Jesuit School | Jesuits in Britain Political Activist and Priest - Fidel Castro and His Jesuit Mentor Since the USA restored diplomatic relations with Cuba in July 2015 and Pope Francis visited the Caribbean island last September, Cuba is fast becoming a popular holiday destination. But some people might be unaware that its controversial former president, Fidel Castro - who celebrated his 90th birthday last week - was educated by the Jesuits.Fidel Castro wasn’t the best student. Known for being a troublemaker, he was taught in two other schools before being sent to study under the Jesuits... Artist in Residence inspires Aloysius’ pupils In a unique partnership project between St Aloysius’ College and the Glasgow School of Art, Bafta Award-winning artist Kevin Walls spent 12 weeks as the College’s ‘Artist in Residence’, guiding Aloysians as they created innovative self-portraits. St Aloysius’ College and the Glasgow School of Art are close neighbours in Glasgow’s Cultural Quarter, and have shared a number of projects together in the past year. Mrs Daly, the Head of Art and Design at the...

St Ignatius' College welcomes new Headteacher Governors are delighted to announce the appointment of Mary O’Keeffe as the new Headteacher of St Ignatius College. Mrs O’Keeffe joined the College as Deputy Headteacher in September 2015, having previously been Deputy Headteacher at St James’ Catholic High School in Barnet. Mrs O’Keeffe takes over from the Executive Headteacher, Mr Kelly, with whom she has worked very closely. Following a national recruitment campaign, the Governors said they are privileged... Cardinal Bo makes inspirational speech at Stonyhurst College His Eminence Cardinal Charles Maung Bo visited Stonyhurst College on Saturday 21st May, and delivered an inspiring talk to the students and staff of Stonyhurst College, in which he talked about the role of the Catholic Church and the struggle for religious freedom in his country Burma, or Myanmar. Cardinal Bo opened his speech noting “a deep appreciation and respect for Jesuit scholarship and learning, and a recognition that Jesuits are the best educators ….You are the...

“My Green Blazer” stories of St Aloysius College families The Green Blazer worn as the key part of their uniform by all students at Scotland’s only Jesuit school, St Aloysius College, Glasgow - boys and girls, juniors and seniors - is an instantly recognizable sight around the city. Each and every one in the Aloysian community has his or her own “Green Blazer Story”.The photograph of 8 year old Jack Hamilton shows how happy he is to be wearing the Green Blazer. His mother declares, “the most important thing is that Jack is happy at school; if he’s... St Joseph's RC Primary School It is apparent to all who enter our school that St Joseph's is a Jesuit Catholic community where the teachings of Christ are followed. Every child, member of staff, parent and visitor is treated with respect. As a school, we are proud to serve our parish and the community by giving our pupils the very best start in their education. Our Jesuit identity is clear to all who visit.Our children's wellbeing and development is at the heart of all that we do. Our very experienced staff is dedicated to... Wimbledon College The Jesuits in Britain developed a variety of ministries alongside the parish in Wimbledon.

In 1892, they purchased Brackenbury’s, the Anglican Preparatory Military Academy, which had closed down in 1887 and re-opened it as Wimbledon College. The school became a grammar school in 1944 and a comprehensive school in 1969, and over the ensuing years, has substantially increased its facilities. It is currently a state-maintained, voluntary aided (non-fee paying), secondary school for Catholic... St Mary's Hall St Mary's Hall is the Jesuit Preparatory School to Stonyhurst College, which educates boys and girls between 7 and 13 years of age. St Mary's Hall also has a thriving pre-preparatory department for 3-7 year-olds, based in Hodder House.Head: Mr Lawrence CrouchTel. 01254 826242Email: smh-headmaster@stonyhurst.ac.uk St John's Beaumont The village of Old Windsor in Berkshire is home to St John's Beaumont independent school. Opened in 1888, it was originally a preparatory school for nearby Beaumont College, which was closed in 1967.

St John’s Beaumont was designed by John Francis Bentley, one of the most famous architects of his day and the architect of Westminster Cathedral in London. It was built initially for 60 boys aged between 7 and 13, but over recent years the school has expanded both its classroom provision and its... St Ignatius College St Ignatius College in Enfield, Herts, provides a Catholic education in the Jesuit tradition for boys aged 11-18. Originally founded in 1894 and based in Stamford Hill, the College was set up to serve young men in North East London. It has been on the Enfield site since 1968. The school has an excellent reputation for its exam results and for nurturing a community that fosters an understanding of the Catholic faith and the value of learning. St Ignatius College has an extensive programme of... Map of Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall - The Full Wiki The Full Wiki Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall: Map Advertisements Map showing all locations mentioned on Wikipedia article: Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall (commonly known as S.M.H.) is the preparatory school to Stonyhurst College .

It is an independent, Roman Catholic school in the Jesuit tradition, offering boarding and day education to boys and girls aged three to thirteen, and is the lineal descendant of Hodder Place . It is situated on an adjacent site to Stonyhurst College , outside the small village of Hurst Green was founded in 1593 as the English Jesuit College at St Omers in present-day France at a time when Catholic education was prohibited by law in England. Having moved to Bruges in 1762 and then Liege in 1773, due to the persecution of the Jesuit order which ran the school, it finally settled at Stonyhurst in 1794. An attempt had been made to found a preparatory school to the College at St Omers, which would have been based in Boulogne but this was abandoned and ultimately thwarted by the expulsion of the Jesuits from France in 1762. In 1768 new buildings were erected for a preparatory school at Bruges; this 'Little College' was closed in 1775, two years after the migration of the College to Liège.

Thirteen years after the settlement in England the preparatory school was finally established in 1807. Hodder Place, former Jesuit novitiate and preparatory school Hodder Place The Stonyhurst Estate donated by an old boy of the College at St Omers, Thomas Weld, included the Shireburn family Hall and a large building on the edge of the River Hodder , Hodder Place. The latter opened as a Jesuit novitiate when the Jesuits were formally re-established in Britain in 1803. Four years later, preparatory, the youngest pupils in the school, which had settled in the Hall, were transferred to Hodder Place. It was not until 1855 however, that the preparatory school was formally opened. The building underwent extension in 1836 and again in 1869 when two towers were constructed on either side. Hodder place continued to function as the preparatory school to the College until 1970 when it was shut and converted into residential flats. A rugby pitch still remains adjacent to the building and is used today by Saint Mary's Hall both for sports and, during the summer, as a campsite.

