst also being a pun on the name of the school's founder, Sir John Port.[120][121][122]

The school has twice, in the 1930s and 1980s respectively, represented the fictional Brookfield School in a 1939 film and a 1984 BBC version of Goodbye, Mr. Chips.[123][124] One of the screenwriters of the 1939 film, Eric Maschwitz, attended Repton. Around 200 pupils were extras in the 1939 film.[125] Similarly, pupils appeared as extras in the 1984 BBC version.[citation needed]

Royal visits

The school has had the following royal visits:

Headmasters

Basil Rathbone, an alumnus of the school

Controversies

Fee fixing and gender pay gap

In September 2005, the school was one of fifty independent schools operating

independent school fee-fixing, in breach of the Competition Act, 1998. All of the schools involved were ordered to abandon this practice, pay a nominal penalty of £10,000 each and to make ex-gratia payments totalling three million pounds into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information had been shared.[136][137] The Bursar at the time was Carl Bilson.[138]

Female staff members were paid 56–57% less than their male coworkers at the school in 2018,[139] and 50% less in 2019.[140]

Incidents

In 2014, Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court fined the school £10,000 following a guilty plea to a health and safety charge after an incident of negligence.[141] In April 2019, a teacher tested positive for drink-driving after police saw his vehicle mount a kerb and then enter the school grounds. He was subsequently convicted and banned from driving for 20 months.[142] Two months later a chemical spillage at the school's sports centre resulted in nine individuals needing precautionary treatment, as a result of a chlorine leak.[143]

In the summer of 2023, a 14-year-old girl died on the school campus at an event organised by Christians in Sport, a third-party religious group.[144][145][146]

Sexual abuse

The Charity Commission expressed "serious concerns" about safeguarding in 2018 after it received a sequence of serious incident reports from Repton School early in that year, specifically:[147]

  • In December 2014, a former head of physics, John Mitchell, was found to have abused a position of trust contrary to s.16(1)(a) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 when he engaged in sexual activity with a female between the age of 13 and 17, not believing that she was 18 or over. He also communicated in a sexual way and with sexual motivations to this same pupil. He was disqualified from teaching indefinitely by the National College for Teaching and Leadership, following a finding that this was unacceptable professional conduct.[148]
  • In October 2017, a former pupil began proceedings against the school, claiming negligence on the school's part, in connection with an alleged rape of that pupil by another pupil in 2014. A 17-year-old pupil was arrested on suspicion of carrying out two rapes at the school;[149] it was claimed that the school failed to supervise or discipline its pupil. The claimant made a request of the Derbyshire Constabulary for the papers from its investigation, which the police refused to provide without a court order.[150]
  • In 2018, four members of the school's staff were subject to police investigation for inappropriate sexual conduct towards children. In August 2018, one of these individuals, Jeremy Woodside, a 28-year-old former organist at the school, was placed on the Sex Offender's Register.[151][152] The chronology of those issues emerging in early 2018 was as follows:
    • On 29 January 2018, police arrested a member of staff on suspicion of attempting sexual contact with a child[153]
    • On 14 March 2018, a second police investigation into a staff member, relating to safeguarding concerns, was launched[154]
    • On 26 March 2018, allegations against a further two members of staff were reported[155]
  • In February 2022, a former teacher at the school, Simon Clague, pleaded guilty to multiple indictments for indecent assault and gross indecency with three pupils. All of the victims were under 16 at the time of the offending, which took place at the school in the 1990s;[156][157][158] his trial was repeatedly delayed because of COVID-19.[159] He was later, in July 2023, banned from teaching.[160] In September 2023, three former pupils of the school sued following the criminal conviction of Clague.[161][162] Victim Impact statements in this civil action highlighted 'irreversable damage' caused by his crimes, referring to 'stolen innocence'; one victim said they were manipulated into having a sexual relationship with Clague - and that the school 'knew and brushed it under the carpet'.[163]

Resignation of three governors over safeguarding

In September 2022, 3 governors resigned en bloc over safeguarding issues at the school; these were additional safeguarding issues to those set out above that came to light after the jailing of Simon Clague.[164]

Criminal barrister of the

Queen's Police Medal) were identified in press reports as the three governors who quit their roles. Ms Fish's resignation letter to the chairman of the governors, Mark Shires, said the decision to allow the teacher to remain in post means the school had not taken seriously:

"an appalling catalogue [of alleged past misconduct and it was therefore the case that].... safeguarding of pupils past, present and future is now in jeopardy and lacks credibility’.[165]

Notable alumni

Main article: List of Old Reptonians
See also: Category:People educated at Repton School

Alumni of Repton School are known as Old Reptonians.

They include:

Notable former masters

A number of headmasters of Repton went on to senior Church of England positions in the 20th century.

Coat of arms and flag

The school's arms are three eaglets holding a "cross formy fitcy or".[11][172]

Partnerships

Adam Peaty attended Repton School after his talent was identified

In May 2016, the school made

speed gun enforcement.[174]

During the 2020

Coronavirus pandemic the school's DT department made PPE for key NHS workers.[175]

Repton School and Repton village combine every year for a charity event known as Sale of Work. Funds raised are distributed to a range of local and national charities chosen by representatives of both communities.[176]

See also

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Notes

  1. ^ "... he was ordered to take down his trousers and kneel on the headmaster's sofa with the top half of his body hanging over one end of the sofa. The great man then gave him one terrific crack. After that there was a pause. The cane was put down and the headmaster began filling his pipe from a tin of tobacco. He also started to lecture the kneeling boy about sin and wrongdoing. Soon, the cane was picked up again and a second tremendous crack was administered upon the trembling buttocks. Then the pipe-filling business and the lecture went on for maybe 30 seconds. Then came the third crack of the cane ... At the end of it all, a basin, a sponge and a small clean towel were produced by the headmaster, and the victim was told to wash away the blood before pulling up his trousers."[27]

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