Английская школа harrow рассказ на английском с переводом

харроу, второй лучший государственных школ в великобритании после итона, был основан в 1572 как общественная школа для детей из бедных фермеров, но быстро стал одним из самых престижных частных школ в стране.знаменитый старый harrovians включают уинстон черчилль и лорд байрон.

хэрроу: почему харроу?

одна из причин, почему родители выбирают харроу, заключается в том, что его цель — «для подготовки молодых мужчин, которые будут быть лидерами в избранной профессии (B. ленон, хозяина).это означает, что harrovians чаще делать хорошо, чем люди, которые отправились в обычные школы.почему?ну, во — первых, качество образования является лучше после школы больше ресурсов и финансирования.по другой,школа отличную репутацию: тот факт, что вы бывший harrovian является своего рода «паспорт» для светлого будущего.

харроу хэрроу: условия — все школы для мальчиков с 800 учеников.это полная школу — интернат с 19 в домах — интернатах.пансион находится здание, где учащиеся сна и отдыха.каждый парень, либо имеет отдельную комнату или акции, одно с другим парнем.мальчиков безопасности является одним из главных приоритетов в школе, так что все в домах — интернатах есть три жителя сотрудников и очень сильными замками.некоторые также есть толстые стены вокруг и металлическая сетка над двором.даже родители не разрешают там.

школа имеет выдающиеся установок, в том числе лучших полей для гольфа, плавательный бассейн, новейшие компьютеры и даже лучших школьных театров в великобритании.все учителя живут в школе, чтобы убедиться, что с учащимися проводятся различные мероприятия вечера и выходные.

хорошее питание, также имеет весьма важное значение.посмотри на среднем меню:

не плохо, да?

низкий возраст приема в школу тринадцать.школа — это очень престижно, и некоторые родители применять, как только их сын родился!обычно родители регистрировать их сына, по крайней мере, на два года вперед.большинство кандидатов на собеседование, а в начальной школе и сдать тест.есть несколько свободных мест для одаренных, но большинство учащихся, придется платить около 13 тысяч фунтов стерлингов в год плюс дополнительные сборы.

Harrow School
The Old Schools photographed in 2013
Address
5 High Street, Harrow on the Hill London Borough of Harrow , London , HA1 3HP England
Coordinates	51°34′21″N 00°20′06″W / 51.57250°N 0.33500°WCoordinates: 51°34′21″N 00°20′06″W / 51.57250°N 0.33500°W
Information
Type	Public school Independent school Boarding school
Mottoes	Latin: Stet Fortuna Domus (Let the Fortune of the House Stand) Latin: Donorum Dei Dispensatio Fidelis (The Faithful Dispensation of the Gifts of God)
Religious affiliation(s)	Church of England
Established	1572; 451 years ago (Royal Charter)
Founder	John Lyon of Preston
Department for Education URN	102245 Tables
Chairman of the Governors	J P Batting
Head Master	Alastair Land
Staff	~200 (full-time)
Gender	Male
Age	13 to 18
Enrollment	~830 pupils
Houses	12
Colour(s)	Blue and white
Song	40 Years On
Publication	The Harrovian
School fees	£41,775
Former pupils	Old Harrovians
Badges	The Harrow Lion The Silver Arrow
Website	www.harrowschool.org.uk

Harrow School ()^[1] is a public school (English independent boarding school for boys) in Harrow on the Hill, Greater London, England.^[2] The school was founded in 1572 by John Lyon, a local landowner and farmer, under a Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I.

The school has an enrolment of about 820 boys, all of whom board full-time, in twelve boarding houses.^[3] It was one of the seven public schools selected for reform in the Public Schools Act of 1868. Harrow’s uniform includes morning suits, straw boater hats, top hats and canes.

Its list of distinguished alumni includes seven former British Prime Ministers: Aberdeen, Perceval, Goderich, Peel, Palmerston, Baldwin and Churchill, as well as the former Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru; numerous former and current members of both Houses of the UK Parliament, several members of various royal families, three Nobel Prize winners, twenty Victoria Cross holders and many prominent figures in the arts and sciences.

History[edit]

The Foundation[edit]

The school was founded in February 1572 under a Royal Charter granted by Queen Elizabeth I to John Lyon, a wealthy local farmer.^[4] The charter described this as a re-endowment, and there is some evidence of a grammar school at Harrow in the mid-16th century, but its location and connection with Lyon’s foundation are unclear.^[5] Evidence for earlier schools, possibly connected with the chantry of St Mary (established in 1324), is weak.^{[5]: 13–17} In the original charter, six governors were named, including two members of the Gerard family of Flambards, and two members of the Page family of Wembley and Sudbury Court.^[6]

The founder John Lyon died in 1592, bequeathing his estate to two beneficiaries: the school and the maintenance of two roads, the Harrow Road and the Edgware Road, both going to London, 10 miles (16 km) away. The Road Trust received by far the greater share, the school’s share providing just for the salary of The School Master and some minor provisions. This situation, reasonable at the time because of the need to transport merchandise to market, continued until 1991 when the considerable assets of the Road Trust were reassigned to John Lyon’s Charity, a charity to provide educational benefits for the inhabitants of the boroughs through which the roads pass.

John Lyon’s school was founded to provide free education for 30 (later extended to 40) poor boys of the parish. However, the School Master was permitted to accept «foreigners» (boys from outside the parish) from whom he received fees. It was the need for foreigners to find accommodation that led to the concept of boarding. As in all schools of the time, education was based on the languages and culture of the ancient civilisations of Rome and Greece.

As the reputation of the school grew through the 19th century, the number of foreigners increased, but the local families became increasingly reluctant to impose on their children a classical education and the number of free scholars declined. In 1825 there were 17 free scholars and 219 foreigners. In 1876 the Lower School of John Lyon was founded under the authority of the Governors of Harrow School to provide a modern education for local boys. It is now known as The John Lyon School and is a prominent independent school; it remains part of the Harrow School Foundation.^[4]

Buildings[edit]

It was only after the death of Lyon’s wife in 1608 that the construction of the first school building began. Known as the Old Schools, it was completed in 1615 and remains to this day, although it was extended and re-designed by architect Charles Cockerell in 1818. It is a Grade I listed building.

The majority of the school’s boarding houses were constructed in Victorian times, when the number of boys increased dramatically.^[5] Speech Room by William Burges (1877), the chapel (1855) and Vaughan Library (1863) both by Sir George Gilbert Scott are all Grade II* listed buildings.^[7] There are 27 School buildings that are Grade II listed, including Head Master’s House (1843) by Decimus Burton; Museum Schools (1886) by Basil Champneys; and Music Schools (1890) by Edward Prior.

The school War Memorial building, marking the substantial loss of former pupils in the First World War was designed by Sir Herbert Baker and completed in 1926. Various other buildings such as a central dining hall, sports hall and classroom blocks were added in the 20th century.

