Figure 1.--These boys attend a Scottish Academy. That is a full-term with both primary and secondary sections. Similar scgools are generally called colleges in England. |
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There are also other schools which emcompass the prep-school age-level. There are also full-term schools which offer both primary and secondary programs. These are often called colleges or acadamies, the later being more common in Scotland. Some in England are just called schools. The term college is commonly used for university level studies in the United States, this is not the case in most other countries. The Junior School at these schools is often an independent unit. Commonly the Junior School only goes through age 11 while the traditional prep school cares for the boys through age 13, but many of the girls leave at ahe 11. Many of these full-term school are day schools. Some are boarding schools. Often the boarding establishment is primarily for the older children.
The special characteristics of Bedford School are that it includes within one comprehensive community as a Public School and a Preparatory School, each with its own individual organisation (the Preparatory chool is itself arranged in two departments ...); and that it id a school both for day-boys and boarders, the proportions od each in the Upper School being approximately equal. The Upper School, with 600 boys, is of medium size among the Public Schools; the Boarding Houses, averaging fifty boys each are relatively small and intimate societies.
Bedford School Prospectus
The Junior School is run as an independent entity, with its own classrooms, assembly hall, library and art and craft area. However, the facilities of the Senior School are also available--the music school, sports hall, dining hall and there is close liason with the various departments and their staff. This is an advantage that cannot be claimed by a preparatory school which exists in isolation.
Bedford Modern School Prospectus
Bromsgrove is a co-educational independent boarding a d day school for 600 boys and girls. The first record of the school is dated 1548, when it became King Edwatd VIth Grammar School, Bromsgrove; it remained so for over three hundred years. Bromsgrove became a founder member of the Headmasters' Conference in 1869. Over a period of time the grounds have been much enlarged -- and they now comprise a single site of 100 acres. Sonce 1958, over £1 has been spent on new buildings and improvements throughout the School which is now one of the most modern in the country. The School became co-educational in 1973 and there are now separate facilities for boys and girls from 8 to 18 as boarders or day pupils. For administrative and social reasons Bromsgrove is divided into two parts: a Lower School for the 8 to 13 year olds, and an Upper School and Sixth Form for the 13 to 18 age group. .... At 11, pupils are gradually introduced to the Upper School for some lessons by senior staff. At the age of 13, pupils move into the Upper School. This is a natural transition; some of the staff teach in both Schools and many of the facilities are shared. .... Bromsgrove is particularly fortunate in having its Lower and Upper schools placed as they are -- separate, yet in the same grounds -- for this means that the 8 to 13 year olds can spend their formative years before moving on to the Upper School when adolescence begins. Each age group can therefore develop freely without being affected by the other while, at the same time, there is a progressive academic programme which makes the change from one set of buildings to another, when it comes, entirely natural.
Bromgrove School Prospectus
As its name implies, Clifton College Preparatory School is part of Clifton College, controlled by the sme Council, administered for financial purposes by the same body, sharing many of the same facilities and working to the same ends. Yet the School is an entity of its own, with a daily routine planned and organised for the sole purpose of providing all that is best in education for boys between the ages of seven and thirteeen.
Clifton College Preparatory School Prospectus
Dean Close School, of which we are an independent and swparate unit, was founded in the 1880's and named after Francis Close, the prominent Rector of Cheltenham, lter Dean of Carlisle. It retains its original Christian aims and traditions. .... We have the great advantage of lying close to the Senior School, which enables us to enjoy the use of various facilities such as the Chapel with its fine organ, the Tuckwell open-air theatre, the all-weather hickey pitch, the large swimming pool and gymnasium, the French language laboratory and the rifle range.
Dean Close Junior School Prospectus
