European School, Culham

Coordinates: 51°39′22″N 1°15′28″W / 51.65611°N 1.25778°W / 51.65611; -1.25778

The European School Culham
Motto One Education Many Languages
Established 1852 (as Culham College), 1978 (as a European School)
Type International
Headteacher Mrs L Soekov
Location Thame Lane
Culham
Oxfordshire
OX14 3DZ
England
Students 440
Gender Mixed
Ages 4–18
Founder European Union
Former Pupils Culhamites
Website Official website

The European School in Culham, Oxfordshire, is one of fourteen European Schools around Europe and the only one in United Kingdom and currently has around 800 nursery/primary (4–11 years old) and secondary (11–18 years old) students.

It is located on the grounds of the former Culham College, a teacher training college established in 1852 by Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford. The Gothic Revival architect Joseph Clarke designed its buildings, and Sherwood and Pevsner described them as "institutional Victorian Gothic at its grimmest".[1]

The school's future is currently under discussion. The school was formed primarily to serve the children of EU employees working at JET/EFDA, in Culham, but the project is currently scheduled to move to Cadarache, France around 2016/17.

Organization

As of October 12, 2003, the student population of the European School, Culham was 884 of which 88 were in the nursery school, 343 in the primary school and 453 in the secondary school. There are five language sections: German (DP or DS), French (FP or FS), Italian (IP or IS), Dutch (NP or NS) and English (EP or ES). Each language has its own year group: nursery, primary ("X"P), and secondary ("X"S).

For nursery there are two year groups. For Primary there are five year groups ("X"P1 to "X"P5)and for secondary there are seven ("X"S1 to "X"S7). With the number of students in the Dutch and Italian sections decreasing these groups are usually grouped with the English classes for Science, Sports and Maths. L1 is still taught to the semi-merged groups in mother tongue.

Sport

The school's basketball team were U16 national champions in 2000 and U19 national champions in 2003.

Facilities

The European School, Culham has many sport and educational facilities, including a basketball/volleyball indoor sports hall, a five-a-side sized indoor gym, and two sports fields.

Alumni

References

  1. Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 566

Further reading

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