Bromsgrove School Governors' Report 2010

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BROMSGROVE SCHOOL Governors’ Report 2010

Incorporating The Bromsgrove School Foundation Report 2010

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Contents Page 1

A Message from the Headmaster

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Medium Term Development Plan

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Development of the School’s Facilities 2009/10

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Public Benefit

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Introduction by the Chairman of Governors

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The Governors

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About the Committees

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Bromsgrove School Foundation

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Donor Roll of Honour

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Our Alumni and The Bromsgrovian Club

A Message From The Headmaster, Chris Edwards

Bromsgrove School is entering a new era, and to acknowledge as much, this governors’ report will become an annual publication. It will reflect as clearly as possible the initiatives, aspirations and performance of the School and its Foundation. A stagnant school is a dying school: Bromsgrove continues to innovate, lead and look out to the world beyond its campus and this country. This is not mere rhetoric. I hope you agree that the initiatives covered in this publication are ample demonstration of our determination to give the children of this great School the finest education possible. We are a very large School now, heavily oversubscribed and hungry to improve still further, but we have reached optimum size. However, while we do not seek to grow numbers any further, we do wish to take the School forward in as imaginative, dynamic and future-proof a manner as possible.

Where are we now? Well, allow me to begin with a statistic I haven’t made public before: according to the BBC and DCSF, we achieve in public examinations the highest value added scores of any state or independent school in this and neighbouring counties. Please do read the previous sentence twice if you need to: it is a stark and wonderful truth. The successful introduction of the IB, nearly two hundred Upper Sixth Formers averaging between 85-90% A and B grades each year, and 84% of pupils gaining places at first choice universities justify the stunning comments in publications such as the Good Schools Guide.

However, the breadth of offer remains: Prep and Senior School are putting out huge numbers of sports teams, and from Haydn’s Creation in Birmingham Town Hall to plays and concerts in venues ranging from the Pre-Prep hall to our great cathedrals, the arts thrive as never before. All proof enough that a top academic school need not be a factory for dull drones thrown to the league tables.

A flourishing Bromsgrove Thailand will send us scholarship pupils this summer term, and it is worth pointing out that not a penny of Bromsgrove UK’s money goes into or has ever gone into the Far East operation. We pay credit to our sister School and wish it every success as its magnificent campus develops still further this year.

Hard on the heels of eighteen new and refurbished Science laboratories in the Senior School will come a multi-million pound programme of unprecedented scope that will see all three sections of the School take giant leaps forward in terms of facilities. This is an immensely exciting prospect and details follow in this report. Yes, people are more important than buildings (frankly, a decent head should be able to run a passable school in a pig sty) but new structures say a great deal about your priorities and your passions. Now that the Senior academic facilities are as good as any in the land, we need to ensure other areas across the School’s constituencies are worthy of the unashamedly ambitious vision we have for our pupils.

The Foundation, designed to raise funds to help widen access, has generated a wonderful response both at home and internationally, and we are grateful to all Trustees for their energy and commitment. Foundation bursaries and scholarships are already helping pupils through the School: many more will follow. This is the most important legacy of all.

Nothing of worth can be achieved without the support of creatively minded, principled governors who put the children of Bromsgrove School first.

Without the support of these governors, any dreams I have had would have remained just that: dreams.

I am very proud, and very fortunate to be here.

Flair ● Discipline ● Academic Rigour

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Medium Term Development Plan

An Overview of the New Boarding and Sports Facilities

Subject to planning permission, the most extensive development ever witnessed on the Senior Campus is set to begin imminently. Enabling works and work on the car park will begin this summer. New facilities will duly be made available to the Prep School while Pre-Prep will also see improvements as early as this summer. Boarding, dining, sport, hospitality, medical facilities and other areas will undergo a sea change.

Entering Bromsgrove Senior School is like driving into an ersatz industrial estate. Absolutely dreadful.

