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Prestfelde School

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Established
  
1929

Chairman of Governors
  
Mr S Hay

Number of students
  
300

Gender
  
Mixed-sex education

Religion
  
Ages
  
3–13

Founded
  
1929


Type
  
Independent day and boarding schoolPreparatory school

Location
  
London RoadShrewsburyShropshireSY2 6NZEngland

Headquarters
  
Shrewsbury, United Kingdom

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Prestfelde school


Prestfelde School is an independent co-educational day and boarding preparatory school, located on London Road in Shrewsbury in Shropshire, England, for children between the ages of 3 and 13. There are [February 2017] 300 pupils on roll.

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Since 1949, the school has formed part of the Woodard Schools group, founded by the Christian educationalist the Reverend Nathaniel Woodard and as such is affiliated to the largest group of Church of England schools in the country. Originally a school for boys, it diversified during the late 1990s and now has nearly 100 girls.

The school is set in 30 acres (120,000 m2) of grounds on the outskirts of Shrewsbury, close to the Lord Hill column.

Prestfelde school video


Latest inspections

The latest school inspection by the Independent Schools Council was undertaken in 2015 and the school was rated as Excellent in all areas, and the latest boarding inspection by OFSTED was undertaken in November 2009.

Notable Old Prestfeldians

  • Flt Lt Eric Lock DSO DFC & Bar, a Battle of Britain RAF pilot born in Bayston Hill in 1919, attended Prestfelde between 1929 and 1933. One of The Few, Lock claimed twenty destroyed and seven probably destroyed enemy aircraft during the Battle of Britain (10 July-31 October 1940), ranking him as second for number of victories claimed during the campaign and the highest scoring British-born pilot. He went on to reach a total of twenty-six victories in less than a year, but failed to return from operations in August 1941, at the age of twenty-two. He is remembered today on the Runnymede Memorial in Surrey.
  • Dave Manby - national champion slalom canoeist
  • References

    Prestfelde School Wikipedia


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