Claremont Fan Court School

Claremont Fan Court School

Coordinates: 51°21′29″N 0°22′16″W / 51.358°N 0.371°W / 51.358; -0.371

Claremont Fan Court School
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Motto Be Strong in Understanding
Established 1922 (Claremont School) 1934 (Fan Court School) 1978 (CFCS)
Type Independent School
Chairman Dr Adalbert Kather
Location Claremont Drive
Esher
Surrey
KT10 9LY
Students 650
Gender Coeducational
Ages 3–18
Houses Esher, Longcross, Norwood, Radnor
Website Official site

Claremont Fan Court School is a co-educational independent school, for boys and girls from 3 to 18. Situated just outside Esher, in Surrey, only sixteen miles from London, it is set in the historic grounds of the Claremont Estate. Claremont Fan Court is owned and run by an educational foundation with charitable status, and is inspired by the principles of Christian Science.

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History

In 1931, a school for girls from Christian Science families moved into Claremont and adopted its name. During the Second World War, the school was evacuated to Llandrindod Wells in Wales, and Claremont was let to the Hawker Aircraft company, whose design team under the aeronautical engineer Sydney Camm produced the Hawker Tempest fighter.

In 1978 Claremont amalgamated with Fan Court School in Chertsey to form Claremont Fan Court School in Esher, a co-educational establishment based on the teachings of Christian Science.

The National Trust acquired 50 acres (200,000 m2) of the Claremont estate in 1949. In 1975, with a grant from the Slater Foundation, it set about restoring the eighteenth-century landscape garden. Now Claremont Landscape Garden displays the successive contributions of the landscape gardeners who worked on it: Sir John Vanbrugh, Charles Bridgman, William Kent and Capability Brown.

Houses

On joining the school pupils join one of the following four houses:

Various school interhouse activities take place throughout the year in addition to the House point system and sports day.

Sports

Girls

In the Autumn and Spring terms girls play lacrosse and netball, and in the Summer term they play rounders and athletics.

Boys

In the Autumn and Spring terms boys play rugby union and football, and in the Summer term they play cricket and athletics.

Senior School Productions

Notable former pupils

See also

References

  1. ^ "Michaela Strachan"

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