Gresham’s School is an independent, fully co-educational HMC boarding school set in the town of Holt in the North Norfolk countryside.

=Structure=

The Senior School, established at Holt by Sir John Gresham in 1555, has approximately 520 pupils. There are four boarding houses for boys and three for girls. The vast majority of Greshamians move on to top British universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, St Andrews, Bristol, Durham, and Edinburgh.

There is also a Preparatory School on a separate site at Holt, with its own Headmaster and staff. Like the Senior School, it is fully co-educational and takes full and weekly boarders as well as day pupils. The children, of whom there are over two hundred in the Preparatory School, are taken from the age of eight and normally leave at thirteen, many continuing into the Senior School.

The Gresham's Pre-Preparatory School, on another separate site, is a day school catering for one hundred boys and girls between the ages of three and eight.

Gresham's is a Church of England foundation, but the school is open to all denominations and religions. The School Chaplain is always available to the pupils, and Chapel is a focal point of School life. Boys and girls may be prepared at the School for Confirmation into the Church of England, if so wished.

=Notable alumni=

• John Reith, 1st Baron Reith - Chairman of the BBC
• Wystan Hugh Auden - poet
• Sir Lennox Berkeley - composer
• Peter Brook - theatre director
• Benjamin Britten, Lord Britten of Aldeburgh - composer
• Sir Christopher Cockerell - inventor of the hovercraft
• Matthew Dickinson - adventurer and conqueror of Everest
• Sir Philip Dowson - President of the Royal Academy
• Sir James Dyson - inventor and entrepreneur
• Sienna Guillory - actress
• Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin - winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine
• John Lanchester - novelist
• Richard Leman - Gold medallist at the Seoul Olympics
• Donald MacLean - one of the Cambridge spies
• Andy Mulligan - captain of the British Lions Rugby XV
• Ben Nicholson - artist
• Ian Proctor - yacht designer
• John Pudney - poet and novelist
• Sir Stephen Spender - poet
• Sir John Tusa - Director of BBC World Service
• Roderick Watkins - composer

See also

• Norwich School, Norwich

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