Talk:Sevenoaks School

impressive alumni (being added now!), quite old school, get refs for all this for a B. Welcome Victuallers 15:07, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

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History

"a pioneer of coeducational schooling in the 1960s and International students in the 1980s". I think this is the wrong way around. When I was at the school (1966-1972) there was a flourishing International Centre, but no girls. A very small number of girls joined the sixth-form in the 1970s and early 1980s, including Emma Johnson (clarinetist). I don't think it became fully coed until the mid 1980s. I hardly think this counts as being a pioneer of coed schooling.--RichardVeryard 10:36, 17 July 2006 (UTC) (Double redirect which happened later, fixed by PBeaver 20:20, 8 May 2007 (UTC))

- The school went fully coed in 1984, the first year I was there, with girls allowed into the first-fifth years for the first time, as both day pupils and boarders. The sixth form had been coed for sometime. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.80.105.158 (talk) 13:34, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

The school claims to be the third oldest non-denominational school after Winchester and Oswestry. But Winchester is not non-denominational.Poshseagull (talk) 18:47, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

I have now changed the article. Incidentally, Oswestry claims to be the "second oldest" and I have queried that. Poshseagull (talk) 08:12, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Old Sennockians

Hi User:Sikandarji. You have added Caxton, Frith, Grote and Hardinge. As I recall, these are (or were) some of the house names at Sevenoaks. But do you have any evidence that they were at Sevenoaks themselves. According to Wikipedia, Frith and Hardinge both went to Eton. --RichardVeryard 01:33, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Also Terrence Trent D'Arby is listed as going to some other school on his article. Reckon the school have decided they need more alumni so have just borrowed some Giveitallforcheese 23:26, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

John Frith is recorded as having attended Sevenoaks Grammar School prior to going to Eton. I've a feeling that Sevenoaks was once called Sevenoaks Grammar School, but I'm not sure when it dropped the word "Grammar". Millbanks (talk) 23:03, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Other Sport

User:QwentyJ - I think what has been written about i being limited success is rather unfair. The rugby team has suffered a dip in form, but that was about 4 years ago. Whilst I was playing 1sts, the standard increased sizeably. We are extremely good at Tennis and Cricket has had more success in recent years. Therefore, I feel obliged to change it. 15:25, 22nd June 2007

More is needed about the schools sailing squad, the coach Bruce Hebert is a coach for the British junior national team. The sailing squad regularly places very highly in international events.

Thompsett

Twice this guy has been added as a former pupil, but he's not mentioned in the Community charge article as being a major figure in that, and we also need evidence that he actually attended this school. David Underdown (talk) 21:44, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Spam

The ungrammatical passage about the performing arts centre is spam. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.97.194.200 (talk) 11:42, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

"One can imagine..." seems to have been written by the female writer I mentioned earlier. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.97.194.200 (talk) 11:49, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Frith

Frith is said to have translated the New Testament. I am not sure that this is true. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.97.194.200 (talk) 15:32, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Fee fixing, WP:LEDE

I've partially reverted this edit to remove redundant material from the lede. Independent school fee fixing scandal involved 60 schools; in a random sampling of them, most of them don't mention the issue, and none that I've seen mention it in the lede section. There's nothing in that article to suggest that it was enough of a major event to warrant being mentioned in the intro. See also WP:WEIGHT. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 19:31, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

I've pared down the lede section and removed some unsourced material from the history section. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 19:36, 21 May 2020 (UTC)