Elstree School | |
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Address | |
Woolhampton Reading , Berkshire , RG7 5TD England | |
Coordinates | 51°24′14″N 1°10′20″W / 51.40383°N 1.17213°W |
Information | |
Type | Independent |
Motto | Clarior Ex Obscuro (Brighter, out of the darkness) |
Religious affiliation(s) | Christian |
Established | 1848 |
Local authority | West Berkshire |
Department for Education URN | 110140 Tables |
Head teacher | Sid Inglis |
Gender | Coeducational |
Age | 3 to 13 |
Houses | North, South, East and West |
Colour(s) | Blue, Red, Green, and Yellow (respectively) |
Website | www.elstreeschool.org.uk |
Elstree School is an English preparatory school for children aged 3–13 at Woolhampton House in Woolhampton, near Newbury in the English county of Berkshire. The school is co-educational.
The school was founded in 1848 in Elstree, Hertfordshire, at Hill House on Elstree Hill,[1] an 18th-century Grade II Listed Building.[2] Today the building is used as Bupa Care Centre.[3]
In 1938 or 1939 at the start of WW2,[4][5][6][7] staff and 70 boys moved to Woolhampton House, in the Berkshire village of Woolhampton, which at war end became Elstree’s permanent home, owned and run by the Sanderson family until 1961 when Elstree School was incorporated; Ian Sanderson remained headmaster until 1969 when Terrence McMullen became headmaster.
Woolhampton House is a 17th-century Grade II* Listed building.[8]