Silcoates School
Motto	Clarior ex Ignibus Brighter out of the Flames
Religion	United Reform Church
Headmaster	Mr. Darryl Wideman
Location	Wrenthorpe Lane Wakefield West Yorkshire WF2 OPD England
LEA	City of Wakefield
Gender	Mixed
Ages	7 to 18
Houses	Evans', Moore's, Spencer's, Yonge's
Colours	yellow green blue red
Publication	The Silcoatian
Website	Silcoates School
Coordinates: 51°40′23″N 0°03′21″W / 51.672939°N 0.055751°W / 51.672939; -0.055751

Silcoates School is a public (private) school in Wakefield, England. It was founded in 1820 as the Northern Congregational School at Silcoates House, for the board and education of the sons of non-conformist clergy; it was located close to Ossett and Horbury, which both had unusually large nonconformist populations. It was a boys' boarding school until 1995, boasting pupils from the far corners of the world. Girls were admitted in the sixth form from 1976, with female boarders accommodated in the 'Coach House'. The school now exists as a co-educational day school, with a large and attractive campus straddling the border between the West Yorkshire villages of Wrenthorpe and Alverthorpe. The Silcoates School Foundation has three schools under its name: Silcoates School, Silcoates Sunny Hill House, and St Hilda's School. Silcoates has the most pupils, around 750 in total. The foundation caters for pupils from infancy up to eighteen.^[1]

Contents 1 Motto 2 Houses 3 Notable alumni 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Motto

The school's motto is Clarior ex Ignibus - 'all the brighter for the burning' - commemorating the Great Fire of 1904 which forced the school to move into temporary exile in Saltburn, on the coast of North Yorkshire between Whitby and Middlesbrough.

[edit] Houses

There are four houses representing notable headmasters which the school thought were great people to use:

• Evans' (yellow and school green tie)
• Spencer's (blue and school green tie)
• Moore's (light green & school green tie)
• Yonge's (red and school green tie)

[edit] Notable alumni

• James Guinness Rogers (1822-1911), Nonconformist divine
• William Thomas Stead (1849-1912), journalist, campaigner, victim of RMS Titanic disaster
• Sir Henry Norman Rae (1860-1928) Liberal MP for Shipley
• J. S. Fletcher (1865-1935), historian, writer of historical and detective novels
• Sir William Peel (1875-1945), colonial governor of Hong Kong
• Maurice Yonge (1899-1986), zoologist
• David Suratgar (1938-), Senior British banker and lawyer
• John Horam (1939-), Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Orpington
• Andrew Burt (1945-), Actor
• Tim Stimpson (1973-), International rugby player
• David Stiff (1984-), County Cricketer
• Hugh Banton (1949-), Progressive rock icon, member of Van der Graaf Generator
• Baron Cocks of Hartcliffe, (1929-2001) Labour peer

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Silcoates School

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