Saint Mary's Hall SMH from across the sports pitches Between 1828 and 1830, a new building in Georgian style, was constructed closer to the college and opened as the new novitiate, Saint Mary's Hall. In the nineteenth century, the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins trained as a priest there, and in the twentieth century, John Tolkien, son of J.R.R. Tolkien also trained there. The building was extended with two symmetrical wings on either side in the 1850s when the symmetry of the College's south front was also finally completed. Saint Mary's Hall continued to function as a seminary until 1926 when the seminarians were moved to Heythrop Hall in Oxfordshire. The building lay derelict until the English College moved in for the duration of the War. After their return to Rome, Figures Playroom was transferred from the College to Saint Mary's Hall, which opened as a middle school to Stonyhurst in 1946. When Hodder Place was closed in 1970, the pupils were moved across to Saint Mary's Hall to form Hodder Playroom.

As successor to Hodder Place, SMH has a claim to be the oldest surviving preparatory school in Britain. Since the addition of wings and the chapel extension in the nineteenth century, the buildings of Saint Mary's Hall changed comparatively little, except due to extensive fire damage in the 1980s, which destroyed much of the building's wooden panelling. In 1993, as part of the Stonyhurst Centenaries, celebrating the four-hundredth anniversary of the school's founding and the two-hundredth anniversary of its settlement at Stonyhurst the year later, a new state-of-the-art theatre was built in the grounds, the Centenaries Theatre. Since then, the old theatre has been transformed into a new entrance and library, and, with the transition to co-education in 1997, girls dormitories have been created in the old craft, design and technology attic, and new changing facilities for girls created at the back of the sports Hall. Hodder House In 2004, the old gymnasium was converted into new nursery and reception facilities, and named Hodder House.

It educates children aged 3-8, making it now possible to undergo fifteen years of education at Stonyhurst. Rebranding Until 2007, SMH was officially known as "Saint Mary's Hall, Stonyhurst". The new Headmaster of the College, Andrew Johnson, insisted that a new name was necessary to bring the Stonyhurst campus closer together; SMH is now officially known as "Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall". Religious Life The Chapel at St Mary's Hall Saint Mary's Hall is a Roman Catholic school, overseen by the Jesuit order. As such, the Jesuit ethos pervades the life of the school, with emphasis upon spiritual development, reasoning skills and the creation of Men and Women for Others. Mass is celebrated for the whole school on feast days, prayers are said at morning assembly, and night prayers in the chapel bring the day to a close. Charity is encouraged through the observance of CAFOD lunches, where money saved from simplifying the menu is given to charity, and through the school's own charity "Children for Children".

Each year Saint Mary's Hall plays host to the "Stonyhurst Children's Holiday Trust" week, when children with disabilities or from disadvantaged backgrounds are looked after by pupils from the College. Saint Mary's Hall has its own chapel, where mass is said, as well as the Stations of the Cross during Lent and the Rosary throughout October and May. A portable altar also enables the Centenaries Theatre to be used for school masses. Religious iconography is present throughout the school. A statue of the Sacred Heart , restored by the College stonemason in 2008, stands atop the entrance to the old Jesuit escape tunnel in the garden; a statue of Mary and a mosaic altar occupy a position beneath the main staircase in the hallway; there is a grotto beside the stone steps adjacent to the building, where night prayers are said during the Summer Term; and there are statues in the playrooms, and crosses in every classroom and dormitory. It is a long-standing tradition for pupils to write 'May Verses'. These are poems written in honour of Mary, Mother of Jesus. During the month of May they adorn the school's main staircase. As at the College, pupils write A.M.D.G.

in the top left hand corner of any piece of work they do. It stands for the Latin phrase Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam which means For the Greater Glory of God. At the end of a piece of work they write L.D.S. in the centre of the page. It stands for Laus Deo Semper which means Praise to God Always. These are both traditional Jesuit mottoes. Religious Education is compulsory for all pupils at the school. Since the opening of Hodder House in 2004, the nativity, performed by the youngest members of the school, has become an annual fixture on the calendar. School Organisation The Playroom System Unlike most English public schools, Stonyhurst is organised horizontally by year groups (known as playrooms) rather than vertically by houses. Each playroom has an assigned playroom master, with each cohort moving through the playrooms, having a sequence of playroom masters (rather than being allocated into a house with housemaster for their whole time in the college, as happens in other schools). Hodder House Lines Stonyhurst Park Cross.

In addition to the playrooms, there is also a system which cuts through the year groups: the "lines", which are used mostly for sports and competitions. The Lines and colours are as follows: Campion (Red) (after St Edmund Campion ) St Omers (Yellow, though Brown for sporting attire) (after St Omer , the town the school was founded in) Shireburn (Green) (after the Shireburn family that built Stonyhurst) Weld (Blue) (after the Weld family that donated Stonyhurst) Pupils remain in the same line throughout their time at the school, and if their parents were also pupils, automatically enter the same line. Prefects St Mary's Hall has a head boy and head girl. Duties rotate between members of Rudiments Playroom according to the "Line period", when tasks are allotted to members of a particular Line. Discipline At St Mary's Hall, behaviour is typically rewarded or punished through the use of "Line Cards". Each pupil carries their card at all times. It is signed on the left-hand side with a brief explanation by the teacher as a punishment, or "debit".

It is signed on the right-hand side with an explanation as a reward or "credit". The cards are coloured according to line membership. The total number of credits and debits, in part, determines which line is awarded a special dinner. Line points are allotted or deducted for academic work and also contribute to the line dinner allocation. As at the college, the most severe punishment is permanent expulsion, and below that, temporary suspension. Uniform Boys wear grey shorts and grey knee-length socks (except Rudiments and Figures who wear trousers), white shirt, green tie, green jumper, and green blazers. Girls wear white blouses, green ties, green jumpers, green blazers and skirts in the College tartan, known as Lady Borrowdale's gift and based on a fragment of tartan worn by Bonnie Prince Charlie on his flight from Culloden across to Skye. This was also worn on the Queen’s visit to the College in 1990. Special ties are awarded for excellence in sport or for other achievements. Rudiments wear special ties with the school emblem repeated. Furthermore the comitee wear similar ties with red sections. Academic Academic standards are high, owing in part to small classes, of usually no more than fifteen.

In Rudiments, pupils sit the Common Entrance or Scholarship examinations in preparation for entry to the College . Extra Curricular As at the College , Saint Mary's Hall follows a broad-based curriculum, encouraging participation in in a range of activities including sport, music, drama, and art. Drama Drama classes are compulsory at Saint Mary's Hall, where additional classes may be taken in preparation for LAMDA examinations and entry into the Blackburn Festival. Plays are a regular fixture on the calendar, as are dramatic performances by pupils at the 'Friday Presentations', when the school gathers on a Friday evening to be entertained by a talk or production in the Centenaries Theatre. Each year, the staff also stage the school pantomime; pupils are asked to gather in the theatre under the guise of a "staff announcement". The Ark SMH had, until recently, a small rare breeds farm with pigs, hens, rabbits, sheep, fish and birds. Known as "The Ark", it was looked after by the children, under the supervision of staff. The Ark was closed due to animal welfare concerns.

Alumni/ae Notable Alumni/ae: Learn and talk about Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall, 1807 establishments in England, Catholic boarding schools in England, Educational institutions established in 1807, Jesuit secondary schools in England See also: Stonyhurst College Stonyhurst College was founded in 1593 as the English Jesuit College at St Omers in present-day France at a time when Catholic education was prohibited by law in England. Having moved to Bruges in 1762 and then Liege in 1773, due to the persecution of the Jesuit order which ran the school, it finally settled at Stonyhurst in 1794. An attempt had been made to found a preparatory school to the College at St Omers, which would have been based in Boulogne , but this was abandoned and ultimately thwarted by the expulsion of the Jesuits from France in 1762. [2] In 1768 new buildings were erected for a preparatory school at Bruges; this 'Little College' was closed in 1775, two years after the migration of the College to Liège.

[3] Thirteen years after the settlement in England the preparatory school was finally established in 1807. [4] Hodder Place, former Jesuit novitiate and preparatory school Hodder Place[ edit ] The Stonyhurst Estate donated by an old boy of the College at St Omers, Thomas Weld, included the Shireburn family Hall and a large building on the edge of the River Hodder , Hodder Place. The latter opened as a Jesuit novitiate when the Jesuits were formally re-established in Britain in 1803. Four years later, preparatory, the youngest pupils in the school, which had settled in the Hall, were transferred to Hodder Place. It was not until 1855, however, that the preparatory school was formally opened. The building underwent extension in 1836 and again in 1869 when two towers were constructed on either side. [5] Hodder Place continued to function as the preparatory school to the College until 1970 when it was shut and converted into residential flats.

A rugby pitch still remains adjacent to the building and is very occasionally used today by St Mary's Hall both for sports and, during the summer, as a campsite for boarding pupils, under the supervision of the boarding staff. St Mary's Hall[ edit ] Gerard Manley Hopkins Between 1828 and 1830, a new building in Georgian style, was constructed closer to the college and opened as the new novitiate, St Mary's Hall. In the nineteenth century, the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins trained as a priest there, and in the twentieth century John Tolkien, son of J.R.R. Tolkien , also trained there. The building was extended with two symmetrical wings on either side in the 1850s when the symmetry of the College's south front was also finally completed. St Mary's Hall continued to function as a seminary until 1926 when the seminarians were moved to Heythrop Hall in Oxfordshire. The building lay derelict until the English College moved in for the duration of the War. After their return to Rome, Figures Playroom was transferred from the College to St Mary's Hall, which opened as a middle school to Stonyhurst in 1946.

When Hodder Place was closed in 1970, the pupils were moved across to St Mary's Hall to form Hodder Playroom. As successor to Hodder Place, SMH has a claim to be the oldest surviving preparatory school in Britain. [6] [7] Since the addition of wings and the chapel extension in the nineteenth century, the buildings of St Mary's Hall changed comparatively little, except due to extensive fire damage in the 1980s, which destroyed much of the building's wooden panelling. In 1993, as part of the Stonyhurst Centenaries, celebrating the four-hundredth anniversary of the school's founding and the two-hundredth anniversary of its settlement at Stonyhurst the year later, a new state-of-the-art theatre was built in the grounds, the Centenaries Theatre. Since then, the old theatre has been transformed into a new entrance and library, and, with the transition to co-education in 1997, girls' dormitories have been created in the old craft, design, and technology attic, and new changing facilities for girls created at the back of the Sports Hall.

Hodder House[ edit ] In 2004, the old gymnasium was converted into new Foundation Stage and KS1 facility, and named Hodder House. It educates children ages 3–7, making it now possible to undergo fifteen years of education at Stonyhurst. Rebranding[ edit ] Until 2007, SMH was officially known as "St Mary's Hall, Stonyhurst". The new Headmaster of the College, Andrew Johnson, insisted that a new name was necessary to bring the Stonyhurst campus closer together; SMH is now officially known as "Stonyhurst St Mary's Hall". Religious life[ edit ] The Chapel at St Mary's Hall St Mary's Hall is a Roman Catholic school, overseen by the Jesuit order. As such, the Jesuit ethos pervades the life of the school, with emphasis upon spiritual development, reasoning skills, and the creation of Men and Women for Others. Mass is celebrated for the whole school on feast days, prayers are said at morning assembly, and night prayers in the chapel bring the day to a close.

