Kim Chopping Photographics - 2013 Kent Street SHS

22nd June, 2013 - Day One - Departed Perth Airport to Kuala Lumpur then London Heathrow Airport

23rd June, 2013 - Day Two - Heathrow Airport

23rd June, 2013 - Day Two - Bus Tour of London to Oxford Street

23rd June, 2013 - Day Two - Oxford Street & Marble Arch

23rd June, 2013 - Day Two - Lords - Net Session & Tour

23rd June, 2013 - Day Two - Wembley Stadium

24th & 25th June, 2013 - Day Three & Four - Repton School

Repton School is a very special place to study. Founded in 1557, our co-educational school is an integral part of the village of Repton in South Derbyshire.

With around 650 pupils aged 13-18 years old, the school is large enough to create a ‘buzz’ but small enough for all to flourish and to know one another. We have ten Boarding houses and all meals are taken within them, further reinforcing the family and caring atmosphere.

Academic work is at the heart of what we do and our overall aim is to allow each pupil to develop his or her potential to the maximum. Each year around 10% of pupils are offered places at either Oxford or Cambridge Universities.

Repton is recognised as one of the top sporting schools in the UK and excels at Hockey, Football, Tennis and Cricket. The School also has very strong Music and Art departments and an outstanding record in Drama. Repton’s education addresses the whole person through a rich balance of the three primary facets of school life: the educational, the pastoral and the co-curricular.

Repton has been a significant place in the world for fifteen hundred years. It has been a seat of Anglo-Saxon kings, the capital of Mercia, a burial place of saints, and a place of worship. Our founder Sir John Port gave for the foundation of Repton in his will. This was not a vanity project, but an earnest wish to leave the world a better place as he departed it. Schools such as Repton enjoy a magnificent Heritage because each successive generation has sought to enrich the School and to make it relevant for that age. Reptonians grow to appreciate that our Heritage is ultimately ambitious and forward-looking.

We celebrate this aspect of our past and likewise, we encourage pupils to think just as much about their legacy as their CV. Each House Competition and whole School event we revisit the spirit in which Reptonians have come together over the decades and centuries to give of their best, to be both competitive rivals and to unite as life-long friends. Our cups and trophies, names of buildings and scholarships remind us of those who have gone before, been generous and are now remembered. This is a sustained and active process as current Reptonians engage in an Anthology project to bring together the words of the great Old Reptonians poets and authors who have preceded them.

On our wall of Old Reptonians Notable in Public Life we record those ORs who can be marked as people of interest and some as role models for the current generation. When we gather together in Lists or on Remembrance Sunday, sing Dear Lord and Father of Mankind, run Steep, train for Barnes Squad and Russell Cup and enjoy Sale of Work there is the unmistakeable frisson of something uniquely Reptonian which looks back reverentially at our past and optimistically for our future. Repton’s heritage now spreads across the world with the growing family of schools which allow all Reptonians to enjoy a truly global perspective in their education.

Old Reptonians are kept in contact with each other and the School through the OR Society. The Repton Foundation supports access and opportunity for a Repton education as well as capital projects which secures the heritage of Repton as a great school of the future.

27th June, 2013 - Day Seven - Stafford

28th & 29th June, 2013 - Day Eight & Nine - Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury School is an English co-educational independent school for pupils aged 13 to 18 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, founded by Edward VI in 1552 by Royal Charter. The present campus, to which the school moved in 1882, is on the banks of the River Severn.

Shrewsbury School is one of the original seven public schools as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868, and one of the 'great' nine identified by the Clarendon Commission of 1861. It was originally a boarding school for boys; girls have been admitted into the Sixth Form since 2008 and there are approximately 130 day pupils. Since 2014 the school has been fully co-educational. Pupils are admitted at the age of 13 by selective examination, and for approximately ten per cent of the pupils, English is a second or additional language. The fees at Shrewsbury are up to £11,680 a term, with three terms per academic year in 2017/2018.

The school's old boys – or "Old Salopians" – include naturalists, poets, academics, politicians, authors, sportsmen, actors, and military figures.

30th June, 2013 - Day Two - Day Nine - Oratory School

The Oratory School came into being on 1st May 1859. It was founded by Blessed John Henry Newman, at the request of a group of eminent Catholic laymen of the time, in order to provide a boarding school for boys run on English public school principles for the small English Catholic community.

