Copthorne Preparatory School is situated in West Sussex for students aged between 2 and 13. It consists of a nursery for infants from 2½. A junior department is for children under the age of eight (reception to yr 2). Older students (ages 8 - 13) work in the two prep school buildings, the 'New Block' which is the main teaching building. The main building, or 'The Old Block', half of which consists of staff flats and boarding rooms, the other half contains facilities for acting, musical activities and the dining room as well as more classrooms. A motto (from Italian) is a phrase or a short list of words meant formally to describe the general motivation or intention of an entity, social group, or organization. ... Educational institutions are often categorised along several dimensions. ... A preparatory school, or prep school in the United Kingdom, and previously in the British Empire and so the Commonwealth in current English usage, is an independent school designed to prepare a student for fee-paying, secondary independent school (public school). ... School colors are the colors chosen by a school to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification. ... West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering onto East Sussex (with Brighton and Hove), Hampshire and Surrey. ... A website (alternatively, Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP, a... West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering onto East Sussex (with Brighton and Hove), Hampshire and Surrey. ...

History

Copthorne Preparatory School was first built as a private home called Emsworth House, and was owned by the Kensington Family. It first became a small girls' school in 1900 for a short time, and was then taken over by Bernard Rendall in 1902 as a boys' school, brother of the then Headmaster of Winchester College, the school designed as a place to prepare boys for Winchester. Rendall's brother-in-law was Dr Edward Wilson, who was one of the men who died in 1913, at the South Pole, whilst on Captain Scott's expedition. A stained glass window was put in the school Chapel remembering this event. Dr Wilson had used the school in preparation for his trip, and the boys had donated funds to provide huskies. In 1928, Edward Skeete Workman took over the running of the school in partnership with J.P. Howard. Tim Workman took over as Headmaster in 1952 on the death of his father, and was later joined as joint Headmaster by David Sale. Then Sale was joint Headmaster with David Cann and then with David Newton. Sale died in 1984, David Newton was the sole Headmaster until his retirement in 1999, then was followed by Charles Allen who only was there for six years. The present Headmaster, Chris Jones, started at the school in September 2005. Winchester College is a well-known boys independent school, and an example of a British public school, in the city of Winchester in Hampshire, England. ... For other uses, see South Pole (disambiguation). ... Captain Sir Robert Falcon Scott (June 6, 1868 - March 29, 1912) was a British Naval officer and Antarctic explorer. ...

During World War II, the school was evacuated to the Lee Bay Hotel in Ilfracombe. The school building was requisitioned for use by Army (the Buffs had it for six weeks) and then by the RAF. In 1976 the school was formed into a charitable trust, and in 1980 girls were admitted for the first time. The Pre-Prep was started in the late 1970's, and the Coach House Nursery was opened in 1997. The school is now predominantly a day school, although some children board weekly and others flexi-board. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Location within the British Isles Ilfracombe is a seaside resort on the north coast of Devon, England with a small harbour, surrounded by cliffs. ... The name Buffs can mean:- Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment), a British army unit Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes Buffs Company, a Rifle Company of The Queens Own Rifles of Canada that parades out of Dalton Armoury in Scarborough. ... RAF is an three letter acronym for: Royal Air Force -- the Air Force of the United Kingdom (see also Air Ministry) Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion) -- a German terror organisation Rigas Autobusu Fabrika -- a factory making buses in Riga, Latvia Rapid Action Force in India Računarski Fakultet RAF...

Notable Copthorne Alumni

• Derek Abbott, scientist and engineer.
• Charles Graves, author, brother of Robert Graves.
• Robert Graves, poet, novelist, critic, author of I, Claudius and Good-Bye to All That.
• Stuart Head, Great Britain and England hockey international.
• Sarah Kennedy, Radio and TV presenter who was matron at the school for a time.
• Rory Knight-Bruce, author, journalist.
• Lauren McConnell, A Finalist on the ITV Competition Grease is the Word.
• Dennis Price, actor.
• Frederic Raphael, author.
• Sir John Stanley, MP for Tonbridge and Malling.
• Crispin Steele-Perkins, classical trumpet player.
• Francis Wheen, journalist.

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External Links

• Copthorne School Website
• Government report