New Sports Centre Entrance / Fitness Suite 2

Not since Cinderella has such a beautiful lady worn such shabby outer garments. However, the prince has arrived. A brand new entrance, gate house and car park, realigned for access from an elegant, straight approach road will alter radically the first experience of Bromsgrove. And all this will sit near a new sports complex.

For years we have achieved National titles and representative honours across the age groups in a number of sports. Coaching and pupil commitment has often been superb, but indoor facilities are decidedly average.

Internal View of New Indoor Arena

We are now committed to building a new indoor sports arena, one of the largest any school has constructed, with seating for 900 people. It will be more than simply a sporting venue, the entire Senior School for example could meet within, but the building will accommodate eight badminton courts and will be large enough to host regional and national indoor hockey, basketball and netball events. There is also the possibility of it becoming a centre for the Worcestershire Cricket Academy. We will interlink, via covered walkways, the new facility with the existing sports buildings and at the same time increase the size of the new changing rooms, and build a brand new state of the art fitness centre with reception areas.

As part of Phase 2 of the development project we hope to secure planning permission for a hospitality suite overlooking the netball and hockey courts. Whilst this will be the ideal location for parents’ match teas it will, crucially, provide the School with an overdue entertainment area for major non-sporting events as well. On the ground floor there will be PE teaching rooms and a viewing area for the swimming pool.

A New Sports Hall and Viewing Room for the Swimming Pool, A New Fitness Centre and Resurfacing of the Astro Turf

And so to boarding. Whilst Prep School boarding has declined nationally, at Bromsgrove School our numbers have increased to the point where we cannot go on as we are; a huge tribute to the hard work done by the boarding staff in the Prep School.

We must respond to and build upon this success.

Cobham, Honeysuckle and Page Houses will soon cease to exist and boarders will move into the existing Mary Windsor House and its 21st century White House annexe. This will mean that Prep School boarding will at last have a purpose-built house, with many ensuite rooms based on the Senior School campus. The medical centre has long needed more space and will therefore move into the large, vacated Page House (on the same side of the road as the Prep School boarders). The now empty Cobham House will be converted into modern classrooms for the Prep School, allowing the Prep to breathe more easily. Please remember, we will not be taking extra pupils: all this additional space is for current Prep School numbers.

New Hospitality Suite 3

New Mary Windsor Boarding House

The final stage of the development project is the Senior dining-room. We require a facility that caters for our changing needs as a School and also one which allows us to entertain large numbers of people in style and comfort. At last, that will be achieved through a stone, glass and brick design that once again echoes the glory of buildings past while looking forward to future demands.

Alternative view of the new Mary Windsor House

So the Senior School has given up a house to the Prep. We must, therefore, build a new Mary Windsor. It will stand in the area behind Elmshurst and Oakley as a three storey, 70 bed, ensuite boarding house with spectacular views over the cricket and rugby pitches. The boarding house parents’ accommodation will also be rebuilt and Oakley will have a complete makeover and new stone and brick extension to allow better social facilities for the boarders and day girls.

Once again, all the boarding rooms will be ensuite.

The aesthetic enhancement will be stunning and in keeping with the sports development opposite.

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New Dining Hall

New South Entrance and Gate House

The New Science Facilities

Development of the School’s Facilities 2009/10 Senior School Science Facilities

The tired, cramped Science facilities of the Senior School have been held in affection by generations of pupils, but there comes a time when makeovers just aren’t enough. 21st century Britain is screaming for scientists of quality, and we hope to play our part. We are completing, as I write, one of the largest and most modern school Science suites in the country.

Architects Robothams produced an innovative but sympathetic design using similar palettes of materials to the older campus buildings: brickwork, stone window surrounds and roof slates. The new buildings are single storey, harmonising with the Gordon Green surrounds. The number of laboratories has increased from twelve to eighteen, and the size and number of support facilities have grown proportionately. Like a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis, the evocative 1921 Whitley Labs have been reborn within the complex.

