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Brambletye School
Location
Map
East Grinstead
,
West Sussex
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RH19 3PD

England
Information
TypePreparatory day and boarding
Religious affiliation(s)Church of England
Established1919
Department for Education URN126150 Tables
HeadmasterMr Will Brooks
GenderCoeducational
Age2 to 13
Enrollmentc265
HousesNelson, Wellington, Drake, Malborough
Colour(s)Pink, Black and Grey
Former pupilsOld Brambletyeans
Websitehttp://www.brambletye.co.uk/

Brambletye School is a coeducational day and boarding preparatory school in East Grinstead, West Sussex, England. Originally founded as a small boys' boarding school in Kent between the World Wars, it moved to West Sussex and has since become coeducational.

The School House viewed from the south

History

Brambletye was founded at Sidcup Place, Kent in 1919.[1] It moved to its present location in the Sussex countryside on the southern outskirts of East Grinstead in 1933. The main school building, which is in its own wooded estate of 140 acres, overlooks the Ashdown Forest and Weir Wood Reservoir. Brambletye was originally built in 1896 by Donald Lanarch, former Director of the Bank of New South Wales, as his country retreat.[2] The school became a charitable trust in 1969[3] with a board of Governors. In September 1986, the first girl was admitted and the school is now completely coeducational.

Recent building developments have included a seven classroom block,[4] a purpose built arts centre including a 270 seat theatre, a sports hall, a Pre-Prep building and the redevelopment of the science laboratories. The Blencowe Centre won the Downland Prize for Architecture, Education, (joint winner) in 2010.[5]

The Brambletye School Trust, a registered charity,[3] created legal precedent in the UK with a Value Added Tax ruling.[6]

Academics

Pupils may join the Nursery class at the age of two before moving to Reception at four and to the Preparatory Department at seven (Year 3). Brambletye prepares children at thirteen for transfer to a range of senior schools including:

Pupils gain entrance to their senior school through Common Entrance 13+ or Scholarship. In addition to the examined subjects at Common Entrance, pupils study Art, Music, Design Technology, PSHE, ICT and Drama. Pupils can be put forward for Scholarships at their senior school in Art, Music, Drama and Sport as well as for Academic performance.

Facilities

Brambletye School
1st Team Cricket on the Top Field [1]

The school has a purpose built Pre-Prep Department, 270-seat theatre, modern science laboratories, library and ICT suite as well as classrooms equipped with interactive whiteboards throughout.

Sports facilities include a sports hall, tennis and netball courts, squash courts, a swimming pool, a golf course and playing fields. In addition to the major sports which are football, rugby and cricket for the boys and hockey, netball and rounders for the girls, pupils also train and compete in a variety of other sports including show jumping, fencing, squash and sailing.

Notable alumni

References

  1. ^ "School History". Retrieved 9 December 2010.[non-primary source needed]
  2. ^ Walsh, G. P. Larnach, Donald (1817–1896). Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
  3. ^ a b "Brambletye School, registered charity no. 307003". Charity Commission for England and Wales.
  4. ^ "Brambletye School, new classrooms, Michael McKechnie". www.thisissussex.co.uk. 5 November 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2012. Past pupils chipped in to provide the next generation with new classrooms at Brambletye School. A block of seven new classrooms was opened this summer with the help of money raised from old boys and girls and current parents.
  5. ^ Downland. "Downland Prize 2010". RIBA. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
  6. ^ "House of Lords - Principal and Fellows of Newnham College in the University of Cambridge (Respondents) v Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (Appellants)". House of Lords. pp. section 26. Retrieved 19 May 2012. The Commissioners relied upon an earlier decision of the Tribunal in Brambletye School Trust Ltd v Commissioners of Customs and Excise (2002) VAT Decision 17688. This concerned a somewhat similar scheme used in connection with the construction of a new sports hall for a preparatory school. The Tribunal found that the school was in occupation of the hall because whenever the children used the hall, they were under the supervision of teachers employed by the school. It was the teachers who exercised control over the premises.
  7. ^ Moss, Michael S. "Nigel Broackes". Oxford Dictional of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 14 March 2013. Nigel was sent at first to Brambletye School in Sussex and then to Stowe School.
  8. ^ "Brambletye School - Senior Verse Speaking Competition". Brambletye School. 26 November 2009. Retrieved 14 March 2013. Mr Fowler-Watt reminded us that many professional actors first 'cut their teeth' on the Brambletye stage, including Benedict Cumberbatch and alternative comedian Will Adams Dale.[non-primary source needed]
  9. ^ Shirley, John (18 September 2007). "Obituary: Major General Sir Jeremy Moore - UK news - The Guardian". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 May 2012. Moore was born the son of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Percival Moore, MC, and his wife Alice (née Bibby). He was educated at Brambletye school, East Grinstead, and Cheltenham college, and joined the Royal Marines in 1947, straight from school.
  10. ^ "Wace, Nigel Morritt - biography". Australian National Herbarium. Retrieved 19 May 2012. He was the only son of Sir Blyth Wace, Commissioner and Secretary to the Government of the Punjab. The family claims descent from Wace, the 12th-century Jerseyman andchronicler of the House of Normandy. Young Nigel attended Brambletye School in Sussex before going to Sheikh Bagh preparatory school in Kashmir, where a strong emphasis on outdoor activities left him, he said, with "a continuing delight and inquisitive interest indifferent sorts of landscape and people".
  11. ^ "WWII bomber poet David Raikes is finally laid to rest". BBC News. Retrieved 2016-02-25.

Boarding Brambletye pupils have the choice of being a day pupil, a day boarder (flexy boarding) or being a full boarder.

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