Ewell Castle School
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Ewell Castle School is a British independent
day school for boys aged 3 to 18 and girls aged 3 – 11.
Founded in 1926 by Mr H Budgell originally as a boarding school, it is located in Ewell
, Surrey
. The school consists of the Main House (affectionately known by Ewellians as 'The Castle'), Glyn House and Chessington Lodge.
Headteachers are Mr M Holder-Williams (MA) of the Senior School, Mrs HM Crossley (MA) of the Junior School and Mr AJ Tibble (BSc) who is Principal.
The school was last inspected in 2007.
whose works in the Gothic Revival style include Fonthill Abbey and Ashridge. Kitchen's design with its multi-facetted Tudor-inspired turrets, pronounced string courses and crenulations is stylistically similar to nearby Nonsuch Mansion, which was built between 1802 and 1806 for Samuel Farmer by Jeffry Wyatt
, the nephew of Kitchen’s previous master. In 1816 Kitchen emigrated to the colony of New South Wales where he died from an unknown illness in 1822.
Glyn House, formerly the rectory of St. Mary's Church, was designed by Henry Deusbury in 1838 and paid for by George Glyn. The site is now home to Ewell Castle's Music department and some of the Junior School.
Most of the junior school is located at Chessington Lodge in Spring Street.
The shirt changes colour as the boy moves up the school: Blue for pupils in the Junior School right up to Lower Fourth, and white for pupils in Upper Fourth right up to Sixth Form.
During the Sixth Form students are required to wear a charcoal grey suit.
, Ewell and Banstead
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, tennis
and cricket
pitches. There are also cricket nets and athletics facilities. The school has a large, modern, multi-purpose Sports Hall complex that incorporates a multi-activity fitness suite.
Sporting fixtures are played in a wide range of sports against other independent schools such as Charterhouse
, City of London Freemen's School
, Halliford School
, Eton
, King's College School
, St. James' School
and The Oratory School
.
Independent school (UK)
An independent school is a school that is not financed through the taxation system by local or national government and is instead funded by private sources, predominantly in the form of tuition charges, gifts and long-term charitable endowments, and so is not subject to the conditions imposed by...
day school for boys aged 3 to 18 and girls aged 3 – 11.
Founded in 1926 by Mr H Budgell originally as a boarding school, it is located in Ewell
Ewell
Ewell is a village in the borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, close to the southern boundary of Greater London. It is located 14 miles south-south-west of Charing Cross and forms part of the suburbia that surrounds Greater London. Despite its growing population it is still referred to as a...
, Surrey
Surrey
Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...
. The school consists of the Main House (affectionately known by Ewellians as 'The Castle'), Glyn House and Chessington Lodge.
Headteachers are Mr M Holder-Williams (MA) of the Senior School, Mrs HM Crossley (MA) of the Junior School and Mr AJ Tibble (BSc) who is Principal.
The school was last inspected in 2007.
History
Situated in the village of Ewell, Surrey, the main 15 acres (60,702.9 m²) site was once part of the Nonsuch Palace Estate built by Henry VIII. The main school is housed in a castellated mansion in Church Street. The mansion was built in 1814 to a design by the young architect Henry Kitchen (b.1793), formerly a student of the prominent Architect James WyattJames Wyatt
James Wyatt RA , was an English architect, a rival of Robert Adam in the neoclassical style, who far outdid Adam in his work in the neo-Gothic style.-Early classical career:...
whose works in the Gothic Revival style include Fonthill Abbey and Ashridge. Kitchen's design with its multi-facetted Tudor-inspired turrets, pronounced string courses and crenulations is stylistically similar to nearby Nonsuch Mansion, which was built between 1802 and 1806 for Samuel Farmer by Jeffry Wyatt
Jeffry Wyattville
Sir Jeffry Wyattville was an English architect and garden designer. His original surname was Wyatt, and his name is sometimes also written as Jeffrey and his surname as Wyatville; he changed his name in 1824.He was trained by his uncles Samuel Wyatt and James Wyatt, who were both leading architects...
, the nephew of Kitchen’s previous master. In 1816 Kitchen emigrated to the colony of New South Wales where he died from an unknown illness in 1822.
Glyn House, formerly the rectory of St. Mary's Church, was designed by Henry Deusbury in 1838 and paid for by George Glyn. The site is now home to Ewell Castle's Music department and some of the Junior School.
Most of the junior school is located at Chessington Lodge in Spring Street.
Tutors and teaching
The pupil to teacher ratio is around 11:1 which is low by general school standards. Class sizes start at around twenty to twenty-five in the first year and are often below ten by the Sixth Form.Houses
The school has three Houses: Castlemaine, Raleigh and Essex (colours Gold, Blue and Red respectively). Pupils are assigned to a House as they start at the school, which they stay in throughout their school career. If a sibling of a Ewellian pupil were to join the school, they would be assigned to the same house.Uniform
The school's uniform in the Senior School consists of a blue blazer with red piping and crest, a red and blue striped tie (varitations of this are awarded for house/school colours or prefect status), shirt and charcoal trousers.The shirt changes colour as the boy moves up the school: Blue for pupils in the Junior School right up to Lower Fourth, and white for pupils in Upper Fourth right up to Sixth Form.
During the Sixth Form students are required to wear a charcoal grey suit.