Current Pupils using the new Science Facilities

Summer 2010 will see Bromsgrove with Science facilities worthy of its reputation and, most importantly, its pupils. His Excellency Quinton Quayle, Ambassador to Thailand and an Old Bromsgrovian, will open the buildings formally at Commemoration.

The new Biology and Chemistry Entrance 5

In addition to the major science project, a number of further improvements were completed during 2009/10.

Refurbishment of Elmshurst House

During the summer holidays, Elmshurst House was completely refurbished ready for the new term.

Further refurbishment works are planned for the other existing day and boarding houses via a rolling programme, and this cycle will continue so that no house is neglected in the future.

A Refurbished Dorm in Elmshurst House

Knarsboro House

Purchased during Summer 2009 Knarsboro House is the latest addition to Bromsgrove’s Boarding portfolio. Situated next to Housman Hall (indeed an internal pathway now links the buildings so it is effectively a new campus in town) it provides extra accommodation for Sixth Form boarders.

Contemporary and fresh with extensive parking, Knarsboro will be running at capacity in September 2010.

Knarsboro House

Memorial Chapel

A new heating system was installed in the Memorial Chapel during Winter 2009, just in time for the cold spells during the first weeks of Lent term 2010. In addition to these works a new chancel organ was also put in place.

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Relocation of Sixth Form Centre

During 2009 the Sixth Form Centre was relocated to the Library Resources Centre (LRC) providing a larger, more central space for the Sixth Form to meet and work, with the library resources and careers department also close at hand.

Wendron-Gordon House

This Summer as part of our ongoing refurbishment cycle we will completely refurbish Wendron-Gordon House. Once and for all we can sort out the heating and showering issues in Wendron-Gordon House as well as redecorating and refurnishing it.

The LRC now houses the Sixth Form Centre

Prep School

Over the summer holidays the library was recarpeted and refurbished, Cobham Hall was given new walls, double doors and curtains, the sports hall a wonderful new wooden sprung floor and upgraded lighting, whilst the main ICT suite was totally refurbished and updated.

Pre-Preparatory & Nursery School Classrooms

A significant amount of work was completed in the Pre-Preparatory and Nursery School over the summer holidays. The entrance hall and staircase were completely redecorated, most classrooms were relocated and upgraded and these moves have enabled all Early Years classrooms to have free-flow outside access. The staff room has been relocated to the top floor allowing new Headmistress, Mrs Jacqui Deval-Reed, to have an office off the main entrance hall.

Hockey on the Astro

Re-surfacing the Astro

During the Summer term the “old� astro will be re-surfaced and made fit for hockey at the highest level.

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Preparatory & Nursery School Extension plans - Elevation A South East - Subject to Planning Permission

Pre-Preparatory & Nursery School Extension and Dining Hall During the summer holidays we hope to create a nursery extension giving even more outside play access for our nursery pupils and ensuring that all three classrooms are next to each other allowing for free flow.

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Elevation B North East - Subject to Planning Permission

This extension will give us the opportunity to address the School’s dining-room. We will extend the existing dining-room to provide increased space for the children and we will refurbish the kitchen area to allow more home cooked food to be prepared on site. We will also be enhancing the IT suite over the summer holidays.

Public Benefit Bromsgrove School must never lose sight of its charitable aims, and 2009 saw the inaugural meeting of the new Public Benefit Governors’ committee. The brief is not simply to do with the number of pupils receiving bursarial support, but extends to other charitable work both within the School and in the wider community. Examples would include the School’s involvement with a local charity for the homeless, the extensive use of facilities by young people in the community, and the School’s role in the National Challenge Partnership scheme in Sandwell. This last scheme is a government initiative whereby comprehensive schools in difficult situations benefit from the guidance and advice of outside organisations. The DCSF approached Bromsgrove to assist in the Sandwell area. All staff involved in these and other initiatives give their time and expertise free of charge.

forms when applying for a bursary, and applications are assessed by our Director of Finance who will most likely make a home visit as part of the process.

