Surbiton High School is a private day school in Surbiton in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, England.[1][2] It has seven buildings overall including the Boys’ Preparatory School, Girls’ Preparatory School, the Senior School and the Sixth Form.[2]
| Surbiton High School | |
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Surbiton Crescent , , KT1 2JT England | |
| Coordinates | 51°24′00″N 0°18′17″W / 51.400°N 0.3046°W |
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| Type | Private day school |
| Motto | 'Amor Nos Semper Ducat' (May Love Always Lead Us) |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Church of England |
| Established | 1884 |
| Department for Education URN | 102611 Tables |
| Head teacher | Principal: Hannah Horwood |
| Gender | Girls (4–18); boys (4–11) |
| Age | 4 to 18 |
| Houses | Austen, Curie, Fonteyn, Nightingale, Pankhurst, Parks and Teresa |
| Colour(s) | Green and silver |
| Affiliation | United Learning |
| Website | http://www.surbitonhigh.com |
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History
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The school was founded in 1884 by a group of Anglican clergymen who instituted the Church Schools Company.[3] Its objective was "to establish superior education for girls in accordance with the principles of the Church of England" wherever the need was felt.[1]
Surbiton High is the founding member school of the Church Schools Company, now the United Church Schools Trust.[4] It has seven sites in Surbiton: the Boys' Preparatory School (over two sites Charles Burney House and Avenue Elmers), the Girls' Preparatory School, Main Senior School, Surbiton Assembly Rooms, Mary Bennett House and the Sixth Form Centre, as well as sports grounds at Hinchley Wood and Oaken Lane.[2]
The current principal of Surbiton High School is Hannah Horwood who has been at the school for 14 years.[2] Surbiton High School takes female students from 4 years old to 18 years old, while the Boys' Preparatory School caters for 4 to 11 year olds.[2]
Academics and Academic Results
editSurbiton High School has a highly selective admissions process and students usually perform extremely well in GCSE and A-Level exams.
2024 GCSE exam results: 46% of all grades awarded at the highest level of Grade 9. Over 91% of all grades were awarded a Grade 7 or above and 100% of grades were Grade 9-4.[5]
2024 A-level exam results and advancement to higher education: 62% of all grades were A* to A and over 85% of grades were A* to B. 81% of students headed to Russell Group and Times Top 10 Universities, and medical or dental schools with eleven Oxbridge students.[5]
The school's 6th Form offers a very wide range of academic subjects[6]: art and design, biology, business, chemistry, classical civilisation, classical Greek, computer science, dance, drama, design and technology textiles, design and technology product design, English language, English literature, French, German, geography, history of art, Latin, mathematics, further mathematics, music, politics, religious studies, philosophy, physics, photography, psychology, Spanish, sociology and sport science.
Sport
editSurbiton High School prides itself in being one the best schools in the United Kingdom for girls' sports.[7] The school has been shortlisted for Times Educational Supplement (TES) sports awards multiple times, most recently in 2019 when it won the award.[8] The School's SAS (Surbiton Advanced Sports) programme mentors their high performing athlete girls, helping them coordinate their training and competition schedule with their academic work.[9] The school's sporting grounds are at the nearby Hinchley Wood Playing Fields.
Gymnastics
editBoth the senior school's and the prep school's gymnastics team regularly win regional and national titles. In the most recent, post-Covid years of 2024, 2023 and 2022 the gymnastics team won the BSGA (British Schools Gymnastics Association[10]) floor and vault national title[11] or podium places, as well as the acrobatic gymnastics national trophy.[12] In April 2024 every single gymnast the school entered to the National Finals earned a medal.[13] The coaching team consists of multiple British Gymnastics Level 5 High Performance coaches, as well as past world champions and medalists.[14]
Rowing
editThe school has a rowing club called the Surbiton High School Boat Club which is based on the River Thames at Trowlock Way, Off Broom Road, Teddington.[15] The club is affiliated to British Rowing (Boat code SBT) and produced a junior national champion crew at the 2013 British Rowing Junior Championships.[16][17]
Alumni
edit- Chemmy Alcott, Olympic skier[18]
- Lola Anderson, Olympic rower[19]
- Fran Balkwill OBE, scientist and author[20]
- Muriel Box, The Rt. Hon. The Lady Gardiner, screenwriter and director[21]
- Tina Cooper OBE, paediatrician[22]
- Edwina Dunn OBE, entrepreneur[23]
- Agnes Mary Field CBE, film producer and director[24]
- Danusia Francis, Olympic gymnast[25]
- Jane Hutt MS, Welsh Labour Party politician[26]
- Mollie King, singer with The Saturdays[27]
- Lara Lewington, journalist and television presenter[28]
- Molly Mahood, literary scholar[29]
- Florence Macdonald Mayor, writer[30]
- The Rt. Hon. Baroness Morgan of Cotes PC, former Conservative MP and minister[31]
- Lucie Silvas, singer[32]
- Kim Thomas, Olympic rower[33]
- Nora S. Unwin, book illustrator[34]
- Emma Wilson, academic and writer[35]
- Dorothy Maud Wrinch, mathematician[36]
- Elsie Zimmern, women's rights activist[37]
References
edit- ^ a b The Jubilee book of the Surbiton High School, 1884-1934. Favil Press. 2 March 1934. OCLC 215573457 – via Open WorldCat.
