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L4 Medieval Day
Jousting, herbal remedies, quills and more.
Race for Life
Girls raise well over £1000
Mad Hatter's Tea Party
M5 Brooke raise £140 for Big C
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School calendar
23 May 2013 13:00
National Schools Regatta: J14, J15, J17 and WJ17 rowers travel to Nottingham
23 May 2013 18:00
Cricket: Common Room Buccaneers v Nocturnes (H) (Lower Close)
24 May 2013
Activities day for L4
Term dates 12-13
Michaelmas term
Starts Wed 5 September, 2012
Half term: Thurs 25 Oct - Mon 5 Nov, 2012
Finishes Fri 14 Dec, 2012
Lent term
Starts Tue 8 Jan, 2013
Half term: Sat 16 Feb - Sun 24 Feb, 2013
Finishes Fri 22 Mar, 2013
Trinity term
Starts Tue 16 Apr, 2013
Half term: Sat 25 May - Sun 2 Jun, 2013
Finishes Fri 5 July, 2013
FRIENDS CLOTHING SALES
Sales are held between 10am and 12 noon on the following days:
Saturday 25 May 2013
Saturday 6 July 2013
Saturday 31 August 2013
Repton
Housemaster and Tutors
| Housemaster | JC Fisher |
|---|---|
| U6 | Miss LED Evan / M James |
| L6 | Mrs KE Curtis | C Williams |
| U5 | Miss HL Godfrey |
| M5 | M Mulligan |
| L5 | Dr LSM Boutemy |
| U4 | Miss AE Boyt |
| L4 | SJ Gibbons / A Weeks |
| Head of House | George Johnson |
| School Prefects in Repton | Samuel Garforth; Tania Pendreich |
REPTON HOUSE
Repton, the second youngest of the school’s houses, likes to call itself the “friendly house”. House members (“reptiles”) are encouraged to take part voluntarily in activities – one reason, perhaps, for the house’s frequent success.
Humphrey Repton (1752–1818) was born in Bury St Edmunds. His father was Collector of Taxes and the family intended that he should become one of the prosperous Norwich merchants whose trade was primarily with Holland. He married very young and engaged in several enterprises, all of which were failures. After a short interlude as confidential secretary to the Lord Lieutenant in Ireland he moved to Essex, where he failed in business as a gardener. One night after much worrying he decided to become a landscape gardener and the successor of "capability" Brown.
With his Red Books , collections of “before” and “after” drawings, he became a very popular and influential designer, fashionable enough to be satirised by Thomas Love Peacock and mentioned by Jane Austen in Mansfield Park , where we are informed that “his terms are five guineas a day”.
In later life he also practised as an architect, designing Sheringham Hall in Norfolk.
He is buried in the churchyard of Aylsham parish church. “In the churchyard, enclosed with iron rails, and planted with roses, hearts'-ease, is the grave of Humphrey Repton, the celebrated landscape gardener, who died in 1818.” from William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845 [Transcription copyright © Richard Johns]
Mr James {Reptons longest serving tutor} has also found a reference to a science fiction short story by Humphrey Repton, From a Private Mad-House , published in Variety , 1787, and collected in FarBoundaries, ed. August Derleth, Pellegrini Cudahy, 1951.
John Fisher, Housemaster