St Andrew's College, Bradfield (Bradfield College)
Motto	Benedictus es, O Domine doce me Statuta Tua (Latin: You are blessed, Lord: teach me your laws.)
Established	1850
Type	Public School
Religious affiliation	Church of England
Headmaster	Mr Peter J M Roberts, MA
Warden (Chair of governors)	The Lord Iliffe
Founder	Thomas Stevens, Rector and Lord of the Manor of Bradfield
Location	Reading Berkshire England
Staff	120 (approx.)
Students	680 (approx.)
Gender	Mixed
Ages	13 to 18
Houses	12
School colours	Blue and Green             Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... For other uses, see Latins and Latin (disambiguation). ... For the game, see: 1850 (board game) 1850 (MDCCCL) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday [1] of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... The term public school has three distinct meanings: In the USA and Canada, elementary or secondary school supported and administered by state and local officials. ... The Church of England is the officially established Christian church[3] in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the oldest among the communions thirty-eight independent national churches. ... This article is about the learning activity. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ...
Former pupils	Old Bradfieldians
Website	www.bradfieldcollege.org.uk

Bradfield College is a coeducational public school located in the small village of Bradfield in the English county of Berkshire. The term public school has three distinct meanings: In the USA and Canada, elementary or secondary school supported and administered by state and local officials. ... Bradfield is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Berkshire. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

The college was founded in the 1850s by Thomas Stevens, Rector and Lord of the Manor of Bradfield. It now has some 500 male and 120 female pupils. // Production of steel revolutionized by invention of the Bessemer process Benjamin Silliman fractionates petroleum by distillation for the first time First transatlantic telegraph cable laid First safety elevator installed by Elisha Otis Railroads begin to supplant canals in the United States as a primary means of transporting goods. ...

Overview

The school, which admits pupils between the ages of 13–18, has been co-educational throughout since September 2005. All first years pupils (fourth formers) enter a first year boarding house (Faulkners) and then, from the second year (the shell), they move to their main boarding houses for the remaining four years.

Bradfield's Motto: Benedictus es, O Domine doce me Statuta Tua, which translates as, You're blessed, Lord, Teach me your Laws."

The Greek Play

Bradfield is most renowned for its Greek theatre and triennial Greek play, which is performed on a three-year rota ('presumably', says Tatler's Good Schools Guide, 'it takes that long to build up the stamina again) in conjunction with Cambridge University and Oxford University respectively. Started to save the school from bankruptcy, the Greek plays have been staged by the school for almost 150 years. The students who act in it receive no formal training in speaking Ancient Greek, and have only nine months to learn the lines and direction, as well as keeping up with their other studies. The 2006 play was Euripides’s Medea, directed by John Taylor. It has been noted for its groundbreaking advances, including the addition of projected subtitles and the bold decision of incorporating the orchestra into the skene, using a ramp covered in sand and flooded to symbolise the sea and Medea's situation of being "between places". Greek theatre or Greek Drama came into its own between 600 and 200 BC in the ancient city of Athens. ... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Beginning of Homers Odyssey The Ancient Greek language is the historical stage of the Greek language[1] as it existed during the Archaic (9th–6th centuries BC) and Classical (5th–4th centuries BC) periods in Ancient Greece. ... A statue of Euripides. ... This article is about the Greek mythological figure. ... In classical drama, the skene was the background building to which was connected the platform stage, in which were stored the costumes and to which the periaktoi (painted panels serving as the background) was connected. ...

In the News

In 2005 the school was embroiled in the so-called “Sevenoaks survey” fee-fixing scandal, exposed by The Times. They were eventually found guilty, with fifty other schools, of breaking the Competition Act 1998. The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom (and the Kingdom of Great Britain before the United Kingdom existed) since 1788 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. ... The Competition Act 1998 banned public schools from fee-fixing in the United Kingdom, which they had previously been allowed to do. ...

The Commission for Social Care Inspection, which routinely inspects standards at both private and state boarding schools, praised Bradfield, in an otherwise damning report, for its "safe and caring environment" and for endeavouring to "develop a more modern approach to boarding". The Daily Telegraph reported that, ‘against the relevant 47 standards, Bradfield achieved 16 gold stars. In only two areas was it judged to have "minor shortcomings”. This article deals with The Daily Telegraph in Britain, see The Daily Telegraph (Australia) for the Australian publication The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. ...