Over the course of the year we have run a successful advertising campaign to promote bursaries, and you can see one of those advertisements below. This academic year, Bromsgrove has increased the money allocated to bursary funding and to the number of 100% bursaries available. In addition, we have put in place a hardship bursary fund to help for a short period any current parents who have met with unexpected financial difficulties.

Within our own School we continue to award scholarships and bursaries. Scholarships reward excellent performance in academe, sport and the arts, but carry little or no financial assistance.

Bursaries, however are different. Bromsgrove is committed as far as possible to helping those pupils who would benefit from a Bromsgrove education and whose parents cannot afford full fees. All bursaries are means-tested. Parents seeking assistance with fees fill out means-tested

The Governing Body

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Chairman’s Introduction It is a privilege to be Chairman of Governors at one’s old School, but to hold the post now at this stage in Bromsgrove’s history is both humbling and an honour. Nationally and internationally, Bromsgrove is in the ascendant, and the governors are committed to providing the highest levels of support and guidance as the School journeys to new heights.

The governing body is comprised of dedicated individuals from various walks of life whose professional expertise and personal skill sets are likely to be of value to the School. Former headmasters, university professors, successful business people, lawyers, accountants and those active in the Arts all have roles to play. We need a balanced, creative team that respects the past but looks forward more than over its shoulder. As an Old Bromsgrovian, for example, I have deep affection for the School’s traditions, but as Group Chairman and Managing Director of Hadley Industries Holdings Ltd, I know full well that our future lies with internationally minded innovation. My various other chairmanships and governorships have convinced me more than ever that poverty of aspiration hampers many young people today: Bromsgrove must reach out and play its part in eradicating complacency and promoting the values of its mission statement.

Tribute to Outgoing Chairman, Matthew Horton

In March 2010, Matthew Horton stood down as Chairman of Governors. His record of achievement is extraordinary. Nobody will ever know quite how Matthew managed to dedicate so much time and energy to Bromsgrove School while running a successful legal practice, but under his Chairmanship the School moved forward at a pace unparalleled in its history.

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All Bromsgrove’s governors give up their time willingly because they know they are bringing their talents to one of the most diverse and creative independent schools in the country: this is a cause and a School of which they are proud.

I thank parents for choosing and supporting the School and hope that coming years will bring all pupils success and happiness.

Stewart Towe CBE Chairman of Governors

His passion for the School was tempered by the wisest of heads, and from the purchasing of Perry (now Housman) Hall and Knarsboro House to the inauguration of Bromsgrove Thailand and the Foundation, his support and counsel were invaluable. Matthew led the governors with the clearest of visions, respecting deeply the history of a School known to the Horton family for generations but always looking to do justice to that history by seizing new opportunities (manifest in the appointment of the current Headmaster).

Bromsgrove School could have had no finer Chairman of Governors. We are delighted that Matthew is continuing as a governor and we thank Gina, Matthew’s wife, for her remarkable, selfless support and, indeed, understanding during Matthew’s period as Chairman. All at Bromsgrove owe a debt of gratitude to Matthew: he has presided over an exceptional period in the School’s history.

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The Governors Below is a brief introduction to all of the School’s Governors, the Committees they serve on and other specialist roles they perform.

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1. Stewart Towe CBE (OB, Lupton 1965-1970) Chairman of Governors; Marketing Committee; Building Committee; FPC Chairman of Hadley Industries plc. Chair of Business in the Community West Midlands and with an interest in a number of educational institutions, trade organisations and charities.

2. Dr Vivian Anthony Liaison Governor for BIST. An expert in the field of education having worked as headmaster of Colfe’s, Secretary of HMC, inspector, adviser, lecturer and writer on education matters.

