Dulwich College Prospectus
Middle School
Discover, develop, achieve
There are around 620 boys in Years 9 to 11 and we welcome up to 75 new entrants into Year 9 (age 13+) to join those moving up from Year 8. The curriculum focuses on establishing a sound knowledge base and developing the boys’ study skills to enable them to fulfil their academic potential and to grow as confident, rounded individuals. Boys usually study ten GCSE/IGCSE subjects in Year 10 and 11 and transfer to the Upper School at the end of Year 11. There is early public examination entry for boys who demonstrate a particular aptitude for languages or mathematics.
Life-long learning
The libraries at the College cater for the specific needs of different age groups, between them housing 32,000 books, CDs and DVDs. These resources support our ambition for all boys to develop into independent, self-motivated, life-long learners. The Raymond Chandler library is popular with enthusiastic Lower School readers and regularly hosts literary quizzes and author events. The Wodehouse Library provides a comfortable space for quiet study, while the conversation area buzzes with discourse, debate and chess. With borrowing available from the British Library, and College membership of JSTOR (the digital library) there is no area of learning which the boys cannot access, while the periodicals room, hung with paintings from the Dulwich Picture Gallery, allows the boys to read newspapers and periodicals in a traditional library setting too.
“Curiosity is everything. ‘How do you reconcile Marxism as linear, economic determinism with his comment that History repeats itself?’ I don’t know, I’ll have to go away and think about that one. That is the reward of teaching here.”
Dr Nick Black Head of Middle School
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