School House
School House is a house catering for the needs of Years 7 & 8. For over 100 years School House was a boys’ boarding house for 13-18 year olds and was one of the very first buildings constructed in the 1880s. In 1996 School House was re-opened as a junior house with approximately 60 pupils, since then it has continued to grow and at present we have over 100 day pupils and around 20 boarders.
The location of the School House is very central and highly convenient for pupils, close to the central offices and several teaching blocks. A strong sense of community is extremely important, supported by mutual consideration, care and tolerance of others. Developing in pupils a sense of responsibility for oneself, one’s belongings and one’s actions towards others will be a key area of focus for us, recognised and highly rewarded when positive progress is made. The pupils have an enthusiastic tradition of charity funding, raising over £4000 in 2009/10 for various organisations.
Boarding boys and girls are housed in separate wings of the building. At the beginning of each term pupils are allocated dormitories, with flexi-borders and full/weekly boarders mixed together. There is a convivial open-plan boarders’ common room which combines the kitchen and common room space and was newly created in January 2009. Sofas, beanbags, Sky TV, jigsaws, board games and books are all available for use in the evenings by the boarding community. 
There are specified Leave Weekends each term and it is usual for full boarders to take advantage of these to visit parents or guardians. There is a very wide range of weekend activities for boarders including: surfing, pony trekking, coasteering, zorbing, paintball, quad biking, sea fishing, shopping in Bath and trips to adventure parks.
School House has many links with the senior houses. Sharing one Chapel service a week and encouraging support of plays, concerts and matches whenever possible. Senior pupils (in particular the Sixth form) play a role as monitors and provide friendship, leadership and support to the juniors, especially providing company for the boarders in the evenings.
Within School House we operate our own inter-house competition with each pupil being a member of one of four Houses (Amory, Beale, Gornhay and Mayfield). 
Each child will be able to represent that House in many different aspects of school life including sport, music public speaking and drama.
Mr Damian Marshman is the Housemaster of School House and resides in the building with his wife Katey and his two children. Miss Kate Woolford is the Pastoral Housemistress and lives in a flat near the girls’ accommodation. Mr Jerry Pilbeam and Miss Claire Fordham are tutors and resident in top floor flats.
House History
When Blundell’s was built in 1882 School House was not only a boarding house run by the Headmaster, A.L. Francis, but also his private residence. Initially, there were just 23 boys, but numbers grew rapidly, and in 1890 a new three-storey wing was completed, with classrooms, studies and bedrooms. School House were almost unbeatable at cricket in the early days, winning the House Cup every season from 1888 to 1892, and setting the record, still unbeaten, for a single innings – 593. One of School House’s most distinguished pupils, Sir John Collings Squire, was here from 1901 to 1903. He later became famous as a poet and editor of the New Statesman and the London Mercury.
In 1906 A.L. Francis moved into the newly-built Headmaster’s house, appointing E.G. Peirce as Housemaster. Peirce stayed for just 6 years in School House, but served Blundell’s as Master and Bursar for over 40 years. His successor as Housemaster was R. Montgomery, who saw the numbers rise steadily to over 40. He gave way in 1923 to E.C. Fisher. Two of his boarders went on to carve out successful careers for themselves; Raglan Squire (the son of Sir John Squire) became a renowned architect, and designed Blundell’s present Big School and the School’s Lady Chapel, and Michael Gilbert who found success as a lawyer and crime writer. In Fisher’s time the Headmaster’s study was moved to its present location, and its former place was made into a prep room for School House. Fisher left the house, and Blundell’s, in 1934 to get married.
Kenneth Edwards had been at Petergate as a boy, and returned in 1927 to teach Latin and English, and now replaced Fisher at School House. Stephen Spender lodged in the house for one term in 1940 while he taught at Blundell’s, and often Edwards invited the boys to pass the evening with him and his friend C. Day Lewis. During Edwards’ final year two of Blundell’s most accomplished musicians boarded in the house. Peter Hurford was to be music master at St. Alban’s Abbey and a celebrated organist, and his contemporary David Parkhouse, a pianist, was one of the founder members of the Music Group of London.
Edwards left in 1945 and joined the Old Vic, with his place as Housemaster being filled by Dr. Lloyd-Lewis, whose tenure lasted until 1958. 
During his time new a kitchen area was constructed and a new oil-fired heating system installed. Ted Chanter followed next. He had already completed 13 years as Housemaster of Petergate, so was well-accustomed to the task. He was a formidable force in the life of Blundell’s: a strict disciplinarian, yet full of compassion for each individual. Chanter gave way in 1971 to Brian Richards, who had arrived from industry seven years before. In the first year of Brian’s residence the house was largely remodeled, and the private accommodation reduced, bringing 44 boys into studies. In 1980 shortly after the arrival of girls, an area of School House was separated from the boys’ quarters to accommodate seven of them.
Peter Lanfear, a Modern Language teacher like Richards, took over the house in 1985, and during his stay a large number of the studies were turned into bedsits. School House became the Junior Department in 1996, with its boys and girls aged from 11 to 13 years and Dee and John Brigden as Houseparents. This new venture was a resounding success, and the Brigdens developed a strong, compassionate environment from which the younger members of Blundell’s have moved confidently and seamlessly into the senior school. The many talented youngsters of recent years have included Natalie Dew, one of the stars of the BBC series Monsters TV, and Alice Shepherd, who represented Great Britain in the Baltic Youth Games in the modern pentathlon. Further successes are ensured under the watchful and caring eyes of the Housemaster, James Postle, and his wife, Eve, who moved into School House in 2008.