Oundle School
Welcome from the Headmaster
Welcome to the Oundle School website. Whether you are a regular visitor or if this is your first visit I hope you will enjoy browsing and discovering what you want to know.
Oundle is a diverse and interesting community with as large a range of activities and opportunities as can be found in any school in the country. As one of England’s three largest boarding schools Oundle demonstrates its popularity and success. Smaller schools cannot compete with the rich diversity of involvement and opportunity. A school like Oundle quite simply offers more. It provides the complete educational experience while life in the boarding house or in Laxton (for day pupils) ensures that a calm, pastoral community thrives and every individual is nurtured, supported and valued.
Oundle is fortunate to be located in a beautiful country town in the middle of England. The School’s origins lie in Sir William Laxton’s endowment to the Worshipful Company of Grocers to re-establish a School in Oundle in 1556. This event was celebrated in style throughout the 450th Anniversary year in 2006.
You are welcome to come and visit on any day at any time – with an appointment, or just as you wish. We shall be better prepared to show you around, provide lunch with pupils for prospective parents and offer a tour, if you make contact beforehand and we know you are coming. You will see much that makes the School special.
We like visitors and take pride in what you will find – you will be most welcome.
Charles Bush