Cartel[edit]

In 2005, the school was one of fifty of the country’s leading independent schools which were found guilty of running an illegal price-fixing cartel, exposed by The Times, which had allowed them to drive up fees for thousands of parents, although the schools said that they had not realised that the change to the law (which had happened only a few months earlier) about the sharing of information had subsequently made it an offence.^[8] Each school was required to pay a nominal penalty of £10,000 and all agreed to make ex-gratia payments totalling £3,000,000 into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared.^[9] Jean Scott, the head of the Independent Schools Council, said that independent schools had always been exempt from anti-cartel rules applied to business, were following a long-established procedure in sharing the information with each other, and that they were unaware of the change to the law (on which they had not been consulted).^[10]

School traditions[edit]

Uniform[edit]

Everyday dress for boys at Harrow consists of a dark blue jacket known as a «bluer» with light grey trousers known as «greyers». With these are worn a white shirt, black tie, black shoes and an optional blue jumper (sweater). Boys also wear a Harrow hat, a straw hat with a dark blue band similar to a boater, but shallower in crown and broader in brim. The School blue and white woollen scarf and dark blue woollen overcoat may be worn in cold weather. Variations include boys who are monitors who are allowed to wear a jumper of their choice of colour, and members of certain societies who may earn the right to replace the standard school tie with one of a variety of scarves, cravats, neck and bow ties.^[11]

Sunday dress, which is worn every Sunday up to lunch and on special occasions such as Speech Day and songs, consists of a black tailcoat, a black single breasted waistcoat and striped trousers, worn with a white shirt and black tie. Boys with sports colours may wear a grey double breasted waistcoat; members of the Guild (a society for boys who have achieved distinction in art, music or drama) may wear maroon double breasted waistcoats with maroon bowties; members of the Philathletic Club (a society for boys with achievements in sport) may wear black bowties alongside grey double breasted waistcoats. School monitors (prefects) may wear black double breasted waistcoats, a top hat and carry canes.

School houses[edit]

House name and Colours[3]
Bradbys – Purple and White (DJE)
Druries – Red and Black (BTM)
Elmfield – Purple and Black (AJC)
Gayton – (over-spill house) (NSK)
The Grove – Red and Blue (CST)
The Headmaster’s – Pink and White (CTP)
The Knoll – Gold and Black (CO)
Lyon’s – Green and Black (NJM)
Moretons – White and Blue (SMS) [12]
Newlands – Yellow and White (EWH)
The Park – Red and White (BJDS)
Rendalls – Magenta and Silver (SNT)
West Acre – Red, White and Blue (HAH)

Harrow School divides its pupils, who are all boarders, into twelve Houses, each of about seventy boys, with a thirteenth house, Gayton, used as an overflow. Each House has its own facilities, customs and traditions, and each competes in sporting events against the others.

Until the 1950s there existed what was known as ‘small houses’ where only 5–10 boys stayed at one time while they waited for a space in a large house to become available (hence the use of the term large house in this article). A twelfth large house, Lyon’s, was built in 2010.^[3]

House Masters, Assistant House Masters and their families live in the boarding Houses and are assisted by House Tutors appointed from the teaching staff. The House Master oversees the welfare of every boy in his care; for parents, he is the main point of contact with the School.^[3]

Each House has a resident matron and sick room. The matrons are supported by the School’s Medical Centre where trained nursing staff offer round the clock care. The medical centre is under the direct supervision of the school doctor who is available on the Hill every day for consultation.^[3]

There are no dormitories: a boy shares his room for the first three to six terms and thereafter has a room to himself.^[3]

Harrow Songs[edit]

The School has a book of songs, of which the best known is Forty Years On. In the 19th century, most schools had a school song, usually in Latin, which they sang at the beginning and end of term. Harrow had a master, Edward Bowen, who was a poet and a music teacher, and John Farmer, who was a composer. Between 1870 and 1885, these two wrote a number of songs about school life. The inspiring, wistful, amusing and thought-provoking words and the attractive tunes, made the songs very popular.^{[citation needed]} Successors to Bowen and Farmer have added to the collection. The Songs are sung in House and School concerts several times a term. Winston Churchill was a great lover of Harrow Songs and when he returned for a concert as Prime Minister in 1940, it was the first of many annual visits. Churchill Songs is still celebrated in Speech Room each year, and every five years at the Royal Albert Hall.

Sport[edit]

The sport squash (originally called ‘Squasher’) was invented in Harrow out of the game rackets around 1830.^[13][14][15] It spread to other schools, eventually becoming an international sport.

An annual cricket match has taken place between Harrow and Eton College at Lord’s Cricket Ground since 1805. It is considered to be the longest-running cricket fixture in the world^[16] and is the oldest fixture at Lord’s (see: Eton v Harrow). Eton won the match in 2013, and Harrow in 2014 and 2015.

Harrow has its own unique style of football called Harrow Football.^[17]

Fagging[edit]

As in most boarding schools, for many years there was a system of ‘fagging’ whereby younger boys carried out duties for the seniors. At Harrow this was phased out in the 1970s and completely banned by 1990.^[5] In his detailed history of the school, Tyerman recorded that in 1796 fagging was compulsory for boys up to the fourth form, and that 50 out of 139 boys were then fags. In 1928, Harrow Master, C.H.P. Mayo said of fagging: «Those who hope to rule must first learn to obey… to learn to obey as a fag is part of the routine that is the essence of the English Public School system… the wonder of other countries».^[5]

Media coverage[edit]

Harrow was featured in a Sky 1 documentary series entitled Harrow: A Very British School in 2013.

In February 2016, the actor Laurence Fox claimed Harrow threatened legal action to prevent him discussing the racism, homophobia and bullying he allegedly encountered as a pupil at the school.^[18]

Old Harrovians[edit]

Harrow alumni are known as Old Harrovians, they include seven former British prime ministers such as Winston Churchill, Stanley Baldwin and Robert Peel and the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. Twenty Old Harrovians have been awarded the Victoria Cross and one the George Cross.^[19]

Five monarchs have attended the school: King Hussein of Jordan,^[20] both Kings of Iraq, Ghazi I and his son Faisal II, the current Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Ali bin Hamud of Zanzibar.^{[citation needed]}

Harrow is one of the few schools in the UK to have educated several Nobel laureates: John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1904; John Galsworthy, winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature; and Winston Churchill, who also received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953.

Other alumni include writers Lord Byron, Anthony Trollope, Sir Terence Rattigan, Simon Sebag-Montefiore, and Richard Curtis, the 6th Duke of Westminster and prominent reformist Lord Shaftesbury, military commanders such as Earl Alexander of Tunis and Sir Peter de la Billiere, and business people (including DeBeers chairman Nicky Oppenheimer, Pret a Manger founder Julian Metcalfe) and the big game hunter and artist General Douglas Hamilton, as well as Island Records founder Chris Blackwell. In sports, the school produced the first two Wimbledon champions (Spencer Gore and Frank Hadow) as well as FA Cup founder C.W. Alcock and current England rugby international players Billy Vunipola, Maro Itoje and Henry Arundell. Alumni in the arts and media industry include actors Edward Fox, Benedict Cumberbatch and Cary Elwes, photographer Count Nikolai von Bismarck, singers Lord David Dundas and James Blunt, pianist James Rhodes, and horse racing pundit John McCririck. Margaret Thatcher sent her son, Mark, to Harrow.

