Chandlings Prep School
Address
Bagley Wood

Kennington
,
Oxford
,
OX1 5ND

England
Information
TypePrivate preparatory day school
Established1994
Department for Education URN131981 Tables
HeadmistressChristine Cook
Chair of GovernorsRalph Townsend
GenderCo-educational
Age2 to 11
Enrolmentapprox. 400
Websitehttp://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) with a wide variety of sports and educational facilities 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 the Cothill Education Trust, an educational charity registered in England, which also operates other preparatory schools in England and France.[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]

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 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, drama 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 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.[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

  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. ↑ Chandlings profile at ultimateactivity.co.uk, accessed 5 May 2018
  5. ↑ Academic Staff Archived 5 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine at chandlings.org.uk, accessed 5 May 2018
  6. ↑ Cressida Cowell Visits Chandlings Archived 5 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine dated 3 May 2018, accessed 5 May 2018
  7. ↑ Ralph Palmer, 12th Baron Lucas, ed., Chandlings profile at goodschoolsguide.co.uk, accessed 5 May 2018
  8. ↑ ISI Interim Inspection 2010

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