Lodge School (Barbados)
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| Motto |
Possunt Quia Posse Videntur They can because they think they can |
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| Established | 1745 |
| Type | Government secondary |
| Religion | Anglican |
| Headmaster | V Dash |
| Chairman of Board of Management | Patterson Cheltenham QC, appointed by the Minister of Education |
| Founder | Christopher Codrington |
| Location |
Society St John Barbados |
| Students | Approximately 973 |
| Gender | 497 boys and 476 girls |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Codrington, Emtage, Gooding, Laborde, Wedderburn |
| School song | Here we stand where our fathers standing. |
| Official phone | 1 (246) 423 3834 |
| Former pupils | Old Lodge Boys |
In 2010 The Lodge School celebrated its 265th anniversary as an institution of learning in Barbados. This extended period has not been continuous, as the school has closed and reopened four times during these two and a half centuries. The school has been known as Codrington College, The College, The Mansion School, the Codrington Grammar School, The Codrington Foundation School, Codrington Collegiate School, Codrington Endowed School, Codrington Lodge Grammar School and The Lodge Collegiate School. By 1882 the school's name had finally settled on The Lodge School, after the Chaplain's Lodge where some of the early classes were undertaken.
The Lodge school, had its beginnings in a bequest made by Sir Christopher Codrington who had two estates on the island. The Codrington experiment was to baptise and instruct in Christian education which was greeted with much suspicion by other Barbadian slave owners in the 18th century. Codrington managers were ordered to give his people time off for themselves (usually a Saturday), Sunday being reserved for Christian instruction through which they were to have the benefits of education and the consolations of Christian religion.
There is some dispute as to the exact date of the school's foundation. Building work is recorded as having commenced in 1714, but was not finished until 1743.The Barbados Pocket Book of 1838 however records that the Codrington Foundation School was founded in 1721. When the school opened its doors to twelve foundationers to "teach them gratis, the Sons of such Persons as shall be judged not to be in Sufficient Circumstances to bring them up in learning the learned languages" on 9 September 1745, some recognise this date officially as its inception. Other pupils were fee paying and most were boarders. The Lodge School is therefore one of the oldest secondary educational establishments on Barbados.
The bequest, Codrington Foundation School, was established with the purpose of educating boys who could be subsequently trained in "the study and practice of divinity, physic and chirurgery" there and at other seminaries in the region. In History of Barbados its author Robert Hermann Schomburgk gives an early account of Codrington College on pages 111–123. The first Bishop of Barbados, William Hart Coleridge [1], contributed immensely to the development of education in Barbados. The promotion of education was high on his agenda and the number of schools increased from eight to 83 during his episcopate. The number of children receiving education in these schools increased from 500 to 7000.
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