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day and boarding school in
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, England. The school is
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and educates over 1,000 children aged 9 months to 18 years. It was founded by
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, the founder of
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, in 1748, and is the world's oldest Methodist educational institution. The school was established to provide an education for the sons of colliers and Methodist ministers. It owns the Kingswood Preparatory School, the Upper and Middle Playing Fields and a number of other buildings.


History

Kingswood School was founded by
John Wesley John Wesley (; 2 March 1791) was an English cleric, theologian, and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent Meth ...
in 1748 in Kingswood (then known as King's Wood) near Bristol as a school for the children of the local colliers. The ministers in the early
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were
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and the school started to accept their children as boarders. Eventually the ministers' sons became the whole establishment, along with a few non-boarding local girls. After Wesley's death, Rev Joseph Bradford was appointed as the first governor in 1795. Woodhouse Grove School was founded in 1812 and was linked with Kingswood as a prep school for much of the nineteenth century. Created in 1995, Kingswood Prep School had 300 pupils in 2010. In 2010, the number of students attending the Kingswood School campus between the ages of 9 months and 18 was 960. The 1862 book ''How it was done at Stow School'' written by Theophilus Woolmer seems to have been based upon the author's own experiences at Kingswood (rather than
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which was not yet established) under the notorious headmaster Crowther, who enforced harsh discipline in the school in the 1820s. The school moved to its present site on the northern slopes of Bath in 1851. It is in the midst of of the former Lansdown estate of the nineteenth-century millionaire eccentric,
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. The Upper Playing Fields, comprising some 57 acres, are to the north of the senior school and include an athletics track and tennis and netball courts. Sons of lay people were first admitted to the school in 1922. During
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the Kingswood buildings were requisitioned by the government and used by the
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for military planning purposes. The school was evacuated to
Uppingham School Uppingham School is a public school (English independent day and boarding school for pupils 13-18) in Uppingham, Rutland, England, founded in 1584 by Robert Johnson, the Archdeacon of Leicester, who also established Oakham School. The headma ...
in the East Midlands and continued to function there. The Mulberry harbours used on D-day for the landing on the Normandy beaches were designed at the school and for many years it was thought that they were named after the
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that still stands at the front of the school, whereas Mulberry was simply the next code word on a list. The Moulton Hall was named after ex-pupil Lord Moulton but was remodelled as a library/learning resources area in 2006, and is now called the J O Heap library following a generous bequest from another ex-pupil. During World War II the younger boys were moved to Prior's Court, an estate owned by Colonel Gerald Palmer, MP for Winchester. After the war the estate was purchased from Colonel Palmer and run as a Preparatory School until it was sold in 1997. A small number of boys (around six) started in the Junior house (Westwood) before the war, moved to Prior's Court on the outbreak of war, on to Uppingham and finally back to Kingswood at the war's end. In memory of the event a stone was taken from the Kingswood library, engraved and set in the Uppingham buildings. An Uppingham stone was likewise sent to Kingswood and incorporated in the library wall. The inscriptions on the stones are shown in the accompanying boxes. Some girls were admitted to the Bristol site in the early days before the school became boarding-only. Girls were admitted to the school in its current form from 1972.


Organisation

Kingswood pupils are divided into boarding houses for both living convenience and sporting competitiveness. Each boys' house is paired with a girls' house (Upper with School, Hall with Fonthill and Middle with Summerhill). This is mainly for social events and unisex sports fixtures (e.g. sports day). Pupils enter one of six houses in Year 9: Boys * Upper (day boys), house colours are yellow and black. * Middle (day and boarding boys), house colours are green and white. * Hall (day and boarding boys), house colour is maroon. Girls * School (day girls, no longer sixth form boarding), house colours are yellow and pink. * Summerhill (day and boarding girls), house colour is blue. * Fonthill (day and boarding girls), house colour is red. Junior House * Westwood (day and boarding for boys & girls in years 7 and 8), the largest house with approximately 170-day children and 30 boarders.
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attendance is compulsory at least once a week.


