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Wimbledon College is a government-maintained, voluntary-aided, Jesuit Roman Catholic Secondary School for boys aged 11 to 19. The school is based at Edge Hill, Wimbledon, London. It was founded in 1892 "for improvement in living and learning to the greater glory of God and the common good." Its seal says in Latin, "College of the Sacred Heart, Wimbledon". It is affiliated with the Sacred Heart Church and Donhead Preparatory School, its main feeder preparatory school. ==History== On the 18 January 1892, in the parlour of a newly founded church's presbytery at No.3 Cranbrook Road, Thomas Lloyd started at Wimbledon College. He was the first-ever student, and on that day he was to be alone. His brother William was meant to attend alongside him, but fell ill. After the first academic year, six more students joined the Lloyd brothers. In this time the school had moved twice, once to a property on Darlaston Road and once to a building adjoining the All England Lawn Tennis Courts. In 1893 the college moved to a recently abandoned building on Edge Hill, the former site of Wimbledon School, and has never moved since. By 1900, 100 pupils were in attendance. In 1898 the Wimbledon College Army Department was established. This trained young men for entrance into Sandhurst or Woolwich.〔(Beginnings ) from WimbledonCollege.org.uk, retrieved 18 September 2015〕 During the First World War, the college was to lose a total of 129 former pupils. On 18 February 1922 the War Memorial at the rear of the chapel and the memorial stained glass window at the front, behind the altar, were unveiled. The memorial inscription reads: "To the greater glory of God and in the triumphant and loving memory of those who went from the College to die for King and Country."〔(The college during the wars ) from WimbledonCollege.org.uk, retrieved 18 September 2015〕 In 1921 the Prefect of Studies (Head Master), Fr John Manning SJ, oversaw the transition from Oxford Local Examinations to Oxford and Cambridge Joint Board Examinations, allowing the college to compete with the top public schools. This quelled the tendency for the brightest 15 to 16-year-old students to leave the college for the more established Catholic schools.〔 Also in 1921, the house system was introduced with three houses (Fisher, More, and Campion). Later would be added Southwell. In 1929, 8 acres of field beside Coombe Lane was bought for sporting purposes.〔 In 1933, due to the growing number of pupils, the decision was made to buy Donhead Lodge (a building across the road from the college) and establish a preparatory school there. The 72 pupils from Lower Preparatory, Preparatory, and Elements were taken from the college and settled at the new Wimbledon College Preparatory School (known as 'Donhead").〔 Fr John Sinnott SJ (OW) arrived as Prefect of Studies in 1937. A previous student at the college,〔 he immediately sought to improve the college's reputation with the Board of Education, to allow acceptance of scholarship boys from elementary schools. After a favourable inspection in 1938, he implemented their suggestions by giving inter-house competitions a more academic, less sports character, with prizes in all main subjects. Elocution lessons were organised, boys were encouraged to play the violin, and a Careers Bureau was established. He also made plans for further development of the site, but was frustrated by the outbreak of the Second World War, when tight restrictions were placed on the use of steel and timber.〔 During the Second World War, the functioning of the college was much more disrupted than in the Great War. Fortunately, the Wimbledon College and Donhead buildings both had cellars which, with minor adjustments, were approved by local Air Raid Wardens. Sandbags were brought in and timber frames used to reinforce the ceilings. Since the college and Donhead were outside the evacuation area, school was allowed to proceed. Three weeks after the outbreak of war on the 3 September 1939, the new school term began.〔 Unfortunately, because the games pitch was distant from the bomb shelters, games lessons were cancelled during the war and break was shortened.〔 Such was the disruption to lessons by increasingly frequent passings over of German bombers, that boys were required to take their books down to the cellars where lessons would continue amid the sounds of bombs exploding and anti-aircraft fire.〔 The college acted as an emergency feeding post, first aid centre, and the college swimming pool provided valuable water for the local fire brigade.〔 On the 18 February 1944, a bomb exploded on the Convent of the Sisters of Mary, situated on the Downs (a road not far from the college), killing five nuns and wounding several others. Numerous windows in the college shattered, doors broke, and the roof of the college swimming pool caved in. During all this time, Fr Sinnott was looking to the future of the college. He had concluded that the independent school model was not suitable and had applied to the Surrey County Council (at the time Wimbledon was contained within the borders of Surrey, these moved in the 1960s) for Deficiency Aided School status in January 1942 and this was granted later that year. This allowed the college to be funded by the local education authority while retaining its religious character. In March 1945, fees were abolished at the request of the Surrey Educational Committee. This marked the beginning of the process of the college becoming a Voluntary Aided Grammar School, which was formally recognised in July 1948.〔 The college lost 58 old boys as a result of the Second World War. They are commemorated by a memorial above the door of the college chapel.〔 In 1969, the college became a Voluntary Aided Comprehensive School.〔(Conservation Areas – Edge Hill )〕 As of 2009, the Sixth Form had partnerships with the nearby Ursuline High School and Holy Cross School and Richard Challoner School in Kingston upon Thames.〔2009 Ofsted (Report on Wimbledon College at school website )〕 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「Wimbledon College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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