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Established
  
1848

Headteacher
  
Sid Inglis

Phone
  
+44 118 971 3302

Motto
  
Clarior Ex Obscuro

Religion
  
Christian

DfE URN
  
110140

Founded
  
1848

Local authority
  
West Berkshire

Elstree School

Type
  
Other Independent School

Location
  
WoolhamptonReadingBerkshireRG7 5TDEngland

Address
  
Woolhampton Hill, Upper Woolhampton, Reading, RG7 5TD, United Kingdom

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Elstree School is an English preparatory school based at Woolhampton House in Woolhampton, near Newbury in the English county of Berkshire.

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1848–1938 in Elstree, Hertfordshire

As its name suggests, the school was founded in 1848 in Elstree, Hertfordshire, at Hill House on Elstree Hill, an 18th-century Grade II Listed Building. Today the building is used as Bupa Care Centre.

Since 1938 in Woolhampton, Berkshire

With the approach of the outbreak of the Second World War, in 1938, Elstree School was evacuated to Woolhampton House in the Berkshire village of Woolhampton, and has remained there ever since.

The building

Woolhampton House is a 17th-century Grade II* Listed building.

Notable former pupils

  • Sir Alexander Robert Badcock (1844–1907), army officer.
  • James Blunt, singer-songwriter.
  • Edwin Bramall, Baron Bramall (b. 1923), Field Marshal.
  • Sandy Wilson (1924–2014), songwriter-lyricist.
  • Christopher Bonham-Carter (1907–1975), naval officer.
  • Felix Cassel (1869–1953), lawyer.
  • Charles Montagu Doughty (1843–1926), poet, writer, and traveller.
  • Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton (1845–1940), engineer.
  • Sebastian Faulks (b. 1953), novelist.
  • Walter George Headlam (1866–1908), classical scholar and poet.
  • J. Bruce Ismay (1862–1937), owner and survivor of the RMS Titanic.
  • Sir Philip Bennet Joubert de la Ferté (1887–1965), Royal Air Force Commander.
  • Archibald Campbell [Archie] MacLaren (1871–1944), cricketer.
  • John Whitehead (1860–1899), ornithologist and explorer.
  • George Ratcliffe Woodward (1848–1934), Anglican priest.

    • Notable teachers

  • Danyl Johnson, singer on Series 9 of The X-Factor — Dance Teacher

    • James Morris, Captain of Berkshire cricket team Andy Livermore, former GB junior international tennis player Sid Inglis, international rugby player (Chile)

    Sports

  • During the autumn term, soccer is the main sport, along with hockey and tennis. During the Lent term, rugby takes over from soccer, and hockey and cross country running continue. During the summer term, cricket is the main school sport, with swimming, athletics, and tennis also popular throughout the term. The school's sports day is the focus of a pupil's summer term.

    • References

    Elstree School Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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