page_title: Polwhele House School
section_title: School site
hierarchical_section_title: Polwhele House School / School site
caption_attribution_description: English: Polwhele House School Photographed from high above and to the South, this charming school is home to some of the best young voices in Cornwall, source of the Truro Catherderal Choir
context_page_description: Polwhele House School is a day and boarding prep school at Polwhele House, near Truro, Cornwall.
  It follows the thirteen-plus Common Entrance Examination syllabus.
  In 2020, the school announced plans to provide senior school education, slowly extending its leaving age to sixteen, with a Year 9 class to be launched in September 2020.
context_section_description: Polwhele House is a Grade II listed manor house, standing in 32 acres of parkland, playing fields, gardens, and woods, about two miles north of Truro.
  The earliest parts of the main house date from the 16th century, and granite arches from that time are the oldest features still to be seen. Richard Polwhele, a clergyman and local historian, inherited the property from his father and in the 1820s renovated the coach house. In the 1860s, Thomas Carne Polwhele had the house remodelled and enlarged by Giles Gilbert Scott. The Polwhele family motto, "Karenza Whelas Karenza", meaning "Love begets Love", is engraved on a stone chimneypiece in the drawing room of the house and has been adopted as the school’s motto.
caption: Aerial view of the school
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