Malvern College is about to commence a £20 million expansion including two new Houses, 14 new classrooms, the resiting of its Prep School, the refurbishment of its remaining Houses and improvements to sports facilities. The expansion follows a 25% increase in pupil numbers without state funding in the senior school since the turn of the millennium.

The College’s Pavilion building will be extended to accommodate a further 14 purpose built modern language classrooms by September 2007, care being taken to preserve its traditional character. A new Double Day House, one for boys and one for girls will be sited off College Road incorporating a major new catering facility that will supply adjacent Houses: completion by September 2008. The College will, nevertheless, keep to its in-house feeding arrangements whereby all pupils go to their own Houses for meals.

Subject to planning permission it is the intention to relocate Malvern College’s Preparatory School (which used to be called Hillstone) to The Firs, to the south of the main College estate. The present Prep School site will then be sold for residential development which will partially finance the move.

Further sporting facilities are also planned with a second all weather playing surface and a fitness suite to be constructed in the near future.

Much of Malvern College’s success in attracting greater numbers results from it being one of the few schools in the country to offer the International Baccalaureate as an alternative to A levels for those who wish to take it. The IB has proved popular with leading universities and has attracted many pupils to the College from abroad, which gives their British fellow students an opportunity to understand cultures from other countries in our increasingly international environment.

“We set great store on the pastoral care of our pupils but the quality of the sound all-round education provided at Malvern College has improved significantly in the past few years” says Hugh Carson, who leaves at the end of the summer term to be replaced by David Dowdles, currently headmaster of Warminster School in Wiltshire.

Malvern College recently made a successful financial appeal to former pupils and other friends of the College which has made the forthcoming expansion possible. The College Council aims for Houses to feel more like pupils’ homes and intends that as people’s living standards rise so the College’s facilities should match them.

Illustrated literature describing the new developments has been sent to current and prospective parents, staff, donors, former pupils and others associated with Malvern College.

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