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Amberfield School

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Established
  
1927

Type
  
Independent day school

Phone
  
+44 1473 654942

Founded
  
1927

Closed
  
2011

Religion
  
Protestant

Number of students
  
300

Headmistresses
  
Pearl Webb, Linda Ingram (in the later years)

Location
  
Nacton RoadIpswichSuffolkIP10 0HLEngland

Address
  
Gardeners Cottage, Nacton, Ipswich IP10 0HL, UK

Motto
  
Valens sed Clemens; "Strong but Gentle"

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Amberfield school closure october 2011


Amberfield School was a small private school in Nacton, England, coeducational up to the age of 7 years, and for girls up to the age of 16 years, which was established in 1927 and closed in 2011 due to financial problems. The last headmistress was Linda Ingram. It was set in countryside with surrounding fields and wildlife. It won the Lego League Robotics UK Championships and the World Primary Robot Dance Championship held in Suzhou, China as part of RoboCup Junior in 2008. The school occupied the site of Nacton Workhouse, near woodland where the body of one of the victims of the Ipswich 2006 serial murders, was found. The school was a member of the Girls' Schools Association.

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Sport

The school was successful in tennis with the under-15 team reaching the quarter-finals of the national competition in 2007.

Notable former pupils

  • Maggi Hambling, artist
  • Sarah Hugill, first wife of Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Freya Holmes, model
  • School closure

    On 12 October 2011 the school website was replaced by a press release headed "Amberfield School to close". It stated that "Amberfield School will close on 31 October 2011 and go into liquidation thereafter due to unsustainable losses". BBC Look East that evening reported that the debts were over £1 million and that the school would in fact close on Friday 14 October 2011, which it did. At the time of closure there were 32 teaching staff and 23 non teaching staff, also 157 pupils, 70 down on earlier levels.

    On Saturday 15 October 2011 a news report headed "Comeback hopes as school is closed in debt crisis" stated that given just 48 hours' notice a group of parents had tried to raise £200,000 to keep the school running until Christmas, but with parents concerned for their children’s education seeking places at other nearby independent schools, closure of Amberfield was inevitable. The parent group subsequently stated it would not give up hope of seeing the school reopen in the New Year.

    References

    Amberfield School Wikipedia