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at this ceremony were many of the first 70 pupils who were attending school for a one-month trial period, prior to the full complement reporting to the school on 7 September 1947. Some pupils missed the ceremony as their truck became lost on its way to
Wilhelmshaven. John Smitherman, the first headmaster, chose that name in recognition of the kindness and help he had received from the Royal Navy personnel of HMS Royal Rupert. The official opening ceremony of the school by George Tomlinson MP, Minister of Education, took place on 11 May 1948.
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Committees. The new school, which was designed to double up as a war time hospital to cope with overflow from BMH Rinteln, had a teachers' mess to the rear for unmarried staff (married teachers were generally accommodated in quarters within the environs of the BMH). However, in 1982, the mess was renamed 'The Lodge' and repurposed as weekly boarding accommodation.
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Pupils were looked after by house parents, a resident matron, two nurses and visiting tutors. With the closure of Osnabrück garrison (the largest catchment area for the school) in 2008, student numbers dropped dramatically. This resulted in the closure of the area of The Lodge known as the "Boys
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September 1972, on a purpose-built site on the outskirts of Rinteln that cost DM 18.5 million, although it wasn't until 6 June 1973 that the buildings were officially opened by Sir and Lady Alexander, the then Secretary of the Association of Education
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Germany to bring their families over. PRS is believed to be the first comprehensive, co-educational, boarding school under the terms of the
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closure of Germany forward to 2018, and with the restructure of the remaining units around Paderborn and Bielefeld Garrisons, this meant that PRS was no longer a viable asset, with
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