Davenies School is an independent day school for boys aged 4–13, located in Beaconsfield

Beaconsfield

Beaconsfield is a market town and civil parish operating as a town council within the South Bucks district in Buckinghamshire, England. It lies northwest of Charing Cross in Central London, and south-east of the county town of Aylesbury...

, Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....

. Its current headmaster is Mr C. Watson. The School was founded in 1941 and was supposedly an all boys boarding school but was soon changed to a day school. The school takes the 11+ examination and the Common Entrance examination at age 13.

Houses

There are four houses, currently named after famous English explorers (previously named after birds):

• Cook
  James Cook
  Captain James Cook, FRS, RN was a British explorer, navigator and cartographer who ultimately rose to the rank of captain in the Royal Navy...
  
   (originally Herons) - Blue
• Shackleton
  Ernest Shackleton
  Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, CVO, OBE was a notable explorer from County Kildare, Ireland, who was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration...
  
   (originally Rooks) - Red
• Scott
  Robert Falcon Scott
  Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13...
  
   (originally Swans) - Yellow
• Drake
  Francis Drake
  Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth I of England awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581. He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588. He also carried out the...
  
  (originally Gulls) - Green

The school offers a wide range of academic subjects, as well as many extra-curricular activities that take place after school.