The entrance to the old buildings (no longer occupied by the school) in Hill Street

Bablake School is an coeducational independent school located in Coundon, Coventry, England. The school motto is "Excellence through care". Bablake is part of the Coventry School Foundation with King Henry VIII School and Coventry Preparatory School. The current headmaster is John Watson, who succeeded Dr Stuart Nuttall following his retirement in 2006. An independent school or private school in the United Kingdom is a school relying for all of its funding upon private sources. ... For other uses, see Coventry (disambiguation). ... The County of West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a population of around 2,600,000 people. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... A Local Education Authority (LEA) is the part of a council in England or Wales that is responsible for education within that councils jurisdiction. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x1200, 659 KB)[edit] Summary The entrance to the old buildings of Bablake School (left) and Bonds Hospital (right), Hill Street, Coventry. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x1200, 659 KB)[edit] Summary The entrance to the old buildings of Bablake School (left) and Bonds Hospital (right), Hill Street, Coventry. ... Coeducation is the integrated education of men and women. ... An independent school is a school which is not dependent upon national or local government for financing its operation and is instead operated by tuition charges, gifts, and perhaps the investment yield of an endowment. ... For other uses, see Coventry (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... King Henry VIII School is an independent school comprising a senior school (ages 11–18) and associated junior school (ages 7–11) located in Coventry, England. ...

History

Started by Edward II's wife Isabella in 1344, Bablake was first sited in Hill Street, Coventry. In the 1800s it moved to its current site of Coundon Road, where it was an all boys' boarding school. During the war, the school was evacuated to Lincoln, and in the Blitz, the new Library was bombed so badly the only thing to remain intact was a page from a German dictionary. In the 1970s it had its first girl pupil and stopped admitting boarders, with what had been the bedrooms becoming the Mathematics department and the Headmaster's house becoming the Geography department. In the late 1980s the school built its modern languages block; a few years later Bablake Junior School opened and in 2000 the English, Drama and Music block was completed, sited on what was originally the Headmaster's garden. Edward II, (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327), of Caernarfon, was King of England from 1307 until deposed in January, 1327. ... Isabella returns to England with her son, Edward III. Jean Fouquet, 1455x1460. ... Events English king Edward III introduces three new gold coins, the florin. ... For other uses, see Coventry (disambiguation). ... A boarding school is a usually fee-paying school where some or all pupils not only study, but also live during term time, with their fellow students and possibly teachers. ... For other uses, see Blitz. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ...

Layout

The Bablake site houses two schools, a junior school that takes children between the ages of 7 and 11, and a senior school that takes children between the ages of 11 and 18. Although the junior school is formally independent, its intake generally move up as a group to the senior school. The school has a swimming pool and indoor sporting facilities on site. It also has four tennis courts, which are used as netball courts at other points in the year. Off site there are four rugby pitches, hockey astroturf (with floodlights) and a cricket square. The cricket pavilion, which housed the changing rooms, was hit by lightning on 28 June 2005, and was out of use until Spring 2006. is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Houses

The four modern-day houses of Bablake are:

• Wheatley
• Bayley
• Crow
• Fairfax

The two houses which are no longer in use are:

• Baker
• Billing

Notable former pupils

• Jack Parsons (1890–1981), cricketer
• Brian Matthew (born 1928), broadcaster
• Donald Trelford, editor of The Observer
• Nick Skelton (born 1957), showjumper
• Robert Clift (born 1962), hockey player
• Shane Geraghty (born 1986), rugby player

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Footnotes

References

• The Lion and the Stars: A history of Bablake, Peter Burden

External links

• Official Homepage
• Independent Schools Council entry for Bablake School