We are delighted to announce that Oswestry School will open the doors, this September, to an innovative and exciting new boarding facility as we launch plans for our very first co-educational Sixth Form boarding house. The half a million pound refurbishment of Holbache House will transform the facility into a comfortable home-from-home for senior boarders at the school, with en suite bathrooms and communal living areas designed with input from the boarders themselves.
A record school roll of 515 pupils this academic year at Oswestry has been matched by significant investment in the school’s facilities and campus both at the senior school site on Upper Brook Street and in the Prep School at Bellan House. This has included recent transformational refurbishments of the Senior School Library which opened in January 2023, and the brand new Sigi Faith Sixth Form Centre which opened in September 2023.
Headmaster Peter Middleton commented, “Oswestry School has a strong reputation for innovation and a commitment to providing the best possible facilities for our students. Our new co-educational boarding house will provide our Sixth Form students with a unique - and uniquely valuable- stepping stone experience as they prepare for life beyond school, providing a welcoming environment for community, camaraderie and collaboration. As our school motto puts it, ‘We Learn Not for School but for Life’; our new co-ed boarding house will provide our students with further life-ready experiences, and we are all greatly looking forward to the opening of the new facility.
“This new co-edventure is very much in keeping with the pioneering, enterprising spirit of our founder David Holbache whose vision for transformative education paved the way for seven centuries of innovation, educational evolution, and a courage to do things differently.”
The new Holbache House will be in the capable hands of house parents Steve and Nicola Schofield.