THE ORATORY FATHERS

It remained attached to the house of the Oratory Fathers in Birmingham until 1922, when it moved to what is now the BBC Monitoring Station at Caversham Park, Reading. The Fathers of the Birmingham Oratory handed over control of the School to a Governing Body in 1931, but links with the London and Oxford Oratories, as well as with the one at Birmingham, remain strong.

The School made a further move in 1942, to settle finally on its present site at Woodcote, South Oxfordshire, some 40 miles west of London. Over the last sixty years the Governing Body has developed a range of modern buildings in which to house Cardinal Newman’s idea of how to educate the young. The School now educates boys from all religious traditions.

CARDINAL NEWMAN

In the 1850s Cardinal Newman was invited to establish a Catholic university in Dublin. He committed to paper his vision of education at university level in The Idea of a University. However, in setting up The Oratory School, in the day-to-day running of which he was closely involved for its first 30 years, he wrote no treatise on secondary education. The Oratory School is the organically evolving substitute for his ideas on secondary education. As the Catholic community has been absorbed into the mainstream of English society so the School now educates boys from within and outside the Catholic tradition.

In September 2010, thousands of pilgrims travelled from across the world to take part in the open-air Mass of Beatification that took place at Cofton Park, Birmingham. The Oratory School played a prominent role in the official state visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the United Kingdom, during which he beatified the school’s founder, John Henry Cardinal Newman. The School now awaits the official canonization of its Founder.

THE SCHOOL

We embody and practise today our Founder’s spiritual, moral and educational principles, which are just as relevant at the beginning of the twenty-first century as they were when he imbued his School with them. Each individual is to be valued for his own sake; the system should be there to support the needs of the individual, not vice versa. In this way a person’s dignity and sense of self-worth are respected in the way that they should be; as a result they will be more at ease in the society in which they find themselves and more willing to accept the necessary constraints of that society. Furthermore if each individual is regarded as special, then his special needs and gifts will be given proper respect and attention.

The pastoral welfare of the boys in the School, the relationships with their families, the continuing contact with past pupils – all these, therefore, are central to the ethos of Newman’s educational vision.

We are proud to have as our Founder a great Christian thinker, but we are even more proud to be entrusted with his vision for the education of Christian young men to prepare them for the modern world.

1st July, 2013 - Day Ten - Old Trafford - Home of Manchester United

2nd July, 2013 - Day Eleven - Leeds Grammar School

History of The Grammar School at Leeds

In 2018 we are celebrating the first decade of The Grammar School at Leeds. Over the course of the year we will be holding various events to mark this important milestone in the school’s history.

1552-1900

The Grammar School at Leeds origins date back to 1552 when one of the original schools, Leeds Grammar School was founded through a bequest of local industrialist, William Sheafield, to teach and instruct freely …all such younge schollars, youthes and children as shall come and resort to him.

Originally housed in a small building on Vicar Lane, Leeds the school began to expand into purpose built facilities and in 1691, Godfrey Lawson founded the very first library in Leeds, located at the school. Further expansion followed and in 1859 the school relocated to Woodhouse Moor.

Shortly afterwards in 1876 Leeds Girls’ High School was founded to provide poor girls with a quality education; and in 1898 about the same time as Leeds Grammar School expanded its provision to educate junior boys, Leeds Girls’ High School became part of the Grammar School Foundation.

1901-2000

In 1906 Leeds Girls’ High School moved to a new site in Headingley, and in 1925 it too expanded its provision to cater for younger pupils with the opening of Ford House, followed by Rose Court.

In 1997, with ever-increasing land and logistical pressures Leeds Grammar School relocated from Moorland Road to the current site in Alwoodley. For the first time in its history the school enjoyed fully purpose built facilities on a campus of nearly 140 acres.

2001+

Meanwhile Leeds Girls’ High School was experiencing similar pressures and with the ever-changing social and financial landscape the decision to fully merge the schools was taken. In 2005 the schools were legally merged to form The Grammar School at Leeds. Physical merger happened some three years later when the girls finally joined the boys at the present site in Alwoodley, with the Nursery and pre-prep department taking over the original Leeds Girls’ High junior school site at Ford House.

The decision to run on the diamond model principle ensured that the benefits both the schools had enjoyed as single-sex institutions was maintained and further enhanced by the opportunities of co-education. The school continues to evolve with plans in place for the relocation of Rose Court to the site in Alwoodley.