Prince Harry and Prince William went there. David Cameron (the current prime minister of the UK) and 18 other British prime ministers did too. Eton is one of England´s most famous schools.
The full name of Eton is “The King´s College for Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor”. The school was founded by King Henry VI in 1440. The boys-only school was set up as a charity to provide free education to poor boys, who would then go on to King´s College, Cambridge.
Eton is a public boarding school, with 25 boy´s houses, each with a housemaster. As in many other public schools, pupils have to wear a school uniform. But Eton´s uniform is different, consisting of a black tailcoat (a morning coat), a waistcoat, and pinstriped trousers.
Like many other public schools, Eton once had a system of fags. Fags were younger boys who act as personal servants to more senior boys. They did cleaning, cooking, making toast, polishing shoes, ironing clothes and cleaning cups. Bu t now it doesn´t exit, the system of personal fagging faded away during the 1970s and 1980.
Eton has many unique traditions. The Eton Wall Game is a curious mixture of rugby and football. Teams score by throwing a ball at a “goal”, which in this case is a garden door at one end and a tree at the other. Another game is “Eton Fives”. This is a type of hand- ball game played as “doubles” (two teams of two) in a three-sided court.
The school also has a lot of its own words and expressions. Terms are known as “halves”-even though there are three a year. A traditional form of pupil protest at Eton is called a “Leggit”. When pupils are unhappy about something at school, they gather around the school hall to protest chanting until the teachers comes out. When the headmaster appears, one pupil shouts “Leggit” and all the pupils flee in different directions.
Here is the video:
The full name of Eton is “The King´s College for Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor”. The school was founded by King Henry VI in 1440. The boys-only school was set up as a charity to provide free education to poor boys, who would then go on to King´s College, Cambridge.
Eton is a public boarding school, with 25 boy´s houses, each with a housemaster. As in many other public schools, pupils have to wear a school uniform. But Eton´s uniform is different, consisting of a black tailcoat (a morning coat), a waistcoat, and pinstriped trousers.
Like many other public schools, Eton once had a system of fags. Fags were younger boys who act as personal servants to more senior boys. They did cleaning, cooking, making toast, polishing shoes, ironing clothes and cleaning cups. Bu t now it doesn´t exit, the system of personal fagging faded away during the 1970s and 1980.
Eton has many unique traditions. The Eton Wall Game is a curious mixture of rugby and football. Teams score by throwing a ball at a “goal”, which in this case is a garden door at one end and a tree at the other. Another game is “Eton Fives”. This is a type of hand- ball game played as “doubles” (two teams of two) in a three-sided court.
The school also has a lot of its own words and expressions. Terms are known as “halves”-even though there are three a year. A traditional form of pupil protest at Eton is called a “Leggit”. When pupils are unhappy about something at school, they gather around the school hall to protest chanting until the teachers comes out. When the headmaster appears, one pupil shouts “Leggit” and all the pupils flee in different directions.
Here is the video:
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