[44], In 2005, Winchester College was one of fifty of the country's leading independent schools which were found guilty of running an unlawful price-fixing cartel by the Office of Fair Trading ("OFT"). It was enrolled as a Cadet Corps in the 1st Hants Volunteer Battalion. Originally these festivities occurred around Whitsun, as suggested by references in the song to early summer such as "See the year, the meadow, smiling" and "Now the swallow seeks her dwelling". Our directory includes: New Hampshire High Schools, New Hampshire Middle Schools, and New Hampshire Elementary Schools. Each house also has a letter, in the order of their founding, to act as an abbreviation, especially on laundry tags. 901 Winchester was constructed by Southern at the nearby Eastleigh Works; it entered service in 1930. The Chapel Choir sings regular services in the chapel, as well as other venues. – "Thanksgiving for the Founder" as at present used on commemoration days, The college knew in 1982 of allegations of sadomasochistic abuse of boys and young men attending summer camps run by the Iwerne Trust in the 1970s, "to ensure that future members of the establishment were committed Christians" These were known as “Bash camps” after the nickname of their founder, E. J. H. Nash. Pupils were made eligible to opt out of the CCF at the end of their second year after starting at the beginning of the year: this is still the school's policy. [20], The College's South Africa Gate on Kingsgate Street commemorates the Wykehamist dead of the 1899–1902 Boer War. [33] A new tune, by Malcolm Archer, was officially adopted by the school in about 2007. It is the oldest of the original nine English public schools defined by the Clarendon Commission, seven of which were regulated by the Public Schools Act 1868. Neither the college nor the Trust reported these bare-buttocks beatings to the police. The State of New Hampshire's COVID-19 Dashboard displays the most recent data available that is reported to the NH Department of Health and Human Services regarding cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, with further demographic detail and county of residence. It leads to the War Cloister. [10], The seventy Scholars live in the original buildings, known as College; an individual scholar is known as a "Collegeman". The information was widely distributed resulting in their papers being disallowed. It was formerly restricted to those former scholars of Winchester who were also scholars of New College, and distinguished guests. A bronze bust of Old Boy Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding sits on the west side of the cloister. [50][51], As with other prominent independent schools, a locomotive of the Southern Railway V Class was named after Winchester College. Upon passing into British Railways ownership in 1948, it was renumbered 30901. College is not usually referred to as a house: hence the terms 'housemaster of College' and 'College house' are not used. A member of a house is described by the informal name of the house with "-ite" suffixed, as "a Furleyite", "a Toyeite", "a Cookite" and so on. A firm of glaziers in Shrewsbury, Betton and Evans, was tasked with cleaning the glass in the 1820s. The percentage of students achieving reading proficiency is 58% 68.4% of GCSEs were graded A* or equivalent (9 or 8), in comparison to 62.5% in 2017; 92.1% were graded A*/A or equivalent (9,8 or 7), in comparison to 90.5% in 2017. Public School Directory. Anyone with a high school diploma or greater qualifies, and those with prior college coursework could be certified in two years or less! A keen ecclesiologist, [32][36] There is still a "Domum Cottage" in that area. Demand for places for commoners was high, and though at first restricted, numbers gradually rose. [45] All of the schools involved agreed to make penalty payments totalling three million pounds into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in which fee information was shared. [19], Situated to the west of Meads, this cloister serves as a memorial to the Wykehamist dead of the two World Wars. Winchester College is an independent boarding school for boys in the British public school tradition, situated in Winchester, Hampshire.