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Kelly College is a coeducational independent school situated in the outskirts of Tavistock, Devon, with around 350 students ranging from ages 3 to 18; there is an associated preparatory school for primary school children, Kelly College Preparatory School, nearby. As well as merging with Mount House prep school. The college has eight hectares of landscaped grounds, including playing fields, set on the edge of Dartmoor and including a stretch of the River Tavy, and four separate senior boarding houses, and a junior house, each with its own facilities. The college enjoys a very good academic reputation, and is renowned for its strength in sports, particularly swimming and rugby. It is at present under the headship of Mr Mark Semmence who joined the college in 2013. The college's motto is ''fortiter occupa portum'' - "defend your harbours bravely", a quotation from Ode XIV from the first Book of Odes by Horace.(1) It offers many extracurricular activities, such as the CCF (Combined Cadet Force) and the DofE Scheme; in addition to a wide variety of sporting activities. == History == The school was founded in 1877 after Admiral Benedictus Marwood Kelly left the great part of his real and personal estate to Trustees, founding a charity which he directed should be called "The Kelly College", which should be for the education of the "sons of Naval officers and other gentlemen". The school opened in October 1877, under the Headmastership of Robert West Taylor, late fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, with twelve boys on the school roll. It became co-educational in the early 1970s, initially with entrants into the Sixth Form, and in September 1991 welcomed thirty one girls into the First Form, fourteen of whom became Kelly Veterans in 1998.〔(1) Kelly College Chronicle 1997 - 1998〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kelly College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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