Charity is encouraged through the observance of CAFOD lunches, where money saved from simplifying the menu is given to charity, and through the school's own charity "Children for Children". Each year St Mary's Hall plays host to the "Stonyhurst Children's Holiday Trust" week, when children with disabilities or from disadvantaged backgrounds are looked after by senior pupils from the College. St Mary's Hall has its own chapel, where Mass is said, as well as the Stations of the Cross during Lent and the Rosary throughout October and May. A portable altar also enables the Centenaries Theatre to be used for school Masses. Religious iconography is present throughout the school. A statue of the Sacred Heart , restored by the College stonemason in 2008, stands atop the entrance to the old Jesuit escape tunnel in the garden; [8] a statue of Mary and a mosaic altar occupy a position beneath the main staircase in the hallway; there is a grotto beside the stone steps adjacent to the building, where night prayers are said during the Summer Term; and there are statues in the playrooms and crosses in every classroom and dormitory. It is a long-standing tradition for pupils to write "May Verses".

These are poems written in honour of Mary, Mother of Jesus. During the month of May they adorn the school's main staircase. Since the opening of Hodder House in 2004, the nativity, performed by the youngest members of the school, has become an annual fixture on the calendar. As at the College, pupils write A.M.D.G. in the top, left-hand corner of any piece of work they do. It stands for the Latin phrase Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam which means "To the Greater Glory of God". At the end of a piece of work they write L.D.S. in the centre of the page. It stands for Laus Deo Semper which means "Praise be to God Always". These are both traditional Jesuit mottoes. Religious Education is compulsory for all pupils at the school. Lines[ edit ] Stonyhurst Park Cross. In addition to the playrooms, there is also a system which cuts through the year groups: the "Lines", which are used mostly for sports and competitions.

The Lines and colours are as follows: Campion (Red) (after St Edmund Campion ) St Omers (Yellow, though some brown rugby shirts as yellow shows too much dirt) (after St Omer , the French town where the school was founded) Shireburn (Green) (after the Shireburn family that built Stonyhurst Hall) Weld (Blue) (after the Weld family that donated Stonyhurst) Pupils remain in the same Line throughout their time at the school, and if their parents, older siblings or grandparents etc were also pupils, automatically enter the same Line Prefects[ edit ] St Mary's Hall has a head boy and head girl, whose responsibilities include showing round prospective parents, and speech-giving. Various duties are also assigned to a staff-elected committee of Rudiments pupils. Discipline[ edit ] At St Mary's Hall, behaviour is typically rewarded or punished through the use of "Line Cards". Each pupil carries their card at all times. It is signed on the left-hand side with a brief explanation by the teacher as a punishment, or "debit". It is signed on the right-hand side with an explanation as a reward or "credit". The cards are coloured according to Line membership.

The total number of credits and debits, in part, determines which line is awarded a special Line Supper. Line points are allotted for academic work and also contribute to the Line Supper allocation. As at the college, the most severe punishment is permanent expulsion, and below that, temporary suspension. Uniform[ edit ] Boys wear grey shorts and grey knee-length socks (except Rudiments and Figures who wear trousers), white shirt, green tie, green jumper, and green blazers. Girls wear white blouses, green ties, green jumpers, green blazers and skirts in the College tartan, known as Lady Borrowdale's gift and based on a fragment of tartan worn by Bonnie Prince Charlie on his journey from Culloden across to Skye. This was also worn on Queen Elizabeth II's visit to the College in 1990. [9] Special ties are awarded for excellence in sport or for other achievements. Rudiments wear special ties with the school emblem repeated. Furthermore the committee wear similar ties with red sections. Academic[ edit ] Academic standards are high, owing in part to small classes, of usually no more than fifteen.

In Rudiments, pupils sit the Common Entrance and/or the 11+ Scholarship examinations in preparation for entry to the College . The Common Entrance examinations were only a recent addition to the school. Before that, pupils leaving St Mary's Hall took the Stonyhurst entrance exams, which were internally set. Extra curricular[ edit ] As at the College , St Mary's Hall follows a broad-based curriculum, encouraging participation in a range of activities including sport, music, drama, and art. Drama[ edit ] Drama classes are compulsory at St Mary's Hall, where additional classes may be taken in preparation for LAMDA examinations and entry into the Blackburn Festival. Plays are a regular fixture on the calendar, as are dramatic performances by pupils at the "Friday Presentations", when the school gathers on a Friday evening to be entertained by a talk or production in the Centenaries Theatre. Each year, the staff also stage the school pantomime; pupils are asked to gather in the theatre under the guise of a "staff announcement". [10] The Ark[ edit ] SMH had until recently a small, rare-breeds farm with pigs, hens, rabbits, sheep, fish, and birds.

Known as "The Ark", it was looked after by the children, under the supervision of staff. The Ark was closed due to animal welfare concerns. Main article: List of Stonyhurst alumni Notable Alumni: Original courtesy of Wikipedia: — Please support Wikipedia. This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia . A portion of the proceeds from advertising on Digplanet goes to supporting Wikipedia. We're sorry, but there's no news about "Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall" right now. Limit to books that you can completely read online Include partial books (book previews) Oops, we seem to be having trouble contacting Twitter Support Wikipedia A portion of the proceeds from advertising on Digplanet goes to supporting Wikipedia. Please add your support for Wikipedia! Searchlight Group Digplanet also receives support from Searchlight Group. Visit Searchlight Copyright © 2009-2017 Digparty. All rights reserved. Stonyhurst College : Wikis (The Full Wiki) The Full Wiki Note: Many of our articles have direct quotes from sources you can cite, within the Wikipedia article! This article doesn't yet, but we're working on it! See more info or our list of citable articles .

Related top topics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Stonyhurst College 1593 ( Spanish Netherlands ); 1794 (England) Headmaster Saint Peter's Kubatana, Zimbabwe ; Faith School, Liverpool Annual fees (2009) £24,192 (full boarding), £20,700 (weekly boarding), £14,142 (day) [1] Numbers (2009) Pupils: 303 boys, 154 girls; Sixth Form: 139 boys, 72 girls. Boarders: day pupils, 2:1. Teaching staff: 58 full time, 25 part time [1] Pass rates (2009) GCSE A*-C: 90%, A*/A: 42%; [2] A-Level : 100%, (A grades: 38%); average UCAS points per student: 330 [3] Website Stonyhurst College is a co-educational independent , Catholic school in the Jesuit tradition.