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3. Richard Brookes (OB, Lupton 1961-1965) Chairman of Building Committee A Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, with over 40 years experience of property within private practice and commerce. Currently advises on property development within the healthcare sector.

4. Ruth Heggett Chairman of Health and Safety Committee; Education Committee; Public Benefit Committee A solicitor currently working at the Law Society, providing technical advice and training to staff. Experience in civil and criminal litigation in private practice and as a prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service.

5. Fern Hordern Chairman of Investments Committee; FPC A Director at Smith and Williamson Investment Management.

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6. T. Matthew Horton (OB, Cookes 1962-1967) FPC; Building Committee; Investments Committee; Public Benefit Committee; Liaison Governor for BIST Trustee of Bromsgrove School Foundation Senior Partner at Thomas Horton Solicitors.

7. Rupert Lane Chairman of Education Committee, Liaison Governor for BIST Formerly Headmaster of Monmouth School and of Ridley College, Ontario

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8. Air Commodore Stephen Lilley FPC; Building Committee Currently Bursar at Dauntsey’s School, Devizes. Previously served for thirty years in the RAF, with roles including command of RAF Halton and Director of the RAF Infrastructure Organisation.

9. June Longmuir Education Committee; Health and Safety Committee; Representative Governor for Support Staff and for the Health Service A former head teacher and former County Councillor.

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10. Richard Noake (OB, Elmshurst 1959-1964) FPC; Investments Committee; Trustee of Bromsgrove School Foundation Formerly a Senior Partner at KPMG in Birmingham who has since worked in the building and engineering industries and for Business in the Community (the Princes Trust).

11. Professor John Perry Education Committee A background in Civil Engineering having worked for Costain and ICI. Professor and former Head of the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Birmingham.

Experience as a non-executive director of a large NHS Foundation Trust.

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12. Tim Pile Chairman of FPC; Chairman of Marketing Committee; Trustee of Bromsgrove School Foundation Currently CEO of Cogent Elliott, the leading Marketing Agency outside London.

Past experience in marketing of financial and retail services.

13. Dr Angèle Silk Vice Chairman; Education Committee; Marketing Committee; Building Committee; Child Protection Committee Child Psychologist, formerly Consultant Psychologist at Sunfield Residential School.

14. Geoffrey Strong FPC; Education Committee; Building Committee; Child Protection Committee Recently retired after 46 years in the legal profession, latterly with local firm MFG Solicitors

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About the Committees Building

The Building Committee considers and monitors major build and refurbishment projects within the School.

FPC

The Finance and Property Committee deals with financial policy and the financial management of the School.

Investments

The Investment Committee receives termly updates on investment and performance from the Investment Advisers and reports these matters to the Board together with any proposals regarding changes in the Investment policy set by the Board.

Marketing

The Marketing Committee considers the marketing and promotion of the School in liaison with the Foundation and Admission and Marketing Departments of the School.

Education

The Education Committee deals with educational and related operational issues and brings recommendations and concerns with regard to such matters to the Board.

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Nominations

The Nominations Committee considers possible capability gaps with regard to the composition of the Board and makes recommendations regarding potential new Board members.

Public Benefit

The Public Benefit Committee ensures that the School complies with its obligations in relation to public benefit. It oversees the School’s public benefit activities and monitors developments.

Health and Safety

The Health and Safety Committee ensures that there are adequate policies and procedures in place to ensure the health and safety of all pupils and staff and to ensure that the School complies with all legislative changes.

Child Protection

The Child Protection committee ensures that there are adequate policies and procedures in place to ensure the safeguarding of all pupils and to ensure that the School complies with all legislative changes.

The Committees meet at least termly and the full Governing Body meets four times a year.

Bromsgrove School Foundation The Bromsgrove School Foundation exists to raise bursary funds for children to attend Bromsgrove who would not otherwise be able to do so for financial reasons. The Trustees of the Foundation, along with the Governors and the School Executive, see this as of paramount importance for the School in the first decades of the 21st century.

