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The [[school uniform]] consists of a white [[blouse]], green [[skirt]], and green [[sweater|jumper]] with a [[badge]] featuring the house colours. Sixth form girls are given the option of [[trousers]] or [[pencil skirt]]s (navy with [[pin stripes|pinstripes]]). There are occasional days for charity when girls are allowed to wear their own choice of clothes, these are referred to as [[mufti]] days. |
The [[school uniform]] consists of a white [[blouse]], green [[skirt]], and green [[sweater|jumper]] with a [[badge]] featuring the house colours. Sixth form girls are given the option of [[trousers]] or [[pencil skirt]]s (navy with [[pin stripes|pinstripes]]). There are occasional days for charity when girls are allowed to wear their own choice of clothes, these are referred to as [[mufti]] days. |
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The school is involved with a number of charitable projects including a long term commitment to the St Hilda's East community centre in the East End of London which was founded by The Incorporated Guild of Cheltenham Ladies' College in 1889<ref>http://www.sthildas.org.uk/id1.html</ref>. In addition the college supports six charities each year with a number of fund raising events<ref>http://www.cheltladiescollege.org/college/charity.asp</ref>, this year's charities are International Spinal Research, Operation Smile, Music and Change, The [[National Star College]], The Enaikishomi Nursery School, and The Cheetah Conservation Fund. |
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| The Cheltenham Ladies' College | |
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| Type | independent boarding and day school |
| Established | 1853 |
| Headmistress | Vicky Tuck |
| Gender | Girls |
| Enrollment | 900 (approximate) |
| Website | http://www.cheltladiescollege.org |
The Cheltenham Ladies' College is a top independent boarding and day school for girls in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. It takes girls aged 11 to 18 as boarding or day pupils.
History
The school was founded in 1853 and the Governor's report of 1854 made clear it's intentions; "The school intends to provide an education based upon religious principles which, preserving the modesty and gentleness of the female character, should so far cultivate a girl's intellectual powers as to fit her for the discharge of those responsible duties which devolve upon her as a wife, mother and friend, the natural companion and helpmate for man."[1] In 1858, the principal's post was taken by Dorothea Beale, a prominent Suffragette educator who later founded St. Hilda's College, Oxford. When Miss Beale became Principal the school had an indifferent reputation but under her stewardship it became one of the most well regarded schools of any kind in the country. The education of girls at Cheltenham had formally emphasized the development of traditional female accomplishments such as music and drawing. Miss Beale, however, provided a much more rigorous academic education.
Miss Beale kept the post of Principal until her death in 1906. She transformed the school from a small establishment concentrating on developing traditional women's skills such as music, sewing and drawing into the first academic school offering courses equivalent to those in boys' schools, including mathematics and English. She was a pioneer of women's education. By the end of her life, the school had over a thousand pupils (it had had 58 when she arrived) and it had become socially acceptable to educate women.
When it was founded, the school reflected the religious values of the time. Scripture lessons were given on Saturdays and boarders also had religious instruction every Sunday. Within the school there was a rule of silence, both during and between classes. Miss Beale did not start this rule, but enforced it with more vigour than her predecessors: silence, she thought, taught discipline and self-control, but talking degenerated into gossip[2].
Two histories of the school have been written by former pupil Amy Key Clarke.[3][4]
Buildings
Much of the site is Grade II listed including The Princess Hall and the West Wing.[5] New buildings in the 1890s were designed by Edward Robert Robson.
Uniform
The school uniform consists of a white blouse, green skirt, and green jumper with a badge featuring the house colours. Sixth form girls are given the option of trousers or pencil skirts (navy with pinstripes). There are occasional days for charity when girls are allowed to wear their own choice of clothes, these are referred to as mufti days.
Charitable Work
The school is involved with a number of charitable projects including a long term commitment to the St Hilda's East community centre in the East End of London which was founded by The Incorporated Guild of Cheltenham Ladies' College in 1889[6]. In addition the college supports six charities each year with a number of fund raising events[7], this year's charities are International Spinal Research, Operation Smile, Music and Change, The National Star College, The Enaikishomi Nursery School, and The Cheetah Conservation Fund.
Present day
The school educates around 865 girls. The school crest depicts two doves, taken from the Cheltenham town shield, above three stars, which are turn above a daisy, one of the most important school symbols. The school motto is "Cœlesti Luce Crescat" (May she grow in Heavenly light).
GCSE, IGCSE are studied and A-Levels and the International Baccalaureate are offered to sixth form pupils. Almost all girls go onto top league universities in the UK, Hongkong and in addition, a fair proportion of pupils get accepted by the American Ivy League universities. The school provides extracurricular academic, non-academic and sporting activities.
Girls who board live in one of ten boarding houses. There are four senior houses, for sixth form girls, and six junior houses, for 11-16 year olds. The junior houses are St Helen's, Farnley Lodge, Glenlee, Sidney Lodge, St Austin's, St Margaret's and the senior houses St Hilda's, Beale, Cambray and Elizabeth.
Each house is run by a housemistress and/or a housemaster and several resident staff. Day girls have their own base, Eversleigh, where the three junior houses, Glengar, St Clare and Bellairs, are located. Bayshill Court is the home of the senior day girl house, Bayshill House, and the day girl dining room.
Notable alumnae
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- Nicola Horlick, business woman
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References
- ^ http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/EDcheltenham.htm
- ^ Alan Dures,"Schools" Past-into-Present Series. London: Batsford, 1971. Page 44
- ^ Amy Key Clarke, "A History of the Cheltenham Ladies' College, 1853-1953". London: Faber and Faber, 1953.
- ^ Amy Key Clarke, "A History of the Cheltenham Ladies' College, 1853-1979". Suffolk: John Catt, 1979.
- ^ http://prestbury.cheltenham.gov.uk/website/Listed_buildings/viewer.htm
- ^ http://www.sthildas.org.uk/id1.html
- ^ http://www.cheltladiescollege.org/college/charity.asp
- ^ Curthoys, Ann (1979). "Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd (1872 - 1960)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 7 (Online ed.). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. pp. 265–266. Retrieved 2008-01-17.