Surval Montreux
| Surval Montreux | |
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| Location | |
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| Information | |
| Type | International school, Boarding school, All girls school |
| Motto | Imagination. Initiative. Independence |
| Established | 1961 |
| Headmistress | Mrs. Patricia Woodhouse |
| Gender | Girls |
| Age range | 12 - 19 |
| Enrollment | 60 - 80 |
| Average class size | 6 - 8 |
| Education system | IGCSE, A-Levels, American High School Program |
| School fees | From CHF 72,750 pa |
| Website | www |
Surval Montreux is an international all girls boarding school in Montreux, Switzerland.[1]
In addition to its own program, the school provides accommodation and academic classes to students of Institut Villa Pierrefeu, Switzerland's last traditional finishing school. Surval Montreux is a former rival of Pierrefeu, as it was originally established as the Surval Mont-Fleuri finishing school in 1961.[2]
The school was renamed to Surval Montreux in 2012 after it was bought by Bellevue Education.[3][4][5] The parent company is Bellevue Education International Limited.[6][7] Bellevue bought the school as part of acquisitions driven by funding derived largely from Tarek Obaid, the founder of the oil company PetroSaudi, which has been implicated in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal.[8][9]
Academics
SM begins with Foundation Year. The majority of Foundation students start at age 13, but English language learners may start at age 12 and spend a year working on their English before joining the rest of the school. After Foundation Year, there are two academic tracks. Students either earn an American high school diploma or take the IGCSE and A-Levels[10]
SM offers a pre-university program for students aged 17 to 19, the Surval Swiss Gap Experience.[11]
Accreditation
SM's (upper) secondary education (Middle and High School) is not approved as a Mittelschule/Collège/Liceo by the Swiss Federal State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).[12]
Cited
The Surval Montreux boarding school in Switzerland was cited in the season 2 of American television series Riverdale on The CW network in the United States, when a character Veronica Lodge (played by Camila Mendes) would only have an exclusive boarding school for girls in Switzerland, the character Cheryl Blossom (played by Madelaine Petsch) where she could have been sent to study.
References
- ^ "Surval Montreux: Girls' boarding school in Switzerland". www.surval.ch. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
- ^ Simonian, Haig (30 September 2010). "Charm academy: Switzerland's last finishing school". Financial Times. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
- ^ "About Us: Timeline". Bellevue Education. Bellevue Education Limited. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
- ^ fr:Surval Mont-Fleuri, Retrieved 10 November 2014
- ^ "Bellevue Education continues empire building". Education Investor Website. Education Investor. 22 Oct 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
- ^ "BELLEVUE EDUCATION GROUP LIMITED - Annual Accounts". Companies in the UK. Bellevue Education Group Limited. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
- ^ Jon Ungoed-Thomas and Josh Boswell for the Sunday Times 10 April 2016 Saudi oil tycoon revealed as investor in schools company
- ^ "How 1MDB's Stolen Money Funded Top UK Private Schools". sarawakreport.org. Sarawak Report. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
- ^ "Surval Montreux Curriculum - Switzerland Private Education". Switzerland Education. 13 July 2018. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ^ "Private boarding school near Lake Geneva". Surval Montreux. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ^ "Maturität - Maturité - Maturità" (official site) (in German, French, and Italian). Berne, Switzerland: Swiss Federal State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation, SERI. 1 March 2018. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