Fictional characters who have attended Harrow include Brett Sinclair of the TV series The Persuaders!, Withnail and Uncle Monty from the film Withnail & I,^{[citation needed]} Herbert Pocket from Charles Dickens’s novel, Great Expectations,^[21] and Geoffrey Charles Poldark from Poldark.^[22]

Notable staff[edit]

• David Elleray (born 1954): retired Premier League and FIFA-listed referee, former Druries Housemaster and Head of Geography
• Robert Key (born 1945): Politician; taught economics here 1969-1983
• Herbert Marchant (1906–1990): Bletchley Park alumnus and diplomat, assistant master 1928-1939
• James Morwood (1943–2017): Classical scholar, Head of Classics here 1979-1996
• John Rae (1931–2006): Educator and controversialist
• Douglas Miller Reid1897–1959) biology teacher at Harrow 1921 to 1953, noted botanical author
• Malcolm Nokes (1897–1986) : soldier, airman, Olympic medallist and nuclear scientist; a chemistry master at Harrow from 1946 to 1957, latterly a house master and also Head of Science.
• I. M. B. Stuart (1902–1969) : Writer and broadcaster
• Sir Reginald Thatcher (1888–1975) : Composer and Principal of the Royal Academy of Music, director of music at the school
• Roger Uttley (born 1949): retired England Rugby Captain and British Lions Rugby Player (1974 tour), former head of physical education and 1st XV coach.
• Ronald Watkins (1904–2001) Broadcaster and Shakespeare scholar
• Joe Ansbro (born 1985) International Rugby player for Scotland, teacher of biology and rugby coach

Directors of Music[edit]

• John Farmer, 1862-1885
• Eaton Faning, 1885-1901
• Percy C. Buck, 1901-1927
• R. S. Thatcher, 1927-1936
• Richard Drakeford, 1976-1985
• David Woodcock, 2005–present

Head masters[edit]

See also[edit]

• Harrow History Prize
• List of Old Harrovians

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• Rimmer, Rambles round Eton and Harrow, (London, 1882)
• Thornton, Harrow School and its Surroundings, (WH Allen & Co. London, 1885)
• Harrow School Registers, 1571-1800; 1800-1911, 1885-1949; 1971; 1985; 2002
• Minchin, Old Harrow Days, (London, 1898)
• Archibald Fox, Harrow, (London, 1911)
• G. T. Warner, Harrow in Prose and Verse, (London, 1913)
• Arnold Lunn, The Harrovians, (London, 1913) ISBN 1-4538-0948-1
• PHM Bryant, Harrow (Blackie & Son, 1936)
• ED Laborde, Harrow School Yesterday and Today (Winchester Publications, 1947)
• Christopher Tyerman, A History of Harrow School 1324–1991 (Oxford, 2000) ISBN 0-19-822796-5
• Dale Vargas, A Timeline History of Harrow School (Worth Press, 2010)
• Dale Vargas & Ross Beckett, A Hundred and One Eminent Harrovians

External links[edit]

Harrow School
The Old Schools photographed in 2013
Address
5 High Street, Harrow on the Hill London Borough of Harrow , London , HA1 3HP England
Coordinates	51°34′21″N 00°20′06″W / 51.57250°N 0.33500°WCoordinates: 51°34′21″N 00°20′06″W / 51.57250°N 0.33500°W
Information
Type	Public school Independent school Boarding school
Mottoes	Latin: Stet Fortuna Domus (Let the Fortune of the House Stand) Latin: Donorum Dei Dispensatio Fidelis (The Faithful Dispensation of the Gifts of God)
Religious affiliation(s)	Church of England
Established	1572; 451 years ago (Royal Charter)
Founder	John Lyon of Preston
Department for Education URN	102245 Tables
Chairman of the Governors	J P Batting
Head Master	Alastair Land
Staff	~200 (full-time)
Gender	Male
Age	13 to 18
Enrollment	~830 pupils
Houses	12
Colour(s)	Blue and white
Song	40 Years On
Publication	The Harrovian
School fees	£41,775
Former pupils	Old Harrovians
Badges	The Harrow Lion The Silver Arrow
Website	www.harrowschool.org.uk

Harrow School ()^[1] is a public school (English independent boarding school for boys) in Harrow on the Hill, Greater London, England.^[2] The school was founded in 1572 by John Lyon, a local landowner and farmer, under a Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I.

The school has an enrolment of about 820 boys, all of whom board full-time, in twelve boarding houses.^[3] It was one of the seven public schools selected for reform in the Public Schools Act of 1868. Harrow’s uniform includes morning suits, straw boater hats, top hats and canes.

Its list of distinguished alumni includes seven former British Prime Ministers: Aberdeen, Perceval, Goderich, Peel, Palmerston, Baldwin and Churchill, as well as the former Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru; numerous former and current members of both Houses of the UK Parliament, several members of various royal families, three Nobel Prize winners, twenty Victoria Cross holders and many prominent figures in the arts and sciences.

History[edit]

The Foundation[edit]

The school was founded in February 1572 under a Royal Charter granted by Queen Elizabeth I to John Lyon, a wealthy local farmer.^[4] The charter described this as a re-endowment, and there is some evidence of a grammar school at Harrow in the mid-16th century, but its location and connection with Lyon’s foundation are unclear.^[5] Evidence for earlier schools, possibly connected with the chantry of St Mary (established in 1324), is weak.^{[5]: 13–17} In the original charter, six governors were named, including two members of the Gerard family of Flambards, and two members of the Page family of Wembley and Sudbury Court.^[6]

The founder John Lyon died in 1592, bequeathing his estate to two beneficiaries: the school and the maintenance of two roads, the Harrow Road and the Edgware Road, both going to London, 10 miles (16 km) away. The Road Trust received by far the greater share, the school’s share providing just for the salary of The School Master and some minor provisions. This situation, reasonable at the time because of the need to transport merchandise to market, continued until 1991 when the considerable assets of the Road Trust were reassigned to John Lyon’s Charity, a charity to provide educational benefits for the inhabitants of the boroughs through which the roads pass.

John Lyon’s school was founded to provide free education for 30 (later extended to 40) poor boys of the parish. However, the School Master was permitted to accept «foreigners» (boys from outside the parish) from whom he received fees. It was the need for foreigners to find accommodation that led to the concept of boarding. As in all schools of the time, education was based on the languages and culture of the ancient civilisations of Rome and Greece.

