Plymouth College
Motto	Dat Deus Incrementum
Established	1877
Type	Independent
Head	Dr S Wormleighton
Chairman of Governors	Sir Robert Hicks
Founder	Mr FH Colson and Mr LF Griffiths
Location	Plymouth Devon England
Staff	60 full time, 15 part time.[1]
Students	565 (approx.)
Gender	Co-educational
Ages	3 to 18 including Preparatory School
Houses	4
School colours	Black      Green      Red
Former pupils	Old Plymothians and Mannameadians (OPMs)
School song	Carmen Collegii Plymothiensis
Website	www.plymouthcollege.com

Plymouth College main building at dusk

Plymouth College (PMC) is a co-educational independent school in Plymouth, Devon, England for day and boarding pupils from the ages of 11 to 18. The Headmaster, Dr Simon Wormleighton, is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 463 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (528 × 684 pixel, file size: 39 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Plymouth College. ... This article is about the city in England. ... For other uses, see Devon (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Coeducation is the integrated education of men and women. ... An independent school in the United Kingdom is a school relying, for all of its funding, upon private sources, so almost invariably charging school fees. ... This article is about the city in England. ... For other uses, see Devon (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... The Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference (HMC) is an association of the headmasters or headmistressess of 242 leading day and boarding independent boys and coeducational schools in the United Kingdom, Crown dependencies and the Republic of Ireland. ...

History

The school was founded for boys in 1877. In 1896 it bought out the older and rival Mannamead School (founded in 1854), and was temporarily known as Plymouth and Mannamead College (hence the surviving abbreviation PMC).^[2]

Having earlier taken some girls into the sixth form, the school became fully coeducational in 2000 and then, in 2004, absorbed St Dunstan's Abbey School, an older local girls' independent school. The combined school is still known as Plymouth College and remains at Ford Park, near Mutley Plain, just north of the city centre. England, Wales, Northern Ireland The sixth form, in the English, Welsh and Northern Irish education systems, is the term used to refer to the final two years of secondary schooling (when students are about sixteen to eighteen years of age), during which students normally prepare for their GCE A-level... Coeducation is the integrated education of men and women. ... View of Mutley Plain looking north from the junction with North Hill Mutley Plain is a street in Plymouth, Devon. ...

Today

Admission to the school is by way of its annual entrance examination at age 11, or by way of Common Entrance at 13 although applications are considered at any other times and are not unusual at the beginning of GCSE and A level courses. The Common Entrance Examinations for girls (at age 11-12) or boys (at 12-13), are academic entrance examinations common to almost all private or independent schools (often known as Public Schools) in England & Wales. ...

The school has applied for accreditation for the International Baccalaureate and intends to offer the IB as the principal Sixth Form (years 12 and 13) option from 2009. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into International Baccalaureate Organization. ...

There are four Houses at the school named after past influential masters and headmasters: Sargents, Palmers, Dales and Chaytors. The houses compete against each other throughout the year for the Forsyth Cup.

Boarders at the school are accommodated in two houses: College House (previously split into two school houses, Colson House and Mannamead House), situated at Ford Park, and Captain's House for pupils in the Elite Swimming Programme, near the preparatory school site in the Millfields gated complex in Stonehouse. A boarding school is usually a fee-charging school where some or all pupils not only study, but also live during term time, with their fellow students and possibly teachers. ...

There has been a preparatory school on various Plymouth sites since the school's foundation; it currently accepts children aged 3 to 11, with a roll in excess of 300. In 2005, the prep schools of Plymouth College and St Dunstans's Abbey combined to form what is now Plymouth College Junior School which occupies buildings at the St Dunstan's Millfields site. In English language usage in the former British Empire, the present-day Commonwealth, a preparatory school (usually abbreviated to prep school) is an independent school preparing children up to the age of eleven or thirteen for fee-paying, secondary independent schools, some of which are called public schools. ...

Sports

The school is involved with a wide range of competitive sports with impressive results, especially in swimming, in which pupils have competed nationally and internationally breaking over 50 British and English records. The number of pupils who have been selected to swim for England and Great Britain is now well into double figures and the swimming programme is offered in a partnership with the internationally renowned Plymouth Leander Swimming Club. ^[3]

Other activities

The school has a 20-bed bunkhouse at its Whiteworks outward bound centre on Dartmoor.^[4] High Willhays, the highest point on Dartmoor and southern England at 621 m (2037 ft) above sea level, with Yes Tor beyond. ...

