Sunningdale School
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| Established | 1874 |
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| Type | Independent school Boarding school |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Headmaster | Mr. T.A.C.N. Dawson |
| Chair | Nick Dawson & Tim Dawson |
| Founder | Canon William Girdlestone |
| Location | Dry Arch Road Sunningdale Berkshire SL5 9PY England |
| Local authority | Berkshire County Council |
| Students | 100 pupils |
| Gender | Boys |
| Ages | 7–13 |
| Colours | (school) |
| Publication | Sunningdale E-Newletter |
| Website | Sunningdale School |
Coordinates: 51°23′38″N 0°38′28″W / 51.394°N 0.641°W
Sunningdale School is a family-run boys' preparatory independent school of around 100 pupils, situated in Sunningdale in Berkshire, close to London, England.
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[edit] Introduction
Sunningdale School is a small school that seeks to educate its pupils in a wide range of subjects and disciplines, and to encourage them to take the Common Entrance Examination for entry to senior independent boarding schools. In previous decades, many former pupils have gone on to some of Britain's independent schools, including Eton College, Harrow School, Radley College, Winchester College, Marlborough College, Wellington College and Charterhouse. Founded in 1874 by Canon William Girdlestone, it stands in 25 acres (10 ha) of gardens and grounds.
[edit] Background
The school has its own chapel, and a house in Normandy, France to which each boy goes for a week three times during his time at Sunningdale. The school's major sports are football, rugby union and cricket in the Michaelmas, Lent and summer terms respectively. Boys also play tennis, squash, Eton Fives, basketball, indoor hockey, golf and table tennis against other schools. Fives has been played at Sunningdale since at least 1892 and the school has 3 courts on site. They also compete in athletics, cross-country, fencing, judo and air rifle shooting. There is a heated indoor swimming pool which means that the boys can swim all year round. The sports hall includes two full-length cricket nets and an air rifle range. There is also a 7-hole golf course in the grounds. Boys can also ride and do clay pigeon shooting and in their last term they do an outward bound course on Dartmoor. Indoor activities include chess, model railway, cooking, bridge, snooker, Scottish dancing, drama, model making and board games.
Sunningdale School was the subject of the BBC documentary, "Britian's Youngest Boarders", shown in 2010.
Theophilus Girdlestone, son of the school's founder bread the Tom Thumb Dahlia while at living at Sunningdale.
[edit] Former pupils
Former pupils of Sunningdale School include:
- Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond
- Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, the richest aristocrat in the UK
- Prince Michael of Kent, cousin of the Queen and member of the Royal Family
- Lord Frederick Windsor, currently 32nd in the line of succession to the British Throne
- Henry Field, US anthropologist who documented Iraq's Marsh Arabs
- Michael Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
- Henry Blofeld, BBC cricket commentator
- Bernard Heywood, Church of England bishop
- Denis Mulliner, Canon of Her Majesty’s Chapel Royal
- Hugh van Cutsem, businessman and close friend of Prince Charles
- John Crichton, Viscount Crichton, property consultant
- Guy Clark, Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire
- Frederick Hervey, 8th Marquess of Bristol
- Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz musician and BBC radio presenter
- Julian Sandys, barrister and grandson of Winston Churchill
- Francis Fulford, TV personality, star of The F***ing Fulfords
- William Kinghan, unionist politician
- Carey Harrison, novelist and dramatist
- Ian Ogilvy, actor