As the reputation of the school grew through the 19th century, the number of foreigners increased, but the local families became increasingly reluctant to impose on their children a classical education and the number of free scholars declined. In 1825 there were 17 free scholars and 219 foreigners. In 1876 the Lower School of John Lyon was founded under the authority of the Governors of Harrow School to provide a modern education for local boys. It is now known as The John Lyon School and is a prominent independent school; it remains part of the Harrow School Foundation.^[4]

Buildings[edit]

It was only after the death of Lyon’s wife in 1608 that the construction of the first school building began. Known as the Old Schools, it was completed in 1615 and remains to this day, although it was extended and re-designed by architect Charles Cockerell in 1818. It is a Grade I listed building.

The majority of the school’s boarding houses were constructed in Victorian times, when the number of boys increased dramatically.^[5] Speech Room by William Burges (1877), the chapel (1855) and Vaughan Library (1863) both by Sir George Gilbert Scott are all Grade II* listed buildings.^[7] There are 27 School buildings that are Grade II listed, including Head Master’s House (1843) by Decimus Burton; Museum Schools (1886) by Basil Champneys; and Music Schools (1890) by Edward Prior.

The school War Memorial building, marking the substantial loss of former pupils in the First World War was designed by Sir Herbert Baker and completed in 1926. Various other buildings such as a central dining hall, sports hall and classroom blocks were added in the 20th century.

Cartel[edit]

In 2005, the school was one of fifty of the country’s leading independent schools which were found guilty of running an illegal price-fixing cartel, exposed by The Times, which had allowed them to drive up fees for thousands of parents, although the schools said that they had not realised that the change to the law (which had happened only a few months earlier) about the sharing of information had subsequently made it an offence.^[8] Each school was required to pay a nominal penalty of £10,000 and all agreed to make ex-gratia payments totalling £3,000,000 into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared.^[9] Jean Scott, the head of the Independent Schools Council, said that independent schools had always been exempt from anti-cartel rules applied to business, were following a long-established procedure in sharing the information with each other, and that they were unaware of the change to the law (on which they had not been consulted).^[10]

School traditions[edit]

Uniform[edit]

Everyday dress for boys at Harrow consists of a dark blue jacket known as a «bluer» with light grey trousers known as «greyers». With these are worn a white shirt, black tie, black shoes and an optional blue jumper (sweater). Boys also wear a Harrow hat, a straw hat with a dark blue band similar to a boater, but shallower in crown and broader in brim. The School blue and white woollen scarf and dark blue woollen overcoat may be worn in cold weather. Variations include boys who are monitors who are allowed to wear a jumper of their choice of colour, and members of certain societies who may earn the right to replace the standard school tie with one of a variety of scarves, cravats, neck and bow ties.^[11]

Sunday dress, which is worn every Sunday up to lunch and on special occasions such as Speech Day and songs, consists of a black tailcoat, a black single breasted waistcoat and striped trousers, worn with a white shirt and black tie. Boys with sports colours may wear a grey double breasted waistcoat; members of the Guild (a society for boys who have achieved distinction in art, music or drama) may wear maroon double breasted waistcoats with maroon bowties; members of the Philathletic Club (a society for boys with achievements in sport) may wear black bowties alongside grey double breasted waistcoats. School monitors (prefects) may wear black double breasted waistcoats, a top hat and carry canes.

School houses[edit]

House name and Colours[3]
Bradbys – Purple and White (DJE)
Druries – Red and Black (BTM)
Elmfield – Purple and Black (AJC)
Gayton – (over-spill house) (NSK)
The Grove – Red and Blue (CST)
The Headmaster’s – Pink and White (CTP)
The Knoll – Gold and Black (CO)
Lyon’s – Green and Black (NJM)
Moretons – White and Blue (SMS) [12]
Newlands – Yellow and White (EWH)
The Park – Red and White (BJDS)
Rendalls – Magenta and Silver (SNT)
West Acre – Red, White and Blue (HAH)

Harrow School divides its pupils, who are all boarders, into twelve Houses, each of about seventy boys, with a thirteenth house, Gayton, used as an overflow. Each House has its own facilities, customs and traditions, and each competes in sporting events against the others.

Until the 1950s there existed what was known as ‘small houses’ where only 5–10 boys stayed at one time while they waited for a space in a large house to become available (hence the use of the term large house in this article). A twelfth large house, Lyon’s, was built in 2010.^[3]

House Masters, Assistant House Masters and their families live in the boarding Houses and are assisted by House Tutors appointed from the teaching staff. The House Master oversees the welfare of every boy in his care; for parents, he is the main point of contact with the School.^[3]

Each House has a resident matron and sick room. The matrons are supported by the School’s Medical Centre where trained nursing staff offer round the clock care. The medical centre is under the direct supervision of the school doctor who is available on the Hill every day for consultation.^[3]

There are no dormitories: a boy shares his room for the first three to six terms and thereafter has a room to himself.^[3]

Harrow Songs[edit]

The School has a book of songs, of which the best known is Forty Years On. In the 19th century, most schools had a school song, usually in Latin, which they sang at the beginning and end of term. Harrow had a master, Edward Bowen, who was a poet and a music teacher, and John Farmer, who was a composer. Between 1870 and 1885, these two wrote a number of songs about school life. The inspiring, wistful, amusing and thought-provoking words and the attractive tunes, made the songs very popular.^{[citation needed]} Successors to Bowen and Farmer have added to the collection. The Songs are sung in House and School concerts several times a term. Winston Churchill was a great lover of Harrow Songs and when he returned for a concert as Prime Minister in 1940, it was the first of many annual visits. Churchill Songs is still celebrated in Speech Room each year, and every five years at the Royal Albert Hall.

Sport[edit]

The sport squash (originally called ‘Squasher’) was invented in Harrow out of the game rackets around 1830.^[13][14][15] It spread to other schools, eventually becoming an international sport.

An annual cricket match has taken place between Harrow and Eton College at Lord’s Cricket Ground since 1805. It is considered to be the longest-running cricket fixture in the world^[16] and is the oldest fixture at Lord’s (see: Eton v Harrow). Eton won the match in 2013, and Harrow in 2014 and 2015.

Harrow has its own unique style of football called Harrow Football.^[17]

Fagging[edit]

As in most boarding schools, for many years there was a system of ‘fagging’ whereby younger boys carried out duties for the seniors. At Harrow this was phased out in the 1970s and completely banned by 1990.^[5] In his detailed history of the school, Tyerman recorded that in 1796 fagging was compulsory for boys up to the fourth form, and that 50 out of 139 boys were then fags. In 1928, Harrow Master, C.H.P. Mayo said of fagging: «Those who hope to rule must first learn to obey… to learn to obey as a fag is part of the routine that is the essence of the English Public School system… the wonder of other countries».^[5]

Media coverage[edit]

Harrow was featured in a Sky 1 documentary series entitled Harrow: A Very British School in 2013.

