Rendcomb College

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name = Rendcomb College


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head = Martin Watson (Junior School) & Gerry Holden (Senior School)
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city = Cirencester
county = Gloucestershire
country = ENG
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lower_age = 3
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houses = Old Rec, Godman, Stable, Lawn, Park
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website = http://www.rendcombcollege.co.uk/
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Rendcomb College is an HMC co-educational boarding and day school for 3 to 18-year-olds, located near the village of Rendcomb five miles north of Cirencester in Gloucestershire, England.

Rendcomb College and Junior School states that it 'aims to provide a stimulating, challenging and exciting all-round education'. A recent Independent Schools Inspection found the school to be a "friendly and supportive community" where "the efforts of pupils are warmly encouraged, celebrated and rewarded".

Rendcomb College states in its prospectus that 'it is a close community, more of an extended family to which every pupil belongs, where every child matters as an individual.'

In 2005, pupils at the College achieved record-breaking exam results with a 100% pass rate at A Level and 93% at GCSE with 48% of the papers being graded A or A*.

The school motto is "Quo Lux Ducit" (to where the light leads).

Notable alumni

*Kojo Annan - Son of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. While at Rendcomb, he was a successful rugby player. [MacAskill, Ewen, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1447711,00.html "English public schoolboy turned businessman who 'disappointed' his father"] , "The Guardian", March 30, 2005]
*John Middleton Murry, Jr. - English writer who used the names Colin Murry and Richard Cowper. [Priest, Christopher [http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,708954,00.html "John Middleton Murry: Science-fiction writer who emerged from the shadow of his famous father" (obituary)] , "The Guardian", May 3, 2002]
*Richard Dunwoody - Jockey
*Nicolas Walter - Anarchist and atheist writer, speaker and activist
*David Mabberley - Keeper of the Herbarium, Library, Art and Archives at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, ex-Director of the Center for Urban Horticulture at the University of Washington, president of the IAPT, ex-Dean of Wadham College, Oxford
*Roger Alder FRS, professor of organic chemistry at the University of Bristol.

References

External links

* [http://www.rendcombcollege.co.uk/ Rendcomb College homepage]
* [http://www.rendcombian.org.uk/ The Old Rendcombian Web Site] - Alumni web site
* [http://www.rendcombcollege.co.uk/junior-home.asp/ Junior School]
* [http://www.rendcombcollege.co.uk/senior-home.asp/ Senior School]