We are enormously grateful for the worldwide support of Old Bromsgrovians, current and past parents, staff and Governors, all of whom have made donations, and we sincerely thank those who have made provision in their will to provide funds for the School to use in this way. It is marvellous to feel the warmth and goodwill which so many attach to this School.

The Foundation is in its early stages, established in 2007. We trust it will become a loved and respected tradition within School, and will be here when we are all long gone - as a testament to the generosity of the benefactors and philanthropists of today.

The Foundation Office arranges a wide range of events. Recently we have held Dinners at Hagley Hall and the House of Lords, also receptions and reunions at a variety of locations across the UK and overseas, at venues kindly lent by OBs, as well as at the School. Later in 2010, The Lord Heseltine will deliver the Second Foundation Lecture, the Inaugural Lecture having been delivered so expertly

by Sir David Arculus in November 2009. To view upcoming events, to which all are warmly welcomed, please visit the Foundation pages of the School website, www.bromsgrove-school.co.uk.

Alternatively please telephone the Foundation Office on 01527 579679 or email foundation@bromsgrove-school.co.uk for further information.

Friends Of Bromsgrove School (FOBS) groups have been established in Germany and the US. During 2010 FOBS groups will also be set up in Hong Kong, Australia and Thailand.

Events will be arranged in each country, often to tie in with the Headmaster visiting, to allow OBs to keep in touch, hear news of Bromsgrove and of former colleagues, and support the School.

Sir David Arculus delivering the Inaugural Foundation Lecture

CCF Presentation by Current Pupils to Old Bromsgrovians

The Cookes Legacy Society, established in memory of the School’s Founder, Sir Thomas Cookes, held its first lunch in December 2009 and much kind support has followed. Professor Sir Michael Drury spoke eloquently, and the School CCF entertained wonderfully. For those who pledge to support the School in their wills, this will become an even more special annual event.

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The Foundation Trustees

The Foundation Office

Viscount Cobham President

Louisa Wyatt, Foundation Director Telephone: +44 (0) 1527 579679 ext 365 Email: lwyatt@bromsgrove-school.co.uk

John Wheatley Chairman

Megan Griffiths, Foundation & Alumni Co-ordinator Telephone: +44 (0) 1527 579679 ext 366 Email: mgriffiths@bromsgrove-school.co.uk

Chris Edwards Headmaster

If you are considering making a gift, then please either contact the Foundation Office, who will be able to advise you on tax-efficient ways to do so, or refer to the Foundation pages of the School website, www.bromsgrove-school.co.uk.

Matthew Horton (OB, Cookes 1962-1967) School Governor Richard Noake (OB, Elmshurst 1959-1964) School Governor Clive Parkes (OB, Cookes 1966-1961) Bromsgrovian Club committee member John Rogers (Director of Services 1995-2007) (Foundation Director 2007-2008) Tim Pile School Governor Digby, Lord Jones of Birmingham (OB, Walters 19691974)

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Anthony Rudell (OB, Elmshurst 1960-1963) Ronan Treacy Jayne Willetts

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Foundation Chairman John Wheatley alongside Viscount Cobham (President), Chris Edwards (Headmaster) and Louisa Wyatt (Foundation Director)

Donors Since 2007 The Trustees of Bromsgrove School Foundation, the Governors of Bromsgrove School and the Headmaster wish to reiterate their gratitude to all our donors for their generous support. We are delighted to acknowledge all those who have made contributions to the School since 2007.