Trivia

Former footballer, Vinnie Jones, once worked in the kitchens at the college:Vinnie’s dad, Tom, was the school hairdresser and got him a job: washing pots and pans.. Although at the time Jones was at a particularly low-ebb – the Bradfield days appear in a chapter entitled ‘Life in a Bin Liner’ – he writes with some tenderness about the friends he made, and the room in which he lived: 'It was built on a corner and overlooked the gardens and the sports field, which was lovely, and there was a river the pang at the bottom.' .^[1] Vincent Peter Jones (born 5 January 1965) is an English-born ex-footballer (and former captain of the Wales national football team). ... The River Pang in Pangbourne The River Pang is a small clear chalk river in the west of the English county of Berkshire, and a tributary of the River Thames. ...

In 2005, girls taking German A-level at Bradfield scored the highest results of any independent school in the country. The A-level, short for Advanced Level, is a General Certificate of Education qualification in England, Northern Ireland and Wales, usually taken by students during the optional final two years of secondary school (Years 12 & 13*, commonly called the Sixth Form except for Scotland), or at a separate sixth form...

Bradfield College played host to the UK's first "reverse" triathlon in the 1990s: The "IRT" (TRI backwards) followed the run-bike-swim format. The finisher's T-shirts declared "It doesn't 'ave to 'urt to do the IRT".

Notable Old Bradfieldians

• George Blackall Simonds (1843–1929), Sculptor
• Edward Armstrong (1846–1928), historian and Pro-Provost, Queen's College, Oxford
• Archibald Robertson (1853–1931), Bishop of Exeter
• Stephen Coleridge (1854–1936), author, anti-vivisectionist and co-founder of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
• Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe (1863–1949), missionary in Kashmir
• Gordon Craig (1872–1966), theatre director, stage designer and wood engraver
• H. Pelham Lee (1877–1953), internal combustion engine pioneer and founder of the Coventry Climax Engines company
• Zachary Nugent Brooke (1883–1946), historian
• William Ormston Backhouse (1885–1962), agricultural geneticist
• Cyril Falls (1888–1971), military historian
• Admiral of the Fleet Bruce Fraser, Baron Fraser of North Cape (1888–1981), Chief of the Naval Staff
• George Grey Wornum (1888–1957), architect
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Courtney (1890–1976), Royal Air Force officer
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Guy Garrod (1891–1965), Royal Air Force officer
• Oscar Henderson (1891–1969), Royal Navy officer, Private Secretary to the Governor of Northern Ireland, and television executive
• G. Norman Knight (1891–1978), civil servant and indexer
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Roderic Hill (1894–1954), Royal Air Force officer
• Hubert Foss (1899–1953), composer and music publisher
• Basil Gray (1904–1989), British Museum curator
• Robin Ironside (1912–1965), painter and writer
• Brigadier Mike Calvert (1913–1998), Chindits and Special Air Service commander
• Terence Reese (1913–1996), bridge player and writer
• Martin Wight (1913–1972), historian and international affairs expert
• Vivian H. H. Green (1915–2005), historian and Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford
• Morrice James, Baron Saint Brides (1916–1989), High Commissioner in Pakistan, India and Australia
• Charles Phillips (1916–1994), neurophysiologist
• George Paine (1918–1992), Registrar General
• Sir Martin Ryle (1918–1984), Astronomer Royal
• Richard Adams (born 1920), author
• Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Andrew Humphrey (1921–1977), Chief of the Air Staff and Chief of the Defence Staff
• Tony Hancock (1924–1968), comedian
• Sir Michael Marshall (1930–2006), politician
• Peter Jones (1930–1990), broadcaster
• Sir John Nott (born 1932), Secretary of State for Defence
• Sir Cyril Townsend (born 1937), politician
• David Owen, Baron Owen (born 1938), Foreign Secretary and co-founder of the SDP
• Graham Roope (1946–2006), Surrey and England cricketer
• Nick Clarke (1948–2006), journalist and BBC Radio 4 presenter
• Stephen Milligan (1948–1994), auto-asphyxiated Conservative MP
• Louis de Bernières (born 1954), novelist
• Peter Ainsworth (born 1956), Conservative Member of Parliament for East Surrey and member of the Shadow Cabinet
• William Strang OBE, Trotters independent trading co
• Mark Nicholas (born 1957), cricketer and TV presenter
• Charles Tannock (born 1957) Conservative Member of the European Parliament
• Richard Benyon (born 1960), Conservative Member of Parliament for Newbury
• James Chalmers (Actor)
• Tim Dellor (born 1975), BBC Local Radio presenter
• Claudia Harrison, actress
• Will Lyons (born 1976), wine writer
• Kaddy Lee-Preston, TV weather presenter
• Suresh Guptara (born 1988), Novelist
• Ed Robinson (born 1971), Sky Sports presenter

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See also

• Independent school (UK)
• List of independent schools in the United Kingdom

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References

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External links

• Bradfield College website
• Schoolsguidebook
• Old Brafieldians Society Website