Motto | 'The days that make us happy make us wise' |
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Established | 1923 |
Type | Independent, Co-educational |
Headmaster | Ken James LLB PGCE |
Founder | Mab Bradley |
Location | Robin Hood's Bay North Yorkshire YO22 4QD England |
Former Pupils | Old Fylinghallers |
Website | School Official site |
Fyling Hall is an independent co-educational day and boarding school situated near the small village of Fylingthorpe, near Robin Hood's Bay, 7 miles (11 km) south east of Whitby, North Yorkshire, England. Founded in 1923 by Mab Bradley, the school was then run for thirty years by her daughter, Clare White, who still takes an active part in the life of the school. The current headmaster is Ken James, who came to Fyling Hall in April 2008 from St John's School, Leatherhead.
The school is centred around a Georgian country house that dates from 1810 and is situated in 45 acres (180,000 m2) of wooded hillside within the North York Moors National Park.
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There was a hall here in 1632 when Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 4th Baronet was born here. However the present building dates from around 1810.
There are four boarding houses at Fyling Hall:
The school motto, written by Mab Bradley, is 'The days that make us happy make us wise'
Fyling Hall School offers a wide variety of sports for all pupils. Most important amongst these, and shaping daily life at Fyling Hall, are rugby, hockey, cross country, cricket and horse riding.
The main building of Fyling Hall is used in G.P Taylor's novel Shadowmancer as the vicarage of Obadiah Demurral. The vicarage is destroyed by cannon fire from Jacob Crane's smuggler ship 'The Magenta'.