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St Peter's Middle School in Old Windsor, England, is one of Windsor's four middle schools (for pupils of 9–13 years old). Pupils arrive in year 5 and stay until year 8 when they usually move on to The Windsor Boys' School or Windsor Girls School.

The school was a Primary School until the early 1980s, then became a Middle school, retaining the same house system.

The school's states that its vision is to be A church school and a family school with high expectations.

Pupils in the school belong to one of four houses, each named after a Royal House: Lancaster(RED), Stuart(BLUE), Tudor(GREEN) and York(YELLOW). In 2004, form groups were reorganized into house groups and pupils are now registered by the same tutor throughout their time at the school.

The school has been awarded Investors in People status and was the first in the Borough to be recognized with the Sportsmark award. It holds the Food for Life Silver Award and many pupils grow a wide range of vegetables and fruit on site and make them into chutneys, etc and sell under the 'St Peter's Pickle Company' banner to raise money for school healthy food activities.

A highly sought-after school, St Peter's has a strict admissions policy, which can be viewed at: http://www.stpeters-school.co.uk/page.asp?sec=Admissions+Policy_Admissions+policy

History

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Old Windsor School, now called 'St Peter's CE Middle School developed from the bequests of many benefactors in the eighteenth century.

The first mention of a school is in the will of a vicar of Old Windsor, Dr La Croze, who, in 1725, left money to build “a little convenient dwelling for a master who shall teach the children”. This cottage was built on land adjacent to the Penny Royal Cottages in Crimp Hill. It was small and almost certainly only accepted local boys. It would have been customary at the time for gentlemen’s sons to be taught by the Vicar or by a tutor employed by their father. (Girls would have been educated at home by a governess) Current education policy at the time in the area deemed it unimportant for education other than the very basics to be provided for children of the many agricultural workers in the area.

Lady Onslow from the Priory, Old Windsor, made a will in 1786 leaving £500 for “instruction particularly teaching to read of such of the poor children of the parish as her executors shall think the proper subjects of such instruction, and £200 for the building of a school.” This money became available in 1812 when Lady Onslow died – aged 94.

Mrs Ann Hamersley of Woodside, Old Windsor, had in 1797 bought the Penny Royal and other cottages in Crimp Hill. There were four brick cottages, a school house, four wooden cottages, a parish oven and bakehouse, a well and outbuildings. Mrs Hamersley left £1000 to set up “a school of Industry in the Parish of Old Windsor aforesaid for poor children of the said Parish either boys or girls where the children shall be brought up in habits of Industry and taught and instructed in such manner as to fit them for useful members of Society, where at the expense of the said parish or by some charitable and well-disposed person or persons by providing a Fund towards the future support of such a school after the decease of the said Ann Hamersley - £1000 3% consolidated Bank annuities – the Vicar Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor to be the Trustees”.

References

1. "Food for Life Partnership : School details" (html). Retrieved 13/1/2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
2. 'A Sound and Happy School' by Margaret Gilson, ISBN: 978-0-9536912-1-0

'A Sound and Happy School' by Margaret Gilson, ISBN: 978-0-9536912-1-0

External links

• School website

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