- ^ a b c d e "StackPath". www.surbitonhigh.com.
- ^ "StackPath". www.surbitonhigh.com.
- ^ United Church Schools Trust :: United Learning Trust Archived 2007-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b "Exam Results | Private School Surrey | Surbiton High School". www.surbitonhigh.com. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
- ^ "A-Level Subjects | Private School | Surbiton High School". www.surbitonhigh.com. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
- ^ "Top 200 sports schools of 2022". School Sport Magazine. 17 April 2023. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ^ "SURBITON HIGH SCHOOL WIN TES SPORTS AWARD | Surbiton High School". 5 February 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ^ "Sport | Senior School Surrey | Surbiton High School". Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ^ "Schools - British Gymnastics". www.british-gymnastics.org. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ^ "Surbiton Gymnasts Win 3 National Titles! | Surbiton High School". 18 May 2023.
- ^ "School Gymnastics Final 2023 | BSGA".
- ^ "All gymnasts on podium at National Finals! | Surbiton High School". 25 April 2024.
- ^ "Gymnastics | Senior School Surrey | Surbiton High School".
- ^ "StackPath". www.surbitonhigh.com.
- ^ "Club details". British Rowing.
- ^ "BRITISH ROWING JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 2013". Web Archive. Archived from the original on 6 December 2016.
- ^ "Our interview with Chemmy Alcott". Essential Surrey & SW London. 25 March 2014.
- ^ "Surbiton Alumni Lola Anderson Selected for the Paris Olympics! | Surbiton High". www.surbitonhigh.com. 12 June 2024. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ Watt, Fiona M. (1 April 2005). "Fran Balkwill". Journal of Cell Science. 118 (7): 1339–1340. doi:10.1242/jcs.01688. PMID 15788651 – via jcs.biologists.org.
- ^ "Box, Muriel (1905–1991) | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com.
- ^ "Cooper, Christine Elisabeth". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/60895. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Edwina Dunn - 'On the Basis of Sex'". Surbiton High School Alumni Network. 26 February 2019.
- ^ "British Film and Television Yearbook". British and American Film Press. 2 March 1960 – via Google Books.
- ^ Souza, Naomi de (20 October 2019). "Cov-born gymnast Danusia Francis is heading to the 2020 Olympics". Coventry Live. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ^ Anderson, Linda; Bright, Bob; Kimber, Jon (2 March 1983). General Election Guide, 1983. BBC Data Publications. ISBN 9780946358151 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Mollie King: from Surbiton to Strictly". Surbiton High School Alumni Network. 17 August 2017.
- ^ "Who will you Become at Surbiton High School?" (PDF). Surbiton High School. June 2021. p. 13. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
- ^ "Remembering Molly Mahood: Surbiton's renowned Scholar". Surbiton High School Alumni Network. 29 July 2017.
- ^ Legget, Jane (2 March 1988). Local Heroines: A Women's History Gazetteer of England, Scotland and Wales. Pandora. ISBN 9780863580376 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Crown Office". The London Gazette. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
- ^ "Radio Swiss Pop". www.radioswisspop.ch.
- ^ "Staff". The Kingstonian: 2, 4. 1996. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
- ^ Garrett, Albert (2 March 1980). British Wood Engraving of the 20th Century: A Personal View. Scolar Press. ISBN 9780859676045 – via Google Books.
- ^ "A girls own story". The Times. London. 18 February 2007. Archived from the original on 19 February 2007. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
- ^ Abir-Am, Pnina G.; Outram, Dorinda (2 March 1987). Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789-1979. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813512563 – via Google Books.
- ^ Club, Canadian Women's Press (2 March 1909). "Who's who at the 3d International Congress of Women..." International council of women – via Google Books.
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