Princethorpe College Acquires Additional Land And Buildings In Landmark Deal

03 Jul

Princethorpe College and the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC) have completed a landmark deal which will allow the College to make key developments to its sports facilities and infrastructure, alongside improvements to teaching, learning and staff accommodation.

The MSC founded the College, now the senior school of The Princethorpe Foundation, in 1966 and whilst they relinquished all control and ownership of the College in 2000, they have remained strongly associated with the school and extremely supportive ever since.

The Warwickshire-based Princethorpe Foundation welcomes children of all faiths and backgrounds, and provides co-educational, independent day schooling with a strong Christian ethos to some 1,400 children aged 9-months to eighteen years, through Little Crackers Nursery, Crackley Hall School, Crescent School and Princethorpe College.

In all, the assets released by the MSC give the College the potential to:

expand the current sports pitch provision by around 70%;
enhance and improve campus access, egress and increase parking;
create additional accommodation for teaching, learning and staff workspaces;
increase opportunities for the Foundation’s prep school pupils at Crackley Hall School in Kenilworth and Crescent School in Rugby to regularly use the expanded sports provision and benefit from the specialist facilities at Princethorpe;
support the development of further Foundation facilities into the future.

Foundation Principal, Ed Hester, comments, “We have been working hard on our campus master planning across all our three sites and the acquisition of the additional land and accommodation at Princethorpe will unlock immense potential to develop the campus further and overcome some current operational constraints. As we approach the College’s Diamond Jubilee Year, we are delighted to be able to continue to collaborate with the MSC and to support them on an ongoing basis in their ministry in the local parish and community. We are immensely grateful for their continued support.”

Further details will be shared in due course of the Foundation’s master plans to develop the facilities across all three of its campuses.

Ed Hester, Foundation Principal, is pictured with Fr Alan Whelan MSC and Grove du Toit, Headmaster of Princethorpe College.