Music

Kingswood School also has a Music Department, providing students with the opportunity to be part of numerous choirs, orchestras, bands and ensembles, including Westwood Voices, Westwood Orchestra, Senior Choir, Chamber Choir, Westwood Orchestra, Brass Ensemble, String Group and Clarinet Group. The school Jazz Band, "KJO" (Kingswood Jazz Orchestra), performs on the first night of
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in Bath's Green Park Station. Visiting music teachers offer tuition in a range of instruments, and the school provides opportunities for pupils to perform individually in regular informal lunchtime and teatime concerts, as well as in ensembles in the larger Christmas and Spring Concerts. The school also has 15–20 music scholars who contribute to the musical life of the school and perform in an annual concert in January. The composer John Sykes was a teacher at the school from 1936, and was Director of Music from 1952 until his death ten years later. The school holds his manuscripts in the John Sykes Archive.


Kingswood Theatre

Used by the school during term time and available for hire during school holidays, Kingswood Theatre is on the site of the senior school. The theatre was officially opened in 1994 by Sir
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and completed a partial refurbishment in 2010. The theatre has 366 seats with a capacity of 450. The theatre has been used by BBC '' Question Time'' on a number of occasions.


Model United Nations

Kingswood hosts an annual international
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conference, known as the Bath International Schools Model United Nations (BISMUN). Delegates attend from schools worldwide to engage in debates around a range of pressing international issues.


Eco-schools

The School has implemented a number of projects to promote the importance of the environment and reduce waste at the school. The School is currently in the process of planting of many new trees and are planning a new energy system using solar and wind power. Kingswood was one of the first schools in the area to adopt the Eco-schools project and be awarded its Green Flag. It has since begun outreach work with other local schools, including Batheaston Junior School. The school was awarded its third Green Flag in 2010.


Kingswood-Oxford School

George Nicholson, an alumnus of Kingswood School, Bath, established a school for boys of the same name in
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in 1916. This new institution inherited some of the traditions of its counterpart in Bath, including the School's crest, motto, colors and distinctive symbol, the Wyvern. In 1969 the school merged with the Oxford School for girls into the new
Kingswood-Oxford School Kingswood Oxford School is a private school located in West Hartford, Connecticut instructing day students in grades 6 through 12 with a college preparatory curriculum. Originally two separate schools, Kingswood School and Oxford School for boys ...
.


Kingswood College, Grahamstown

Kingswood College in
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,
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, was founded in 1894 and derives its name and ideals from Kingswood school in Bath. They also use the same distinctive Wyvern crest and abide by the same Methodist ethos.


Notable staff

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Thomas Hennell Thomas Hennell (16 April 1903 – 1945) was a British artist and writer who specialised in illustrations and essays on the subject of the British countryside. He was an official war artist during the Second World War and was killed while ser ...
(artist and writer)


