# Foster's School > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Foster's_School > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Foster's_School.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster's_School > Source revision: 1272384818 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Foster's School" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this message) **Foster's Grammar School for Boys**, [Sherborne](/source/Sherborne), [Dorset](/source/Dorset), was founded by Richard Foster in 1640. It closed in 1992. ## History Foster's School was initially endowed by Richard Foster from rent collected at Foster's Farm at Boy's Hill in the parish of Haydon. The students were to be inhabitants of Sherborne and between the ages of seven and eleven at the time of their enrollment. It was known as the Blue School,[1] a common name for charity schools in which the students wore blue coats. In addition to the blue coat, the boys were issued a [bonnet (headgear)](/source/Bonnet_(headgear)), two shirts, two [cravats](/source/Cravat_(early)), two pair of [stockings](/source/Stockings) and two pair of shoes each year. Foster died prior to the school's first term in 1687.[2] The typical school day lasted from 8 am to 11 am, with a break to go home for lunch, and then schooling resumed from 1 pm until 5 pm in the summer and 4 pm in the winter, Monday through Friday. On Sundays, the boys were required to attend services and bible study from 8 am to 1 pm.[2] Richard Foster had also directed that funds from his estate go toward the education of "ten poor maids of the town of Sherborne". However it was not until 1738 when girls were enrolled in classes, leading to the founding of Lord Digby's School in 1747.[2] By 1939, a new building had been provided at Tinney's Lane to educate 150 boys with the old school buildings in Hound Street being retained as a small [boarding house](/source/Boarding_house) and [headmaster's](/source/Principal_(school)) residence. The school worked closely with the girls' grammar school, Lord Digby's, and in later years each school provided distinct areas of expertise and adopted a [co-educational](/source/Coeducation) approach for pupils from both schools for ["A" level](/source/A-level) studies. Although both schools were small, educational standards were high. In 1987, it was announced that both Foster's School and Lord Digby's School would be closed and incorporated into a [comprehensive](/source/Comprehensive_school) with St Aldhelm's school. In 1992, the schools were closed and a new school, [The Gryphon School](/source/The_Gryphon_School), was created on the site of the old St Aldhelm's. The Foster's site at Tinney's Lane and all of the property associated with the school were sold off for [housing development](/source/Housing_development), the school being commemorated by the naming of the main estate as "Foster's Field". ## See also - [Category:People educated at Foster's School](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_educated_at_Foster%27s_School) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Sherborne Almshouse Archive. CHARITIES. SCHOOLS. Foster's School. Accounts of Mr. Oke, sub-warden"](http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/1ab1681b-4af9-4a07-8f7e-7caff68a5cb2). Dorchester: Dorset History Centre Online Catalogue REF S-235/B/1/168/4, S-235/B/1/191/4. 1748. Retrieved 1 July 2018. {{[cite journal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_journal)}}: Cite journal requires |journal= ([help](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#missing_periodical)) 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-foster75_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-foster75_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-foster75_2-2) McKay, Stanley G. (1975). ["FOSTER'S: The Story of a Dorset School"](https://fosterians.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/fosters-the-story-of-a-dorset-school-v1-1.pdf) (PDF). Dorchester: Friary Press Ltd. Retrieved 6 January 2018. {{[cite journal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_journal)}}: Cite journal requires |journal= ([help](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#missing_periodical)) ## External links - [Old Fosterians wordpress website](http://www.fostersdigbys.co.uk) - [Foster's School Archive, Sherborne Museum](http://www.sherbornemuseum.co.uk/Fosters.htm) v t e Education in Dorset (including Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole) Primary Atlantic Academy Portland St Mark's CE Primary School St Peter's RC School Secondary All Saints CE Academy Atlantic Academy Portland Avonbourne Boys' Academy Avonbourne Girls' Academy Beaminster School The Bishop of Winchester Academy The Blandford School The Bourne Academy Budmouth Academy Corfe Hills School The Cornerstone Academy Ferndown Upper School Gillingham School Glenmoor Academy The Grange School The Gryphon School Highcliffe School LeAF Studio Lytchett Minster School Magna Academy Oak Academy Poole High School The Purbeck School Queen Elizabeth's School St Aldhelm's Academy St Edward's RC & CE School St Peter's RC School Shaftesbury School The Sir John Colfox Academy Sturminster Newton High School The Thomas Hardye School Twynham School Wey Valley Academy Winton Academy The Woodroffe School Grammar Bournemouth School Bournemouth School for Girls Parkstone Grammar School Poole Grammar School Independent (preparatory) Castle Court School Dumpton School Hanford School Port Regis School Sherborne Preparatory School Independent Bournemouth Collegiate School Bryanston School Canford School Clayesmore School Leweston School Milton Abbey School Ringwood Waldorf School Sherborne School Sherborne School for Girls Talbot Heath School Further education colleges Bournemouth and Poole College Kingston Maurward College Weymouth College Higher education Arts University Bournemouth Bournemouth University Health Sciences University Defunct Beaminster Grammar School Cranborne Chase School Durnford School Foster's School Homefield School Newell House School Oakdale School The Old Malthouse School St George's School St Peter's Primary School Swanage Grammar School Uplands School Weymouth College (independent) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Foster's School](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster's_School) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster's_School?action=history)). 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