In February 2016, the actor Laurence Fox claimed Harrow threatened legal action to prevent him discussing the racism, homophobia and bullying he allegedly encountered as a pupil at the school.^[18]

Old Harrovians[edit]

Harrow alumni are known as Old Harrovians, they include seven former British prime ministers such as Winston Churchill, Stanley Baldwin and Robert Peel and the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. Twenty Old Harrovians have been awarded the Victoria Cross and one the George Cross.^[19]

Five monarchs have attended the school: King Hussein of Jordan,^[20] both Kings of Iraq, Ghazi I and his son Faisal II, the current Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Ali bin Hamud of Zanzibar.^{[citation needed]}

Harrow is one of the few schools in the UK to have educated several Nobel laureates: John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1904; John Galsworthy, winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature; and Winston Churchill, who also received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953.

Other alumni include writers Lord Byron, Anthony Trollope, Sir Terence Rattigan, Simon Sebag-Montefiore, and Richard Curtis, the 6th Duke of Westminster and prominent reformist Lord Shaftesbury, military commanders such as Earl Alexander of Tunis and Sir Peter de la Billiere, and business people (including DeBeers chairman Nicky Oppenheimer, Pret a Manger founder Julian Metcalfe) and the big game hunter and artist General Douglas Hamilton, as well as Island Records founder Chris Blackwell. In sports, the school produced the first two Wimbledon champions (Spencer Gore and Frank Hadow) as well as FA Cup founder C.W. Alcock and current England rugby international players Billy Vunipola, Maro Itoje and Henry Arundell. Alumni in the arts and media industry include actors Edward Fox, Benedict Cumberbatch and Cary Elwes, photographer Count Nikolai von Bismarck, singers Lord David Dundas and James Blunt, pianist James Rhodes, and horse racing pundit John McCririck. Margaret Thatcher sent her son, Mark, to Harrow.

Fictional characters who have attended Harrow include Brett Sinclair of the TV series The Persuaders!, Withnail and Uncle Monty from the film Withnail & I,^{[citation needed]} Herbert Pocket from Charles Dickens’s novel, Great Expectations,^[21] and Geoffrey Charles Poldark from Poldark.^[22]

Notable staff[edit]

• David Elleray (born 1954): retired Premier League and FIFA-listed referee, former Druries Housemaster and Head of Geography
• Robert Key (born 1945): Politician; taught economics here 1969-1983
• Herbert Marchant (1906–1990): Bletchley Park alumnus and diplomat, assistant master 1928-1939
• James Morwood (1943–2017): Classical scholar, Head of Classics here 1979-1996
• John Rae (1931–2006): Educator and controversialist
• Douglas Miller Reid1897–1959) biology teacher at Harrow 1921 to 1953, noted botanical author
• Malcolm Nokes (1897–1986) : soldier, airman, Olympic medallist and nuclear scientist; a chemistry master at Harrow from 1946 to 1957, latterly a house master and also Head of Science.
• I. M. B. Stuart (1902–1969) : Writer and broadcaster
• Sir Reginald Thatcher (1888–1975) : Composer and Principal of the Royal Academy of Music, director of music at the school
• Roger Uttley (born 1949): retired England Rugby Captain and British Lions Rugby Player (1974 tour), former head of physical education and 1st XV coach.
• Ronald Watkins (1904–2001) Broadcaster and Shakespeare scholar
• Joe Ansbro (born 1985) International Rugby player for Scotland, teacher of biology and rugby coach

Directors of Music[edit]

• John Farmer, 1862-1885
• Eaton Faning, 1885-1901
• Percy C. Buck, 1901-1927
• R. S. Thatcher, 1927-1936
• Richard Drakeford, 1976-1985
• David Woodcock, 2005–present

Head masters[edit]

See also[edit]

• Harrow History Prize
• List of Old Harrovians

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• Rimmer, Rambles round Eton and Harrow, (London, 1882)
• Thornton, Harrow School and its Surroundings, (WH Allen & Co. London, 1885)
• Harrow School Registers, 1571-1800; 1800-1911, 1885-1949; 1971; 1985; 2002
• Minchin, Old Harrow Days, (London, 1898)
• Archibald Fox, Harrow, (London, 1911)
• G. T. Warner, Harrow in Prose and Verse, (London, 1913)
• Arnold Lunn, The Harrovians, (London, 1913) ISBN 1-4538-0948-1
• PHM Bryant, Harrow (Blackie & Son, 1936)
• ED Laborde, Harrow School Yesterday and Today (Winchester Publications, 1947)
• Christopher Tyerman, A History of Harrow School 1324–1991 (Oxford, 2000) ISBN 0-19-822796-5
• Dale Vargas, A Timeline History of Harrow School (Worth Press, 2010)
• Dale Vargas & Ross Beckett, A Hundred and One Eminent Harrovians

External links[edit]

What do you know about Harrow School?

Hi, I’m Bogdan. Read about Harrow School, will you?

Harrow School is a public school for boys in Harrow. Harrow  is a large suburban town in Greater London, England. Harrow is home to a large University of Westminster campus and Harrow School.

Harrow School is located in Harrow-on-the-Hill. Harrow-on-the-Hill is a conservation area with listed buildings and Georgian architecture.

The School was founded in 1572 by John Lyon under a Royal Charter of Elizabeth I.

The school has about 800 students.They live across twelve boarding houses and all of them board full time.

Harrow is an independent fee-paying school, of the type known in Britain as public schools. The equivalent term in the US would probably be private schools. The annual fees at Harrow are at present £33,285 per year, which includes board, tuition and textbooks.

14.1% of students go  to Cambridge or Oxford.

One long-standing Harrow School tradition involves supplying prime ministers to the British government. In total, seven were educated at Harrow, including war-leader Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Robert Peel, the father of British policing, and Spencer Perceval, the only UK prime minister ever to have been assassinated. Harrow is second only to Eton College, which has produced 19 UK prime ministers. India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was also educated at Harrow. Famous men who went to Harrow include Benedict Cumberbatch, Lord Byron, James Blunt, C. W. Alcock, and John Amery, foreign politicians, former and current members of both houses of the UK Parliament, five kings and several other members of various royal families, three Nobel Prize winners, and others.

Today’s Harrovians are united by strength of character, lasting friendships and the desire to be of good influence.

Harrow School is one of the oldest and most famous all-boys schools in the world. Yes, Eton is older, and yes, Eton invented Eton Mess. But Harrow invented Harrow football, which is far messier than any Eton Mess.

Eton mess is a traditional English dessert consisting of a mixture of strawberries, meringue, and whipped cream. First mentioned in print in 1893, it is commonly believed to originate from Eton College and is served at the annual cricket match against the pupils of Harrow School.

Eton mess was served in the 1930s in the school’s “sock shop” (tuck shop), and was originally made with either strawberries or bananas mixed with ice-cream or cream. Meringue was a later addition. An Eton mess can be made with many other types of summer fruit, but strawberries are regarded as more traditional.

A similar dessert is Lancing mess (which uses bananas), served throughout the year at Lancing College in West Sussex, England.

The word mess may refer to the appearance of the dish, or may be used in the sense of “a quantity of food”, particularly “a prepared dish of soft food” or “a mixture of ingredients cooked or eaten together”. 

Squash was invented at Harrow

Возраст: 13-18 лет.

