SHEEPCOTE ROAD                 

The new Headmaster married on the third of April, 1034, and on April the eleventh he and Mrs. Thompson moved the School to new premises which they had bought in Sheepcote Road. The original name -"The Boys' High School, Harrow"- was retained, though the School is now often referred to as Harrow High School, because there is no longer a Girls' High School with this name in Harrow. The new School House, called "Trevethin," had been built in 1904. It accommodated the one hundred and ten boys now on the register as well as providing a four-roomed flat for the use of the Headmaster. "Trevethin" has a very beautiful garden with a drive and wide lawn. Among the valuable trees are two ancient registered, an Indian Bean (Catalpa Bignonioides Aurea), two very fine fir trees and two very tall bay-trees.

MODERN DEVELOPMENTS

In the years immediately following the Second World War the classes were re-organised into a two-stream grammar school course. The total roll, including the Junior School, was reduced to just over four hundred by 1956, with a staff of twenty-two teachers. In 1946 the English Department was taken over by Mr. D. C. Stainton, B.A. (London). The Assistant English Master, Mr. A. Hossack's, a pupil at the School before the war, took over from Mr. Stainton in 1951. Mr Hossack's books "Grammar in Action" and "The Essence of PrŽcis," published by Dent and Methuen. The scope of the Geography Department was greatly enlarged under Mr. P. G. G. Chapman, B.A. (London), after 1948. Its course now includes field-work, travel abroad and visits to heavy and light industries. In the following year the Histroy Department was taken over by Mr. R. J. Saville, B.A. (Leeds).

ACADEMIC RECORD

The School had always run its own centre for the external examinations of the Oxford School Certificate and General Certificate of Education, the College of Preceptors Junior, Senior and Certificate, and the Royal Drawing Society. Boys about to leave the Junior School are encouraged to sit for the Eleven-Plus Examination and in 1957the Examination Officer granted the School's request to run its own centre for this test. Some boys are encouraged to sit for the Examinations for entrance to Technical School and Colleges at the age of thirteen or fifteen. Several pupils have, at their parents' request, sat and passed the Common Entrance Examination at the age of thirteen and have thus entered the Public Schools.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

The School had, over the years, developed many extra-curricular activities, some in association with other schools. The School Library, re-founded by Mr. Goble in 1936, was rehoused and enlarged by Mr. Pinder in 1956. A Literary and Debating Society was formed in 1954 by Mr. Schapiro. This had now developed into the English Society which had a wider scope. A Modern Languages Society was founded by Mr. H. A. Norton in 1953 when the Oral Test became compulsory in the Oxford G.C.E. Examination in French, with the aim of breaking down the traditional British reticence of speaking in foreign languages. Lessons in German, French, Spanish and Italian were also available after school hours. The Headmaster and the Senior Modern Languages Master also take parties of boys abroad for much enjoyed holidays in Switzerland, Belgium, Holland and France.