Gresham's School
Cromer Road
The Gresham 's School is a traditional, elitist private school ( Public School ) for 730 boys and girls aged 8 to 18 years in the county of Norfolk in the East of England. The school is funded by tuition fees and donations. The school fees are around £ 21,000 to the highest in England.
The school is one of the most prestigious academic schools. It was founded in 1555 by Sir John Gresham, the then Lord Mayor of London, as a charity school and served the purpose of allowing forty poor students a free education. These fellows there are still, as Holt Scholars.
Training
The strong humanist-oriented training includes subjects such as languages (including Latin, Ancient Greek, French, Russian, Spanish, German, Japanese ), classical studies, history, science ( physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics ), design technology, literature, art / Art History, Drama / Theatre Studies, business / Commerce, Music and Religious Studies.
Class system
The school uses the traditional English method of counting for the school year. There are classes 3 to 5 and the sixth-form, resulting from the lower sixth-form ( Lower Sixth ) and the upper sixth-form ( Upper Sixth ) composed. This corresponds to grades 6 through 12 in Germany.
Houses
The school is used by most students as a boarding school ( boarding school ). The students live ( as in English public schools usual) in seven houses ( boarding house ). These houses are used among other things for sports competitions, which are held between the houses.
Today, the school includes the following houses:
- Howson 's ( 1903)
- Woodlands (1905 )
- Farfield (1911 )
- Tallis (1961 )
- Oakeley (1971 )
- Edinburgh ( 1984)
- Britten (1992 )
Known students
- Donald Maclean - Secret Agent
- John Reith, 1st Baron Reith - Founding Father and first Director General of the BBC
- W. H. Auden - poet, writer
- Sir Lennox Berkeley - composer
- Tom Bourdillon - Mountaineers
- Peter Brook - Theatre Director
- Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten - Composer
- Martin Burgess - Watchmaker
- Erskine Childers - President of Ireland
- Norman Cohn - historian
- Henry Daniell - Actor
- Stephen Frears - Film Director
- Stephen Fry - actor and director
- Sienna Guillory - Film actress and model
- George Evelyn Hutchinson - Limnologist and ecologist
- David Lack - biologist and ornithologist
- Ben Nicholson - painter and object artist
- Sir Christopher Cockerell - engineer and inventor of the hovercraft
- Sir James Dyson - inventor and entrepreneur
- Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin - biochemist awarded the Nobel Prize
- Ralph Firman - racer
- Sebastian Shaw - actor
- Sir Stephen Spender - poet
- Pat Symonds - Chief Engineer at Renault F1
- Sir Percy Wyn -Harris - Mountaineer, governor of the British colony of Gambia