[4] [5] It is located on the Stonyhurst Estate next to the village of Hurst Green (near the town of Clitheroe ) in rural Lancashire , England, where it occupies a Grade I listed building. [6] The school was founded in 1593 [7] by Father Robert Persons SJ at St Omer , [8] at a time when penal laws prohibited Catholic education in England. It relocated to Stonyhurst Hall in 1794, [7] having moved already to Bruges in 1762 and Liège in 1773. [8] Today the school provides boarding and day education to approximately four hundred and fifty boys and girls aged 13–18, [9] whilst on an adjacent site, its preparatory school , St Mary's Hall , provides education for boys and girls aged 3–13. [10] Under the motto Quant Je Puis, "All that I can", the school combines academic development with a range of extra-curricular activities.

[11] The spiritual plays an important role in College life, with emphasis on both prayer and service, according to the Jesuit philosophy of creating Men and Women for Others. [12] The school was granted Fair Trade status in 2009. [16] Stonyhurst College See also: Stonyhurst The earliest Deed concerning the "Stanihurst" dates from approximately 1200 A.D. and can now be found in the Arundell Library in the College, whilst the earliest evidence of a building on the site is from 1372 when John de Bayley was licensed to have an oratory there. [17] The oldest portion of the extant buildings was completed by Bayley's descendents, the Shireburn family. [18] Richard Shireburn began building the Hall, whilst his grandson Nicholas extended it, constructing the ponds, avenue and gardens. [19] Upon his death, the estate passed to his wife and then to their sole heir, Mary, the Duchess of Norfolk. In 1754, it was inherited by her cousin Thomas Weld of Lulworth.

[20] An old boy of the school when it was at Liege, he donated the buildings, with 30 acres (120,000 m2) of land, in 1794 to the Society of Jesus . [21] The College Fr Robert Persons SJ The story of the school starts at St Omer in what was then the Spanish Netherlands in 1593, where a college, under the Royal Patronage of Philip II of Spain , was founded by Fr Robert Persons SJ for English boys unable to receive a Catholic education in Elizabethan England. [8] As such it was one of a number of expatriate English schools operating on the European mainland. [8] In 1762, the Jesuits were forced to flee, re-establishing their school at Bruges . [21] The school was again moved in 1773 to Liège , before finally settling at Stonyhurst on 29 August 1794, where schooling resumed on Wednesday 22 October of the same year.

[22] The College flourished during the nineteenth century: the Society of Jesus was re-established in Britain at Stonyhurst in 1803, [19] and over the century student numbers rose steeply from the original twelve migrants from Liège [23] to make it England's largest Catholic college at the turn of the following century. [24] Stonyhurst Hall underwent extensive alterations to accommodate these numbers; the Old South Front was constructed in 1810, only to be demolished and replaced with much grander buildings in the 1880s. [25] A seminary was constructed on the estate , and an observatory and meteorological station erected in the gardens. [19] The twentieth century saw the emergence of a mostly lay staff as the number of Jesuits declined. [26] The seminary at Saint Mary's Hall was closed and the school discontinued its education of university-aged philosophers. With the closure of Beaumont College in 1967, Stonyhurst became the sole Jesuit public school in England.

Recent development has included a new wing in the 1960s, new science buildings in the 1950s and 1960s, a new swimming pool in the 1980s and the refurbishment of existing areas throughout the 1990s to the present. The school became fully co-educational in 1999. [27] Hodder Place, St Mary's Hall & Hodder House Main article: Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall Saint Mary's Hall The original preparatory school to Stonyhurst, Hodder Place , came into the hands of the Jesuits as part of the estate donated by alumnus Thomas Weld. [28] Originally used as a novitiate , it became a preparatory school to the College in 1807. [19] St Mary's Hall , on an adjoining site to Stonyhurst, was built as a Jesuit Seminary in 1828 (extended in the 1850s) and functioned until 1926, when the seminarians moved to Heythrop Hall .

[21] The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins , and John Tolkien, son of J. R. R. Tolkien , trained as priests there. [29] [30] During the War, the English College occupied the Hall. After their return to Rome, St Mary's Hall opened as a middle school in 1946. [31] At the same time, Hodder Place continued to educate those aged eight to eleven, until its closure and conversion into flats in 1970. Hodder Place pupils then moved up to St Mary's Hall to form Hodder Playroom. [32] As successor to Hodder Place, St Mary's Hall has a claim to be the oldest surviving preparatory school in Britain. [33] In 2004, the old gymnasium at St Mary's Hall was converted into new nursery and infant facilities named Hodder House , for those aged three to seven, making it now possible for a pupil to spend fifteen years in education at Stonyhurst.

[34] Religious life Main article: Religious life at Stonyhurst College The College is Catholic and has had a significant place in English Catholic history for many centuries (including controversial events such as the Popish Plot and Gunpowder Plot conspiracies). [35] It was founded initially to educate English Catholics on the continent in the hope that, through them, Catholicism might be restored in England. [35] Finally, the school settled in England in 1794 and the Society of Jesus was officially re-established in Britain in 1803. [19] Stonyhurst remained the headquarters of the English Province until the middle of the century; by 1851, a third of the Province's Jesuits were based there. [29] Until the 1920s Jesuit priests were trained on site in what is today the preparatory school. Its closure cut the number of Jesuits at Stonyhurst to a third within a decade. [36] Since then, the Jesuit presence has been in decline but the school nevertheless continues to place Catholicism and Jesuit philosophy at its core under the guidance of a Jesuit-led chaplaincy team and Jesuit involvement among the governors.

