Surbiton High School

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Surbiton High School

Motto	'Amor Nos Semper Ducat' (May Love Always Lead Us)
Established	1884
Type	Independent day school
Religion	Church of England
Headteacher	Miss A Haydon
Founder	Church Schools Company
Location	Surbiton Crescent Kingston upon Thames Greater London KT1 2JT England Coordinates: 51°24′00″N 0°18′17″W / 51.400°N 0.3046°W / 51.400; -0.3046
DfE URN	102611 Tables
Gender	Girls (4-18); Boys (4-11)
Ages	4–18
Houses	Austen, Nightingale, Teresa, Curie, Pankhurst and Fonteyn
Colours	Green and Silver
Website	www.surbitonhigh.com

Surbiton High School is a private school in Surbiton in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, England. It was founded in 1884 by a group of Anglican clergymen who instituted the Church Schools Company.^[1] Its objective was "to establish superior education for girls in accordance with the principles of the Church of England" wherever the need was felt.

It is the founding member school of the Church Schools Company, now the United Church Schools Trust^[2] It has 5 sites in Surbiton; the boys school, the junior school, main school, assembly rooms and the sixth form centre, as well as a sports ground at Hinchley Wood.

The current principal of Surbiton High School is Ann Haydon, the deputy principals are: Ian Smith, Silas Edmunds and Helen Morgan. Surbiton High School takes female students from 4 years old to 18 years old (there is also a Boys' Prep School).

In March 2009 the school celebrated 125 years of educating thousands of students.

The Good Schools Guide called the school a "friendly place with good pastoral care," adding "the school values less academic girls as much as high fliers."^[3]

Recent years have seen the development of Surbiton Assembly Halls which gave the school ten new classrooms, including specialist music workshops and a large hall for concerts and theatrical productions. In the main building there is an additional science laboratory and a new ICT suite with full multi-media capability and internet access across the network. The playing fields at Hinchley Wood include an all-weather hockey pitch, tennis and netball courts, an athletics track and a refurbished and extended pavilion ^[4]

Notable former pupils

Chemmy Alcott, skier
Mollie King, singer
Nicky Morgan, Conservative MP
Lucie Silvas, singer
Emma Wilson, academic and writer
Dorothy Maud Wrinch, mathematician

Footnotes

Surbiton Assembly Rooms - now owned by Surbiton High School

External links

v t e Schools and colleges in Kingston upon Thames

Primary schools	Coombe Hill Junior School

Secondary schools	Chessington Community College Coombe Boys' School Coombe Girls' School Hollyfield School Holy Cross School Richard Challoner School Southborough High School Tolworth Girls' School

Grammar schools	Tiffin Girls' School Tiffin School

Independent schools	Canbury School Holy Cross Preparatory School Kingston Grammar School Marymount International School Rokeby Preparatory School Shrewsbury House School Surbiton High School

Further education colleges	Hillcroft College Kingston College

Defunct schools	Surbiton County Grammar

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Independent schools	Arnold KEQMS Ashford School Bournemouth Collegiate School Caterham School Guildford High School Hampshire Collegiate School Hull Collegiate School Lincoln Minster School Sunderland High School Surbiton High School

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