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InTRODuCTIOn
  Ethos
We recently celebrated our 150th anniversary, and it is worth taking a look back at the aims of the founders:
‘To provide a classical, mathematical, and general education of the highest class.’ Memorandum of Association, 1867
‘To open a school here owing to the remarkable healthiness of Eastbourne.’ Object and Plan, 1867
‘In Eastbourne, out of Eastbourne, alike, let your character be known for good... Be brave, be generous, be pure, be true.’
Headmaster Revd James Wood’s opening address to pupils,1867
The academic highlights section of this booklet demonstrates how closely we adhere to the founding challenge to provide an education ‘of the highest class.’
We still exploit ‘the remarkable healthiness of Eastbourne’, and see ourselves as the ‘blue health school’, harnessing our coastal location to the benefit of our children’s physical and mental wellbeing.
Key facts
Eastbourne College is a co-educational, boarding and day school for pupils aged 13–18.The College is an educational community in its broadest sense rather than just an academic institution. It offers a huge range of opportunities outside the classroom, and provides the time, space, care and expertise to enable children to benefit fully from everything available.
• Number of pupils 650 • Boarding to day ratio 45:55 • Staff to pupil ratio 1:7
• Average class size 14
Scholarships and bursaries
The College awards academic, all-rounder, art, art textiles, design and technology, drama, music, sports, and a variety of other scholarships.These include the Professor Soddy Awards (named after the eminent former pupil and Nobel Prize winner in chemistry) worth up to 100 per cent for pupils from maintained schools who achieve outstanding results and wish to attend the sixth form. Means-tested bursaries are also available.
Flexibility
A minibus service takes day pupils to school in the morning and home at 6.00pm or 8.00pm. Pupils can choose on the day when they wish to leave, and most stay late several evenings a week. Day pupils may eat supper at the College on any weekday. Flexible overnight accommodation is also available for day boys and girls.
Shape of the week
The school has developed a finely tuned timetable following feedback from parents, pupils and staff. The new timetable optimises educational contact time, and provides a guided optional Saturday morning enrichment programme of academic and other activities as opposed
to compulsor y lessons. Lesson time devoted to each subject is increased on weekdays, with plenty of breathing spaces and variety along the way to maintain a healthy, whole-of-learning approach.The changes create tangible benefits for an increasing proportion of families in which both parents have busy working schedules, and provide new enrichment opportunities for the thriving boarding and day community. The College remains vibrant over the weekends, and there is a rich programme of boarding activities and trips on Sundays.
 Finally, we believe Revd James Wood would be proud that Eastbournians 150 years on are brave, generous, true and ‘known for good’. Everyone within the College community understands and believes in the following values which form the bedrock upon which every pupil’s education stands, providing them with the attitude and personal skills to flourish at the school and beyond:
• Pursuit of excellence • Participation
• Integrity
• Courtesy
• Kindness
• Taking care of those who take care of us
Our values-based education promotes these traits, and there is nothing like the house system to foster these life-skills.Through house spirit, charitable activities, and creative and independent work, pupils develop into adults who are good people who other people want to be with.
The school fulfils its stated aims to develop pupils with pursuit of excellence and participation, integrity, kindness, courtesy and a firm appreciation that all people have the same intrinsic worth. Most recent ISI Inspection Report
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