Established 1933 Headteacher Simon Collins Gender Mixed Motto "Floret Qui Laborat" | Type Prep School Students 300 (Approx.) Phone +44 1737 354119 Founded 1933 | |
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Location Brighton RoadBurgh HeathSurreyKT20 6AJEngland Profiles | ||
Aberdour School, founded in 1933, is a co-educational preparatory school for ages 2–13 in Burgh Heath (near Banstead), Surrey, England. It is a nursery department, pre-preparatory school and preparatory school, and covers 14 acres (57,000 m2), 10 of which are playing fields.
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History
Aberdour was founded in 1933 as a boys' boarding school. In 1994 it became a co-educational school and its first intake of girls was welcomed with the newly opened nursery.
In 1971 Aberdour School became an educational charitable trust and is now administered by a board of governors.
In 2010 Aberdour won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Bill Bryson Science Prize.
In 2011 Simon Collins, Head, was given the accolade of Independent School Head of the Year.
Headmasters
Houses
Every student is placed into a house at Aberdour. Each house has about 60 girls and boys, and every house appoints pupils to take on the roles of Head of House, Head of Girls Games, and Head of Boys Games for one term at a time.
Sport
The major boys' activities are football, rugby and cricket, whilst for girls the sports are netball, hockey and rounders.