Today, we are marking International Women’s Day, celebrating all that has been achieved while acknowledging the barriers that still exist for women around the world.
At Oundle we encourage our pupils to look up and out to the world around them and aim to instil in them a sense of service and of respect for difference, so that they can become valuable contributors to society.
This year we are proud to be celebrating 35 years of co-education, which sits at the heart of these values, and to be planning for a new girls’ boarding House in honour of David McMurray, the Headmaster who introduced co-education to Oundle in 1990. He set out a clear vision for the School which continues to resonate today:
“It is our intention to create at Oundle an environment in which boys and girls can fulfil their individual talents and respect one another as equals. We believe that only thus can we now in the late twentieth century continue to justify Oundle’s proud claim always to have prepared its pupils in a manner appropriate to the world in which they will live their adult lives.”
