Plumtree School - Traditions

Traditions

The school is steeped in traditions, some of which are a century old. Musical productions are put on for the annual sports week-end in the first term. Juniors in their first year have compulsory auditions especially as an unbroken voice is ideal to fill a leading female role or the seemingly predominantly female chorus. Plumtree's Gilbert and Sullivan productions were amongst very few amateur productions in the world permitted to be performed outside London.

In recent years, some parents have been outspoken about school's allegedly outmoded system of fagging - where a first or second year boy waits upon and serves the senior boys, as a butler would performing menial tasks such as cleaning sports kit, tidying seniors' rooms(studies) etc. However, this system - together with the general "privilege" system that underpins the school's ethos and sense of discipline - is carefully monitored by the staff, housemasters and prefects. Plumtree School's rigorous structure of traditions and concepts date back to similar styles found in pre-1900 British public schools.

The Plumtree School boy is expected to be tough resillient and most importantly proud of his school . These traits are drilled into the boys from their first day in the school .They are also required to recite the Plumtree School Ideal everyday before after Roll call ;

A young Man with Good Manners of Honesty and integrity Respectful of his Own and Others Property Respectful of his Elders, particularly those Who Give up their time for his own benefit Proud of Himself and Plumtree Determined to acquit himself well Even when the chips are down

Plus the Poem, Build Me A Man

Build Me a man who's strong and true whose purpose is straight and Clear Build me a man who'll make me laugh whenever my heart is filled with fear Build me a man who'll hold his course whatever race he ran For our country's great good Plumtree Build Me A Man