Dulwich College Preparatory School

Dulwich Prep London

Established	1885
Type	Preparatory School
Religion	Church of England
Headmaster	Michael Roulston
Location	42 Alleyn Park Dulwich London SE21 7AA  England
Local authority	Southwark
DfE URN	100862
Gender	Boys
Ages	3–13
Colours	Navy Blue and Black
Website	dcpslondon.org

Coordinates: 51°26′03″N 0°05′07″W / 51.4342°N 0.0852°W / 51.4342; -0.0852

Dulwich Preparatory School DCPS is a private preparatory school in Dulwich, south London, England for children aged 3–13 years. It was founded in 1885, and is the largest boys preparatory school in the United Kingdom. It will be known formally as "Dulwich Prep London" from September 2011.

The current headmaster is Michael Roulston. Dulwich College Preparatory School is not officially affiliated with Dulwich College; however, it does provide a large proportion of the 13+ entrants to the public school.

In 1938, John Leakey, the then headmaster, established an evacuation camp in the orchard on his father-in-law's land at Coursehorn, near Cranbrook, Kent, where the affiliated Dulwich Preparatory School still is today.^[1] Despite the danger in 1940, the school in London was reopened and run along with the school in Cranbrook. There were plans to move the school to the West Country, but when these fell through the Cranbrook school was evacuated to Betws-y-Coed in Snowdonia (there remains a memorial planting of trees in that village in memory of this period). Meanwhile, Coursehorn was being used as a camp for the troops, and in 1944 soldiers had been gathered there in preparation for D-Day.

Dulwich is a feeder school for Dulwich College, Alleyns and public schools such as Tonbridge, Sherborne, St. Paul's School, Westminster and Eton. Many boys at DCPS, Dulwich College Prep School, in year 8, sit scholarship examinations.

Famous alumni include Derek Underwood, the England cricketer, and musician Donald Swann, the pianist half of Flanders & Swann,^{[citation needed]} and Nick Easter, the England Rugby player.

References

1. ^ History of Dulwich College Preparatory School in Cranbrook, Kent, Dulwich Preparatory School, Cranbrook, Kent, UK.

External links

• DCPS website
• DCPS in Kent website
• George Marsh, head teacher of Dulwich College Preparatory School, BBC News, 26 September 2000
• History of Dulwich College Preparatory School in Cranbrook, Kent