Fees

Annual day fees: £10,350 - £11,160, Annual weekly boarding: £20,250 - £21,060, Annual full boarding £20,370 - £21,180. (approx $40,000 US). ^[5]

Charitable status

The British Government and the Charities Commission have indicated that private schools will lose their advantageous tax status if they cannot clearly demonstrate that in addition to having high fees and exceptional facilities they also provide a measurable benefit to the local community and admit or provide places and education for the poor. Plymouth College facilities are widely used by local organisations, bursaries and scholarships are available and there is an evolving pattern of outreach and links with the city and community. ^[6]

Notable OPMs

Former pupils of Plymouth College who join the OPM Club call themselves OPMs (Old Plymothians and Mannameadians). Former pupils of St. Dunstan's Abbey can now join. The following are among those who have achieved some public attention:

• Sir Alfred Woodley Croft (1841–1925), Director of Public Instruction, Bengal, Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University
• William Crossing (1847–1928), antiquary of Dartmoor (Old Mannameadian)
• Eden Phillpotts (1862–1960), writer (Old Mannameadian)
• Sir Leonard Rogers (1868–1962), tropical medicine specialist, Professor of Pathology, Bengal Medical College, 1906–1920, and founder of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine and the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association (now LEPRA)
• Sir Alexander Maxwell (1880–1963), Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Home Office, 1938–1948
• Wilson Harris (1883–1955), journalist and author
• Alexander Macklin (1889–1967), surgeon on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
• Stuart Hibberd (1893–1983), BBC announcer and presenter, 1924–1964
• Major-General Sir Alexander Bishop (1897–1984), army officer and High Commissioner in Cyprus, 1964–1965
• Frank Coles Phillips (1902–1982), geologist
• David Forbes Martyn (1906–1970), radiophysicist
• J. C. Trewin (1908–1990), writer and drama critic
• Sir Rolf Dudley-Williams (1908–1987), co-founder and Managing Director, Power Jets Ltd, 1936–1944, and MP for Exeter, 1951–1966
• Frank Hoar (1909–1976), architect, cartoonist (as Acanthus) and architectural historian
• Robert Clark (1909–1970), historian and Egyptologist
• Sir David Serpell (born 1911), Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Transport, 1968–1970, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, 1970–?
• Michael Foot (born 1913), Leader of the Labour Party, 1980–1983 (Prep School only)
• Ronald Jasper (1917–1990), Dean of York Minster, 1975–1984, theologian and ecclesiastical historian
• Brigadier Denis Ballantyne (1919–2004), army officer
• John Trevaskis (1923–2002), classicist
• Ian D. W. Wright (born c.1934), inventor of racketball and racketball champion
• Roger Vielvoye (1942–1992), energy journalist
• David King (1947–2004), developer of the CT scanner
• Gerry Hillman (born 1948), landscape painter
• Richard Deacon (born 1949), sculptor and Turner Prize winner
• Paul Seymour (born 1950), Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University, 1996–
• Mark Tavener (1954–2007), novelist and scriptwriter
• Paul Ackford (born 1958), England rugby union player and rugby journalist
• Michael Ball (born 1962), singer, actor and presenter^[7]
• Milos Stankovic (born c.1963), army officer accused of treason, writer
• Miles Tunnicliff (born 1968), golfer
• Major Jason Ward (1969–2003), joint highest-ranking British casualty of Operation Telic
• Kavus Torabi (born 1971), rock musician
• Simon Edwards (born 1972), journalist and author
• Finn Peters (born 1974), jazz musician
• John Fabian (born 1976), England 7s rugby union player
• William James (born 1976), Wales rugby union player
• Patrick K. Collins (born 1977), Munster rugby union coach

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External links

• Plymouth College
• Plymouth Leander Swimming
• OPM Club Online
• Inspectorate report
• OPM Lodge
• OPM Hockey Club

Coordinates: 50°23′03″N, 4°08′14″W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...