Reigate Grammar School was founded in 1675 as a free school for boys. During the subsequent three centuries, it has grown to become a leading independent coeducational day school for around 860 pupils aged 11-18. The school of today has maintained its grammar school ethos, putting academic achievement as its first priority, and is known for its happy, friendly, and supportive atmosphere, as well as for the standard of its extra-curricular activities.
However, our enviable quality of teaching, outstanding academic success and popularity have run ahead of aspects of our facilities. A number of our buildings have become outdated or too small for the needs of and aspirations of the school. Piecemeal development over the years has left parts of the school site less attractive and less successfully utilised than we would wish. We need to build to maintain our success, develop our strengths, take advantage of our opportunities, and evolve, in order to continue to attract talented pupils and staff, and to enable students to fufill their potential.
RGS is still on the site on which it was founded at the end of the seventeenth century. It was rebuilt in the 1870s, and expanded in the 1940s with the addition of the Broadfield site. However, few open sites for development now remain in the school grounds, and, in 2006, the governors decided that imaginative solutions were required to meet the school's development needs.
This plan is the outcome of that decision. It seeks to provide a blueprint for the future physical development of the school to meet is current and anticipated needs for the next 15-20 years. The plan should allow us to embark on a sequence of projects within a rational framework for long term development.
The school will celebrate its 350th anniversary in the year 2025. It is my hope that, by that date, the majority of the development envisioned in this plan will have been realised. For that reason, the plan is being called RGS 350. I hope very much that all pupils, staff, parents, friends of the school, and Old Reigatians, will be able to support this vision.
David Thomas
Headmaster
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If you would like to know more about this Development Plan and how you can support it then please contact the Foundation Office.