The Prep has an idyllic setting just a short walk from the centre of the beautiful university city, with playing fields rolling down to the River Cherwell. The nurturing pre-Prep, where curiosity and creativity are fostered in our youngest Dragons, is in the heart of Summertown. This year marks an exciting new chapter with the arrival of the new Head, Emma Goldsmith. A valuable record of that wretched conflict, observed through their vivid, even, at times, humorous eyes.The Dragon in Oxford has been at the forefront of Prep education in the UK since it was founded in 1877. The Dragons evacuate from the beaches of Gallipoli, are killed at the third Battle of Ypres, meet Lawrence of Arabia and Marie Curie, grapple with the German High Seas Fleet in the Battle of Jutland, save the wounded at the Easter Rising and are shot out of the sky by Baron von Richthofen… Rory Stewart “… An almost unbearably moving chronicle of the young lives – ‘among the brightest and most talented of their generation’ – that were lost in the Great War. The story of these hundreds of lives and deaths connected by five years in a north Oxford prep school is almost an encyclopaedia of the war. It traces the roots of a school founded by Oxford dons for their children, its idiosyncratic ways, and the extraordinary relationship Skipper Lynam forged with his boys, some of whom (in former pupil John Betjeman's words) 'lost their lives for King and Country and the Dragon School'. This book tells the story of the school's wartime years and the various fronts on which its boys were involved. The Skipper's War: Dragon School, Oxford & The Great War Desmond DevittĬharles 'Skipper' Lynam, the celebrated preparatory school headmaster at the Dragon School, Oxford, during the First World War, inspired a generation of his pupils as they found themselves caught up in the conflict.
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