School news
Choir of Norwich Cathedral
Choristers and Girls' Choir sing at 359th Festival of Sons of the Clergy
Rounders Club
Strong performances from rounders teams.
Cricket Club
Another clean sweep of victories, this time against Woodbridge.
Newsletters
Lower School Weekly Newsletter
Lower School Trinity Term Weekly News (week 4)
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School calendar
19 May 2013 08:30
Scouts: Sailing Boatpacking Expedition (Norfolk Broads Yacht Club, Wroxham)
20 May 2013
Internal examinations for years L4, U4, L5 and M5
20 May 2013 16:15
Heads of Department Meeting (S10)
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
Valpy
Housemaster and Tutors
| Housemaster | DPD Bateman |
| U6 | TD Berwick / Mrs FL Ellington |
| L6 | RW Peters / Mrs D Saywack |
| U5 | T Ollivier |
| M5 | Mrs S Wortley |
| L5 | JM Ashton |
| U4 | Dr M Bhaduri | T Grieves |
| L4 | Mrs L Slade |
| Head of House | William Everden |
| School Prefects in Valpy | Angus Darrah & Gabriel Wrenn Deputy Heads of House; George Elliott-Hunter; Sydney Laing |
EDWARD VALPY
Edward Valpy, Head Master 1811 – 1829, aroused strong emotions in pupils who wrote about him. While some remembered him with ‘cordial gratitude, respect and even affection’, others saw him as a snob and a tyrant. His reputation for flogging was legendary; but he was apparently less brutal than his counterpart, Mr Keats of Eton. Valpy was certainly a scholar of some merit, publishing a successful book in the Latin language; and his old boys regarded him highly enough to call the first ON club ‘The Valpeian Society’. When a new house was needed in 1962 to absorb the increasing number of day boys, Valpy's name was the obvious choice, he having raised the number of boys in the school from tens to hundreds during his headmastership, and having spread the academic reputation of the school beyond the bounds of Norfolk and Suffolk.
David Bateman, Housemaster