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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, Sunny Hill House School, and St Hilda's School. Silcoates has the most pupils, around 750 in total. The foundation caters for pupils from infancy up to eighteen.

Motto

The school's motto is Clarior ex Ignibus - 'brighter out of fire' - 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.

Houses

There are four houses representing notable headmasters:

Evans (yellow and green tie)
Spencers (blue and green tie)
Moores (green tie)
Youngs (red and green tie)

Murder

In 2006 the school hit the news when it was the centre of murder enquiry after a local man's body was found on school premises. The man who died was Gavin Corden, and a local man was arrested soon after the murder.

Notable alumni

James Guinness Rogers (1822-1911), Nonconformist divine

William Thomas Stead (1849-1912), journalist, campaigner, victim of RMS Titanic disaster

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, son of headmaster

John Horam (1939-), Tory MP

Tim Stimpson (1973-), England 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 peerFurther Information

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