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Oakham School
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Buildings

This series is related to the buildings on the School campus and documents their history. Most of the collection is made of photographs and artwork, as well as architectural plans. Each sub-series focusses on a different building.

Oakham School

Houses

  • HOU
  • Subfonds
  • 1905 - 2024

This collection contains material relating to the history of the houses and their pupils. Each series is focused on a different house and many contain rich and detailed photographic records of houses year by year. Some houses are more detailed than others.

Other highlights of this collection include house handbooks, which help to induct a pupil into a house and its daily routine; photographs of daily life, including house events and leisure time; and administrative documents such as house diaries which record the calendar of house events, achievements of pupils, and accounts of incidents.

Included in this sub-fonds are houses which are no longer in existence such as Johnsons and Ruddles.

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Rushebrookes

  • HOU-HOU/17
  • Series
  • 2012 - 2024
  • Part of Houses

This series focuses on the boarding girls in Rushebrookes house. It was named after the first School Headmaster, Robert Rushbrooke. The first girls moved in in the Spring term 1980 but the building was officially open only on 22 November 1980. This series contains items related to the daily life of the girls in school and in house, as well as house photographs, mostly from the 2010s.

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Administration

  • HOU-HOU/17-HOU/17/5
  • Sub-Series
  • 2020 - 2024
  • Part of Houses

This sub-series focuses on the day-to-day running of Rushebrookes house. Items give information regarding the house officials, the staff duty rotas, and the music, sports and activities lists.

Kim Robinson

Activities and Societies

  • ACS
  • Subfonds
  • 1905 - 2024

A collection which charts the various societies and activities available to pupils at Oakham School. Documents include photographic records and correspondence for different societies. Topics include chess, CCF/OTC, scouts, Duke of Edinburgh Award, Oligoi , Exploratory Society, and trips and expeditions.

The multiple series contain administrative documents for the various societies and certain series, such as Duke of Edinburgh Award and CCF/OTC have excellent photographic record of formal or informal events.

There is a particularly detailed series on Chess and the event of Gary Kasparov's visit to the school.

There is a good collection of shooting medals and trophies, kindly donated by Henry Blagg.

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Jane Matthews

  • CHA-CHA/1-CHA/1/3-CHA/1/3/6
  • Item
  • 11/09/2012
  • Part of Chapel

Order of service of the service of thanksgiving for Jane Matthews at the School Chapel on 11 September 2012.

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Various/ Individual

  • STF-STF/9-STF/9/2
  • File
  • 1900 - 2002
  • Part of Staff

This file focusses on various photographs of individual teaching and support staff. The bulk of the file date from the 1990s.

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Staff

  • STF
  • Subfonds
  • 1878 - 2021

This collection focuses on the staff who have worked for Oakham School over the years. Material focuses on not only training and teaching, but staff wellbeing, pay and benefits.

There are two series which focus on notable members of staff from the school's history: Jon Wills and Brian Welford. Material for these staff members have been collected by themselves and other members of staff.

Recruitment series includes jobs descriptions for various positions, both teaching and support staff, in the school.

There is a strong collection of policies an guidance for teachers in completing the many administrative and teaching jobs expected.

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School Reports

  • STF-STF/11-STF/11/2-STF/11/2/2
  • Sub-File
  • 1969 - 1973
  • Part of Staff

This sub-file contains an almost complete group of Jon Wills' school reports from Form 3 to Form 7.

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Form 6 report, Summer 1972

  • STF-STF/11-STF/11/2-STF/11/2/2-STF/11/2/2/10
  • Item
  • 10/09/1972
  • Part of Staff

Jon Wills' school report in Summer term 1972.

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