Harrow School — одна из известнейших и старейших британских школ-пансионов для мальчиков, расположенная в лондонском районе Хэрроу. Школа была основана в 1572 году в годы правления королевы Елизаветы I. Harrow School расположена на северо-западе Лондона, в 20 минутах езды от Бейкер-Стрит на скоростном поезде лондонского метро и в 30 минутах езды от аэропорта Хитроу.

Среди знаменитых выпускников — 8 премьер-министров Великобритании, включая Уинстона Черчиля, несколько десятков политиков и членов парламента, писатели, сценаристы, члены королевских семей, 19 кавалеров наивысшей воинской награды Крест Виктории и много других знаменитых людей своего времени.

В школе Хэрроу до сих пор сохранилась старинная форма учеников, соломенная шляпа, костюм и трость. Также сохранились многовековые традиции воспитания.

Harrow School предоставляет образование высокого качества, воспитывает будущих лидеров в своей профессии, способных менять мир к лучшему.

В школе учится около 830 детей.

Директор (на 2022 г.)

Аластер Лэнд, образование — Кембриджский университет, степень по естественным наукам, постдипломный сертификат с правом на проведение преподавательской деятельности. До Harrow работал в знаменитых школах Eton и Winchester.

Знаменитые выпускники школы

• Уинстон Черчилль, премьер-министр Великобритании, лауреат Нобелевской премии

• Генри Палмерстон, премьер-министр Великобритании

• Стэнли Болдуин, премьер-министр Великобритании

• Марк Тэтчер, предприниматель, сын Маргарет Тэтчер

• Джон Уильям Стретт, физик и механик, открывший газ аргон, лауреат Нобелевской премии

• Джордж Байрон (Лорд Байрон), поэт

• Джон Голсуорси, писатель, лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе

• Бенедикт Камбербэтч, актер (сериал «Шерлок»)

• Роберт Пил, основатель консервативной партии Великобритании

• Джавахарлал Неру, премьер-министр Индии

• Король Иордании Хусейн

• Виктор Ротшильд, представитель семейства Ротшильдов, биолог и игрок в крикет, замдиректора британской контрразведки MI5

• Чарльз Ротшильд, представитель семейства Ротшильдов, банкир и энтомолог

• Николас Виндзор, член британской Королевской семьи, двоюродный племянник королевы Великобритании Елизаветы II

Ключевые факторы

• Высокие результаты экзаменов.

• Выпускники поступают в самые топовые университеты, включая Оксфорд, Кембридж, университеты Лиги Плюща (США).

• В школе работают лучшие педагоги, благодаря которым ученики добиваются блестящих академических результатов. Около 20% учителей имеют докторские степени, многие проводят исследования и пишут научные статьи.

• Небольшие классы – в среднем 14 учеников.

• Harrow School — это возможность примкнуть к высшим слоям британского общества, ощутить дух элитарности и избранности.

• Успехи Harrow School в образовании мальчиков подтверждены вековым опытом и приверженностью традициям.

Оснащение

Школа занимает территорию 130 гектаров в превосходном окружении. Здесь шикарное спортивное оснащение: полностью оборудованный современный спортивный зал со множеством тренажеров, 25-метровый бассейн, 6 площадок для зимних видов спорта, 4 корта для бадминтон, спортивные поля, площадки для крикета, атлетический трек, 12 всесезонных теннисных кортов, стена для скалолазания, поле для гольфа на девять лунок, озеро для рыбалки.

Отделение искусства и дизайна включает шесть больших студийных пространств со специализированными зонами для живописи, гравюры, скульптуры, керамики, резьбы по камню, фотографии, лазерной резки, литейного производства, сварки, гравировки, обработки дерева и 3D-печати. Для работы над цифровыми проектами доступны компьютеры Apple Mac.

В музыкальной школе Харроу есть специальные учебные и практические аудитории, а также концертный зал для камерной музыки. В школе есть два основных органа  (трехручный орган Уокера в часовне и четырехручный орган Харрисона в зале для выступлений), несколько роялей (в том числе Steinway D, два Steinway As и Fazioli) и клавесин. Есть две студии звукозаписи, а для академического обучения — 25 компьютеров и клавишных для создания музыки.

Программа

GCSE

Двухгодичная программа для получения сертификата об общем среднем образовании. Обязательные для изучения 6 предметов, 3 предмета изучаются по выбору.

A-level

Двухгодичная программа по подготовке к поступлению в университет. Ученики выбирают 4 или 5 предметов для углубленного изучения.
Подробнее о программе A-level

Проживание и питание

Проживание в резиденции в одном из 12 домов. В течение первых трех-шести семестров мальчики делят свою комнату с другим мальчиком того же возраста, а затем живут в одноместной комнате.

Дети завтракают, обедают и ужинают в столовой Shepherd Churchill. Школа предлагает широкий выбор свежих продуктов, включая два основных мясных блюда, вегетарианский вариант, суп, салат-бар и пудинг, приготовленные собственной командой поваров.

Спорт

Ученики школы Хэрроу — здоровые и активные. Для растущих мальчиков хорошо известна ценность пребывания на открытом воздухе, выход энергии и участие в спортивных командах.

Школа предлагает 30 различных видов физической активности, регулярно проводятся спортивные матчи. Ученики регулярно выигрывает местные и национальные чемпионаты, а элитные спортсмены школы имеют впечатляющие достижения на самых высоких международных уровнях. Некоторые мальчики после школы начинают профессиональную спортивную карьеру.

Виды спорта в школе: стрельба из лука, легкая атлетика, бадминтон, баскетбол, бридж, шахматы, стрельба, скалолазание, крикет, крокет, бег, фехтование, гольф, футбол, хоккей, дзюдо, каратэ, каякинг, поло, ракетки, регби, лыжи, сквош, плавание, водное поло и многое другое.

Дополнительные занятия

Школа стремится развивать художественные интересы мальчиков и поощряет творчество. Многие ученики выбирают искусство как один из предметов на программах GCSE и A-level. Дети посещают художественную школу как для подготовки к экзаменам, так и для удовольствия. В школе преподает 11 учителей искусства. Близости школы Харроу к Лондону позволяет организовывать большое количество экскурсий. Также регулярно проходят творческие поездки в Нью-Йорк, Париж, Флоренцию и Рим.

Более половины детей учится играть на музыкальных инструментах. Школа предлагает обучение по всем оркестровым инструментам, а также фортепиано, органу, гитаре, волынке. Большинство музыкантов вовлечено в школьные группы, ансамбли, хоры и оркестры. Каждый год проходит свыше 80 концертов и постановок. У мальчиков большие возможности для сольных выступлений.

Школа Хэрроу имеет давнюю театральную традицию, отсюда вышло множество талантливых драматургов и актеров. В течение года проходит как минимум 3 большие театральные постановки. Школьный театр «Райан», рассчитанный на 300 человек, оборудован по всем стандартам театральной индустрии и укомплектован командой творческих и технических специалистов. Дети, заинтересованные в технических элементах театра, могут на практике и под руководством профессионалов узнать о сценическом дизайне и строительстве, звуковом и световом дизайне, управлении сценой, костюме и гриме. Мальчики составляют съемочную группу для всех спектаклей.

