Chandlings
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Established | 1994 |
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Type | Independent preparatory day school |
Headmistress | Christine Cook |
Chair of Governors | Lord Wakeham |
Location |
Bagley Wood Kennington Oxford OX1 5ND England |
DfE URN | 131981 Tables |
Students | approx. 400 |
Gender | Coeducational |
Ages | 2–11 |
Website | www.chandlings.org.uk |
Chandlings, or Chandlings 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 62-acre site with a wide variety of sports and educational facilities and is a member of the Independent Association of Prep Schools.
History
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 the Cothill Education Trust, an educational charity registered in England, which also operates other preparatory schools in England and France.[2]
Chandlings is 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 (colour: dark blue) and Poltimore (colour: green).[3]
Among the school's facilities are an indoor heated swimming pool, tennis and netball courts, playing fields, a golf course, an area for riding Motor Quads, stables and extensive school woods ideal for woodcraft and nature study and where a new low ropes course has been built. [4]
Teaching staff include the headmistress, Christine Cook, two deputy heads (pastoral and academic), a Senior Master and Head of Girls, a head of Pre-Prep, more than thirty form-teachers, and teachers specializing in English, maths, science, modern languages, history, geography, ICT, classics and philosophy, art, music, and religious education, as well as a team of games and sports coaches.[5]
Visiting performers and authors include Cressida Cowell, who spoke about her writing at the school in May 2018.[6]
The Good Schools Guide says:
The name conjours 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.[7]
In rural surroundings near Oxford, Chandlings and Cothill House School are near enough together to be able to share a bursar and grounds staff.[8]
Publications
- Clare Walsh, Get Cooking! (Chandlings Manor School, 2005, ISBN 0955006708)
References
- ↑ Good Schools Guide (Lucas Publications, 2003), p. 737
- ↑ Charity Commission. Cothill Educational Trust, registered charity no. 309639.
- ↑ Jonathan Barnes, ed., Preparatory Schools 2013, (2012), p. 235
- ↑ Chandlings profile at ultimateactivity.co.uk, accessed 5 May 2018
- ↑ Academic Staff at chandlings.org.uk, accessed 5 May 2018
- ↑ Cressida Cowell Visits Chandlings dated 3 May 2018, accessed 5 May 2018
- ↑ Ralph Palmer, 12th Baron Lucas, ed., Chandlings profile at goodschoolsguide.co.uk, accessed 5 May 2018
- ↑ ISI Interim Inspection 2010