The Codrington School began in 1917 as a
boarding school
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. However, in the late-90s it closed and the buildings lay empty for some years. The present Codrington School began its life, in the renovated buildings, in September 2002, with just eight children. By the beginning of the 2008–2009 school year this number had risen to 132 children. In June 2012, the Codrington School celebrated its first IB Diploma Programme graduation class. Since then the programme has gradually expanded and the school has graduating classes accepting University places all around the world.
The school buildings are set in three acres of wooded grounds, which include gardens and shady
mahogany
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trees that are more than a century old, as well as a large
sports field and specialist facilities for art, science, ICT, music and drama. It has a small, but rapidly growing,
library. In the spring of 2007, the Parents and Friends Association donated an air-conditioned ICT lab, fully equipped with
computer
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s, to the school. The school has an outdoor canteen as well as several newly refurbished modern language suites.
The professional staff is headed by a career international school administrator, who joined the school in 2012, and boasts well-qualified teachers from 17 different countries.
The
student body represents 30 different nationalities, including Barbadian (25%), British (17%) and US citizens (15%). Other nationalities represented include: German, Japanese, French, Venezuelan, Guatemalan and Canadian. It teaches gifted students from grades 4 to 8.
The school, whose
academic year
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School holiday
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runs from September to July, offers students the opportunity of studying to the highest levels of national and international excellence. It is an
IB World School, authorized to offer three IB programmes - The Primary Years Programme (PYP), Middle Years Programme (MYP) and the Diploma Programme (DP). All children in the
primary school study Spanish from the age of seven and students in the upper years may opt to do both French or Spanish.
The school has a broad
enrichment
Enrichment may refer to:
* Behavioral enrichment, the practice of providing animals under managed care with stimuli such as natural and artificial objects
* Data enrichment, appending or enhancing data with relevant context from other sources, se ...
programme, which includes art club,
chess,
choir,
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
,
drama,
fencing,
foreign languages,
instrumental music,
karate
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,
rugby
Rugby may refer to:
Sport
* Rugby football in many forms:
** Rugby league: 13 players per side
*** Masters Rugby League
*** Mod league
*** Rugby league nines
*** Rugby league sevens
*** Touch (sport)
*** Wheelchair rugby league
** Rugby union: 1 ...
,
Scrabble,
scuba diving,
soccer
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
,
surfing
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and
tennis. All children through the age of thirteen have
swimming lessons as part of the regular curriculum.
See also
*
List of schools in Barbados
*
Codrington Plantations
*
Codrington College
*
The Lodge School
The Lodge School is a co-educational government secondary school in Saint John, Barbados, established in 1745. The school has closed and reopened four times, and has been known as Codrington College, The College, The Mansion School, the Codrington ...
References
External links
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Schools in Barbados
Saint John, Barbados
International Baccalaureate schools
2002 establishments in Barbados
Educational institutions established in 2002
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