St Catherine's School, Bramley
Coordinates: 51°11′49″N 0°33′29″W / 51.197°N 0.558°W
St Catherine's School, established in 1885, is an independent girls' school in the village of Bramley, near Guildford, Surrey, England; As of 2011, it had some 880 pupils, of whom around 170 were aged between eleven and eighteen use the school's boarding houses and 180 were in the Sixth Form. The school is divided into a senior school, for ages 11–18, and a preparatory school for younger students aged 4–11. Academic scholarships are offered for entry at 11+ and for year 11 and/or sixth form, alongside additional awards for excellence in art, sport, and music.[1]
In September 2011 the school celebrated 125 years of education for girls and young women and in July 2011 it marked the opening of the 125th Anniversary Halls, a new set of facilities for sports and the arts.
The school is comfortably placed in the performance league tables for its academic excellence but also prides itself on delivering a rounded education to all its pupils.
The girls take part in a wide range of sports, including netball, tennis, swimming, and lacrosse. The school has four lacrosse pitches and a number of courts for netball and tennis. In the Preparatory School, hockey is played.
The school hosts a variety of creative arts, with the students regularly taking part in art, textiles, design technology, home economics, drama and music lessons.
The school's religious affiliation is the Church of England and has a chapel to accommodate this.
In the year 2011, 12% of the students were admitted to Oxford or Cambridge.[2]
The patron of the school since 2015 is Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, whose great-great grandfather George Cubitt, 1st Baron Ashcombe, and his wife Lady Laura were among the founders of the school.[3]
Notable former pupils
- U. A. Fanthorpe - poet
- Davina McCall - television presenter
- Dianna Melrose - British Ambassador to Cuba [2008-2012], High Commissioner to Tanzania [2013-]
- Juliet Stevenson - stage, film and television actress
- Francine Stock - journalist and radio presenter
- Philippa Stroud, Baroness Stroud - Conservative peer
- Barbara Euphan Todd - children's writer
- Dorothy Tutin - stage, film and television actress
- Lucy Watson - star of Made in Chelsea
- Isabel Hardman - Political Journalist, Assistant Editor of The Spectator
External links
References
- ↑ St Catherine's School Homepage/Scholarships
- ↑ "St Catherine's, Bramley". Tatler. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
- ↑ "HRH the Duchess of Cornwall to be the Patron of St Catherine’s School, Bramley". Retrieved 17 March 2015.
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