Woldingham School
Woldingham School is an independent girls' school in Surrey ( England). The school is both a boarding school with about 400 students and a school for day students. The school is located on a plot of 2.8 km ². The nearest train station is Woldingham, which is located 2 km from the school. The nearest town is Caterham. The school was forty minutes from London and twenty minutes drive from London Gatwick Airport.
History
Woldingham School is more than one hundred and forty years old and belongs to the " Sacred Heart " schools. The Society of the Sacred Heart was founded in France by Magdalena Sophie Barat. The first Sacred Heart school was opened in Amiens 1801. Since then, numerous schools were established within Europe ( and later in America).
In 1842 Woldingham School was opened (then under the name Covenant of the Sacred Heart ), but first this was finally settled in Berrymead, London, then in Roehampton, later in Newquay and at Stanford Hall, until the school finally their location in Woldingham involved. The reason of changing locations was, among other things, the Second World War. Roehampton was destroyed, for example, during an air raid and the school decided that a new location had to be found. 1945 bought the school then the property Marden Park and the buildings.
Building
There are four different buildings for different vintages. In Marden live the 11 - to 13 -year-olds. They have a playground at her door and large common areas. Your bedroom, which they share with three other girls, they can customize to suit your mood.
The main house ( main house ) is from the 13 - to 16 -year-olds inhabited. The bedrooms of the vintage 9 are inhabited by two to twelve people. In Year 10 and 11 then you get a double or single room. The girls here do their homework independently in their rooms. The students also carry more responsibility, they are the elders in the main house and supervise as well as the 11 - to 13 - year-old girl with her homework. In the main building you can use different libraries, find the classroom for English, mathematics, geography and computer labs.
The Unterprimanerinnen (16-17 years old) have their own house, that is Berwick. The Oberprima lives in Shanley and the students are given preferential treatment because they are the elders. The girls here have their own room with a private bathroom. Students are encouraged with the teachers to get in touch and therefore it is them also allowed to join them in the living room in the main house and to talk there with coffee, tea or cocoa.
Another building is the Millennium Centre ( center ). Here music, theater and history is taught. There are a gym with a fitness room and a large sports hall for all sports available. The school has a swimming pool and other sports courts, as courts for hockey, netball and basketball.
House system
A student at the Woldingham School is allocated to one of four houses Barat ( yellow), Digby (Green), Duschesne ( red) or Stuart ( blue). These houses organize various events and competitions they organize house in sport, music and also hold debates. There is also house exhibitions and house food.
Leisure
- Woldingham offers a selection of activities. Netball, hockey, rounders and dance are very popular and training facilities for team sports, football, gymnastics, table tennis and basketball courts also exist.
- Music and theater are in Woldingham as very important. Many music and theater rehearsals run in school after class. There are two major theater performances every year and numerous concerts.
- Students may also have a lot of unusual activity. These include Japanese, shooting, fencing and scuba diving.
Famous students ( selection)
- Carey Mulligan, Actress
- Lady Marsha Ryecart, Actress
- Rachel Weisz, Actress
- Louise Bagshawe, author
- Dilly Keane, Actress
- Theodora of Greece
- Vivien Leigh
- Maureen O'Sullivan
- Victoria Mather, journalist
- Caroline Wyatt, BBC News journalist