Old Girls at £34,000-a-year Roedean say they DON’T want boys admitted after head threatened to overturn centuries of tradition at single-sex school

  • Fears Roedean School may be about to admit boys for first time in history
  • Leading independent girls' school charges £34,000-a-year to full boarders
  • Former pupils fear headteacher Oliver Blond is preparing to allow boys in
  • Old Roedeanians' Association member said ex-pupils need to be 'aware'
By EMPRESS CHINEYE for PROUDSTARS.
Former pupils of a leading £34,000-a-year independent girls' school have expressed fears that the establishment may be about to admit boys for the first time in its 130-year history.
Members of the Old Roedeanians' Association committee claim the headmaster at Roedean School, on the outskirts of Brighton, is preparing to allow boys into the school as part of a major reform.
Robyn Crabbe, a former pupil who attended the all-girls' school in the 1970s, said she believes headteacher Oliver Blond has even asked school governors about the idea of allowing both sexes.

Members of the Old Roedeanians' Association committee claim the headmaster at Roedean School, on the outskirts of Brighton in East Sussex, is preparing to allow boys into the school as part of a major reform
She has now written to her fellow former pupils to express her fears and make them 'aware' of the potential plans for the East Sussex school, where fees cost up to £11,650-a-term for full boarders.
In correspondence seen by The Times, she told the former alumnae: 'At every Roedean event that I have attended over the past year, I have heard the headmaster mention the possibility of our school admitting boys.
'It is very subtly muted but the frequency of it has made me think that we need to be "aware" of this thought.'