[12] Jesuit ethos Interior of St Peter's Church The Jesuit educational ethos consists chiefly of seven strands: [37] Finding God in All Things Caring for the individual Engaging with the wider world Encouraging excellence Co-operating in Jesuit mission Under these guiding principles, the College strives for the formation of well-rounded individuals, influenced by Ignatian reasoning and spirituality, and concern for humankind: the development of Men and Women for Others. [38] College Chapel windows. Chapels The school has one main church, St Peter's, and five chapels: the College Chapel (formerly known as the Boys' Chapel), the Chapel of the Angels, the Sodality Chapel, the St Aloysius Chapel and the St Ignatius Chapel. [39] The latter two are both within the towers of St Peter's Church, and are not normally used by students. The Sodality Chapel is the home of the remains of third century Roman convert St Gordianus .

[40] Having rested beneath the altar since 1859, after travelling with the Jesuits from the College of St Omer , his bones were temporarily removed again in 2006 whilst the chapel underwent restoration, but they have since been returned. [41] The Chapel is once again used by the re-established Sodality . Adjacent to the Old Infirmary is the Rosary Garden, a place for spiritual contemplation, at the centre of which is a stone statue of Mary. [42] Traditions It is a long-standing practice that pupils write A.M.D.G. in the top left hand corner of any piece of work they do. It stands for the Latin phrase Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam which means For the Greater Glory of God. At the end of a piece of work they write L.D.S. in the centre of the page. It stands for Laus Deo Semper which means Praise to God Always. These are both traditional Jesuit mottoes. [43] A distinguishing feature of Stonyhurst is the singing of the Pater Noster , the "Lord's Prayer" in Latin.

It is sung at mass, and has been adopted as an anthem by the school's sports teams. [44] Charitable status Public gardens and Typographia Collegii As a registered charity, [28] Stonyhurst is obliged to provide benefits to the wider community under the terms of the Charities Act 2006 . As such, the College is home to the local Catholic parish church, which receives worshippers from Hurst Green on a daily basis. [45] Its sports facilities, including the swimming pool and all-weather pitch are available for public use; the latter will be used for competitors training for the London 2012 Olympic Games . [46] Much of the estate has public access; in particular the gardens and tea house are visited during the summer months, whilst the College plays host to tours, antiques fairs, food festivals, music concerts, conferences and weddings. [47] The school has a relationship with a number of state schools , arranging shared activities with their pupils, in particular those serving special needs children.

[48] In addition, the school makes available a number of places to pupils offered on scholarship, bursaries or free of charge; almost a third of current pupils receive financial support for their places. [49] Motto The French motto, Quant Je Puis — As Much as I Can, is central to the ethos of the school, which focusses upon the all-round development of the individual. [50] It is inherited from the Shireburn family who once owned the original mansion on the site; the family emblem is emblazoned, in stone, with the motto, above the fireplace in the Top Refectory. [51] At the far end of the same room, once the dining room of the Shireburns, the motto can be seen again, carved into the minstrel's gallery: Quant Je Puis. Hugo Sherburn armig. me fieri fecit. Anno Domini 1523. Et sicut fuit sic fiat.

[51] Academic The school crest Academic standards are high: 85% of GCSE students attain A*-C grades; there is a 100% pass rate at A-Level ; and 100% of A-Level leavers take up places at universities (10% to Oxbridge ) or on gap year schemes. [4] Ten GCSEs are usually taken by each pupil, consisting of five compulsory subjects (Religious Studies, Mathematics, English Language and Literature, and French) plus Information Technology and Personal, Social Education, with five other options from humanities, sciences, or arts subjects. [52] In Poetry (lower sixth), four or five AS-Levels are taken from a choice of 25 subjects, with a weekly Theology class. One of these may be dropped and the remainder, or all, taken on to A-Level. Six A* - C grades are the requirement for Sixth Form entry. [52] Each academic department has dedicated teaching rooms around the school, in addition to the general classrooms and playroom study places.

Education during the College's early history was based on St Ignatius' Ratio Studiorum , with emphasis upon theology, classics and science, all of which still feature prominently in the curriculum. [53] The educational practice, observed at the College of St Omer , of dividing a class into Romans and Carthaginians continued long after the migration to Stonyhurst but is not employed today; each pupil would be pitched against an opponent with the task of picking up on the other's mistakes in an attempt to score points. [25] Until Roman Catholics were admitted to Oxbridge in 1894, Stonyhurst was also home to a number of "philosopher gentlemen" studying BA courses under the London Matriculation Examination system. Their numbers began to fall after 1894 and the department was closed in 1916. [54] Libraries and collections Libraries The More Library in 2003, prior to refurbishment. Stonyhurst College has four main libraries: the Arundell, the Bay, the Square and the More (dedicated to Saint Thomas More ).

[55] The More Library is the main library for students whilst the 'House Libraries' (the Arundell, the Bay, and the Square) contain many artefacts from the Society of Jesus and English Catholicism. [55] The Arundell Library, presented in 1837 by Everard, 11th Baron Arundell of Wardour , is the most significant; it is not only a country-house library from Wardour Castle but also has a notable collection of 250 Incunabula, medieval manuscripts and volumes of Jacobite interest, signal among which is Mary Tudor 's Book of Hours, which it is believed she gave to her chaplain on the scaffold. [56] The M.S. Le Livre de Seyntz Medicines was written in 1354 by Henry, Duke of Lancaster . [56] To these were added the archives of the English Province of the Society of Jesus , which include 16th-century manuscript verses by St Robert Southwell SJ , the letters of St Edmund Campion SJ (1540–81) and holographs of the 19th-century poet Gerard Manley Hopkins .

[56] The Arundell Library held the seventh century Stonyhurst Gospel of St John, before it was loaned to the British Library , as well as a first folio of Shakespeare. [56] The Stonyhurst copy of the Chronicles of Jean Froissart , captured at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 are currently on loan to the Royal Armouries in Leeds, where they are the centre-piece of a new exhibition. [57] Collections The Do Room, displaying items from the collections. Among those collections kept away from public view are the numerous blood-soaked garments from Jesuits martyred in Japan, the skull of Cardinal Morton , the ropes used to quarter St Edmund Campion SJ , the hairs of St Francis Xavier SJ , an enormous solid silver jewel-encrusted monstrance , the Wintour vestments, a cope made for Henry VII , and a thorn said to be from the crown of thorns placed upon Jesus' head at the crucifixion . [58] The school has a number of fine paintings, including a portrait of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and another of the Jesuit Henry Garnet .

