Established 1912 Chair School Board Ms A Martin Phone +44 1423 333300 Founded 1912 | Head Master Steven Jandrell Ages 3 months–19 years Founder Nathaniel Woodard | |
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Type Independent Boarding & Day School Location Thorpe Underwood
York
North Yorkshire
YO26 9SS
England Address Thorpe Underwood Hall, Thorpe Green Ln, York YO26 9SS, UK Motto "Luce Magistra" meaning Light being the test (from the Preface to Ode to the Emperor Honarius by Claudian) Similar Bootham School, Ashville College, York College, St Peter's School, Harrogate Ladies' College Profiles | ||
Queen ethelburga s collegiate
Queen Ethelburga's Collegiate is an independent school for girls and boys from 3 months to 19 years old, offering day, weekly and full boarding places. Founded in 1912 in Harrogate, it is now located in Thorpe Underwood, near Little Ouseburn, northwest of York, England.
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The Head Master is Steven Jandrell BA.
The School is a member of the Independent Schools Association.
Pupil numbers of Queen Ethelburga's Collegiate have risen from a total of 550 in 2007 to 1,590 in 2015. In the same period £80m has been invested in new facilities and resources, including a new sports village, new boarding houses and new classrooms.
Queen Ethelburga's Collegiate comprises four schools:- Chapter House Preparatory School, King's Magna Middle School, Queen Ethelburga's College and The Faculty of Queen Ethelburga's. It also has a Kindergarten for children under three.
History
Queen Ethelburga’s originally belonged to the Woodard Corporation, founded by Nathaniel Woodard. The sister senior school was Queen Margaret’s School at Escrick and the Junior School was Queen Mary’s at Baldersby Park near Thirsk.
The School foundation stone was laid on 21 October 1910 by Viscountess Mountgarret, its inscription was ‘Pro deo et ecclesia’ – For God and the Church. It was laid on the right hand side of the school door facing the building.
The school was opened on 27 September 1912 by the Duchess of Albany, with Derwent and Lyminge opened by Lord Halifax on 18 June 1932. The Chapel was given by Lord Mountgarret and dedicated to St Aiden. Its foundation stone was laid on 8 May 1911 by the Archbishop of York and its inscription is ‘Jesus himself being the chief corner stone’. In 1991 Queen Ethelburga's School left the Woodward Corporation and became truly independent, owned by an International Trust, and renamed Queen Ethelburga's College. At this time it moved from Harrogate to the present campus at Thorpe Underwood and a huge investment programme was commenced.
The senior school has been co-educational since 1999 and draws pupils from over 30 countries.
The E. & L. group of insurance companies is based on the school site.
Rankings
Queen Ethelburga's Collegiate was ranked 10th by the Daily Telegraph, for A*/A A-Level Results, in their 2015 UK Independent School League Tables. The Faculty of Queen Ethelburga's was ranked 11th in the same League Table.
In the Daily Telegraph 2013 Top 100 Secondary Schools in the UK, including all State and all Independent Schools, Queen Ethelburga's College was ranked 44th.
Queen Ethelburga's Collegiate was named as the best school in the county for students scoring high GCSE results in 2015.
The 2016 pass rate at Queen Ethelburga's Collegiate was 100%, with 98% of its A-Level grades A* to B.
Sports
Queen Ethelburga 's rugby union first team secured the 2015 British Colleges National Cup.
Yorkshire County Cricket Club has agreed a partnership with the school. This will include the creation of a joint cricket academy for 16 to 19 year old players.
Awards
Healthy School of the Year in the 2016 TES Awards.
Independent Schools Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sport 2015.
Commended for Outstanding Progress Award at an Independent School at the Education Business Awards.
Charities
Pupils raise £5,500 in one week for Chinese earthquake appeal.
Controversies
In March and June 2015 the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) conducted emergency visits. A number of regulations and standards were not met. The report expressed concern about CCTV cameras at the school, numbering approximately 700, some of which were in locations where Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) children changed. The report also found that suitability of staff, supply staff and proprietors regulations and standards were not met. The section of its report relating to quality of leadership in and management of the schools, stated that the then provost and chair of governors, Brian Martin, had acted contrary to the requirements of current statutory guidance on child safeguarding.
In November 2015 North Yorkshire Police reported that former chair of governors Brian Martin, 66, had been arrested on 20 October in Harrogate on suspicion of indecent assault on a child and on conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and voyeurism. Martin stepped down as chair of governors. He was replaced, as a named person with designated responsibility for child protection, by the new Chair of the Collegiate Board, Amy Martin, his daughter. He was later charged with 10 counts of indecent assault, three counts of attempted buggery and one count each of possessing indecent images and buggery. All charges relate to two children between 1982 and 1995. He is due to stand trial at Leeds Crown Court on 10 July 2017.
In May 2016 The Guardian reported that, in March 2012, $20,792 (£14,350) was sent via Lloyds Bank in Harrogate to Queen Ethelburga’s Collegiate. This was said to be money laundered from the Russian Hermitage Capital Management fraud.
In 2015, £5,000,000 of taxpayers' money was used to subsidise Armed Forces' boarders at the school. This was more than double the amount paid to any other fee-paying school.
Traditions
Queen Ethelburga was the daughter of King Ethelbert and Queen Bertha of Kent, (both were Christians). She married Edwin, the heathen King of Northumbria in 625 AD. She took her Chaplain, Paulinus north with her and converted her husband, who was baptised by Paulinus, the first Archbishop of York, in 627 AD on the site where York Minster now stands. Edwin was killed fighting for Christianity against Penda of Mercia. The people became heathen again and Queen Ethelburga and her children fled South. Queen Ethelburga founded an abbey at Lyminge, near Folkestone, where she died in 647 AD. The school is named after Ethelburga because she first brought Christianity to the North and because she founded a school for maidens which was attended by St Hilda, later Abbess of Whitby.