Societies
At Ewell, there are dozens of organisations known as societies, in many of which pupils come together to discuss a particular topic, presided over by a master. The clubs range from Design and Sciences to Sports and recreation (e.g. Sailing, Duke of Edinburgh Award). In late 2008 a team from the school won first prize in the EpsomEpsom
Epsom is a town in the borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, England. Small parts of Epsom are in the Borough of Reigate and Banstead. The town is located south-south-west of Charing Cross, within the Greater London Urban Area. The town lies on the chalk downland of Epsom Downs.-History:Epsom lies...
, Ewell and Banstead
Banstead
Banstead is a town in the borough of Reigate and Banstead in the county of Surrey, England, on the border with Greater London. It lies south of London, west of Croydon and of the county town of Kingston-Upon-Thames. Banstead is on the North Downs and is protected by the Metropolitan Green Belt;...
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Incentives and sanctions
Ewell has a well-established system for encouraging boys to produce a high standard of work. An excellent piece of work may be rewarded with a Merit, to be shown to the boy's tutors as evidence of progress.Sports
The School has a very strong sporting reputation and the impressive grounds include rugbyRugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
, tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
and cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
pitches. There are also cricket nets and athletics facilities. The school has a large, modern, multi-purpose Sports Hall complex that incorporates a multi-activity fitness suite.
Sporting fixtures are played in a wide range of sports against other independent schools such as Charterhouse
Charterhouse School
Charterhouse School, originally The Hospital of King James and Thomas Sutton in Charterhouse, or more simply Charterhouse or House, is an English collegiate independent boarding school situated at Godalming in Surrey.Founded by Thomas Sutton in London in 1611 on the site of the old Carthusian...
, City of London Freemen's School
City of London Freemen's School
City of London Freemen's School is a coeducational independent school for day and boarding pupils, located at Ashtead Park in Surrey, England. It is the sister school of the City of London School and the City of London School for Girls, which are both independent single-sex schools located within...
, Halliford School
Halliford school
Halliford school is a selective and independent day school for boys and sixth form girls, located in Shepperton, Surrey. Halliford sixth-form has only recently become co-educational. The school was founded in 1921 and the main building is a fine Georgian House set in ten acres beside the Thames...
, Eton
Eton College
Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"....
, King's College School
King's College School
King's College School, commonly referred to as KCS, King's, or KCS Wimbledon, is an independent school for day pupils in Wimbledon in south-west London. The school was founded as the junior department of King's College London and occupied part of its premises in Strand, before relocating to...
, St. James' School
St. James' School
Other meanings, see Saint James SchoolSt James' School, Kolkata, India, is a CNI school, and one of the oldest private schools in India. It is associated with the ICSE Board of Education. It was established in 1864 by Bishop Cotton....
and The Oratory School
The Oratory School
The Oratory School is a Roman Catholic, independent school for boys in Woodcote, Berkshire. It is the last Catholic all-boys boarding school remaining in Great Britain. It has approximately 420 pupils...
.
Music
The school boasts an entire lower floor of Glyn House devoted to the schools many bands, choirs and solo artists. New equipment and soundproof rooms means music now plays an increasing role at Ewell.Drama
Plays are put on every year at Ewell Castle. The school play in the winter term is normally fully booked every night, such is its reputation.Notable former pupils
- George AtkinsonGeorge Atkinson (climber)George Atkinson is a British climber from Surbiton. At the age of sixteen he became the youngest ever person to complete the Seven Summits Challenge by climbing to the summit of the highest mountain on each of seven continents. He completed the challenge at 08:15 local time on 26 May 2011 when...
, Youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest - Matthew KiddMatthew KiddMatthew Kidd is a freestyle swimmer from Great Britain.Matthew competed in the 100 metre freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, finishing 23rd fastest overall. He combined with the British squad to place 8th in the 4×100 metre medley relay final in a time of 3 minutes 37.77 seconds...
, Olympic swimmer and silver medalist at the Commonwealth Games - John LevyJohn LevyJohn Levy is an African-American jazz double-bassist and businessman.In 1944, Levy left his hometown of Chicago, Illinois, and moved to New York City, New York, where he played bass for such renowned jazz musicians as Ben Webster, Errol Garner, Milt Jackson, and Billie Holiday...
, (1921–2005) Emeritus Professor of Wood Science (Botany) at Imperial College, London. - Terence MorganTerence MorganTerence Ivor Grant Morgan was an English actor in theatre, cinema and television. He was the nephew of British character actor Verne Morgan...
, actor - Peter NewbrookPeter NewbrookPeter Austin Harley Newbrook BSC was a British born cinematographer, director, producer and writer.Newbrook was born in Chester and educated at the Chester, and Worcester Cathedral schools, and the Ewell Castle School. He began his career as a trainee cameraman and focus puller with Warner...
, cinematographer - Dusan PopovDušan PopovDušan "Duško" Popov OBE was a double agent working for MI6 during World War II under the cryptonym Tricycle.-Origins of Tricycle:...
, spy - Oliver ReedOliver ReedOliver Reed was an English actor known for his burly screen presence. Reed exemplified his real-life macho image in "tough guy" roles...
, actor - Steven SavileSteven SavileSteven Savile is a British fantasy, horror and thriller writer, and editor living in Stockholm, Sweden...
, writer - Fred Winter, champion jockey and trainer