In the Stuart Parlour are portraits of a number of Jacobites including James Francis Edward Stuart , and his sons Charles Edward Stuart and Henry Benedict Stuart . There are also several original engravings by Rembrandt and Dürer , such as the 'Greater Passion' and the 'Car of Maximillian'. [58] Observatory See also: Met office weather stations The school has a functioning observatory which was built in 1866. [7] An older observatory, built in 1838, is now the Typographia Collegii , but was once one of seven important stations in the country when the Meteorological Office came under the auspices of the Royal Society . [59] The records of temperature taken there start from 1846 and are the oldest continuous daily records in the world. [60] During the nineteenth century, the observatory was maintained by the astronomer priests, Fr Weld, Fr Perry and Fr Sidgreaves whose research included astronomy, geomagnetrometry and seismology. [61] Astrophysicist Pietro Angelo Secchi , director of the Vatican Observatory , also taught astronomy at the College during the period.

[7] Sir Edward Sabine chose the observatory as one of his main stations when conducting a magnetic survey of Britain in 1858. Five years later Fr Sidgreaves began the first series of monthly geometric observations, which continued until May 1919. [62] During the course of the twentieth century, the observatory fell out of use and its telescope, parts of which dated to the 1860s, was sold after the Second World War. When its private owner came to sell it, the College was able to buy it back and restore it to its original home. [63] . The observatory is today used for astronomical purposes again, whilst also functioning as one of four weather stations used by the Met Office to provide central England temperature data (CET). [64] Arts Music, Drama, Art Music plays a prominent role in school life. All those entering the school in Lower Grammar (year nine) are obliged to learn to play an orchestral instrument.

[65] There are two choirs: the Chapel Choir, which sings regularly at mass, and the Schola Cantorum, composed of teachers and pupils, which sings at concerts and public events such as the May celebration in the College amphitheatre. [66] Pupils participate in the school orchestra and various bands, whilst the staff band is a notable feature of the Poetry Banquet and Rhetoric Ball. [65] Drama is equally important, with plays staged throughout the school year, the main performance being at Great Academies , whilst some students take Theatre Studies as an additional AS Level subject. [67] The College has a traditional theatre, the Academy Room, and a high-tech theatre built at Saint Mary's Hall as part of the Centenaries Appeal in 1993. [68] The latter plays host to the annual Ribble Valley International Piano Week. [69] A number of former pupils have gone on to achieve success upon the stage, including OSCAR -winning actor and director Charles Laughton and BAFTA -winning director and producer Peter Glenville . [70] Art is an important part of the curriculum, and is compulsory for those in Lower Grammar (year nine).

[71] There is a dedicated art studio in addition to a separate design and technology centre. Student artwork is displayed on the walls of the Lower Gallery, including a portrait of the Queen painted by Isobel Bidwell during the Golden Jubilee year; upon receipt of a copy, the Queen's lady-in-waiting said that "The Queen was delighted to see the painting and know that it is on display in the school". [72] Literary associations Stonyhurst has a number of literary associations: its setting has provided inspiration for poets and authors who include former classics teacher Gerard Manley Hopkins , whose poems feature details of the local countryside, and former pupil Sir Arthur Conan Doyle whose "Baskerville Hall" was modelled on Stonyhurst Hall, and who named Sherlock Holmes' nemesis, Moriarty, after a fellow pupil. [73] [74] J. R. R.

Tolkien wrote part of the The Lord of the Rings in a classroom on the Upper Gallery during his stay at the College where his son taught Classics; his "Middle-earth" is said to resemble the local area, whilst there are specific resonances in names such as "Shire Lane", (the name of a road in Hurst Green) and the "River Shirebourn" (the Shireburns built Stonyhurst). [74] Poet Laureate Alfred Austin , and the poet Oliver St John Gogarty ("Stately plump Buck Mulligan" in James Joyce's Ulysses) were educated at the school, (as were the sons of Oscar Wilde and Evelyn Waugh ). [70] George Archer-Shee , at the centre of Terence Rattigan 's play The Winslow Boy , is an alumnus. [75] The School runs its own publication company, St Omers Press, which publishes religious literature, and first began when the College was located at St Omer in Flanders . [76] J. R. R. Tolkien in 1916 Sport Pupils are required to participate in games on a regular basis.

The school is most noted for rugby union but an array of sporting activities are on offer, and since turning fully co-educational, hockey and rounders have widened the sports programme. [77] Stonyhurst College Rugby Union Football Club (SCRUFC) Rugby has played a big part in the life of the school, despite only supplanting football as the school's primary sport in 1921. [21] All boys are encouraged to play when they enter Lower Grammar but are not required to play throughout their time at the school. Stonyhurst has a successful rugby season, with games well supported by pupils, staff and parents. Sporting rivalry is particularly prominent against Ampleforth College and Sedbergh School . The Stonyhurst Sevens - the largest school sevens event in Britain - take place annually, attracting large crowds and numerous teams from all over the country. [78] The school has produced fourteen international rugby players (England (5), Ireland (6), Italy (1), the USA (1) and the Bahamas (1) ), as well as players for the Barbarians and the British and Irish Lions.

[70] Most recently they include Iain Balshaw and Kyran Bracken , who both played for England when they won the 2003 Rugby World Cup , whilst another member of that team, Will Greenwood , went to Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall , where his mother taught mathematics until 2007. [79] Current pupils of the school have won places to represent Spain, the Irish Exiles, and the Welsh Exiles (under 19s). [80] A number of old boys have also played at varsity level and have won blues for Oxford or Cambridge. [81] [82] Stonyhurst has had well known coaches, including former England coaches Dick Greenwood , and Brian Ashton who coached the first XV. [83] The Ambulacrum, used for sport, the CCF, and indoor marquee, one of the first structures of its kind in Britain, built in 1851. Stonyhurst Football Stonyhurst Football, inherited from the College of St Omer (along with Stonyhurst Cricket), was played between the handball walls on the Playground.

