Colston's School is an independent co-educational school in Bristol, England. It is located at Stapleton, to the north east of the city. This article is about the English city. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... This article is about the English city. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Stapleton is an area in the north-eastern suburbs of the city of Bristol, England. ...

It was founded in 1710 by the philanthropist, Edward Colston as "Colston's School". Originally an all boys boarding school, day-boys were admitted in 1949 and girls were admitted to the sixth form in 1984. In 1991 it merged with the girls' school "Collegiate School", Winterbourne and was given the name Colston's Collegiate School, but this was reverted to Colston's School in 2005.^[1] The current Headmaster is Peter Fraser. A controversial presence: the 1895 statue of Edward Colston Edward Colston (2 November 1636 – 11 October 1721) was a Bristol-born English merchant and philanthropist. ... Winterbourne is a large village in South Gloucestershire on the outskirts of the English city of Bristol. ...

History

Colston made a donation to Queen Elizabeth's Hospital in 1702 and proposed endowing places for a further 50 boys. This came to nothing, probably because of Colston's instance that the children of Dissenters should be excluded. Queen Elizabeths Hospital School Queen Elizabeths Hospital (more commonly known as QEH) is an independent school for boys in Clifton, Bristol, England. ... The term dissenter (from the Latin dissentire, to disagree), labels one who dissents or disagrees in matters of opinion, belief, etc. ...

Instead, he persuaded the Society of Merchant Venturers to manage a school he established for 50 boys on Saint Augustine's Back, where the Colston Hall now stands. It cost him £11,000 on capital cost and an endowment income of over £1,300. The boys (soon increased to 100) were admitted between the ages of seven and ten years and stayed for seven years. The curriculum covered reading, writing and arithmetic, and the church catechism. On leaving they were to be apprenticed to a trade. The Society of Merchant Venturers (or just the Merchant Venturers) is a private charitable organisation in the English city of Bristol, which dates back to the 13th century. ... Colston Hall is a concert hall situated on Colston Street, Bristol. ...

Colston was opposed to Dissent and proposed that any boy who attended a service of worship in any place other than a Anglican church should be expelled. He also told the Merchant Venturers that if they apprenticed a boy to a Dissenter they would be in breach of their Trust.

The school moved to the old Bishops' Palace at Stapleton which has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II listed building.^[2], in 1861 and ceased to be a charity institution with a limited curriculum. It also accepted fee-paying boys as well as the 100 boys on the charity foundation. The standard of English Heritage English Heritage is a non-departmental public body of the United Kingdom government (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) with a broad remit of managing the historic environment of England. ... Buckingham Palace, a Grade I listed building. ...

From about 1900 it began to be accepted as a public school.

By 1955 the school had 35 foundation scholars, selected by open competition, among its 200 boards and 100 day boys.

The present

Houses

Before the advent of the day-boys there were four boarding houses, North, South, East and West. These were renamed Aldington, Mortlake, Roundway and Beaufort, with Dolphin being the day-boys house. Later, King's was added as an additional day-boys house. Now there are four main 'Day Houses' of which pupils are allocated one at the start of their Colston's career: Aldington, Dolphin, King's and Roundway. In addition, boys who board at the school are a member of Mortlake house, whereas girls who board at the school are a member of Winterbourne house (reflecting the location of the Collegiate School, which had previously been in the village of Winterbourne, Gloucestershire). Each house, with the exception of Mortlake and Winterbourne, has its own tie: navy and green stripes for Aldington; navy, red and white stripes for Dolphin; navy, green and white stripes for King's and navy and maroon stripes for Roundway. The largest house is Aldington, however most of the awards and interhouse competition wins are spread around the houses. Recently though King's House has become one of the most successful houses regularly winning the annual House Cup competition, and this year winning both the House Song, and for the second year in a row the House Music Competition. Winterbourne is a large village in South Gloucestershire on the outskirts of the English city of Bristol. ...

Uniform

School uniform

Colston modelled his school on Christ's Hospital and the eighteenth century uniform reflected this - a long blue coat, knee britches and yellow stockings. By the middle of the twentieth century this was mirrored by the yellow tops of the knee stockings worn by all boys until they graduated to long trousers at the age of 13. At that time caps were worn whenever a boy left the premises of the school. They were the typical peaked cap with a coloured band round the rim and an embroidered dolphin at the front, the colour reflecting the house the boy belonged to - Dolphin's was maroon, for example. Bluecoat School directs here. ...

