St Piran's School (Maidenhead)

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  Teresa

  St. Piran’s can trace its origins to 1805 when pupils, including Benjamin Disraeli, the future Prime Minister, received their early education at a small school in Blackheath, called Eliot Place. The school moved to its present site in 1872. In 1919, Major Vernon Seymour Bryant became Headmaster. He bought Cordwalles School for £7,700 and in 1920 renamed it St. Piran’s, after the patron Saint of Cornwall. It started as a boys’ school, with boarding facilities. 1972 the school became an educational trust with a Board of Governors and about 180 boys. Many additions were made to the building in the seventies including an outdoor swimming pool, assembly hall, a new gymnasium, a library and a science laboratory. In 1993, the school became fully coeducational, accepting boys and girls from age three to thirteen. Boarding came to an end at St. Piran's after 188 years and the school adapted to the demands of the local market, becoming a local school meeting local needs.

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