Repton School
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| Motto |
Porta Vacat Culpa (Latin: "The gate is free from blame") |
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| Established |
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| Type | Independent day and Boarding School |
| Religion | Anglican |
| Headmaster | Alastair Land |
| Chaplain | Adam Watkinson |
| Chairman of Governors | Sir Henry Every Bt |
| Founder | Sir John Port |
| Location |
Repton Derbyshire DE65 6FH England Coordinates: 52°50′27″N 1°33′04″W / 52.8409°N 1.5510°W |
| Local authority | Derbyshire Council |
| DfE URN | 113009 Tables |
| Staff | ~100 |
| Students | ~600 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 13–18 |
| Houses | 10 |
| Colours |
Navy and Yellow |
| Preparatory School | Repton Preparatory School |
| Former pupils | Old Reptonians |
| Bursar | Carl Bilson |
| Website | www |
Navy and Yellow
Repton School is a co-educational independent school for day and boarding pupils in Repton, Derbyshire, England. The school has around 660 pupils aged between 13 and 18, of whom 451 are boarders. Repton School taught only boys for its first 400 years; Repton started accepting girls in the sixth form early in the 1970s, and within 20 years became completely coeducational.
The school was founded by in a bequest of Sir John Port of Etwall, who died in 1557 leaving funds to establish a grammar school at Etwall or Repton, provided the students prayed daily for his family's souls.
In 1559 Gilbert Thacker granted buildings at the site of Repton Priory for the school, but lawsuits quickly began between the School and the Thacker family focusing on use of the approach to their home. Relations with the Thackers deteriorated such that, by 1650s, the school and the family were embroiled in litigation. In 1642, the school commenced an action against the Thacker family and in 1652 the family also brought an action against the school which was settled out of court. The atmosphere around the dispute was aggressive and on occasions the Thackers diverted drains into the school's buildings by constructing dams. In 1670 a wall was built to keep the parties apart.
Pupil numbers seem to have oscillated between 80 and 200 in the first hundred years, but as the school was free until 1768 it is unclear how teaching was afforded.
The headmaster was free to keep, and did keep, cattle in a room within the school in this period.
A pupil's letter home in 1728 relates to his father that the headmaster, George Fletcher, would withhold meals from the boys if they were unable to recite scripture.
The school declined in the 1700s and the 1800s.
Pupil numbers were below 50 by 1833, and a former pupil recalled after leaving:
"even more than the paucity of its numbers, was the almost total absence of all those facilities... cricket ground we had none. Football was played upon the gravel, between the Arch, and the broken pillars...No gymnasium, no fives court, no racquet court...No French, no German, no Music, no Natural Science... No chapel, no master's house beyond the Arch, no bridge (at first) across the Trent, no railway.... Why did even 50 boys resort to Sir John Port's old School?"
Although by 1830s some of the reforms of Dr. Thomas Arnold were being implemented at the school, the school went into further decline in the following decades.
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