Cookes House Robin Berry (OB 1964-1969) T. Matthew Horton (OB 1962-1967, Parent, exChairman of Governors, Foundation Trustee) Mr Noel Nicholls – donation for BSEC (OB 1963-1968) Elmshurst House David Cariss (OB 1949-1953) Hugh Furber (OB 1952-1957) Robert Hurst (OB 1945-1950) Charles Pearson (OB 1960-1965) Gordon House C C J Forge (deceased, OB 1933-1939) Clive Gummow (OB 1952-1957) Rear Admiral Sir David Haslam (deceased, OB 1936-1941) Anthony Hilton (OB 1945-1950) David Shirra (OB 1950-1954) Brig. Anthony Spackman (OB 1944-1949) Lupton House A K (Jake) Barton (deceased, OB 1921-1929) Dr Kim Daniels (OB 1960-1965) Peter Fielden (deceased, OB 1944-1949, Head of Biology, Housemaster and Bromsgrovian Club Registrar) Patrick Firminger (OB 1942-1947) School House Paul Boardman (OB 1965-1970) Stuart Carmichael (deceased, OB 1945-1950) John Clayson (OB 1952-1957) Nicholas Esson (OB 1964-1969) Anthony Horton (OB 1954-1959) J. Roy Hughes (OB 1945-1950) Charles Jay (OB 1937-1941) Geoffrey John (OB 1947-1951) Garth Kenderdine-Davies (OB 1941-1947) Colin Kleiser (OB 1950-1955) James (Jim) Page (OB 1945-1949; Staff 1960-1989)

School House (continued) Christopher Price (OB 1939-1944) Michael Rees (OB 1940-1950) Michael Roberts (OB 1944-1949) David Roscoe (OB 1944-1949) John Rose (OB 1948-1951) John Say (OB 1939-1943) Robert Williams (OB 1963-1968) Wendron House Roger Brazier (OB 1937-1941) Leslie Francis (OB 1939-1942) David Harrison (OB 1945-1950) Simon Lowndes (OB 1973-1979) Parents Patrick Adler Sqdn Ldr S Burch Dr Philip & Dr Louise Cox Neil & Brigitte Edwards Tang Sui Leung Shule Li Kwan Kin Lun Dr Sadafumi Shikano Jacqueline Shrimpton Chan Chi Wong Mr and Mrs H Yan Mr Yanovskiy and Mrs Yanovskaya Staff and Other Donors J Davies Dr C Elliot Anthony Finn (Staff 1964-1992) Thomas Horton & Sons Dr Jeffrey Lewins (Former Governor) Old Bromsgrovian Lodge Jon Moulton (Alchemy Partners LLP) Eulalia (Eulie) Peto (deceased donor) Clem Schilizzi (Staff 1957-1982) Celia Skitt (Staff 1959-1980) Helen Smith (Staff dates unknown) Ian Walker (Staff 1965-1970) Tim Watts (Pertemps Investments) 1 Anonymous Donor

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Our Alumni and The Bromsgrovian Club Bromsgrove School hold details of almost 7000 past pupils, known as “Old Bromsgrovians”.

The Bromsgrovian Club comprises of a committee of Old Bromsgrovians who act as ‘officers’.

Hans Rostrup (OB, School 1972-1977) is Chairman and Anthony Hilton (OB, Gordon 1945-1950) is President.

The club exists to “support the further development of the School and its facilities, to assist the present generation of the School’s pupils in everyway possible and to maintain full and helpful contact between Old Bromsgrovians and their school throughout their lives”.

The Bromsgrovian Club can also offer financial assistance to Old Bromsgrovians who are looking to undertake a GAP year, medical elective or a project of a charitable nature.

You can contact the Bromsgrovian Club via Megan Griffiths at the School, telephone +44 1527 579679 ext 366 or email mgriffiths@bromsgrove-school.co.uk

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Bromsgrove School is a company limited by guarantee and registered in England. Company No: 4808121.

Registered Charity No. 1098740 Registered Office: Bromsgrove School, Worcester Road, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, B61 7DU Telephone: +44 (0) 1527 579679 Email: enquiries@bromsgrove-school.co.uk Web: http://www.bromsgrove-school.co.uk