This week we celebrate National Apprenticeship week at Brethertons. We have had many Apprentices join and develop with us over the years, including myself! We are proud of the investment we make in our Apprentices from starting out on their career journey to...
At the September meeting we were lucky enough to have a private tour of Rugby School.
At least two centuries of Rugby’s history are written in the stones and other monuments to tradition that stand around the School Close, where in 1823 a local lad called William Webb Ellis first ran with the ball and invented the game of rugby football.
Rugby school has a vast and interesting history from its foundation in 1567 by Lawrence Sheriff, purveyor of spices to Queen Elizabeth I, through to a Great Rebellion in 1797 where certain pupils, having blown the door off the Head Master’s classroom and burned their books on the Close, moving into the 20th century the Edwardian era inspired the Tuscan columns of the Temple Speech Room, named after former Head Master and Archbishop of Canterbury Frederick Temple (1858–69) and now used for whole-School assemblies, Speech Days, concerts, musicals – and BBC Mastermind.
At present the School is national and international in outlook and recruitment, with boys and girls from all over the UK and 10% from overseas. As widening access to Rugby remains central to the School’s DNA, the Arnold Foundation for Rugby School was set up in 2003 to fund places for pupils who stand to gain the most from a boarding school education. The School has since joined forces with other members of the education sector as part of the new, national SpringBoard Bursary Foundation drawing on Rugby’s Arnold Foundation model.
The behind the scenes tour was greatly received by all delegates with an excellent turnout on the morning, despite the weather