Notable alumni

See also: :People educated at Kingswood School, Bath Former students of Kingswood School are known as old Kingswoodians. Notable former students include: * Kenneth Beard (organist) * David Blow (British
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) *
Jeremy Bray Jeremy William Bray (29 June 193031 May 2002) was a British Labour politician and a Member of Parliament for 31 years. Early life and education Bray was born in British Hong Kong, the son of Reverend Arthur Bray, a Methodist missionary. He ...
(British Labour politician, former Government Minister and Member of Parliament) *
Archie Bronson Outfit Archie Bronson Outfit are an English rock band. They met at Kingswood School, Bath. After leaving their native Somerset, the band moved to London where they were discovered by Laurence Bell, boss of Domino Records. The band were playing in ...
(English rock band) * Sir Ralph Kilner Brown OBE (High Court judge 1970–1985, Brigadier) * William Maclardie Bunting (hymn composer) * Sir John Burnett FRSE (former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh) *
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(theatre set designer) * Professor Hugh Clegg (industrial relations scholar) * Richard Cork (art historian and broadcaster) *Sir
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(Air Chief Marshal, Air Officer Commander-in-Chief Bomber Command) * R.N. Currey (poet) *
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(actor, singer and composer) *
Hugh Sykes Davies Hugh Sykes Davies (17 August 1909 – 6 June 1984)Arthur Lee Dixon Arthur Lee Dixon FRS (27 November 1867 — 20 February 1955) was a British mathematician and holder of the Waynflete Professorship of Pure Mathematics at the University of Oxford. Early life and education Dixon was born on 27 November 1867 i ...
(mathematician and academic) *
Alan Fitch Ernest Alan Fitch (10 March 1915 – 7 August 1985) was a British Labour Party politician. Fitch was educated at Kingswood School, Bath (1927–1932), and was a mineworker. He represented mineworkers on the executive committee of the Lancashi ...
(Labour politician) * Rev Joseph Horner Fletcher (founding Principal Wesley College, Auckland and President,
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) *
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(philosopher) *Sir Richard Foster (museum director) * William Ralph Boyce Gibson (Australian philosopher) * Vice Admiral Sir Paul Haddacks (
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of the
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) * Daisy Head (actress) * Emily Head (actress) *Surgeon Rear-Admiral Sir John Holford (Royal Navy Medical Officer) *
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( BBC Mastermind Champion 2010, World Quiz Champion 2012) * William George Horner (mathematician, headmaster) * Lynton Lamb (Illustrator) *
Nicholas Le Prevost Nicholas Le Prevost (born 18 March 1947) is an English actor. Early life Le Prevost was born in Wiltshire. He was educated at Shaftesbury Grammar School, Shaftesbury, Dorset from 1957 to 1961 and at Kingswood School, Bath from 1961 to 19 ...
, actor *
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, television Journalist *
Arthur Lucas Arthur Lucas (December 18, 1907 - December 11, 1962), originally from the U.S. state of Georgia, was one of the last two people to be executed in Canada, on 11 December 1962. Lucas had been convicted of the murder of 44-year-old Therland Crater ...
(headmaster
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and
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, and Professor of Mathematics
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) * Francis Sowerby Macaulay (mathematician) * Alexander McAulay (mathematician and physicist) * Rev James Egan Moulton (founding headmaster
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and
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, and President, Newington College) *
John Fletcher Moulton John Fletcher Moulton, Baron Moulton, (18 November 1844 – 9 March 1921) was an English mathematician, barrister, judge and Liberal politician. He was a Cambridge Apostle. Early life Moulton was born in Madeley, Shropshire, England, as ...
(politician, weapon designer, Lord Justice) * Sir Robert William Perks, 1st Baronet, Liberal Member of Parliament * George Perry-Smith (restaurateur) * Rev Dr Charles Prescott (founding headmaster Wesleyan Ladies College, and headmaster and President,
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) * Roger Saul (founder of the fashion brand
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) * Gilbert Granville Sharp, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana (1960–1962) *
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(German Methodist bishop) * E.P. Thompson (Marxist historian and peace activist, author of ''
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'' (1963), co-founder of the scholarly journals '' Past and Present'' and ''
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'') * J.O. Urmson (philosopher and classicist) * Jabez Waterhouse (Methodist legislator in Australia) * George Waterhouse (Premier of New Zealand 1872–1873, Premier of South Australia 1861–1863) * Joseph Waterhouse (Methodist minister and missionary in Fiji) *
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(scholar, translator, headmaster of Wesley College Melbourne) * Thomas Ebenezer Webb (author, translator, fellow of Trinity College Dublin) *
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(director of the
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from 1977 to 1992) *
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(schoolmaster and educationalist) * Jane Tranter (former Head of Drama, Comedy and Film at the BBC) *
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Victoria Cross holders

Two Old Kingswoodians have been awarded the
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: *
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(1863–1903) Staff Surgeon,
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*
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(1897–1917) Second Lieutenant, The Gloucestershire Regiment


See also

*
Robson Fisher Francis George ''Robson'' Fisher (9 April 1921 – 26 January 2000) was a British educationalist and headmaster. Robson Fisher, as he was generally known, attended Liverpool College, where he became head boy. He won an exhibition in Classics ...
, a master at the school who went on to be headmaster of
Bryanston School Bryanston School is a public school (English independent day and boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) located next to the village of Bryanston, and near the town of Blandford Forum, in Dorset in South West England. It was founded in 1928. ...
* Thomas Ferens, politician, philanthropist and industrialist who donated £30,000 to the school in 1924 *
Katherine Jenkins Katherine Maria Jenkins (born 29 June 1980) is a Welsh singer. She is a mezzo-soprano and performs operatic arias, popular songs, musical theatre, and hymns.


Literature

*Hastling, A.H.L.; W. Addington Willis; W.P. Workman, ''The History of Kingswood School'' (1898) *A. G. Ives, ''Kingswood School in Wesley's Day and Since'' (1970) *John Walsh (ed.), ''A.B. Sackett: A Memoir'' (1979) *Gary Best, ''Continuity and Change, Kingswood School through the Ages'' (1998)


References


External links

*
Profile
on the
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