Edgeborough School

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Edgeborough School
Address
Edgeborough School
Edgeborough
Frensham

Farnham
,
Surrey
,
GU10 3AH

England
Coordinates 51°10′59″N0°47′40″W / 51.18297°N 0.79455°W / 51.18297; -0.79455
Information
Type Prep school
MottoCarpe Diem (Seize the day)
Established1906
Local authoritySurrey
Department for Education URN 125337 Tables
HeadDaniel Cox
Gender Coeducational
Age3to 13
Enrolment370
Houses
  • James
  • Keville
  • Jackson
  • Burton
Colour(s)Green and gold
Website http://www.edgeborough.co.uk

Edgeborough School is a coeducational day preparatory school near the town of Farnham, in Surrey, England. It is currently attended by ~360 children between the ages of two and thirteen. The Head is Daniel Cox, former Deputy Head of Lambrook School in Ascot, Berkshire.

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Overview

Edgeborough became co-educational in 1992 and celebrated its centenary in 2006. [1] The Head is Daniel Cox, [2] former Deputy Head of Lambrook School, Ascot. [3] Its grounds measure ~50 acres, including parts of its. Frensham Place, a former country house [4] [5]

The school is divided into four departments: Nursery, Pre-Prep, Lower Prep and Upper Prep, age-appropriate in terms of staffing, curriculum and resources. [5] French is available starting at age three. Latin is also taught to students at least nine years of age. ICT, music, drama, art, pottery and design technology are also taught at Edgeborough School. [5]

The school offers extracurricular sporting activities including athletics, badminton, basketball, canoeing, a climbing wall, cricket, cross country, football, golf, gymnastics, hockey, lacrosse, martial arts, netball, rounders, rugby, swimming, table tennis, tennis and volleyball [6]

Facilities

Buildings and grounds include a floodlit astroturf pitch, theatre, dance studio, chapel and an open-air swimming pool. [7] In addition, there are several pitches and two cricket pavilions, an astro cricket strip one of which has a mechanical score board. In the year 2000, the school underwent a building and rebuilding program, replacing its library and building its science labs. The Year-6-to-8 classroom block was renovated and a dance studio was built.

History

Edgeborough was established in 1906 in Guildford as a small, privately owned boarding school for boys. It moved to its present site in Frensham in 1939. It became a charitable trust in 1966, and co-education was introduced in 1992 when the Pre-Prep and Nursery departments were opened. [8]

Frensham Place, which now houses the school's weekly boarders, was built about 1880. It is an imposing stone building with shaped gables which the school has not had listed. Two cottages by the walled garden area were designed by the architect Edwin Lutyens. [9] Frensham Place was the former home of the Woodroffe family, and the house's chapel was the first place of worship for Catholics from Farnham since the Reformation. Local masses were celebrated by the Woodroffe's chaplain Father Gerin, who had come to Farnham in 1888 to escape persecution in France. [10]

The building was also the former home of the newspaper proprietor and magnate Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson, the founder of the Daily Express. Pearson died at the house after hitting his head on the bath tap. [11] The contents of the house, including all Pearson's furniture and pictures, were put up for sale in 1913. [12]

Frensham Place was also the birthplace of Count Antoine Seilern, one of the most noted art collectors of the twentieth century. He was born at the house on 17 September 1901, the son of an Austrian nobleman Count Carl Seilern and his American wife Antoinette Woerishoffer. [13]

Notable former pupils

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  2. ↑ "Edgeborough School - Headmaster's Welcome". Archived from the original on 6 September 2017. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  3. ↑ "St Petroc's School, Bude. Independent school Bude- 3 mths to 11 yrs". St Petroc's School, Bude. Independent school Bude- 3 mths to 11 yrs. Archived from the original on 25 August 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  4. ↑ Edgeborough profile. Independent Schools Council Archived 7 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  5. 1 2 3 Edgeborough Education Trust Accounts 2008. Charities Commission. 31 August 2008. [ permanent dead link ]
  6. ↑ "Edgeborough School - Facility Hire". Archived from the original on 6 September 2017. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  7. ↑ "Edgeborough School - Why Edgeborough?". Archived from the original on 6 September 2017. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
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  12. ↑ The contents of the house including Frensham Place sale catalogue. Contents of the residence, comprising furniture, pictures and prints, ivories, bronzes, clocks and decorative porcelain ... 1913 Oct. 20–29
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