Стоимость, 2022-2023

£15,570 в семестр.
В учебном году 3 семестра.

В стоимость включено

• Обучение

• Проживание и питание

Дополнительно оплачивается

• Регистрационный взнос — £350

• Депозит — £15,000

• Плата за прием в школу — £500 

• Авиаперелет

• Трансферы в из/аэропорта

• Виза

• Услуги образовательной компании

• Подбор опекуна, который является обязательным требованием британской школы

Услуги Paradise Education London и их стоимость

Как выбрать школу

О среднем образовании в Великобритании

From Academic Kids

Harrow School is a British public school, located in Harrow on the Hill, in North West London. It was founded in 1572 under a Royal Charter granted by Elizabeth I to John Lyon, a local yeoman, for the provision of education to local boys (Lyon was particular about keeping Harrow single-sex, a tradition that is still maintained). Harrow currently has approximately 850 pupils spread across 11 houses, all of whom board full-time. The majority of boarding houses were constructed in Victorian times, when the number of boys increased dramatically and the school began to resemble something similar to the current institution in terms of size and uniform.

In keeping with the wishes of the founder, Harrow founded John Lyon School in the 1870s in order to provide education for local boys.

Harrow also has a purpose-built feed school Orley Farm School, which was founded twenty years earlier, in 1850.

Harrow Traditions

Uniform

Harrow has a rich heritage of tradition, which manifests itself in a variety of ways. The most well-known public example is probably the Harrow hat, which resembles a boater in materials and shape. This hat is worn to all lessons. Weekday dress consists of a white shirt, black tie, grey trousers, blue jumper and a bluer (see Harrow Slang below). Sunday dress consists of a black evening tailcoat, pinstriped trousers, a black waistcoat, black tie and a white shirt. Variations include a grey waistcoat for those in the top sports teams, a hat with black speckles for boys in the top cricket team, and various society ties worn to meetings of the respective societies (The Guild, Philatheletic Club and Monitors all have their own uniform variations discussed in their separate sections).

Songs

One of the most distinctive Harrow traditions is the singing of School Songs. In the vein of the Eton Boating Song, many were written by teachers (commonly called ‘beaks’) about Harrow life in general in the latter half of the 19th Century. The School celebrates Songs once or twice a term, and Songs are sung with a similar frequency on a house level. The most famous is Forty Years On, which has become something of a catchphrase, and the title of a play by Alan Bennett. Many of the most popular songs were written by John Farmer and Edward Bowen. Indeed, it was they who first started the tradition.

New songs are occasionally written, although some feel that nostalgia cannot be ready-made and that «the old ones are the best ones»! The most recent addition to the collection is ‘The Vaughan’ by the current Master in Charge of Music, Richard Walker, and the lyrics by Tom Wickson. It describes the school library, recently refurbished, and the many pleasures that may be found there. However, many have criticised it for being too modern, and it was received with hissing at a recent Songs.

Sport

Harrow has two major sporting traditions, the first being Harrow Football. It is played with a large leather ball, used to score bases (goals) and is something of a cross between rugby and football. Tackling can be violent, as there are no restrictions as in rugby. As a result, injuries often occur, despite the game being played on the muddiest and softest pitches, and games kit often ends up dirty and torn. As no other schools play this unique game there are fiercely contended inter-house competitions and teams of Old Harrovians often return to play a school team.

The second tradition is the annual Eton versus Harrow cricket match played at Lords, and celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2005. It has more often been won by Eton in recent years, but this year was won by Harrow by 7 wickets. It is the oldest sporting fixture at Lords of any description, having begun in 1805, several decades before the current ground with its distinctive Victorian pavilion was built. Indeed, the well-known poet Lord Byron played in the first Harrow XI that year.

Harrow is also acknowledged by most historians as the inventor of the indoor racket sport squash, in the mid-nineteenth century. The game is derived from the older game rackets, which some assert was codified at Harrow in the early nineteenth century. The first recorded squash courts were constructed at Harrow in 1864.

Harrow Societies

As with many boarding schools, Harrow has a large number of societies, most of which are run by the boys. They include:

• Alexander Society (Military History)
• The Archives
• Biology Society
• Bridge Club
• Canoe Club
• Circus Skills
• Classic Film Society (not classical)

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  Harrow School Crest

• Comedy Society
• Debating Society
• Drama
• Duke of Edinburgh’s Award
• Film Society
• Flambards & Bible Studies
• Gore Society (Theology)
• Jewish Society
• Marmots (Climbing / Mountaineering)
• Nehru Society (Indian Culture)
• Old Speech Room Gallery Art Society
• Photography Society
• Rattigan Society (Drama)
• Sixth Form Club (Social)
• Sub Aqua Society
• Ten Miles To London (Creative writing to go into a school magazine once a year)
• Universal Challenge (Inter-House version of the TV show University Challenge)
• Wine Tasting (Sixth Form)
• Young Enterprise

There are many more. Indeed, every aspect of academic life has a society devoted to it — from the Alexander Society for military history to the Oriental Languages Society. Each society has its own signature tie for consistent members.

Monitors

Monitors are chosen from boys who are deemed to have the best qualities in leadership and achievement. They have the power to give lines and other such punishments to boys who misdemean. Each house has at least one monitor, who is made «Head of House» (the most senior boy in house). On a school-wide level the best monitor is made «Head Boy» and a deputy is appointed to assist. Monitors wear top hats and carry black canes when in Sunday dress and wear a blue tie bearing the school crest. This crest is also printed on the bands of their hats. The head may wear a white bow-tie and white waistcoats when in Sunday dress.

The Guild

This is a small group of selected boys in the top year, deemed to be leaders in artistic and cultural fields within the school, whose role is to promote music, art, drama, and other such activities. It is a highly prestigious position. Guild members may wear a maroon waistcoat when in Sunday dress or a maroon tie with rampant lions when in everyday uniform.

The Philathletic Club

This is akin to the guild, but its members are all players in the top sports teams in the school. It is their job to promote the sport side of Harrow life. Again membership is an honour, and in many boys eyes, more so than being in the Guild. Their privileges include wearing a black bow tie instead of the usual black school tie, and giving punishments to teachers who misbehave in sports matches, though this power is rarely used seriously.

Harrow Slang

Below are a few examples of vocabulary used by Harrovians today:

• Beak — Master (often named by their initials only i.e. the Head Master is BJL)
• Flicks — Lights out (only used in some houses)
• Ducker — Swimming pool
• Reader — House library
• Yarder — Small play area in each house
• Bluer — Blue jacket worn by Harrovians
• Greyers — Grey flannel trousers
• Eccer — Games
• Double — Writing lines as a punishment done on special «double» paper.
• Chit — A note, depending on its colour may be good or bad
• Fez — A cap for sport
• Tolly up, Extension — Permission to stay up late to work
• Custos — The caretaker
• Tosh — Bath or shower
• Bill, Call Over — morning or evening registration in houses
• Existing Customs — The school rule book
• Bill Book — A small, blue book published each term containing a list of boys and masters as well as other useful information

Harrow Terminology

This differs from slang in that it describes official activities. It is divided into two main groups — timetabling and year groups.

