Chandlings

Chandlings Prep School
Location
Bagley Wood Kennington , Oxford , OX1 5ND England
Information
Type	Private preparatory day school
Motto	We champion childhood by promoting curiosity, endeavor and adventure
Established	1994
Department for Education URN	131981 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Headmaster	Adam Mallins
Chair of Governors	Alison Derham
Staff	90
Gender	Co-educational
Age	2to 11
Enrolment	approx. 400
Houses	Astley Poltimore Richardson
Colours	Blue Red Gold Grey
Website	www.chandlings.org.uk

Chandlings, or Chandlings Prep School, known until 2007 as Chandlings Manor School, is an independent co-educational preparatory school at Bagley Wood near Kennington, a village south of Oxford.

The school occupies a site of 62 acres (25 hectares), and is a member of the Independent Association of Prep Schools.

History

Chandlings in 2007

Chandlings was founded in 1994 as a co-educational day-school by the governors of Cothill House to supplement the preparatory boarding school education for boys at Cothill. In its early years, it was known as Chandlings Manor School. ^[1]

Present day

The school is operated by Radley Schools Group, an educational charity registered in England, which also operates other preparatory schools in England. ^[2]

Chandlings is a co-educational school which has a nursery and a pre-prep department, which delivers an Early Years Foundation Stage programme for children up to year 2, and then a prep department, for years 3 to 6. Pupils are divided into three houses: Richardson (colour: red), Astley (dark blue) and Poltimore (green). ^[3]

The headmaster is Adam Mallins. ^[4]

The Good Schools Guide says:

The name conjures up ancient stones, mullioned windows, the faded grandeur of an ancient aristocratic line. The reality is more of a 62-acre Southfork Ranch/nouveau Cotswold mash-up with added fountains. Parents be reassured, these well-appointed low-rise buildings do, in fact, lend themselves very well to a school. ^[5]

Publications

• Clare Walsh, Get Cooking! (Chandlings Manor School, 2005, ISBN   0955006708)

References

1. Good Schools Guide (Lucas Publications, 2003), p. 737
2. "Cothill Educational Trust, registered charity no. 309639". Charity Commission for England and Wales.
3. Jonathan Barnes, ed., Preparatory Schools 2013, (2012), p. 235
4. https://chandlings.org.uk/about/heads-welcome/
5. Ralph Palmer, 12th Baron Lucas, ed., Chandlings profile at goodschoolsguide.co.uk, accessed 5 May 2018

External links

• Chandlings School website
• Radley Schools Group website
• Cothill Educational Trust website

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