Claremont Fan Court School

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Claremont Fan Court School
Location
Surrey
England
Information
Principal Mrs. Patricia B. Farrar
Enrollment

650
Type Independent
Motto Be Strong in Understanding
Established 1978
Information 01372467841
Ages 3 to 18
Head of Senior School Mr. Jonathan Insall-Reid
Homepage Official site

Claremont Fan Court School is a co-educational independent school, for boys and girls from 3 to 18. Situated just outside Esher, in Surrey, only sixteen miles from London, it is set in the historic grounds of the Claremont Estate. Claremont Fan Court is owned and run by an educational foundation with charitable status, and is inspired by the principles of Christian Science.

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[edit] History of the school " Claremont Fan Court"

[edit] Claremont

In 1931, a school for girls from Christian Science families moved into Claremont and adopted its name. During the Second World War, the school was evacuated to Llandrindod Wells in Wales, and Claremont was let to the Hawker Aircraft company, whose design team under the aeronautical engineer Sydney Camm produced the Hawker Tempest fighter.

[edit] Fan Court

[edit] The Amalgamation

In 1978 Claremont amalgamated with Fan Court School in Chertsey to form Claremont Fan Court School in Esher, a co-educational establishment based on the teachings of Christian Science.

[edit] Estate

The National Trust acquired 50 acres of the Claremont estate in 1949. In 1975, with a grant from the Slater Foundation, it set about restoring the eighteenth-century landscape garden. Now Claremont Landscape Garden displays the successive contributions of the landscape gardeners who worked on it: Sir John Vanbrugh, Charles Bridgman, William Kent and Capability Brown.

[edit] Houses

On joining the school pupils are put into one of the following four houses:

Various school interhouse activities take place throughout the year in addition to the House point system and sports day.

[edit] Sports

[edit] Girls

In the Autumn and Spring terms girls play lacrosse and netball, and in the Summer term they play rounders and athletics.

[edit] Boys

In the Autumn and Spring terms boys play rugby union and football, and in the Summer term they play cricket and athletics.

[edit] Senior School Productions

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Michaela Strachan"

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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