Founded 1874On the Quell estuary
Learn by the water.Leave ready for anything.
A day at Corrowden
Scroll and the day moves on: breakfast, lessons, the library, the river, music and prep, the way a pupil lives it.
Scroll, drag the hand, or use the arrow keys.Swipe through the day.
07:30
House tables, 07:30 to 08:15
Day pupils come in along the river path; boarders are already on their second round of toast.
09:10
Lower School, 09:10 to 10:10
Titrations in the old laboratory. The burettes are older than the wiring and still read true.
11:30
Study period, 11:30 to 12:30
Quiet study under the copper. Sixth Formers book a carrel; everyone else finds a window.
15:40
Games, 14:00 to 16:30
The first crews push off on the ebb while a coach cycles the towpath and calls the stroke.
17:30
Activities, 17:00 to 18:15
Practice rooms open after games. A chamber group runs the slow movement for Friday's concert.
19:30
In the houses, 19:30 to 21:00
Prep under the lamps. A tutor walks the corridor and answers what the textbook would not.
21:00 Lights out in the Lower School houses
The verdigris dome
Our colour was not picked from a chart. It is the weather on the old library, and it tells the school's story in four sentences.
The school opens in the old customs house on the Strand with thirty-one pupils and one borrowed boat.
The library is built and roofed in copper, as bright as a new penny for about a decade.
Girls join the Sixth Form; by 1975 Corrowden is co-educational from the first year.
In the school's 150th year the dome is relined, and the library opens to every year group.
How we teach
Each stage has its own head, its own building and its own pace. Open a tab.
Small forms, one tutor who knows every child well, and a timetable that keeps the whole curriculum open: three sciences, two languages, Latin, art, music and drama each week. Prep is short and done at school.
Pupils choose their GCSE courses at the end of Year 9 with a tutor and a careers adviser in the room. Sets are by subject, never by year, so a strong linguist and a struggling mathematician are each taught where they are.
Three A levels or two and the extended project, seminar groups round one table, and a supervisor for independent study. Sixth Formers run the boat club, the school paper and the junior debating society.
Life beyond the classroom
Joining us
Most pupils join at 11, at 13 or for the Sixth Form at 16. Whichever door you use the path is the same, and nobody needs tutoring to walk it.
Any time
An open morning or a private tour.
By 30 November
A short form; no fee for bursary applicants.
January
Reasoning papers, a group task, a talk with a tutor. Nothing to prepare.
February
Offers by email; families reply by 1 March.
Visit days
Pick a marked date. You will walk the river path, sit in on a lesson and have lunch in Hall. Bring the questions you have been saving.
What happens on a visit day| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 Open morning, already happened | 4 | |||
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| 12 | 13 | 14 Sixth Form evening, already happened | 15 | 16 | 17 Open morning, already happened | 18 |
| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 24 | 25 | |
| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||||
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 8 | |
| 9 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | |
| 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 22 | |
| 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 28 | 29 | |
| 30 |
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | ||
| 7 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | |
| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 20 | |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 26 | 27 | |
| 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |