Cheam School
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Cheam School is a Preparatory school in Headley, Berkshire, England.
Few schools can boast a history as long as that of Cheam which was founded in 1645 by the Revd George Aldrich in Cheam, Surrey and has been educating ever since.
It all started in a house called Whitehall, now the site of a museum and visited on an annual basis by the younger children. The first event of any real note in the School's history was the Great Plague of London in 1666.
There was a great exodus from the City of London, and villages like Cheam were suddenly over run by children sent there by wealthy parents in an attempt to escape the ravages of the plague.
In 1719 the School moved to Tabor Court where it remained for over 200 years. The move from Cheam to the present site took place in 1934, when the area was developing from a quiet leafy village to a busy suburb. Just before it moved, the Duke of Edinburgh was a pupil there, and his son, the Prince of Wales, was a pupil.
The school is located in nearly a hundred acres of stunning Berkshire countryside with splendid grounds and gardens, on the Hampshire border.
Two mergers in the nineties - with Hawtreys and Inhurst House - have helped to establish Cheam as one of the leading co-educational schools in the country. We now offer a truly cosmopolitan education for boys and girls, both boarding and day, between the ages of three and thirteen.
The current head master of Cheam School is Mark Johnson who has been there since 1999. The school has a high level of academic work as well as drama productions, music and sports.
Former pupils include Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Charles, Prince of Wales