[21] The game was discontinued with the advent of Association Football but was re-established in 1988 when a "Grand Match" was played at Great Academies; traditionally a "Grand Match" was played on Shrove Tuesday and was the primary Stonyhurst Football match of the season. [84] The teams were England vs France (although during the Crimean War England vs Russia was played and more recently England vs Ireland was played in the 1980s). [84] The last game took place in 1995. See: photographs of Stonyhurst Football Sporting facilities 2 indoor sports halls (one at SMH ) large estate used for cross-country, orienteering, clay-pigeon shooting and rambling Rhetoric vs. Hodder cricket and rounders Towards the end of the Summer Term each year, Rhetoric boys issue a challenge, written in Latin, to the boys in preparatory at Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall , inviting them to compete in a cricket match. Preparatory respond in turn, also in Latin. The Rhetoricians take part wearing fancy dress, and are traditionally 'defeated' by preparatory.

[85] In 2003, the tradition was adopted by the girls who issued a Latin challenge to preparatory girls inviting them to compete at rounders. Military The War Memorial Officer Training Corps (OTC) The Stonyhurst Officer Training Corps assembled for the first time on Tuesday 16 October 1900, in the Ambulacrum, overseen by The First Volunteer Battalion, the East Lancashire Regiment who gave instruction in drill and musketry. [86] The original uniform was scarlet with a white piping and slouch hat, which was changed to khaki before the First World War. [86] The Corps was granted the honour of representation at the Coronation of 1910 and sent members to the Royal Review at Windsor in 1911. [87] It also appeared on parade annually for the spectacle of the Corpus Christi celebrations until the practice became obsolete after Vatican II . [88] Combined Cadet Corps (CCF) After the Second World War, school OTCs were succeeded by the Combined Cadet Force .

[89] Stonyhurst's is run from the College Armoury adjoining the Ambulacrum and Shooting Range, led by a team of officers under a Major assigned to the school. [86] It meets weekly on a Thursday afternoon and comprises the following platoons named after Stonyhurst's seven Victoria Cross winners: [86] Junior company Andrews Platoon (Captain Harold Marcus ERVINE-ANDREWS V.C., Dunkirk 1940) Support Platoon Those in Grammar Playroom (year ten) are automatically enrolled in the CCF and are given the option of continuing at the end of the year, following a summer camp which takes place at a local barracks. [86] Training involves a range of activities such as drill (marching and related manoeuvres), shooting, learning how to assemble and clean weapons, tactical planning and team work. [86] The school supplies pupils with uniform, the orderliness of which is rigorously enforced and inspected each week. Each platoon is lead by a Junior Under Officer , his sergeant and corporals who are sixth form students.

[86] Military careers See also: List of Stonyhurst alumni/ae In recent years, a number of pupils have distinguished themselves as members of the CCF and gone on to receive places at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst . [90] [91] [92] This follows a long tradition of service from Stonyhurst pupils: many O.S. were killed in the two World Wars and are commemorated on the war memorial at the end of the Upper Gallery. [93] The Stonyhurst War Records were published in their honour. A memorial at the top of the main staircase records the names of the six O.S. killed in the Boer War . School organisation Playroom system Lower Grammar Playroom in 2006 Unlike most English public schools, Stonyhurst is organised horizontally by year groups (known as playrooms) rather than vertically by houses, although the girls are also split into junior and senior houses. [94] Each playroom has an assigned playroom master, with each cohort moving through the playrooms, having a sequence of playroom masters (rather than a single housemaster).

[94] Currently, the College has the following playrooms, following the Roman order of learning: Lower Grammar Playroom ('LG' 13-14) Grammar Playroom (14-15) Middle Grammar Lines In addition to the horizontal division of the school into playrooms, there is also a vertical grouping which cuts through the year groups, the "lines", and is used mostly for competitive purposes in sport and music. [95] The Lines and colours are as follows: Campion (Red) (named after St Edmund Campion ) St Omers (Yellow, though Brown for sporting attire) (named after St Omer , the town the school was founded in) Shireburn (Green) (named after the Shireburn family which built Stonyhurst) Weld (Blue) (named after Thomas Weld who donated Stonyhurst to the Jesuits) Notable events in the school year Top Refectory, today used for social functions Main article: School life at Stonyhurst College The Ascensio Scholarum, inherited from the College of St Omer , in its present form, is the opening address of the headmaster at the beginning of the year to the entire school gathered in the Academy Room.

[96] Previously, it was a formal transition for pupils from one playroom to the next at the beginning of the year, which involved a pupil from each year announcing to the playroom of the year below them that the next playroom had been vacated by the senior pupils. [97] The students and their belongings would then move up to their next playroom. [97] This is how it acquired the name, "the ascension of the school". Great Academies takes place annually at the end of the first half of the Summer Term. Although different in its present form, it is a continuation of a tradition begun at St Omers, with the first taking place at Stonyhurst on 6 August 1795. [21] Today, it is an occasion when the school is on display - there are exhibitions, musical performances, the school play, sporting events, as well as prize-giving and the headmaster's speech, culminating with the Rhetoric Ball and Rhetoric Mass the following morning.

[98] Stonyhurst Association See also: Charities of Stonyhurst College The South Front viewed from the gardens After less formal arrangements had been made for many years, the Association was formed in 1879. [31] Its primary objective is to foster a strong spirit of union amongst past pupils and friends of Stonyhurst, which has been achieved in a variety of ways reflecting the spirit of succeeding generations. [99] Recently, there has been a strong charitable emphasis, embedded with similar developments at the College. [100] This was formalised in 1985, when the Association was granted charitable status by the Charity Commission . It also supports a number of charities connected to the school including Eagle Aid . [100] Alumni/ae Main article: List of Stonyhurst alumni/ae Stonyhurst has educated prominent individuals in every area, from statesmen to sportsmen, and actors to archbishops. [70] Seven alumni have been awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry; their paintings today adorn the walls of the Top Refectory in the school. [14] Notable alumni include:

Question: Saint Mary's Hall, founded by the Jesuits, is the preparatory department for which Lancashire Independent school?
Answer: STONYHURST