Kingsmead School, Hoylake
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| Motto | Dominus Vitae Robur (The Lord is the Strength of my Life) |
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| Established | 1904 |
| Type | Independent |
| Religion | Non-denominational Christian |
| Headmaster | Mark Gibbons |
| Deputy headmaster | Julian Eisner |
| Chairman of Governors | Tim Turvey |
| Founder | Arthur Watts |
| Location |
Bertram Drive Hoylake WIRRAL CH47 0LL England 53°23′51″N 3°10′06″W / 53.3975°N 3.1682°WCoordinates: 53°23′51″N 3°10′06″W / 53.3975°N 3.1682°W |
| Local authority | Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council |
| DfE number | 344/6014 |
| DfE URN | 105121 Tables |
| Staff | 32 teaching, 39 support |
| Students | 215 |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 2–16 |
| Houses |
Hilbre Ness Royden |
| Colours |
Bottle Green Navy Blue |
| Former pupils | Old Kingsmeadians |
| School hymn | "Through All the Changing Scenes of Life" |
| Website | kingsmeadschool |
Kingsmead School is a co-educational independent day School for boys and girls aged 2 to 16, located in Hoylake, on the Wirral Peninsula. The school was founded in 1904 by Arthur Watts, a Baptist minister and mathematician. In 1911 the school motto was selected, "Dominus Vitae Robur" – The Lord is the Strength of my Life. Kingsmead is a member of the Independent Association of Preparatory Schools (IAPS).
In 1904, Arthur Watts, a gifted mathematician and one of six sons of a Baptist minister, founded Kingsmead School. His dream was to establish a Christian school in which ‘the environment would be ideal for learning well, for playing good games and keeping physically fit’. All but one of his brothers became involved in the school’s early years; three of them were scholars of the University of Cambridge.
World War I claimed the lives of thirteen Old Kingsmeadians and each one was a personal bereavement to Arthur Watts. Two Kingsmeadians won the Military Cross – a master, Lieutenant Lavery, and old boy F W Atherton who was just 19 years old.
The years between the wars were ones of economy and survival as the Great Depression took the world in its grip. It would take until 1944 for numbers to return to their 1921 levels. By 1939 Kingsmead was 35 years old and Arthur Watts, aged 68, had just two years in which he shared the running of the school with his son before Gordon was called up to the RAF. At 70, Arthur was left to steer Kingsmead alone through another war.
After the Second World War, another son, David, returned to Kingsmead in 1949 to run the school in partnership with his brother Gordon. He soon became the sole head and during his 30-year leadership the school continued to expand, becoming co-educational in the mid-1960s. New facilities followed each other rapidly: a heated indoor pool, woodland plantation, the Memorial Hall and new science labs. In 1966 an Educational Trust was set up to secure the school for the future.
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