Timetabling

The everyday timetable at Harrow may at first seem illogical. From morning to evening, the lessons are denominated as follows:

2a   2b   2c   2d   2e   3   4   5

The reason for this is that originally there was early morning school (1A and 1B) before breakfast, and so morning lessons were ‘2’. 3, 4 and 5 were later additions to the timetable and are in the afternoon. Period 5 is also known as ‘X’ as only boys in the first two years at the school have it.

Year Groups

The first year at Harrow is for 13-year-olds going on 14. It is called the Shell and is equivalent to Year 9 in the State system. After that there is the Remove and the Fifth Form, or V2s (five-two’s). The two years after that are the Sixth Form, which is made up of the Lower Sixth or VI3s, and the Upper Sixth or VI2s. Once there were also VI1s and these were pupils who stayed on to study for Oxbridge.

Sports teams are organised according to year. The Shells are known as Yearlings in both House and School competitions. The Removes are known as the Junior Colts in School competitions, and the Fifth Form are the Colts. For House matches these two years combine to form the Torpids, and the Torpids seconds team is the Shags. School matches in the Sixth Form are called the Sixth Form Game and in House, they are simply the House and House Seconders teams.

Harrow Houses

There are 11 boarding houses in Harrow, each with its own house master, resident tutor, tutor team and matron. Each house also has its own colours. A single house will hold around 70 boys.
Below is a list of houses together with housemasters and colours:

• West Acre – Mr M. E. Smith, Red, White and Blue
• Newlands – Mr R. D. Burden, Yellow and White
• Bradbys – Mr P. G. Dunbar, Purple and White
• The Park – Mr P. D. Hunter, Red and White
• Moretons – Mr S. P. Berry, Blue and White
• Druries – Mr D. R. Elleray, Red and Black
• The Headmasters – Mr W. J. McKinney, Pink and White
• The Grove – Mr P. J. Bieneman, Red and Blue
• The Knoll – Mr C. de L. Mann (temporary) to be replaced in September by Dr E. R. Sie, Yellow and Black
• Rendalls – Mr K. M. Wilding, Magenta and Silver
• Elmfield – Dr J. E. Holland, Purple and Black

In addition to these there is also Gayton House. Boys may move here, for up to a term, if their house is overfilled. Its housemaster is Mr G. S. Wilson, but boys retain allegiance to their own house while there.

Notable alumni

Notable alumni include:

• Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
• Stanley Baldwin
• George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
• Winston Churchill
• Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
• Sir Arthur Evans
• Faisal II of Iraq
• John Harington Gubbins
• Basil Henriques
• Patrick Lichfield
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Robert Peel
• Spencer Perceval
• Marmaduke Pickthall, renowned Islamic and Middle-Eastern scholar
• Terence Rattigan
• Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot
• William Fox Talbot
• Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
• Anthony Trollope
• Sandy Wilson

Harrow Buildings

Old Schools

This is the oldest school building, built when the school was founded in 1572, and later extended. It contains the Old Speech Room Gallery, the Fourth Form Room and, appropriately, the History Department.

Old Speech Room Gallery & Museum

Harrow possesses a varied collection of art and antiquities including Egyptian and Greek antiquities, English watercolours, Modern British paintings, some sculpture, printed books and natural history. These are displayed in the Old Speech Room, which is a chamber that was built in 1819-1821 as a venue for the boys to practice public speaking. It is open to the public most afternoons during term time. Some of the highlights of the collection are on permanent display, and there is also a programme of temporary exhibitions, which boys who belong to the Old Speech Room Gallery Arts Society help to look after under the watchful eye of the curator, Mrs Leder. The current exhibitions are Books for Bibliophiles and Masterly Photographs, a display of photos by Harrow masters.

Fourth Form Room

This was the room where all lessons were originally taught. It is wood paneled and the original benches are still in place, as are many other fittings. The panels are covered in names, engraved by boys. There are even the names of famous OHs including Winston Churchill and Lord Byron. Today this tradition is continued formally on boards within each house. The room is very recognisable as it features in many films, for example the Charms classroom in the first Harry Potter film.

Speech Room

Speech Room is used on every Monday of term for the Headmaster to address all 800 boys and masters for notices or announcements. It is also used for some large audience lectures, concerts and the Shakespeare play owing to its resemblance to The Globe. Again it features in many films such as the school drama Goodbye Mr Chips

War Memorial

The primary purpose of this building is a monument to OHs who have died in wars. Its walls are carved with the names of them. It is used on Remembrance Sunday. Downstairs there are rooms for the Monitors, the Phil and the Guild. Upstairs there are three rooms- the Beak’s Room, the OH Room, and the Fitch Room.

The Beaks Room

This is for Master’s meetings and as a place for masters to meet at break every day.

The OH Room

So called as the walls are decorated with paintings of previous Harrow Headmasters, this is used for lectures and in the morning Thought for the Day, the alternative to morning Chapel for non-Christians.

The Fitch Room

This room was paid for by the mother of Alex Fitch, and OH who died in the great war, on the condition that a light for his portrait would always be left on. This has been the case ever since save during the blackout in the Second World War. It is very ornate, with paneling, and a floor taken from the deck of a ship.

Chapel

The school chapel is an entirely separate building to St. Mary’s, the church on the top of the hill. It is used for services on every day of the week; there is compulsory attendance for Church of England boys on either Tuesday and Thursday or Wednesday and Friday depending on House and everyone attends on Sundays. On all days there is a Eucharist in the crypt chapel.

Vaughan Library

Recently refurbished in 1999, the Vaughan has an extensive collection classified by the Dewey Decimal System, in addition to fiction and biography sections. Boys and beaks can borrow and request books as in any other library. There are also IT facilities and periodicals available. The Vaughan also serves as a prize ordering service for boys who have won a school prize (they select a book, DVD or CD).

Shepherd-Churchill

This is the central dining room. It was built in 1970 and makes 3000 meals a day for boys and staff. There is a separate staff dining room. The exterior noticeboards display information on sports and societies.

Ryan Theatre

The theatre seats 300 people. Around 12 productions are put on by the school every year, and other outside companies put on performances. The average Harrow performance runs for 2 nights with the major Rattigan Society production running for 3. There are 4 dressing rooms, and the stage has a thrust that may be raised or lowered to create an orchestra pit. The current Head of Drama is Martin Tyrell.

External links

• Harrow School website (http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/)
• Harrow Association Website (http://www.harrowassociation.com/)
• Harrow Development Trust Website (http://www.harrowdevtrust.com/)
• Harrow School Enterprises (http://www.harrowschoolenterprises.com/)