• Outstanding Education for Girls and Boys

Savour the wonderful, inclusive, supportive ethos AT DURHAM SCHOOL

Durham School is about to celebrate 600 years of providing outstanding education, for 571 years to boys, and for the last 29 also to girls. Nor do they emphasise this extraordinary tradition simply to impress. A sense of place, of belonging and of history seeps from the very brickwork. It gives pupils an understanding of the importance of doing justice to the traditions and accomplishments of earlier generations, former pupils like Grenville Sharpe, the 19th Century anti-slavery campaigner, Noel Hodgson, the First World War poet who lost his life on the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916, and Geoff Parling, current England second row forward and British Lions. At the same time it is a school looking forward as they prepare their pupils for a world which changes at a bewildering rate. Over the past year alone they have become a fully accredited All-Steinway School and the only such school in the North of England, ensuring that all their pupils have daily access to the finest pianos in the world, the Ferraris of the musical world! In addition they recently announced a partnership with an Indian business, aiming to export the Durham School education to locations in India and elsewhere around the world over the next few years, called Durham International Schools. To find out more about their international expansion or music scholarships or indeed any other aspect of Durham School's long illustrious history, please contact Eileen Cathrae, Admissions Officer on 0191 386 4783, or email or visit the school's website at www.durhamschool.co.uk