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St. Aubyns School was a co-educational preparatory school in Rottingdean, East Sussex, England, catering for children from the ages of 3 to 13. The school was formally founded in 1895 but has origins in educational establishments founded in the 18th century by the then vicar of Rottingdean, Dr Thomas Hooker. By tradition the school did not use an apostrophe in its name. The school was owned and operated by an independent trust until it merged with the larger Cothill Educational Trust in May 2012. Within a year of the merger the Cothill Educational Trust decided to close the school. Despite strenuous efforts by the parents of children at the school to keep it open,〔'Struggling school is given hope by parents', ''Argus'', 26 February 2013 ()〕〔'Parents try to save St Aubyns prep school with big-name past', ''The Times'', 18 March 2013 ()〕 and an offer made by Hurstpierpoint College to acquire it,〔'Future of St Aubyns School in Rottingdean is soon to be decided', ''Argus'', 5 April 2013 ()〕 it closed on 7 July 2013.〔http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10341983.St_Aubyns_school_in_Rottingdean_set_to_close_after_rescue_deal_talks_fail/〕 The Cothill Educational Trust's plans for the 11-acre site of the former school have not been published. Its acquisition of the school and its site and its subsequent decision to close it are to be the subject of a formal complaint to the Charity Commission.〔'Bitter fight to save historic prep school', ''Daily Mail'', 25 June 2013 ()〕 ==History== St Aubyns was founded by Mr CEF Stanford in 1895 as a boys' boarding prep school. Mr Stanford had been a housemaster of Kingsgate School in Winchester and moved with his wife, his deputy (Mr RCV Lang), a maintenance man and six pupils to start a new school. The premises which he occupied had been a school for much of the 19th Century. Revd Thomas Hooker, Vicar of Rottingdean from 1790s to 1830s, was well known as an educator of pupils who lodged with him at the vicarage. He then rented rooms in the former Rottingdean Manor House and employed a second master as an extension to the school. After his death this continued as a school which changed hands several times. From 1863 a Mr Hewitt ran a school on this site called Field House School – here Ralph Vaughan Williams and the later Earl Jellicoe were educated. The school was bought in 1887 by two brothers called Mason; they gave the name Rottingdean School to their establishment. They vacated the site in 1894 and moved Rottingdean School to another site in the village. Thus Mr Stanford came upon an empty site when he arrived in 1895. The school remained in essence unchanged for its first 100 years, with numbers between 60 and 100 pupils for most of that time. A chapel was built in 1912 and dedicated the following year. This records the names of 102 old boys who died in the First and Second World Wars. The school was privately owned by Mr Stanford who passed it on to Mr Lang who succeeded him as Headmaster in 1919. Mr Lang in turn passed the school on to his successor Mr WH Gervis in 1940. One of the other masters, Mr EK Webber, had a financial share in the business. The school became a limited company and a charitable trust in 1969. During the Second World War the school was evacuated to North Wales. A family called Wynne Finch made their mansion, Voelas near Pentrefoelas, available to the school in 1940. Here school life continued as if unchanged, including sporting fixtures against other prep schools evacuated to the area. The Voelas Cup is still awarded each year to a pupil who has gained the most section marks. In 1995 a Pre-Prep Department was opened and with this came an increase in the proportion of day pupils. Girls were first admitted to the school in 1996 (although the first girl was Molly Stanford, daughter of Mr Stanford, in the first decade of the 1900s). In 2002 a Nursery was opened. Full boarding ended in 2003, although weekly- and flexi-boarding continued until the school's closure. In July 2013, St Aubyns closed. 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「St Aubyns School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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