Boys: white cotton shirt (long-sleeved), house tie, black or charcoal grey trousers and socks, black leather shoes and school blazer (navy with yellow stripes, dolphin crest on left breast pocket). There is also the option of the grey school jumper. In summer, the removal of the blazer and tie is permitted, as well as the wearing of short-sleeved white shirts. The 6th form are allowed to wear a suit of their own choice, provided that it is dark in colour.

Girls: white cotton shirt, house tie, navy skirt, black leather shoes and school blazer. There is also the option of the navy school jumper. In summer, the wearing of a short-sleeved blouse sans tie and blazer is permitted. Make-up is not allowed outside of 6th form, but "appropriate" or small jewelery, such as stud earrings and the like, is.

Games uniform

Boys: the autumn term is the rugby term. The rugby kit is a cotton, predominantly navy shirt with gold hoops, navy shorts and navy socks with gold hoops. The same applies for hockey in the spring term. For the summer cricket season, P.E. kit is permitted (white polo shirt, white shorts and white socks), however cricket whites must be worn if selected in a school team. For P.E. lessons, P.E. kit must be worn. On most occasions, the school tracksuit may also be worn. Physical education (PE) is the interdisciplinary study of all area of science relating to the transmission of physical knowledge and skills to an individual or a group, the application of these skills, and their results. ...

Girls: girls kit remains the same for all three sports, hockey, netball and rounders, as well as for P.E. lessons. It consists of a white polo shirt with navy gym skirt and white socks.

Rugby

The school is renowned worldwide for its phenomenal record in rugby union. Under the guidance of Alan Martinovic, it has won the Daily Mail Cup at U18 level seven times, including six years in a row between 1995 and 2000 before deciding to withdraw from the competition. Former England and Bath flanker Andy Robinson assisted Martinovic for the first two cup triumphs. It re-entered the competition for the 2003/2004 season, when the school succeeded for an unprecedented seventh time. Martinovic resigned the post in August 2005, and handed the reigns to Darryl Paterson. International players to be nurtured by the school include Olly Barkley, Duncan Bell, Tom Varndell and Lee Mears (all England); Andy Lloyd and Gareth Delve (both Wales) and in the less recent past Alan Morley MBE (England and British and Irish Lions) who is the current world record holder for tries scored in first class rugby. The school has over a dozen old boys playing in the Guinness Premiership as of 2006, with even more playing in National Division One and the other National Divisions, and the Celtic League. In March 2006 the school created history by becoming the first school to win both the boys and girls senior tournaments at the Rosslyn Park Schools Sevens Tournament. Incredibly, the school successfully defended both trophies in 2007. For other uses, see Rugby (disambiguation). ... The Daily Mail Cup is the English schools rugby union cup competition. ... Andy Robinson (born 3 April 1964 in Taunton, Somerset) is a former English rugby union footballer who played openside flanker for Bath and England. ... Oliver John Barkley (born 28 November 1981) is an English rugby union footballer who plays at fly-half or centre for Bath. ... Duncan Stuart Crampton Bell (born October 1, 1974) is an English rugby union player currently playing for Bath Rugby in the Guinness Premiership at the position of prop. ... Tom Varndell (born 16 September 1985 in Ashford, Kent) is an English rugby union footballer who plays on the wing for Leicester Tigers, England and England Sevens. ... Lee Mears (born 5 March 1979 in Torquay) is an English rugby union footballer, who plays hooker for Bath. ... The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority, these are Knight Grand Cross or Dame Grand Cross (GBE) Knight Commander... First match Otago 3 - 8 Lions (as Great Britain) (28 April 1888) Largest win Manawatu 6 - 109 Lions (28 June 2005) Worst defeat New Zealand 38 - 6 Lions (16 July 1983) Jonny Wilkinson taking a penalty for the Lions The British and Irish Lions (until 2001 known as the British... The Guinness Premiership is a professional league competition for rugby union clubs in the top division of the English rugby system. ... National Division One is the second tier of the English Rugby Union leagues. ... The Celtic League, currently known as the Magners League for sponsorship reasons, is an annual rugby union competition involving regional sides from Ireland, Scotland and Wales. ... The National Schools Sevens is a rugby union sevens tournament held in association with Rosslyn Park F.C. has evolved into the worlds largest rugby tournament with some 7,000 boys aged 13 - 19 competing annually. ...

