Educational Establishments
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undle School is one of Britain’s leading co-educational boarding and day schools. Nestled amongst the charming, historic Northamptonshire town, its
buildings, which date from the 17th to 21st centuries, are scattered throughout the centre and, over that time, the level of integration with local people has imbued the school with its undeniably “unique and distinctive” character and its pupils with a strong sense of community. In 1556, Sir William Laxton, Lord Mayor of London and Master of the Worshipful Company of Grocers, endowed a free grammar school in Oundle, where he had been educated at the original Guild School founded in 1506. The Company, ranking second in The Great
Twelve of senior livery companies, has been supporting the school ever since, under the terms of Laxton’s will. Oundle has progressed through the
generations, developing its educational and sports offering to rank today among Britain’s leading 100 schools. In September, a new development united science, mathematics, design, technology and engineering to allow pupils to move seamlessly from theory to practice and from pure science to technology. The third largest independent boarding
and day school in England (860 full boarders and 250 day pupils at junior and senior levels) merits some of the broadest and best sporting provision and Oundle can claim just that, for both indoor and outdoor pursuits, across its sprawling 250-acre estate.
The sports centre houses two sports halls,
five squash courts and four rugby fives courts, fitness suite and climbing wall, plus twelve netball courts, of which six currently double as tennis courts in the summer. They also have four separate hard tennis courts and are to build another eight next year, alongside a Tartan rubber athletics track. A host of campus-based and satellite rugby
and football natural turf pitches cater for junior and senior school traditional field sports, and rowing also features prominently - the school owns nearly a straight mile of River Nene frontage and boathouse at Tansor and runs another boathouses beside the North Bridge at Oundle - as does shooting, with both 25m small-bore and 500m full-bore ranges at two venues, marking a first among schools.
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