The current 1st XV head coach is Peter Thornley, the former Leicester and England A flanker, who took over from Darryl Paterson in December 2006.

Current Professional and Semi Professional Old Colstonian rugby players

Guinness Premiership

• Olly Barkley, Duncan Bell, Alex Crockett, Rob Hawkins, Ryan Davis, Lee Mears, Ian Davey, Mike Baxter (Bath Rugby)

• Sam Cox, Alex Clarke, Ed Barnes, Iain Grieve (on loan at Dings Crusaders), Ryan Prosser, Luke Eves, Gareth Griffiths (on loan at Redruth), James Phillips (Bristol Rugby)

• Alex Brown, Gareth Delve (Gloucester Rugby)

• Chris Brooker (Harlequins)

• Chad Thorne (Leeds Carnegie)

• Tom Varndell, Jordan Crane, Ryan Owen (Leicester Tigers)

• Shane Geraghty, Warren Fury (London Irish)

• Callum Black (Worcester Warriors)

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Magners League

• Andy Lloyd (Neath-Swansea Ospreys)

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France Top 14

• Mike Pyke (US Montauban)

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Welsh Premiership

• Gareth Knox (Aberavon)

National Division One

• James Graham (Bedford Blues)

• Spencer Davey (Doncaster Rugby)

• Kieran Geraghty (Exeter Chiefs)

• Ryan Westren (Launceston)

• Richard Bignell, Matt Williams (Moseley)

• Dan Lavery, Phil Hoy (Northampton Saints)

• Ashley Maggs (Pertemps Bees)

• Dan Smith (Plymouth Albion)

• Jon Mills, James Watkins, Dylan Pugh (London Welsh)

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National Division Two

• Barry Reeves, Mitch Burton (Henley Hawks)

• Gareth Griffiths (Redruth- on loan from Bristol Rugby)

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National Division Three

• Phil Greenaway (Cinderford)

• Henry Mace, Greg Setherton (Clifton)

• Ricky Jones, Jon Cresswell, Sam Caven, Iain Grieve (on loan from Bristol Rugby) (Dings Crusaders)

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South West One

• Jon Coller, Tim Flower (Bournemouth)

• Jon Pritchard, James Down (Cleve)

• Joe Ewens (Weston-super-Mare)

Drama

The school is quite famous for its drama too, having one of the largest and best equipped theatres in the south-west. It is the only school in Bristol that can offer all fourteen GCSE theatre options. There are a number of shows throughout the year across the age range, the most notable being the plays devised by the students at GCSE and above, many of which have been praised in the Bristol Evening Post. Colston's is always breeding new acting talent under the guidance of inspirational teachers, Alison Chisnall and recipient of a Highly Commended in The Guardian newspaper's Teacher of the Year Award Stephen Pritchard. GCSE is an acronym that can refer to: General Certificate of Secondary Education global common subexpression elimination - an optimisation technique used by some compilers This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ...

Notable alumni

• Thomas Chatterton, Romantic poet and child prodigy
• Robert Syms, Conservative MP for Poole, Dorset
• Chris Broad, Test cricket umpire and former England Test opening batsman
• Olly Barkley, English international rugby union footballer currently playing for Bath Rugby in the Guinness Premiership
• Duncan Bell, English international rugby union footballer currently playing for Bath Rugby in the Guinness Premiership
• Gareth Delve, Welsh international rugby union footballer currently playing for Bath Rugby in the Guinness Premiership
• Lee Mears, English international rugby union footballer currently playing for Bath Rugby in the Guinness Premiership
• Alan Morley MBE, holder of world record for tries scored in first class rugby union and current board member at Bristol Rugby.
• Tom Varndell, English international rugby union footballer currently playing for Leicester Tigers in the Guinness Premiership
• Mike Pyke, Canadian international rugby union footballer, currently playing for Edinburgh Rugby in the Celtic League.

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References

1. ^ History Colston's School website. Retrieved 20 February 2007
2. ^ Colston School, former Bishop's Palace. Images of England. Retrieved on 2007-03-13.

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Further reading

• Roger Wilson, Chapter 22, "Bristol's School", in Bristol and its Adjoining Counties, 1955

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